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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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1 posted on 05/03/2005 2:10:15 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I agree, those jokes were a suck up to the Hollywood crowd. Would you want to hear those jokes with your family present? That stuff is so beneath her.


2 posted on 05/03/2005 2:11:29 PM PDT by piceapungens
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To: Mo1; Peach; Howlin

It's useless...I give up......


3 posted on 05/03/2005 2:12:41 PM PDT by mystery-ak
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To: mystery-ak

Can you believe this?


4 posted on 05/03/2005 2:14:09 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: EveningStar
The difference is that THK is a tasteless skank and Laura is not. That's why she could pull it off.
5 posted on 05/03/2005 2:14:12 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (The murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo - NOT IN OUR NAME)
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To: mystery-ak

Don't give up!

BTW, what were you trying to accomplish?


6 posted on 05/03/2005 2:14:44 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Let's not go casting asparagus...)
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To: mystery-ak

Don't give up!

BTW, what were you trying to accomplish?


7 posted on 05/03/2005 2:14:47 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Let's not go casting asparagus...)
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To: mystery-ak

Don't give up!

BTW, what were you trying to accomplish?


8 posted on 05/03/2005 2:14:48 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Let's not go casting asparagus...)
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To: mystery-ak

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.


9 posted on 05/03/2005 2:14:51 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: EveningStar
These threads bring together the super extreme from each end of the conservative spectrum.

Glad to know I fall squarely in the middle.

10 posted on 05/03/2005 2:15:16 PM PDT by RushCrush (Hey hey! ho ho! Kerry! sign that one-eight-oh!)
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To: EveningStar
Laura's schtik was just right, except for the 2 areas Malkin pointed out...the Stripper and Horse jokes.

These were the only 2 areas that bothered me as well. Just a little too crass. Got to watch the bedroom humor. The culture has already slipped way too far into the disgusting area for the White House to indulge in it as well.

11 posted on 05/03/2005 2:15:25 PM PDT by what's up
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To: EveningStar

I agree that this was a departure from what is expected of Laura Bush. The horse joke, though, isn't offensive to country folk, I don't beleive. Kinda like laughing at those who don't know a steer from a bull. I was actually more offended at the reference to Desperate Housewives than any of the rest of the material.


12 posted on 05/03/2005 2:15:59 PM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: EveningStar

She was great and could pull it off precisely because she has class and is not the same as liberal women. As Rush said, if anyone was offended, they need to get a life. She was wonderful and a more beautiful classy woman you could not find anywhere.


13 posted on 05/03/2005 2:16:06 PM PDT by maplenut
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To: mystery-ak

I'm on fiber-optic lkine right now. They said it was fast, but I had NO idea!


14 posted on 05/03/2005 2:16:27 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Let's not go casting asparagus...)
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To: EveningStar
There is a difference telling an Aggie joke at a late Saturday night roast banquet that is supposedly 'off the record' and saying the same thing at a regular social function.

Michelle understands this, and Nancy Reagans speechwritwer even wrote the material!

15 posted on 05/03/2005 2:16:54 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: EveningStar

I didn't have a problem with any of the jokes she told. I thought she was pretty funny.


16 posted on 05/03/2005 2:17:00 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: Peach
the Taliban right

Wow, calling some conservatives the Taliban. That's pretty sad.

17 posted on 05/03/2005 2:18:13 PM PDT by Sir Gawain (Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
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To: EveningStar
Yes, Theresa is a useless skank. Excuse, I mean she is good as a sugar mama, a funder of political campaigns, and ATM for liberal special interests.

Are conservatives not allowed to laugh anymore?

18 posted on 05/03/2005 2:18:22 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: EveningStar

Consider her audience.


19 posted on 05/03/2005 2:18:32 PM PDT by bookworm100
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To: Peach

the real point to be made about these jokes is not how people personally feel about them - everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, and have different levels of what they accept as humor.

the real point is that we should have recognized that SOME people who vote with us, object to this. Like that angry 74 year old evangelical grandmother who called into Michael Savage yesterday. And we have a slim majority in this country, we can't afford to be p**sing off people over nonsense like this dumb dinner. what do we have to gain by letting the first lady do this? nothing, there is no upside, only a downside. politically, its not a positive for our side.


20 posted on 05/03/2005 2:19:29 PM PDT by oceanview
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