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.
For cryin' out loud, people, she told a joke about farm animals and her husband's ineptitude in dealing with them. It's a joke that has been around for eons. It's not like she used a strong of four letter words, or dressed in a skimpy little pop dive outfit and mounted the horse on stage. She did what every other normal housewife in the country does... poked fun at her husband. This whole reaction has to explain why when I go camping now, I have a hard time finding sticks for kindling. If those sticks are located where they seem to be these days, you can keep them. I certainly don't want them back, and your proctologist would charge double to remove them anyway.
Was your family present at the WH Correspondent dinner?
No?
Then lighten up.
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.
No, if she told the jokes, by definition they're not beneath her. If she'd REFUSED to tell the jokes, that would have been a sign that they're beneath her. Jokes about strippers I expect from Democrats. Don't the Bushes know that trying to please Hollywood types isn't going to make them loved by Hollywood types?
Was pretty out of character for her. The horse jokes weren't bad or out of line, but just out of character.
Partially because the jokes were written by a hack. Joke writing is very hard and the writer is not a true comedian.
Give me a royal break!
I remember very clearly, a tasteless cartoon used by Free Republic during the last fund raiser.
And yes, it was funny.
I'm simply floored of the number of people who have never heard the expression "He's so dumb he'd try to milk a bull".
You guys are blowing this out of proportion and giving it a Frankenstien life of its own.
Those wouldn't even be considered jokes in my family so get over it. There's more important things going on today than to worry about White House stand-up comedy routines during an ADULTS ONLY dinner.....
Sheesh, God I envy those folks with so much time on their hands............
The only thing that should have been omitted was the "horse joke", imo.
Carolyn
I agree with Malkin.
Those jikes were totally out of line for the First Lady. They were not amusing and I could barely believe what I was hearing.
It was the sort of material you would expect out of TEH-RAY-ZAH Kerry, not Bush. I wonder who is running the show down there???
I avoid women who talk like sh_t... in public. They're almost always a ton-a-trouble. My opinion of her went down to zero. That was bar room talk... stuff a 50-something barfly would say to get some company.
It smells of spilt beer.