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.
It's useless...I give up......
Glad to know I fall squarely in the middle.
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.
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.
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.
Michelle understands this, and Nancy Reagans speechwritwer even wrote the material!
I didn't have a problem with any of the jokes she told. I thought she was pretty funny.
Are conservatives not allowed to laugh anymore?
Consider her audience.
1. The horse joke is typical earthy humor on the ranch/farm. Nobody with any country roots would get put out by that joke, I don't care how religious or otherwise puritanical.
2. The stripper joke was funny precisely because Laura Bush and Lynn Cheney are ladies. The thought of those classy ladies at Chippendales was funny because it was completely ridiculous. It wouldn't be ridiculous if it were Terry Kerry or some other Democrat skank.
EXCELLENT. Another one agrees with me. Even the Bible study leader brought it up last evening, and said much the same thing. :-)
If this offends you, it's probably best to dig a deep hole in your back yard and have someone bury you, because you'll never be able to avoid being offended.
Tasteless SKANK.... has quite a ring to it..
You can almost smell the phrase..
I agree with Michelle EXCEPT that the reason Laura can get away with it and not TerRAYza is because Laura has tons more class in the first place.
For Laura it is an obvious joke.
For TerRAYza we would be wondering if she really WAS at a stripper joint with dollar bills...
The difference is that Laura was joking about her own husband. If THK was saying the jokes, she would have been slamming the President not poking fun at sKerry. Heck, if THK were to say the same stuff of sKerry, he would probably have had her arrested.
I, for one, would have walked out with a mean glare on my ugly face.
Then again, I wasn't invited.
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.