http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_050205/content/rush_is_right.guest.html Laura Bush: Nothing But Good May 2, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The media is still amazed, folks, at the relationship between the Bushes and President Clinton. Sunday on the Chris Matthews Show -- the syndicated version runs on NBC where I live -- he had his own White House correspondent as a guest, David Gregory, and Matthews said to Gregory, "All right, tell me something I don't know." GREGORY: You're going to love this. You're very interested in the Clinton-Bush relationship. Well, I have been told that in private meetings on policy matters that President George W. Bush has taken to calling the former president Bubba. MATTHEWS: No! GREGORY: Yes, that he talks about "Bubba says X, Bubba says Y," and these very conservative policy people turn ashen in their face like, "He's calling him Bubba?" MATTHEWS: Bush, Sr., calls him that? GREGORY: No, this is our president, President George W. Bush, refers to President Clinton as Bubba. RUSH: So? These guys are astounded that he would refer to him [that way]. He probably calls him Bubba to his face, too. That's what he was known as, is Bubba, everybody knows Clinton as Bubba. All right, a lot of people are just raving over Laura Bush on Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Did you see it, Mr. Snerdley? I didn't see it. I have not seen it. I only heard about it, so I'm going to play the sound bites for me. I've heard about this, I've heard about how great -- and I will guarantee you, if it's as good as people say it was, if Hillary was in that audience, I'm sure she had to be apoplectic because, you know, liberal women are not funny. Have you ever seen a liberal woman that's not grimacing about something? Even liberal comedians are angry and filled with rage. They don't look happy, they don't even look like they take showers. They're just mad as they can be all the time. And here comes Laura Bush, who's thought to be this matronly, behind-the-scenes, old-fashioned wife. Never gets in the way, never asserts herself, and here she owned the crowd Saturday night. Her approval numbers for people who care about this are like 79 or 84%, one of those two numbers. Anyway, here is how this happened if you didn't hear it. It started off with the president. He got up, planned routine, and she then decided to step in because she'd heard this routine enough. PRESIDENT BUSH: And so the city slicker asked the old guy how to get to the nearest town -- FIRST LADY: Not that old joke. Not again. I've been attending these dinners for years and just quietly sitting there. Well, I've got a few things I want to say for a change. RUSH: And she kept going. FIRST LADY: Here's our typical evening. Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep and I'm watching Desperate Housewives with Lynne Cheney. I am a desperate housewife. One night after George went to bed, Lynne Cheney, Condi Rice, Karen Hughes, and I went to Chippendale's. I wouldn't even mention it except Ruth Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor saw us there. I won't tell you what happened, but Lynne's Secret Service code name is now Dollar Bill. Speaking of prizes brings me to my mother-in-law. People often wonder what my mother-in-law is really like. People think she's a sweet, grandmotherly Aunt Bee type. She's actually more like, hmm, Don Corleone. But George and I are complete opposites. I'm quiet, he's talkative. I'm introverted, he's extroverted. I can pronounce nuclear. RUSH: All right, that is good. That is damn good. That is exceptionally good. No wonder she owned the house. That is just super self-effacing humor. You know, a president willing to have himself made fun of by his wife ought to put this couple in perspective for people who ought to have a different image about them. But the guy who wrote the jokes -- Drudge has this on his website -- the guy who wrote the jokes has written jokes for a lot of presidents: Reagan, Clinton, Bush, I guess he lives in West Virginia, North Carolina, somewhere. Maybe neither of those places but somewhere in that area and he said that Mrs. Bush has never seen Desperate Housewives, that it was just a joke, and so people are trying to get on her. "Oh, she didn't tell the truth?" It was a joke, for crying out loud. You know, just like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor don't really go to strip clubs. That's true, Mr. Snerdley reminds me, wait a minute, I don't know that. (Laughing.) And Lynne Cheney's Secret Service code name, Dollar Bill. Now, I have to tell you something. This was a great routine but, and I don't know if this is legitimate or not, but there's a website out there claiming to be a very Christian website, which is expressing anger at Mrs. Bush for having done this, that it is unbecoming a first lady and so forth and so on. Now, I don't know if it's a liberal website disguising itself as a Christian website designed to make these people look like stuffed shirts or if it's the real thing. If it's the real thing, if it is a genuine Christian website that's all in a wad over this, 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. To get little splinter group out here, I don't even know which one they are, which is said to be unhappy over this and so forth, is perhaps wound a little bit too tight. END TRANSCRIPT
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