Looks to me like a wife roasting her husband. IIRC, the White House usually makes fun of itself during one of this dinners. A year or two ago, they did that spoof about looking for WMD under the couch. They are supposed to make fun of themselves, what I see as different is that the First Lady did it. And see seems to be funny when she did it.
Nothing this White House does strikes me as off-the-cuff or uncalculated in its impact. The down-home raunchiness, the perfectly placed pop-culture reference -- I suspect these are part of a just-American-folks, suburban-outreach strategy, of a seamless piece with George's demurral that "faith is a personal issue" in last week's press conference. "South Park" is both foul-mouthed and anti-PC. By embracing it, conservatives show that they're not succumbing to their own right-wing version of nanny-state political correctness. Guess what! We're grown-ups. We have a life below the belt. We can take a joke -- and make one. We are not out to censor harmless fun. Just another correction in their great tightrope balancing dance between the James Dobson and Dennis Miller constituencies.
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Looks to me like a wife roasting her husband. IIRC, the White House usually makes fun of itself during one of this dinners. A year or two ago, they did that spoof about looking for WMD under the couch. They are supposed to make fun of themselves, what I see as different is that the First Lady did it. And see seems to be funny when she did it.
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Nothing this White House does strikes me as off-the-cuff or uncalculated in its impact. The down-home raunchiness, the perfectly placed pop-culture reference -- I suspect these are part of a just-American-folks, suburban-outreach strategy, of a seamless piece with George's demurral that "faith is a personal issue" in last week's press conference. "South Park" is both foul-mouthed and anti-PC. By embracing it, conservatives show that they're not succumbing to their own right-wing version of nanny-state political correctness. Guess what! We're grown-ups. We have a life below the belt. We can take a joke -- and make one. We are not out to censor harmless fun. Just another correction in their great tightrope balancing dance between the James Dobson and Dennis Miller constituencies.
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