Posted on 05/01/2005 4:20:51 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President and First Lady attended Sunday morning church services at St. Johns, and were spending a quiet day at the White House.
TRANSCRIPT OF THE DAY: While I could not find an official transcript of the First Lady's remarks last night, I didi find the next best thing by cobbling together several news reports.
First Lady Laura Bush has stolen the show with a surprise comedy routine that teases her husband President George W Bush.
The performance at a dinner honouring award-winning journalists brought a standing ovation from the audience -- that included much of official Washington and a dash of Hollywood.
The president pretended to start a planned a speech last night at the 91st annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, but was quickly "interrupted" by his wife in an obviously planned ploy. "Not that old joke, not again," she said to the delight of the audience. "I've been attending these dinners for years and just quietly sitting there. I've got a few things I want to say for a change."
GWB sat down and Laura proceeded to note that he is "usually in bed by now," and said she told him recently, "If you really want to end tyranny in the world you're going to have to stay up later." She outlined a typical evening: "Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep and I'm watching Desperate Housewives." Comedic pause. "With Lynne Cheney." Comedic pause. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife."
The First Lady went on to quip that one night she went out to Chippendales, a male strip bar, with Lynne Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top Bush aide Karen Hughes.
"I wouldn't even mention it, except (Supreme Court Justices) Ruth Ginsberg and Sandra Day O'Connor saw us there," she said. "I won't tell you what happened. But Lynne's secret service code name is now 'dollar bill'."
Laura Bush also joked about the president's mother Barbara Bush. "People think she's a sweet grandmotherly aunt Bea type. She's actually more like (fictional Mafia capo) Don Corleone."
She said that her husband actually knew little about ranching when they bought their ranch in Crawford, Texas.
"I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year, when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse," she said.
The president now often spends time at the ranch clearing brush and cutting trails. "George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw. Which I think is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well."
I just got home and caught up with the thread. It's a beaut today! The photo of the day is wonderful, but the "blushing W" is priceless!
I sure hope that you are not really leaving us for good. Your post are always informative and have alerted me to things I would not have wanted to miss.
all of my in-laws are buried in the cemetery in North Arlington. We live in the central part of the county, next town east of Paramus where all the malls are. I have yet to run into anyone out-of-state who does not know that Paramus=malls.
Thanks so much. Since I missed seeing this, it was great fun to read what Laura said. (especially after reading other threads that were full of bashing comments about her jokes.) As always, thanks for the dose.
all of my in-laws are buried in the cemetery in North Arlington
You know River Rd. My grandfather grew up in a home
that was a few hundreds yrs. old. upteen rooms.
before my grandparents moved out here in 1926 he was a
silversmith at Tiffanys. They d. in "99 & 2000 in their
90s. They still had their very NJ and my grandmother
sounded like heavy duty Brooklyn.
My Second cousin I am close to 84 going on 40 from Hoboken
but many yrs. in Toms River in Ocean Co. Her ch. are
grads of Rutgers.
Thanks Ron for providing the video link! Whoo Hoo!!!!
"In Bush's case, her routine was her husband's idea. Tradition calls for the president to deliver one-liners to the 2,500 White House correspondents and guests at the Gridiron dinner in the Washington Hilton ballroom, but Bush has now done that three times. His wife agreed to step in, then sat down with Parvin and Susan Whitson, her press secretary, to work on ideas.
Playing off "Desperate Housewives," the racy hit U.S. television show, was a natural, even though Whitson said in a brief interview after the dinner that Bush had never actually seen it. Whitson said the first lady had heard about the characters and plot from her twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, who are fans, and was planning to watch the entire first season on a DVD she has at home."
I finally saw it today and loved it!
There's an IHT article up at Drudge about Laura's speech....says it was the president's idea for her to do it, but he didn't know beforehand what she'd be saying! LOL
That photo of Condi at post #19 -- does she have a new haircut? She's so adorable!
Hi Fuddfan, you may have come across this thread already, but it has the link to Cedric's performance.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394710/posts
I agree with everyone else, the part about Condi was very funny!
I suppose there is transcription people in the UK but I cannot say I have come across them only people that do Dictaphone work at say the local council in the word processing pool not as I assume you and Ilovew mother are professional transcribers.
I absolutely agree -- that was true for the entire jokey part of the speech! Hilarious!
DrDeb, I always look for your posts; without disagreement amongst us, there can be no learning or growth. Often, what I disagree with today, later I have a different perspective as the result of someone's comment. Whatever you decide, I'm grateful for your voice....it is strong and honest.
A basement in the US can be for habitation or just storage of excess junk; in our house it contains the water heater, softener, heater, etc. etc. but will also be some type of big family room--haven't quite decided yet. We were just going to have a crawl space (about 4 ft. high, for purposes of accessing pipes, wires, if necessary) but then discovered the cost of making it 8 ft. high instead of 4 was minimal compared to doubling our living space.
In our area of the US, a "cellar" usually referrs to just a room under the house, often used just to store vegetables, or take shelter from storms.
Traditionally the cellar in the UK also had a coal hole where the coalman would drop the coal down either loose or in sacks. Lots of people therefore referred to is as the coal cellar.
DON'T GO!!!!!!!
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