I did read it. As I said, EVERY president since Calvin Coolidge has gone to the dinner. It has nothing to do with sucking up to the MSM or the liberal elites. Her comments were supposed to be FUNNY not truthful.
Couldn't she have been funny WITHOUT the Hollywood-type sexual innuendo?
Really now--Lynne Cheney placing dollar bills in the thongs of studly young Chippendale dancers.?!?
Lynne did not look as amused as the libs in the audience.
True enough. But in that era, there were strong conservative influences in the press, for example, the Hearst, Scripps-Howard, and McCormick newspaper chains. The MSM is presently overwhelmingly hostile to Republicans (except RINOs) and conservatives. To add to the mix were entertainment industry personages like Jane Fonda and liberal politicians like Chuck Schumer. In fairness, Laura Bush was playing to a tough audience.
However, with the partial exception of the Reagan administration, GOP presidents from Eisenhower on have not been inclined to challenge the gatekeeper role of the MSM or to seriously contend with the sort of arrangements that provide liberal organizations like Planned Parenthood, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Arts with Federal funds.
I hope a future Republican president will push to end the too cozy relationships with lobbyists and Democrat and RINO politicians. A modern day conservative iconoclast is what is needed to overturn the money changers' tables.