Posted on 05/11/2005 6:59:03 PM PDT by rface
A word of caution for Laura Bush. Make sure the mike is off before you start telling those jokes. You know the ones I mean. The ones rated XXX by the family values folks who turn out in droves to support George and his friends.
Remember Hillary Clinton . . . oops, "Rodham" Clinton. The time she put on those designer clothes and posed for a fashion layout in Vogue magazine and sold as many copies as Jackie Kennedy to the consternation of her friends.
"She didn't prove, as her advocates insist, that a modern woman can be all things," pouted one woman in a letter to the editor. "She proved that after becoming a powerful lawyer and policy maker, she still needed to be a sex object."
Laura, in a talk at the White House correspondents' dinner, got off a doozy describing husband George's efforts to become a Texas rancher after all those years of book learning at Andover and Yale, with an occasional detour down to Morey's.
I repeat the line in a family newspaper for the simple reason that it is crucial to this column and in no way intended to rouse the prurient interests of the reader, if I have one left after reaching the fifth paragraph.
"He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse," she said. "What's worse, it was a male horse."
It was jokes like that that got me thrown out of Miss Madden's fifth grade class at the Thomas A. Watson School.
I didn't see her tell the joke in the original, which, incidentally, was written by Landon Parvin, one of Ron Reagan's former speech writers, but I got a look at the audience reaction in the reruns.
Democrats laughed uproariously; most Republicans smiled nervously; those Republicans who listen to Rush Limbaugh and read Ann Coulter looked like lobsters that had just been dropped into boiling water by Mary Tyler Moore.
But there is a better than even chance that a good standup routine won't hurt Laura's standing with the American people after all.
Remember Nancy Reagan was pilloried for her practice of accepting the loan of fashionable clothing from American designers, saying she was just giving a boost to the nation's fashion industry. Her advisers convinced her to give them to museums.
Whereupon, as a parting shot, Nancy turned up at the annual Gridiron dinner wearing a garish outfit of prints, a boa and beads, singing, "Secondhand clothes/To museum collections and traveling shows." Critics were charmed.
But no First Lady has ventured so near to the edge as Laura Bush.
"One night," she said, "after George went to bed, Lynne Cheney, Condi Rice and Karen Hughes and I went to Chippendales (a male strip joint). I won't tell you what happened, but Lynne's Secret Service code name is now "Dollar Bill."
Have you guys heard the one about the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter?
The Marshfield Mariner (Massachusetts)
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Ya know, I thought Laura's jokes were hilarious. I've figured out my opinion is not popular among my fellow conservatives, but heck, my house is only 6 miles from their ranch. Maybe seeing the humor is in the hometown water.
1 I was disgusted and disapointed in Lauras lewd performance
2 I thought it was funny
3 You are an idiot
4 You are a prude
5 I dont care
Ok that sbout it for this topic
Pinging Howlin ...
Laura was funny - her routine was great!
Huh? I'm one of those, and I thought Laura was pretty funny that night.
You cant do that
I thought so too. I've considered that part of the frenzy over this may be geographical. I don't know. Around these parts even the most elegant and refined ladies sometimes find occasion to use the kind of humor Mrs. Bush used at that event. It depends on context and company sometimes whether something is lewd or not. But, I laughed a good bit and enjoyed seeing the President and Mrs. Bush seeming to have fun.
I'm glad to find I'm not the only conservative Republican to find the whole thing funny! I was accused of not being very lady-like myself a few days ago just because I thought she was funny!
It appears from this article that he was never re-admitted to elementary school.
The jokes themselves were nothing special. It's all in the delivery.
I have to say that I've always admired Laura, but this is a new aspect of her I hadn't anticipated. She was really funny in that delivery.
George is an idiot. WOOHAAAAAAA!!!!! Funny stuff.
the jokes were delivered very well but The First Lady went oer the line. I hold her up as an example for my teenage daughter and was disapointed in her when she told the horse joke. I try to teach her that people with class don't stoop to such 'jokes' they are not uncommon among people in her age group and this did not help my case at all.
Me, too. I just do not see what the uproar is about.
You are dead wrong; the only "conservatives" who were offended by it are the Perpetually Perturbed Conservatives who LOOK for something to offend them.
LOL.....next??
When my Mother laughs - then I know it's pretty far on the safe side of the Prude-O-Meter
Well, like they say... Catholics don't recognize protestants, Lutherans don't recognize the Pope, and Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
must remember this! LOL :-)
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