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)."
Yep, while they think they are being cleverly subtle, they tend to stick out like sore thumbs in any thread. And if you ever lived in a rural area, you've heard the horse joke before being told about a greenhorn. It did not originate with Mrs. Bush. Sheesh!
I'm shocked that so many Puritans are posting on ye Sabbath! Take thee to yon pillorie, brothers!
Oh well! To each their own. It was all in humor. Sorry you lack that gene! Thanks!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Without the male horse punchline the joke would not have worked as well, and her delivery of it in such an offhand manner, as if it were an afterthought, just made it work so much better.
IMO, those criticizing the First Ladies performance are actually falling into the trap set by the MSM - they want people to believe she said something "dirty" and from some of the comments I'm reading, MSM is winning........*SIGH*
Lol
yep. I know I had heard that joke at least a dozen times by the time I was 15....
of course there were many different connotations and all that....
but we can't have the First Lady joking about the President, how unseemly!!! /sarcasm
My favorite Laura line was about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
:)
LOL!!!
nice....
yeah I liked that one too....probably because I hadnt heard it put that way before...
the horse joke, which is constantly being screamed about on here already, is an old one....
I saw a link in one of the threads last night to a video of Laura's performance. I didn't save it, but if you check the Laura threads from last night you might be able to find it.
Hadn't thought about it that way..............LOL!!!!
DU is in the last stages of paranoia meltdown when they think their best friend, the msm, is against them.
It ain't a kiddie show .... never has been ... never will be.
Okay everybody, here's a link to THE VIDEO:
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/04/30/president-bush-first-lady-white-house-correspondents-dinner-video/
Wanna bet? ;-)
The fact that they can joke shows they have a healthy relationship. It was hilarious and shows how marriages last, with a sense of humor!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps Bushes aren't as Christian as you thought.
LOL
its great too see all the uptight Puritans are out this morning and I am very glad Laura and George Bush feel secure enough in their marriage that they can make jokes and laugh and feel just fine.
I hope it happens again. Everyone loves the First Lady anyway and this won't do crap to that reputation...
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