Q&A Friday: The Laura Bush Flap

by John Hawkins | May 6, 2005 3:31 am

Question: “What do you think of the Laura Bush flap?” — HerrKant

Answer: Personally, I didn’t have any problem with her stand-up routine. While I can understand some people thinking that a few of the jokes were beneath the dignity of the first lady, the whole performance[1], even the “milking the male horse gag” which some people are complaining about, was pretty tame:

“I saw my in-laws down at the ranch over Easter. We like it down there. George didn’t know much about ranches when we bought the place. Andover and Yale don’t have a real strong ranching program. But I’m proud of George. 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.”

In any case, this is just a tempest in a teapot. No big deal either way…