Laura Bush Works..err..Bluish, Offends the Delicate

Conservatives really can’t win, can they?

Laura Bush does some stand up at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and, by all accounts, absolutely killed.

Yet after the laughter, there had to be the sanctimonious judgement.

Although Washington’s movers and shakers laughed at Mrs. Bush’s performance, some in the press woke up with a Sunday morning hangover and began to criticize her monologue as immodest at best and downright bawdy at worst.
“Laura Bush cracks risque jokes at the White House Correspondents’ dinner,” sniffed Agence France-Presse.
CNN reporter Elaine Quijano, who attended the dinner, also apparently had her sensibilities scarred by some of the first lady’s quips.
“In some respects, I think for some folks it was a little shocking because she kind of crossed the line a little bit in some people’s minds,” she said.
“It was very risque,” the Nation’s David Korn said yesterday on Fox News. “I was wondering what the social conservatives and James Dobson had to say about all these jokes that were laced with sexual innuendo. Not a very family-values-type speech. I’m not sure I want to explain a lot of those jokes to my 4-year-old.”
Eyebrows were raised by the first lady’s bit about the president’s ranching skills, which Mrs. Bush said her husband lacked because the elite schools he attended, Andover and Yale, “don’t have a real strong ranching program.”
She then added: “He’s learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What’s worse, it was a male horse.”

Folks, I don’t care where you come from, that’s a funny joke.

Unless, of course, you’re David Korn whose young daughter apparently watches C-SPAN with wide-eyes and requires her father to explain all the dirty lady’s jokes. What a ninny.

And I applaud the CNN reporter for her psychic abilities. It is, of course, much easier to speak for what “some people” will think rather than what you think. If Ms. Quijano was that offended at Laura Bush’s jokes, she should probably have found a paper sack into which to breathe until her offended sense of propriety returned to normal.

That and have the courage to say tht she was offended instead of attempting to speak for “some people”. I’m sur those people are quite capable of speaking for themselves.

I couldn’t help but notice that James Dobson has yet to issue a press release today on Mrs. Bush’s jokes, so I’m fairly sure that all is well in Jesusland. See, down here among the would-be theocrats, we like humor – even “slightly risque” humor. Why, I bet if you cornered one of us you might even hear a *gasp* penis joke.

Yes, I know it’s shocking, but that’s just the way we are – wild and crazy.

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