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May 05, 2005
Media gets punked
By now you're probably familiar with Laura Bush's infamous standup routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last week. Her routine contained such husband-roasting zingers as:
"George always says he’s delighted to come to these press dinners. Baloney. He’s usually in bed by now. I’m not kidding. I said to him the other day, ‘George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you’re going to have to stay up later."
"Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep, and I'm watching 'Desperate Housewives' -- with [Vice President Dick Cheney's wife] Lynne Cheney," Mrs. Bush said. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. I mean, if those women on that show think they're desperate, they ought to be with 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."
The Daily Show had the best coverage of the actual event. But the only thing better than satirical coverage of a real event is real coverage of satirical event:
Last weekend, an anonymous individual created a phony letter with an altered TVC logo on it, to criticize First Lady Laura Bush at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on April 30 th.The bogus group called the Coalition for Traditional Values, issued its letter supposedly written by a Rev. Roy DeLong. The phony letter was picked up by the Drudge Report and reported it as fact instead of satire.
TVC’s phone has been ringing off the hook from reporters asking for more information. MSNBC was conned into thinking this was a real group. They called TVC to book a spokesman as a guest based on this satirical letter.
The satirical letter didn't mention outrage at the moral indecency of jokes about the President masturbating a horse. Rather the letter states, "We saw our President undermined, mocked, and emasculated by his own wife on the most public of stages, and at a time when his own manliness is already under attack."
Courtesy of Atrios.
UPDATE: Here is a link to the actual letter, which I forgot to post earlier.And more on milking the horse from Wonkette.
Posted by Elyas at 12:38 PM | Comments (21) | TrackBack
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What's a President for?
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Wow. That's ackshully pretty amusing.
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Way to get farked. I might have to buy an add and hope for a link ;)
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