Posted on 05/01/2005 4:54:50 AM PDT by Rebelbase
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First Lady Laura Bush grabbed the stage from President Bush at the White House correspondents annual dinner on Saturday and confessed to all his early bedtimes had turned her into a "desperate housewife."
Laura Bush, who is often seen smiling sweetly at her husband's side, stood up just in time to rescue the audience of political heavyweights and Hollywood celebrities from Bush's retelling of a joke about steel rail "cattle guards" that bombed before a Montana town meeting in March.
"Not that old joke -- not again," Laura Bush said, as her husband willingly relinquished the stage.
"I've been attending these dinners for years and just quietly sitting there," the First Lady told the audience. "Well, I've got a few things I want to say for a change."
One of her main targets was the president's bed time.
"I said to him the other day, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later,"' Laura Bush said. "Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is in bed, and I am watching 'Desperate Housewives' -- with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife."
Laura Bush also ribbed her husband for his notoriously rowdy youth, but said they were meant to be together.
"I was a librarian that spent 12 hours a day in the library. Yet somehow I met George."
Laura Bush's string of one-liners generated hearty laughs from the audience, which included celebrity names such as Richard Gere, Mary Tyler Moore, Venus and Serena Williams, Goldie Hawn and Elle MacPherson, as well as journalists and politicians.
The roasting continued as comedian Cedric the Entertainer took the stage, even though he conceded that "I thought I could follow the president. The first lady is something different."
He said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has two sides to her, one that's all business and one that has street credibility.
"Condi is the person you see on television with the nice hair, and then there's Leezza, the one with her hair wrapped up on the phone with her girlfriends watching BET (Black Entertainment Television)."
They couldn't.
For the life of me I still don't understand all the uproar hear about it...it was done in fun and it was FUNNY!!!!
She was super and has someone else mentioned she was playing to a tough crowd and she pulled it off. There was no "polite" laughter because she is first lady - she was downright hilarious.
My husband and I couldn't stop laughing. And you are correct about her final comments..no one could possibly have written those lines but her. And it was so obvious she meant every word.
yep! Her and W are so cute together...c-span cut off the part of them hugging...well just a little bit of it...but oh well lol
I hate to say "I doubt it".
Anyone know if Laura's speech in it's entirety will be replayed? I've seen bits of it, but would love to see it all.
I think it's a huge deal when someone we look up to, such as the First Lady, capitulates to a notion promulgated by our corrupt media and popular culture --namely, that men (white men especially) are sexually ineadequate, bumbling fools.
We can hardly watch TV for more than a few minutes without seeing a commercial protraying some husband/father as an idiotic dolt who is deserving of ridicule from his brilliantly intelligent/handy/clever/wise wife or children.
And you can hardly go to any social gathering where women aren't ridiculing their husbands in public.
Laura's joke about being able to pronounce "nuclear" was just fine. It was such a gentle put-down, yet so true, that it was funny.
But for a First Lady to ape MTV-style comedy and make jokes hinting at an inadequate sex life in public -- that's over the line, and degrading to the both the man and the office. IMO.
And the male horse joke -- puhleeze! That was crude to the max.
Have you checked c-span's listings?
I'm warning you, though: Half the time I was laughing myself silly, and half the time I was appalled. There's some bad material in there.
Well...we all have our own opinions...but those things are called a roast for a REASON...they don't get up there and not be funny. It was adult fun...and I see nothing wrong with it. She was just having a little fun last night like everyone else there...except maybe jane fonda!
What a filthy mind you must have. Please, don't share anymore of it with us.
But some of those jokes were beneath the First Lady's dignity. They could've and should've been edited out.
If you heard the joke to which swampfx refers, I don't think you could take it any other way.
Oh get a life!
Okay...and I respect your opinion. So...did you like her dress? lol
Her point wasn't about sex. It was about the fact that he goes to bed very early.
it was hilarious, made all the more so by the Puritans harping on the subject.
NEXT!!
You're assuming a result that wasn't stated. She said he tried to milk a cow, but it was a horse, and the worst thing was it was a male horse.
She doesn't indicate he ever found an 'udder' or got a product. YOUR mind did that.
About the only semi-sexual reference I got from her whole routine was about the Chippendale's........and that was totally harmless.
This particular annual event is not supposed to be "g" rated family fun - it's a ROAST....it's ADULTS.
I guess I just don't have sex on the mind as much as other people because I did not even get a hint of her "hinting at an inadequate sex-life"
It's an old farmer's joke and has nothing to do with sex or masturbation........SHEESH I can not believe that people don't understand that.
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