Why I'm not a 'South Park Conservative', by Michelle Malkin

Townhall.com ^ | May 4, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

[RushCrush]

Honestly horse masturbation NEVER ONCE entered my mind until yesterday when Palladin said it on a different thread.

Palladin, thanks for corrupting me. I'll never be the same again.

[BibChr]

MM's right about South Park (whose wildly supportive following on FR is only a bit less distressing than Howard Stern's).

She makes a good point about Laura Bush's routine; it just didn't strike me that way, and I saw the whole thing. I just don't see it as a "horse masturbation" joke; I saw it as a "W didn't know diddly about farming" joke.

Dan

[rdb3]

Michele is getting very close to jumping the shark.

She did that a long time ago.

[BibChr]

Oh and btw, as I showed, it's possible to disagree with MM on that point without having to attack her for having a different view, and trashing all the excellent writing she does every single week.

Dan

[bonfire]

She's entirely to young to be a bitter prude.

[rdb3]

She's entirely to young to be a bitter prude.

She's a year older than I, but this not too young when you're targeting a specific audience. She never misses her mark in this.

[brytlea]

Yes, I agree for the most part, and I don't believe she is attacking Mrs. Bush, just reminding us that there are (or should be) lines of what you say where. To say "Well, it was a group of adults" is to miss the point. Everyone knew it would be broadcast and they knew that the most shocking lines (since most of what passes for comedy in our day must shock for some reason) would be played everywhere. This paragraph is important for people to read and get:

Self-censorship is a conservative value. In a brilliant commencement speech at Hillsdale College last year, Heritage Foundation president Ed Feulner called on his audience to resist the coarsened rhetoric of our time: "If we are to prevail as a free, self-governing people, we must first govern our tongues and our pens. Restoring civility to public discourse is not an option. It is a necessity."

I see so little self censorship anywhere. I am tired of having to listen to truely gutter language any time I go out in public. We have a generation out there now who don't understand much about appropriate behavior in the appropriate place, nor do they understand the difference in a child and an adult. Much as I love them, we have failed to teach them proper behavior.
susie

[FatherofFive]

This may be the first time I disagree with the wonderful Michelle.

Milking the bull is such an old joke. Laura made it funny again.

I wish the left had humor as "over the top" as Laura.

[beezdotcom]

We're not just talking about a stray curse word here or there. As liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich points out, "South Park" "holds the record for the largest number of bleeped-out repetitions (162) of a single four-letter expletive in a single television half-hour."

I must not be thinking of the same word - the episode I saw, they WEREN'T bleeped, and they kept a running tally at the bottom of the screen.

[nuffsenuff]

The jokes were funny.

People need to get a grip and lighten up.

Sheesh.

[RushCrush]

Perhaps she's just too young to have gotten the 'milk the bull' joke. Simple as that.

[Skooz]

Just when we start gaining ground some holier-than-thou type tries to divide the group.

A good case can be made that the "holier-than-thou" types are the ones who flaunt their "holier-than-thouness" by pointing out, "Look how much more hip I am in than you are: I said %##& five times in a row. You are such a prudish, Puritanical ninny for not appreciating my South Park Republican-ness."

[RexBeach]

You are probably quite correct! Michelle is not the center of the political universe.

[RushCrush]

Variety is the spice of life. It takes all kinds. There's a lid for every pot. Shall I go on?

[W04Man]

But her off-color stripper and horse jokes crossed the line...

I"m afraid that I must agree with Michelle on this one. I love Mrs Bush, but she crossed the line and I'm sorry for it.

[Skooz]

Whatever floats your boat. Whatever melts your butter...........

[AgThorn]

>> "The First Lady resorting to horse masturbation jokes" <<

Although I tend to agree with Malkin on the South Park review (I too avoid that comedy for the same reason) I am wondering about all this stuff about horse 'masturbation' or horse 'penis' joke (as my son in law put it to me yesterday).

I was not entralled with Laura Bushe's choice of humor, giving any ties between herself and 'desperate housewives' for one thing .. however, in hearing her jokes about her husband not knowing the difference between a cow or a horse and a male horse at that was rather humorous.

It seems the left is hard at work putting out talking points on this new 'humor' of our first lady, and I think my son-in-law must be listening to Howard Sterns or something too much ...

Anyone have the text or soundbite on what dear Mr Sterns' opinion was on Laura's humor? Would love to see the ties between that and my "don't call me liberal' son in law's getting his input from this shock-jock of the airwaves.

[unsycophant]

She seems to believe Mrs. Bush should rise above pandering to the liberals--that the First Lady is too sophisticated and classy to be telling bawdy jokes about horse masturbation to entertain liberals who will never respect her.

I agree--but am willing to give Mrs. Bush this one.

[brytlea]

Yikes, everyone now knows I am not an English Teacher!! I do know that don't should be doesn't in my previous post!!! Mea culpa (or something like that!)

BTW can anyone explain to me why the horse being male is funnier than it being a female? And yes, I've actually owned horses, and breed dogs, so I'm not a citified person who doesn't understand anything about critters.

susie

[Lazamataz]

Well, I'm 34 and no fan of "South Park."

Too bad. We'll have to cancel our date, Michelle.