Posted on 05/03/2005 2:10:11 PM PDT by EveningStar
GASP!!!!! You mean to tell me that Laura LIED about this? < /DU Mode>
Figured I'd better make the DU reference to show sarcasm or I'd need to duck for cover, LOL!
Thanks, onyx. This place has gone nuts.
The American Spectator editors "got" it as well, with a take very similar to Malkin's. Certainly not behavior that we should expect from a First Lady at a public function. If you can't imagine Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, or Nancy Reagan saying it from the podium, it probably shouldn't be said. Of course, if you drink enough Kool-Aid, you'll rationalize it any way you can.
I guess I'm just glad I don't spend my days with my nose out of joint, actively seeking new ways to be offended, so I can come on here and whine about it. Then again, I can actually laugh, enjoy my life, and be happy. That's a trade-off I'll gladly make again and again.
I was afraid I wouldn't find anyone here to agree with. But, yes, I agree, I was sorry she said made those two jokes. It is difficult being a classy woman in the current culture, but ya gotta keep trying.
susie
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I got emotional.
I admit it.
What's your excuse liberal?
Why do long-time Freepers engage so passionately with posters who rise to the surface solely to antagonize and divide the members of this forum?
What would happen if the deliberate antagonists were ignored? Wouldn't the thread simply fade away?
They feed on the replies posted to them. I say: "starve 'em!" Perhaps we should draw up a "tag team" to help us isolate the troublemakers...My blood pressure would be better for it....and the media would have to search elsewhere to find negative morsels to exploit.
Just my thoughts.
Be well, friend.
Hon, you've been here about a year. And calling me a liberal is a hoot. Sort of pathetic. But a hoot.
Was your family present at the WH Correspondent dinner?
No?
Then lighten up.
The culture is just so trashed at this point that this kind of gutter humor fails to raise eyebrows. Truly evidence of the debasement of our culture.
It's the sexual stuff that's degrading the culture. Don't want it in the White House too.
Michael Rivero is that you? Got any proof to back up this conspiracy theory?
#1. Anyone can pretend to be anything on the internet.
Yep. You could claim to be a conservative who was driven to become a moderate because of the "far right" while all the time being a DU troll. How do we know you're not?
#2. I live in the Bible Belt where you can't walk 20 steps without bumping into a Baptist Church. Nearly all my friends and neighbors are Baptist. NOT ONE of them has a problem with the jokes.
Logical fallacy: Appeal to Popularity (argumentum ad populum)
#3. I think MOST of the people pretending to be outraged at the First Lady's jokes are NOT what they say they are.
Again, got proof? Or how about you show us some proof that you're not a DU troll?
#4. I think they are paid opinion shapers who come here to stir dissent.
And they're all on the far-right. Uh huh, sure.
#6. Think about how many people you have met in real life who would be upset about a joke about some city slicker coming into farm country trying to milk a male horse and not being able to tell the difference between a cow and a horse. It's a joke older than I am.
Well that's all fine and dandy, but what does it have to do with Mrs. Bush's quote below?
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.
What a ridiculous statement.
"Laura's schtik was just right, except for the 2 areas Malkin pointed out...the Stripper and Horse jokes"
Wasn't anybody bothered by the Desperate Housewives joke. It reminded me of the Sex and the City references in the twins' skit at the RNC, which was also objectionable.
For Laura and the Bush daughters to joke about watching lewd immoral shows which make fun of cherished family values suggests to the public that it is OK to watch this type of television.
Completely antithetical to conservative Christian values!!!!!
Actually, the whole skit that Laura did -- dissing & making fun of her husband in public! -- is contrary to conservative family values. It should always be remembered that the husband is the head. He is to the wife in the relationship of Christ to the church. She should always offer him respect.
This is the biblical view. It just confirms the world view of radical feminism & secular humanism when a woman in the exalted position of the First Lady of the Land fails to uphold biblical standards in such public forum.
So I am just calling the kettle black.
You disagree with me and for that I am shouted down as a Taliban extremist, a right wing Christian conservative kook.
And as for being here a year, so? Whoopy friggin dooooo.
Come on, don't tell me you're a prig? You find fault with Peach's list?
#1. Anyone can pretend to be anything on the internet.
#2. I live in the Bible Belt where you can't walk 20 steps without bumping into a Baptist Church. Nearly all my friends and neighbors are Baptist. NOT ONE of them has a problem with the jokes.
#3. I think MOST of the people pretending to be outraged at the First Lady's jokes are NOT what they say they are.
#4. I think they are paid opinion shapers who come here to stir dissent.
#5. Read the book for which Jim Robinson wrote the foreward -- Hillary's Secret War. It details exactly how the opinion shapers on the left come to web sites ilke FR and have been tracked as coming from the DNC and the Washington Post, etc., to come here and try to shape opinion. All under the guise of Christianity and conservatism, of course.
#6. Think about how many people you have met in real life who would be upset about a joke about some city slicker coming into farm country trying to milk a male horse and not being able to tell the difference between a cow and a horse. It's a joke older than I am.
The horse joke was just trite -- the only clinker in the bunch -- so, no I wouldn't want my family to here it.
The rest -- I certainly would mind my wife or 17 year-old daughter hearing such humor. Borderline on the stripper joke for my 9-year-old son.... But I was about the same age, when I saw Gypsy on TV.
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