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Michelle Malkin: The Wonkette-ization of Laura Bush
Michelle Malkin ^ | May 3, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 05/03/2005 2:10:11 PM PDT by EveningStar

Most of Mrs. Bush's humor at the correspondents' dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her.

Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.

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To: EveningStar

Thank you, Michelle Malkin! Finally--somebody gets it!

Laura Bush pandering to the lowbrow minds of the Washington press corps...something I never thought I would see from this usually gracious First Lady.


41 posted on 05/03/2005 2:26:54 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: Peach

My question is why would anyone be aghast when discussing the anatomy of a horse? Don't adults teach children to use correct anatomy terms and to feel no shame when discussing the body? This is a tempest in a teapot.


42 posted on 05/03/2005 2:27:16 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
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To: EveningStar
In keeping with the rule:
43 posted on 05/03/2005 2:27:49 PM PDT by blues_guitarist (http://mundane-noodle.blogspot.com)
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To: Peach
And an unintended consquence of the near take-over of FR by the extremist right is that I, a former so far to the right I was called Atilla the Hun, have moved to the center and a MUCH more moderate position. There is NO way I want to be associated with the extremists on the right. They are an embarrassment. And the left, well, they are dangerous. So what's left? The middle. An unintended consequence that the Holier than Thou brigade has caused.

Oh boo hoo. "Mommy those right wing extremists made me into a moderate!" No major loss judging from your posts.

44 posted on 05/03/2005 2:28:49 PM PDT by Sir Gawain (Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
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To: gopwinsin04

Michelle Malkin rocks!

***** ***** *****

Most of Mrs. Bush's humor at the correspondents' dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her.

Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.

"Lighten up?" How about cleaning up? The First Lady resorting to cheap horse masturbation jokes is not much better than Whoopi Goldberg trafficking in dumb puns on the Bush family name. Unlike many Beltway and Manhattan commentators, I do not think the Wonkette-ization of the White House is a good thing.


45 posted on 05/03/2005 2:29:17 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: All

BTW, I liked her speech. And here it is:

Not that old joke. Not again. Ladies and gentlemen, I've been attending these dinners for years, and just quietly sitting there. Well I've got a few things I wanna say for a change. This is going to be fun, because he really doesn't have a clue about what I'm gonna say next.

George always says he's delighted to come to these press dinners. Baloney! He's usually in bed by now. I'm not kidding. I said to him the other day: George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later.

I am married to the president of the United States and here's our typical evening. Nine o'clock. Mister excitement here is sound asleep. And I'm watching desperate housewives. With Lynn Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. I mean, if those women on that show think they're desperate, they ought to be with George. One night, after George went to bed, Lynn Cheney, Condi Rice, Karen Hughues and I went to Chippendale's. I wouldn't even mention it, except Ruth Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor saw us there. I won' tell you what happened, but Lynn's Secret Service codename is now "dollar bill".

But George and I are complete opposites. I'm quiet, he's talkative. I'm introverted, he's extraverted. I can pronounce "nuclear". The amazing thing however is that George and I were just meant to be. I was a librarian who spent twelve hours a day in the library. Yet somehow I met George. We met and married and I became one of the regulars up at Kennebunkport. All the Bushes love Kennebunkport. Which is like Crawford but without the nightlife. People ask me what it's like to be up there with the whole Bush clan. Let me put it this way: first prize: three day vacation with the Bush family. Second price: ten days.

Speaking of prizes brings me to my mother-in-law. So many mothers today are just not involved in their children's lives. Not a problem with Barbara Bush. People often wonder what my mother-in-law is really like. People think she's a sweet, grandmotherly Aunt Bee type. She's actually more like ... hmmm ... Don Corleone. Cedric, am I doing alright?

I saw my in-laws down at the ranch over Easter. We like it down there. George didn't know much about ranches when we bought the place. Andover and Yale don't have a real strong ranching program. But I'm proud of George. He has learned a lot about ranching, since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse it was a male horse. Now of course, he spends his days clearing brush, cutting trails, taking down trees, or as the girls call it: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with the chainsaw. Which I think is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well.

It's always very interesting to see how the ranch air invigorates people when they come down from Washington. Recently, when vice president Cheney was down, he got up early one morning, he put up his hiking boots, and he went on a brisk, 20- to 30-foot walk.

But actually, in all seriousness, I do love the ranch, and I love the whole Bush family. I was an only child, and when I married into the extended Bush clan, I got brothers and sisters and wonderful in-laws all of whom opened their arms to me. And included in the package, I got this guy here. I think when you marry someone, you unconsciously are looking for something in your spouse, to help fulfill something in you. And George did that for me. He brought fun and energy into my life, and so many other things. George is a very good listener, he's easy to be around, and on top of it all, he's a loving father whose daughters absolutely adore him.

So in the future, when you see me just quietly sitting up here, I want you to know I'm happy to be here for a reason: I love and enjoy being with the man who usually speaks to you on these occasions. So George and I thank you for inviting us, thank you for all the good work that you and the press do, and thank you for your very kind hospitality this evening.


46 posted on 05/03/2005 2:29:24 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
This is a tempest in a teapot.

It is. It's also about being agenda driven, easily led by the paid opinion shapers on this site, and classic over-reach by the extremist right who thinks the president "owes" them and they can drive the party's agenda.

Lose the big tent Republican party and we'll never win another election.

47 posted on 05/03/2005 2:29:46 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: lady lawyer

The mental image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Chippendales is just funny!


48 posted on 05/03/2005 2:30:37 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: Sir Gawain

Hon, you just don't get it.

If this has moved ME to a moderate position, it's moved lots of people to a moderate position.

And lose the Big Tent Republican and you can kiss future election wins goodbye.


49 posted on 05/03/2005 2:30:57 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: EveningStar
Laura Bush was not offensive because she didn't say anything that would offend. The mistake was allowing the First Lady to try to "humanize" the role she inhabits at such a high-profile event.

That was my major problem with the sleazy Clinton bunch. The never showed one ounce of class. I don't want the White House down on common ground. I want it to sit on its own puffy white cloud above the common street language and unrefined habits we put up with everyday. In other words, the Clintons stunk up the joint and we don't need his ilk to set any standards for what will be acceptable from now on.

I don't have a problem with Laura Bush's speech per se, I just wish she would have saved it for The Womens Wear Daily Luncheon.
50 posted on 05/03/2005 2:31:06 PM PDT by whereasandsoforth (Stamp out liberals with the big boot of truth)
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To: All

The horse joke was about not being able to tell the difference between a HORSE and a COW, not an udder and a penis.


51 posted on 05/03/2005 2:31:13 PM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: texas_mrs

Which is why I will never donate to any RINO.


52 posted on 05/03/2005 2:32:31 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: EveningStar
If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is. - I thought we did that last year!
53 posted on 05/03/2005 2:32:39 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Peach


BUMP.
You're exactly right Peach. Lots of wisdom there.


54 posted on 05/03/2005 2:33:05 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: Peach
Michelle Malkin? She must be a city girl. The Holier than Thou group will feel so vindicated and the hijacking of FR by the Taliban right will be complete.

You know, I got a bit carried away a few posts ago and grouped the Clintoon's with the Bush's, and rightfully apologized due to your chastisement.

But to read this post here, I see you as nothing but a liberal plant. A disrupter. Someone who just stirs the pot to get people off track of the REAL debate. Man do you sound so much like a liberal.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it must be a duck.

Oh, and YOU TOO are now duly marked.

55 posted on 05/03/2005 2:33:33 PM PDT by Tom602 (Democrats: Against the death penalty for convicted murderers and for killing the unborn & disabled.)
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To: Peach
"The Holier than Thou group will feel so vindicated and the hijacking of FR by the Taliban right will be complete."

Very nice... Nothing like using the liberal tactic of referring to those with which you disagree in the most extreme manner possible. Congrats.
56 posted on 05/03/2005 2:34:06 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead (To hell with Mexico, its policies, and its leaders)
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To: Peach

So if you don't like stripper jokes you're evil? If you like Shakespeare over Andrew Dice Clay you're lowbrow? Acting like an adult with a little class at anytime is not appropriate?


57 posted on 05/03/2005 2:35:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: onyx

Wisdom in that post? LOL you need your head checked.


58 posted on 05/03/2005 2:35:25 PM PDT by Sir Gawain (Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
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To: Tom602

Yeah. Right.

Aren't you the poster who compared Laura Bush with the Clintons? Enough said.


59 posted on 05/03/2005 2:35:27 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: maplenut

"if anyone was offended, they need to get a life. She was wonderful and a more beautiful classy woman you could not find anywhere."


So true. The class Laura Bush exudes can't be purchased or faked. She just "is". Only anal retentive extremists are the ones who snarl their lip and crinkle their nose ie., they're one dimensional wooden planks. They probably think watching paint dry is exciting.


60 posted on 05/03/2005 2:35:46 PM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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