Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and maintains her weblog at michellemalkin.com
Laura Bush's stand-up routine was a bit "cheeky" at times but the crowd she delivered it to the average age had to be close to 55 with no kid's present.
She walked to the edge but didn't cross....
Malkin is just nit-picking on this issue....she is right about South Park, it is vulgar at times but that is part of it's appeal, it's non-PC.....
NeverGore :^)
PMS?
Well written article. I agree wholeheartedly!
>> "The First Lady resorting to horse masturbation jokes" <<
It is in the ear of the listener, as a result of our course society, that the joke would be thought of as a "masturbation" joke. It is a very old joke about city people not knowing the difference between male and female animals. That is all it is.
i agree with Malkin on this.
Maulkin is guilty of what many liberals are guilty of---ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OF HUMOR...lighten up, Michelle.
Yeah, but, THAT'S JUST FUNNY! I don't think she gets the irony.
Michele is getting very close to jumping the shark.
Witness the TV show by the same name, which is neither.
(Michelle rocks.)
"Lighten up, Francis"
And conservatives wonder why they have problems! Just when we start gaining ground some holier-than-thou type tries to divide the group.
...and an uptight shletered, prudish puritan who obviously has no street smarts or sense of humor.
Nice try, but nothing the First Lady said Saturday was close to a Howard Stern show.
Horse masturbation?...geez malkin has a dirtier mind than I do. I wasn't even going there. Talk about panties being up in a bunch.
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
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
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.
The jokes were funny.
People need to get a grip and lighten up.
Sheesh.
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.
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.