Posted on 05/02/2005 8:23:14 AM PDT by areafiftyone
"Desperate Housewives" has come under heavy fire from pro-family groups, including the American Decency Association, which has called for a boycott of ABC for airing the "degraded" show. Last fall, Mrs. Cheney asked the federal government to step in to protect the nation's children from the "Desperate Housewives."
You won't catch me watching THAT trash.
"In an official statement, one 'pro-family' advocacy group warned that Mrs. Bush's jokes at the President's expense were in violation of the Biblical command that wives respect their husbands."
One pro advocacy group eh...awfully unspecific, that could be anybody including some wacked out fringe group predciting the rapture this Friday. That is if the author didn't just plain make it up.
I guess the offensive part just went over my head.
This is a bunch of, well, you know. I'm a conservatice Christian and I thought she was very funny. Just something else to try and make the Christians look like a bunch of prudes. Sorry - we know better!
I only heard the "Mr. Excitement" comment and the "stay up later than 9 o'clock if you're going to rid the world of anarchy" comment but I didn't find anything offensive and I'd like to think I am a pretty conservative guy...to the contrary, I thought Laura Bush was very funny! She can certainly give "one liners" better than Leno!(of course that's not saying much...my cat gives better "one liners" LOL)
And THAT is a distinct possibility.
I have a feeling this article was written as a parody.
Part of the humor is the "irony" of the comments. It was great. G.W. is a very lucky man!
The pdf linked says it was written by "Pastor Roy DeLong, Chairman, Coalition for Traditional Values". But Roy DeLong is not the Chairman of the TVC-- that is Rev. Lou Sheldon.
I know this all too well because somehow I got on their email list and get spammed with all of their press releases and fundraising appeals-- and I can't get off the list. And I get mail from Sheldon just about every day accordingly.
And I did not get any such release in my email.
A google Search of "Roy DeLong" and "Coalition for Traditional Values" yeilds only a few hits, none of which show any indication that DeLong is part of the TVC leadership. A search on "Roy DeLong" and "Traditional Values Coalition" yields nothing.
There are a couple of links on the webpage to these websites and their quotes but I didn't want to post the links. If you go on the website you will see the links. These groups are a bunch of weenies!
The television show deserves criticism and I have read criticism from the left as well as the right. Laura's jokes were jokes and should not be taken seriously. This reminds me of the left and their tirade against Ann Coulter's humor, calling it "hate speech." What do you do with someone who has no sense of humor?
"I'm sorry, but these people need to lighten up they sound like nuts!"
They are nuts.
Just another attempt to develop a wedge issue.
See above.
Nobody can create a wedge issue like advocacy groups. IMHO Mrs. Bush only violated the command if the President had no idea what she was going to say and was embarassed by it. Knowing W. as little as I do, he probably howled.
Not the kinds of jokes I would have necessarily told, but no reason to bash the First Lady. However, the picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Chippendales did leave me a little nausious (sp?).
Shalom.
Actually they could have asked me. I'm a conservative Christian and I didn't find them funny but rather crass and something I would have expected at a Clinton dinner.
Can't really use that one, the Dems don't claim to have any class. If you don't claim to have any, nobody gets upset if you don't.
However, I see no problem with what the First Lady did, as long as her husband was not ambushed by it. I am sure he howled during the practice sessions.
Shalom.
She then proceeded to mock his performance, both public ("if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later") and private, noting that by nine o'clock, Mr. Bush, whom she referred to as "Mr. Excitement," is typically sound asleep.
Now that is some funny stuff!
Why can't these prudes find something really indecent to protest?
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