Posted on 05/03/2005 2:10:11 PM PDT by 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.
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.
Oh boo hoo. "Mommy those right wing extremists made me into a moderate!" No major loss judging from your posts.
Michelle Malkin rocks!
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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.
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.
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.
The mental image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Chippendales is just funny!
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.
The horse joke was about not being able to tell the difference between a HORSE and a COW, not an udder and a penis.
Which is why I will never donate to any RINO.
BUMP.
You're exactly right Peach. Lots of wisdom there.
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.
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?
Wisdom in that post? LOL you need your head checked.
Yeah. Right.
Aren't you the poster who compared Laura Bush with the Clintons? Enough 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."
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.
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