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)."
Perhaps you don't know what you are talking about.
If you want to throw stones on judging who is "more" or "less" Christian, I will direct you to the Bible to discover there is no such thing - you either are or you aren't.
out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks...
Luke 6:45
I believe the joke was on busy men who go to bed at 9:30PM. Not on white men. Are you, by any chance, a sexually inadequate white man?
The jester was the one who was responsible for telling the king what he needed hear: That his whim wasn't law, to keep him getting above himeself.
In these less-enlightened times, rulers usually don't have someone there to keep them grounded in reality, and it shows.
Count your blessings
So a woman is either a Bible school debutante or a whore? Sounds like that is what you're implying, you book thumping whacko.
That's what living with George will get you.
How about you spend your time worrying about your "Christian witness", and let her worry about hers.
"Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he WILL BE MADE TO STAND, for God is able to make him stand."
A Christian is FREE to love God and do as he pleases.
Spiritually immature legalists - so accurately depicted by the SNL "Church Lady" character - just HATE to hear that the sins of Christians have already been paid for.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~ C.S. Lewis
That was when I stopped laughing. I thought that was disgusting.
I didn't see the broadcast but from what I've heard it probably endeared Laura to more folks, which is a good thing.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~ C.S. Lewis
Keep it up. All you are doing is guaranteeing that Rudy G. will be elected president in 2008.
"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."
Well I'm an old farm girl. So I know from farmers' jokes.
The first lines of the joke (beginning with the Yale and Andover reference) were funny, and Laura could have stopped after the "George tried to milk a horse" part and still have gotten a good laugh.
In fact, the audience was obviously amused up to that point.
But did you see (and hear) the audience's reaction after the "male horse" line? THEY clearly didn't think it had "nothing to do with sex or masturbation."
Let's face it: It was a crude joke, and that was obvious to everybody. Unless you just fell off the turnip truck.
Wish there was a poll to see if Laura would beat Hillary as President. She did very well at the microphone.
Wish there was a poll to see if Laura would beat Hillary as President. She did very well at the microphone.
I was just making an off-hand comment. No need to go on the offensive.
Thoughts of Barbara and Jenna "working the ranch"...
I can't believe this debate is still going on...
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