[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

[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