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Well, I watched Airplane! with my son when he was 7 or 8 (he's 9 now) -- I completely forgot about the brief bare breasts....

Heh. I forgot about that too.

I think it was the autopilot scenes where my spouse and I looked at each other and said whoopsie, this is not for the little ones.

Still, that was relatively tame and subtle compared to some of Laura's jokes.

Which brings me to what Michelle Malkin is objecting to: increasingly mainstream vulgarity.

Cultural conservatives are not about burning copies of Airplane! or banning South Park.

We're about keeping certain kinds of hypersexualized performances and certain kinds of hypersexualized humor in their proper contexts and venues, giving people a choice over the amount of that material they or their children are exposed to.

Mainstreaming this kind of material takes away that choice.

So that's my question to all the defenders of Laura's act: Is a public performance by a First Lady, any First Lady, a proper venue for blue jokes?

I think it was the autopilot{Airplane} scenes where my spouse and I looked at each other and said whoopsie, this is not for the little ones.
Still, that was relatively tame and subtle compared to some of Laura's jokes.

Now you are being completely absurd, and disingenuous. That you would compare Laura's jokes to a scene that portrays oral sex is simply over the top.

I think it was the autopilot scenes where my spouse and I looked at each other and said whoopsie, this is not for the little ones. Still, that was relatively tame and subtle compared to some of Laura's jokes.

You're actually saying that what Laura Bush said was worse than the blow job scene in Airplane?