Subject: Fw: [God, Family, Republic] Mrs. Bush's Remarks Embarrassing, Lacking in Discernment Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:21:22 -0600 Comment:  Once again, BushCo displayed prima facie its anti-Christianity.  This time, Laura Bush succeeded also in severely embarrassing herself, her husband and Americans in what amounts to a show of "white trash" worthy of a Kid-Rock concert during a Press Dinner Saturday night.  And of course, one should never underestimate the BushCo political machine in its exploitation of the plagues of our society - this time the destruction of marriage relationships - by recounting, in jest one assumes, the First Lady's jaunt to a Chippendale's strip-club after her husband, "Mr. Excitement [...] George went to bed."  What better way to get a few laughs than at the expense of America's broken marriages and families? "All right, that is good. That is damn good. That is exceptionally good. No wonder she owned the house," reacted so-called conservative Rush Limbaugh to Laura Bush's publicly godless comments (1).  Rush continued his talk directly to genuine Christians who despised Laura Bush's destructive banter:  "Chill, back out, take a breath, and relax. This is nothing but good. There's nothing offensive in this. People that watch Desperate Housewives, so what? It's just entertainment. And it's this kind of reaction that causes all of the so-called Christian right to get a bad name."  What Rush is saying, then, is that the deplorable, despicable comments made by Laura Bush are not what give Christians a bad name; the Christians who call Laura Bush's comments deplorable and despicable give the Christian right a bad name.  Rush, then, is just as depraved as self-proclaimed "desperate housewife," Laura Bush.  And I don't watch Desperate Housewives; neither does my wife.  We don't find it entertaining, just evil and ugly.  We also don't think sacrificing Christians to lions in an arena was entertaining either, but those who bought tickets to such an event thought it was great entertainment.  Maybe the Bush's would cheer at a Christian slaughter?  They obviously appreciate Desperate Housewives.  Well, I guess I should start breathing and just "chill"?  I wouldn't want to give the Christian right a bad name when BushCo has done such a wonderful job of it already by enlivening the perverse auras of Desperate Housewives and Chippendale's and further debasing broken marriages. God, is there any shame even for the first of families anymore? Laura Bush's so-called comedic strive is no isolated incident; it is just a link in a concatenation of others which demonstrate BushCo's destructiveness to not only its own political party, the platform of which Mr. Bush opposes (2), but also to any strains of civility which remain in American society.  Read on, please, and quit supporting BushCo (if you do) just because of the "R."  Repent, basically. -Curtis ----- Original Message ----- From: Peroutka 2004 To: Kekoa, Curtis Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:54 PM Subject: [God, Family, Republic] Mrs. Bush's Remarks Embarrassing, Lacking in Discernment 8028 Ritchie Highway Suite # 303   Pasadena, MD 21122 (877) MAP-2004 Contact Us | Unsubscribe Mrs. Bush's Remarks To Washington Press Corps Embarrassing, Lacking In Discernment (Warning: This is not a column to be read by young children --- a sad thing to have to say about public remarks made recently by First Lady Laura Bush.) Dear Friends of the Constitutional Republic, Several months ago, I criticized the public remarks of the Bush twin daughters at the Republican National Convention as foolish, embarrassing and dishonorable to their parents. When I began my critique, I asked: Is it just me or did anybody else cringe and feel sorry for our country because of what these young women had to say? Well, I've had a similar reaction , and would ask this same question, concerning First Lady Laura Bush's recent remarks at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington DC. In a well-rehearsed routine that was supposed to be funny --- but was not --- Mrs. Bush began by stepping to the podium and interrupting her husband who was speaking. Referring to the President as "Mr. Excitement," she noted that on a typical evening he was sound asleep by 9 pm and she was watching the TV show "Desperate Housewives" with Vice President Dick Cheney's wife Lynne. Noting that she was a desperate housewife, Mrs. Bush added: "If those women on that show think they are desperate, they ought to be with George." One reviewer has said that if this sleazy show had a subtitle, "it would be 'sex and the suburbs'" --- illicit sex, of course, sex outside of marriage. Referring to this program's "dark take on American domestic life," the reviewer noted that various episodes have been about "betrayal, an affair, an accident, a cover-up, an arrest, a murder, a burial and a memorable scene involving a urine sample." Mrs. Bush also said that one night, after the President went to bed, she and Mrs. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and [Bush adviser] Karen Hughes "went to Chippendales."  She said she wouldn't say what happened but Mrs. Cheney's Secret Service code name is now "Dollar Bill." A "Washington Times" story describes Chippendales as "a strip club where women tuck cash into male dancers' skimpy thongs." Mrs. Bush said the President's mother was less like the "Andy Griffith Show's" character "Aunt Bea"  and more like Mafia boss "Don Corleone." She made fun of her husband's inability to pronounce correctly the word "nuclear." And she said the President has learned a lot about ranching since he once tried to milk a horse --- "what's worse, it was a male horse." Ex-Roman Catholic priest and TV talk show host John McLaughlin is quoted in the "Washington Post" as saying, with a chuckle, about Mrs. Bush performance: "She was successful in disabusing any thoughts that she's a Christian fundamentalist extremist." Well, yes. I would say that she did this with vengeance. Ironically, it was a liberal journalist who got it right. David Corn, a reporter for the far-Left "Nation" magazine said, of Mrs. Bush's standup routine: "It was very risque. 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." Several news reports have said that Mrs. Bush saying what she said was the President's idea. In his historically instructive book "Myths In Stone: Religious Dimensions Of Washington D.C." (University of California Press, 2001), Jeffrey F. Meyer, a professor of religion at the University of North Carolina, says this about President George Washington's concern about ceremony and domestic behavior: "[He] sensed that everything he did was significant. From the procedures to be observed in high government rituals down to questions of domestic etiquette --- how the president should relate to leading citizens and to ordinary citizens, what kind of house he should occupy, and what clothes he should wear. All of these issues, he realized, were expressive of the status of the president. He understood that all these items would, to use contemporary jargon, 'make a statement.'" Indeed. And the same thing can be said about the behavior of a President's wife. The actions of a President's wife are significant and revelatory of the status of the office of First Lady. And what Mrs. Bush has demonstrated is that the status of her being First Lady is not a pretty one. One TV reporter noted that on this particular evening in Washington DC all of us had seen "a side of Laura Bush that the public has never seen." I, for one, wish that Mrs. Bush had no such side but --- since she does --- that it had never been shown in public. For God, Family, & the Republic, Michael A. Peroutka
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