Posted on 03/11/2006 9:12:40 PM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- President Bush headlined the annual Gridiron Club political press roast Saturday night, but Vice President Dick Cheney was the main target of the humor.
Cheney's well-publicized Texas hunting accident last month, drew ridicule from the press corps and all the speakers, including the president.
Bush pointed out that the vice president's full name is Richard B. Cheney.
"B. stands for bulls eye," Bush said to laughter from the hundreds of reporters and officials from the administration and Congress. The press, Bush joked, blew the matter way out of proportion: "Good Lord, you'd thought he shot somebody or something."
Cheney, who sat at the head table, laughed along with most of the jokes.
Bush said that while pundits speculate about whether Cheney or White House political adviser Karl Rove run the government, it's another person who actually pulls the strings. Cheney, Bush said, tells him what to do but Cheney's wife, Lynne, tells the vice president what to do.
"Lynne, I think you're doing a heck of a job. Although I have to say you dropped the ball big time on that Dubai deal," he said, in a joke about the controversial ports deal.
Lynne Cheney was the Republican speaker and opened by saying that because she came late in the program "the hunting jokes have been used."
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All in good fun.
Out of all the things that happen inside the Beltway, this GRIDIRON thing gets me the most Every year, they make fun of the things that are important to this country. I don't think the Press should be cozying up to the President and Vice Versa. Bush thinks that if he goes here and makes some jokes, they'll like him. They hate him and whatever he does here, they'll use against him. And it's not just Bush, it's every President. I just loathe these dinners. I don't find anything funny about them. Kids are dying overseas, and they're cracking jokes and eating lobster and getting drunk. It's shameful.
I understand the tradition of it but that had to hurt.
OH, dear....libs, dems, and the MSM, who are notorious for NOT having a sense of humor....will probably overreact to a couple of President Bush's jokes...
Just like the time at the Press Corps dinner, where they showed clips of him looking under his desk, asking if the missing WMDs were there...
The above mentioned, STILL bring that up!
Get a grip.
Lighten Up Francis.....
No, I respectively disagree. I think that it is healthy to use humor from time to time to loosen things up. I enjoy the reporting of this event every year.
I don't think either is foolish enough to believe that. It is a tradition and ceremony that both sides participate in. Most normal people do not even know this goes on, unless Leno or Letterman plays some clips.
Was that a shot in the dark guess? /s
I say tutn the tables and roast the press.
When Time Magazine has reporters imbedded with the terrorists in Iraq (they do, Frontline spent a whole episode on the subject), there is plenty of material to educate the public about through satire.
That was a cheap, er, shot.
Rat a tat tat
Im sure it would be funnier if Al Gore said it
These are the jokes, people.
(is this thing on?)
Lighten up lady. Bush probably doesn't care about the press. He is there to Honor the Vice President and his wife.
Lighten up lady. Bush probably doesn't care about the press. He is there to Honor the Vice President and his wife.
"What do we stand for? We don't know. What's our platform? We ain't sure. All we know is Dubya's got it wrong," reporters sang, using a nickname for Bush.
The travails of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California also came in for a ribbing.
"This job is a zoo, I don't have a clue," a reporter sang. But then "Dubya messed up with the ports. I don't know why, but thank you, Dubai."
Funny stuff!
Well .. if there's one thing I know about Bush .. it's that he doesn't give a rip what the press thinks of him. It's the last thing on his mind. That's why he doesn't read their "opinion" pieces, or pay attention to their polls.
ROFL! Warn me, please.
Lighten up Frances.
Classic.
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