Michelle isn’t the only one
we know i have no car antenna, so no talk radio. and when i get home, we’ve got dinner and Season 2 of 24 and karaoke and whatever and we don’t watch the news in the evenings (much). and somehow, if Fox & Friends has been talking about it, i’ve missed it. all this translates to my being somewhat out of touch with life outside of Brevard County.
so tonight i finally asked Frank why everyone was calling Michelle Malkin a prude and a lemon-sucking conservative, because i’ve basically missed the whole thing. he pointed me to Michelle’s Jewish World Review article, “Why I’m not a ‘South Park Conservative’”.
i learned that over the weekend, the perpetually classy First Lady, Laura Bush, made some substandard jokes during an otherwise fun speech. Michelle was disappointed in the jokes and prefers to keep things G-rated in her world, and therefore, she’s over-the-top prudish and sooo 1950s.
i agree wholeheartedly with the lovely lemon-sucking Michelle, though i prefer limes. it wasn’t so long ago that it was a good thing to keep your speech pure and your body modest. those prudish days before the peace-love-dopers took to the streets and the fields yelling about free love and promiscuity and rebelling against any part of the system that seemed authoritative, systematic, or prohibitive. rebelling for the sake of rebellion.
and just what is so wrong with behaving as if we have self-respect, acting with modesty and humility, restraining ourselves from doing things that, yes, we would like to do, because that would feel so free, and we’d be doing what we want instead of what those freedom-stealing conservatives tell us is right! and everybody else is doing it, so wouldn’t it just feel soooo good to cut ourselves loose and just give in, just this once. maybe tell an almost-dirty joke. shout derivative curse words at the top of our lungs. buy a shirt that shows just a teensy bit of cleavage, because hey, it’s far more modest than what the girl standing in line in front of me at Publix is wearing. she should be ashamed!
we all should. we keep toeing the line until oops, we slid just a bit over it. better draw a new line, no turning back. turning back would be taking our “progressive” society in the wrong direction! where’s that new line we drew? whoops, while i was typing, i accidentally smudged it, can’t really tell where it is, better draw this one now. but don’t worry, i’m going to stand way back here, far from the new line i drew, it’s only there because i want to know that i could do things in the space between the line and myself, because i have that freedom, but i won’t actually do those things, i’ll just watch other people and laugh or smile when they do them. oh, but it looks like so much fun! ok, maybe this once. oh no! i tripped and fell over the far line! and where have i found myself? i’m in Europe! they have really great TV, with p-rn and everything! that’ll be awesome for my kids to grow up with! but don’t worry, i won’t let them watch the bad TV shows. i’ll wait till they’re asleep.
garbage in, garbage out.
where was i? ah yes. the First Lady. i still love her, she’s still full of grace and beauty and traditional values. i think she’s above those kinds of jokes that ought not be told in mixed company, or at all. her hair is much too neat, and her blouse is far too tucked in for her to stoop to a disheveled level, no matter how mild by today’s standards.
nicely put.
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May 5th, 2005 at 11:26 pmyesseree, well put indeed.
May 6th, 2005 at 5:23 amReally though, her joke writer should have known better too. She is just too sweet for those kinds of jokes. But hey, it was just jokes afterall, we can move on.
May 6th, 2005 at 9:05 amGive me a break. It’s people taking radical (yes, a republican just said radical) ridiculous positions like Michelle’s (and the ridiculous Texas legislation on cheerleading) that is completely watering down the conservative message and pushing people away. I’m all for self-respect, modesty, and common decency (as you know), but I’m not too uptight to enjoy a little humor. Lighten up a little bit. I’m a little concerned the Florida sun is starting to dry out your sense of humor.
May 6th, 2005 at 10:08 amoff-color jokes from the best First Lady ever??? I heard the jokes and just because she can pronounce nuclear and George can’t doesn’t make her a bad person…I love her.
May 6th, 2005 at 12:15 pmscott, since when are you for common decency? ;-)
May 6th, 2005 at 12:25 pmVery nicely put
May 7th, 2005 at 4:01 pmI definitely agree with you, which is why I don’t watch nearly as much TV as I used to.I also tend not to listen to the radio as much,as well.It’s still tough to avoid the moral/cultural decline since you’re always surrounded by it,when you are out in public.
I agree with you on garbage in, garbage out - I like sometimes off-color stuff like Family Guy, but I like to think I water it down with things of God enough, so that I don’t turn into either a big smutball or a prude. That’s just me, though. And when it comes to other Christians, I just have to make sure that I don’t do anything that would be a stumbling block to them.
I also agree with you on that moving line issue - that’s the problem with this crazy moral relativism that is rotting our society these days. When humans draw the line on what’s right and wrong, it results in a big mess and lots of erased lines. There has to be an objective standard.
May 9th, 2005 at 2:08 amWow. Not like I din’t see it coming!
May 9th, 2005 at 5:05 amBOMBs away……. beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *SPLODEINTOTODDISHNESS* How sad. Fortuately I gave up along time ago, blech. An yur little girl, too. Sorry, sweet, but yur blog’s been retarded and riding…
When I had dinner with sarahk and Frank J. in Florida last month, sarahk was dressed modestly and showed no cleavage at all. Perfect lady.
May 9th, 2005 at 8:26 pmummmm…someone has issues that they need to deal with before they go out in public again….not you, Dave in Texas! someone else.:)
May 10th, 2005 at 5:24 am