You are probably right and I think I'll stop on these threads.
I've met the First Lady and after five days of listening to the name calling, I jumped in yesterday. I always think of the thousands of lurkers we have here, vs. the posters, when I respond to something.
But as I've just been reminded via freepmail by someone smarter than me, each party has its fringe 1-2% people. It's just that we've seen those people try to hijack threads and the entire forum in general in the last month and it's getting old.
The weather is too nice to bother with the kind of silliness of posters who compare the First Lady with the Clintons and name call and I think I'll take your excellent advice and just respond to a few pings as they come in about this and then let it drop.
You take care, my FR friend.
This is beyond regurgitated.
Outta here too.
Take care, Peach.
Peach, how many times have we been down this road before? I guess everyone has their "hot-button" issues that makes them get their knickers in a wad. FWIW, I think that a lot of (maybe younger) people have never seen a Roast before. The nature of a Roast is to over-exaggerate the perceptions that the public has of a public figure. Laura did that at an adult venue where satire is expected. It would not have been satire if it had not been antithetical to the real people being roasted. Everyone knows that Laura is a lady who would never even think of going to Chippendale's and neither would any of the ladies she named. The horse joke comes from a different era and perhaps urban people don't get it. The problems that some are having come from within themselves. I suppose one could see sexual inuendo in the joke, but then perhaps they see sexual inuendo in a lot of things. I didn't take the joke that way because I come from a Southern rural culture and that joke is old as I am. It's obvious that there is not going to be agreement on this issue, so we will just have to let it ride until it blows over. It will.