'Desperate Housewife' Laura Grabs Stage from Bush

(Reuters) ^ | 5/1/05 | By Karey Wutkowski

[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)."

[pissant]

Phwew! I thought you got it from the old testament in the passages about Beelzebub. I'm relieved!

[daybreakcoming]

Laura Bush does not hold an elective office. She is not accountable to your vote. She is not the 2nd coming of the Virgin Mary. What has she ever done/said to make you think she should be? She is a Texan, an earthy Texan, as are most Texan women. God bless her.

[farmer18th]

You'll have to forgive me, but arguing with someone who relies on Dana Carvey for spiritual advice is a waste of time.

[genefromjersey]

Saints preserve us ! Who annointed all these folks ?

Why don't you all go back to your Bibles,open 'em up to the New Testament,and point out where Jesus said Laura Bush couldn't crack a few jokes.

I believe Jesus DID have some remarks about Pharisees-who,I imagine,were not all that much different from their 21st century "narrowback" counterparts:smug,blue-nosed busybodies,who can quote scripture at the drop of a shekel,but who don't have a clue otherwise.

[Matchett-PI]

"...busybodies,who can quote scripture at the drop of a shekel.."

Satan knows the meaning of, and can quote the Scriptures better, than ALL the moral busibodies who will ever live - but it doesn't do him a bit of good.

Actually, I think it's a good thing when Christians like Laura Bush show how normal and real a spiritually mature Christian is.

It serves to expose the legalistic mean snakes in the grass for who they are:

"God, I thank you that I am not like other men - extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess [and don't tell stallion milking or strip-joint jokes]." [Luke 18:11-12]

[FR_addict]

"Is it just me that thinks maybe a First Lady should restrict comments like this in public?"

I didn't care for it either. If she wants to joke to girlfriends in private, that's one thing, but I thought the jokes were out of line.

I don't particularly want the First Lady to sound like a "desperate Housewife" or think about her hanging around a male strip joint.

[FR_addict]

"A First Lady promoting a show I assume is about adulterous housewives and then describing a scene where the President of the United States is masturbating a male horse, in my view, is inapproriate. "

I agree.

[No Blue States]

I have enjoyed reading your opinions and understanding of what Grace is and what it does. She was funny and real. Probably those who crucified The Lord were the same ones who were mad that their works couldnt save them.

[Matchett-PI]

"I have enjoyed reading your opinions and understanding of what Grace is and what it does. She was funny and real. Probably those who crucified The Lord were the same ones who were mad that their works couldnt save them."

Thank you.

I think George and Laura also understand that there really are only two religions in the whole world once you boil them all down to their essence.

[sully777]

The logic of this thread can be summed up:

"My Homer is not a communist.  He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star." -- Grandpa Simpson

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It would be ironic and poetic justice for this hummer of a thread to be pulled and dropped in the SBR because the roundheads harp on the pros and cons of stallion-milking and Cheney dollar nights. IMO, they're just a bunch of whackjobs. My2cents.

[pook]

The Bush Administration has been putting out programs to promote marriage. Laura Bush undid all that with her comments that night.

I'm a young male, of 24 years old. Laura Bush's comments were offensive not because they had any sexual nature, but because they were desrespectful to men. I learned that night that even if a Man becomes the President in this country, he still won't get respect from his Americanized wife.

"Don't be such a tighwad, it was just a joke, blah blah blah."

Tell me what would happen if the President or any man made similiar comments that made fun of his wife in the same way Laura's script did.

Tell me what would happen if a TV show like Desperate Housewives, which champions adulterous wives, was called Desperate Husbands which championed adulterous husbands came out?

If you see the disgust of wife bashing jokes, perhaps you will understand why many see these husband bashing jokes as what they are: distasteful and disrespectful for men.

Check out the demigraphics, as they are the destiny of politics. Young men are not marrying. Ever. More men are outsourcing their wives from other countries. More and more single women are increasing.

Perhaps its time to stop disrespecting men, even in joke form. We fight your wars, work the low tiered jobs, put money in the checks of today's social security recipients, and are treated little other than a natural resource that grows from the ground.

You thought Laura Bush was funny? Perhaps you will find it funny years from now when your 'funny' daughters are husband-less, living alone with many cats. But I'll be laughing then because I will have invested in catfood.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL!!

[Rebelbase]

The whole point of the White House Correspondents Dinner is an opportunity for the White House staff to roast each other and the press in sarcasm, exaggeration, wit and humor. There is nothing serious about it.

That is the whole point of the dinner. The writer's made a mistake, Laura read the mistakes. Big deal. Keep it in context and don't make a federal case out of it.

[FR_addict]

Mike Savage talked about Laura Bush's comments on his show tonight. He thought they were totally inappropriate. He also said that Jane Fonda was a guest at the dinner.

Here's a WND poll on Laura Bush's comments.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/index.asp?VIEW_RESULTS=Y&cookies=bchfgjmd344kmv59dk4kmfdkv95m95mv9095kmmcsd

[swampfx]

Here's a WND poll on Laura Bush's comments.

Thanks.

I think we can all agree there is a decency line a First Lady should never cross in her public comments.

I also think we can all agree it is incumbent upon those that respect the First Lady to point out when she crosses the line in an attempt to make sure she doesn't cross it again.

The only point of disagreement appears to be where the line of decency is drawn.

For me the line is drawn at describing a trip to a strip club and describing the President of the United States milking a male horse. There is only one way to get "milk" out of a male horse.