President Bush " Milking " a Male Horse ?

Where are the KXYL Talking Heads on this one ? They've made it their legacy to speak to salacious issues with sexual conatations on a daily basis but they seem to be losing their tried and true talents to generate dollars around issues like this when they can spin it into a partisan weapon with the intent of damaging Democrats, Liberals or anyone else who is left of their extreme right position. Maybe their counterpart, Steve Nash @ the Brownwood Bulletin, will pick up the story and run with it . But don't count on it, he will most likely be covering the PETA activist in Abilene since it involves partial nudity, PETA, and Religion !
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Dallas Morning News Letter to the Editor
Hypocritical defense
As always, the neocons reveal their duplicitous hypocrisy in defending Laura Bush's jokes at the White House Correspondents dinner. Would they defend the first lady so vociferously if she were, say, Hillary Clinton?
The real Christian right is outraged because Mrs. Bush's jokes were lewd, suggested homosexual man/equine relations and ridiculed her husband, who, according to their Christian doctrine, is lord and master. She spit all over their "Christian values"!
The neocons will tell the true believers to not get their Deuteronomies in a wad about it. They should only get upset when Karl Rove tells them to!
John Rainone, Dallas
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/050405dnediwedletters.71bfa45b.html
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Laura Bush cracks risque jokes at the White House correspondents dinner
Sun May 1, 6:02 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US First Lady Laura Bush cracked risque jokes and ribbed her husband and his family at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner late Saturday.
President George W. Bush began to recount a joke at the annual event, where US leaders are expected to show their humorous side, when he was "interrupted" by Laura Bush.
"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," she said, to great applause.
"George always says he's delighted to come to these press dinners. Baloney! He's usually in bed by now," she said. "I said to him the other day, George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're gonna have to stay up later."
Laura Bush joked that on a typical evening the president is asleep by 9 pm, "and I'm watching (the racy television show) 'Desperate Housewives'."
The first lady went on to quip that one night she went out to Chippendales, a male strip bar, with Vice President Dick Cheney's wife Lynne, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top Bush aide Karen Hughes.
"I wouldn't even mention it, except (Supreme Court Justices) Ruth Ginsberg and Sandra Day O'Connor saw us there," she said. "I won't tell you what happened. But Lynn's secret service code name is now 'dollar bill.'"
Laura Bush also joked about the president's mother Barbara Bush. "People think she's a sweet grandmotherly aunt Bea type. She's actually more like (fictional Mafia capo) Don Corleone."
She said that that her husband actually knew little about ranching when they bought their ranch in Crawford, Texas.
"I'm proud of 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," she said.
The president now often spends time at the ranch clearing brush and cutting trails. "George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw. Which I think is why he and Cheney and (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld get along so well."
Celebrity guests at the event included Hollywood actors Richard Gere and Jane Fonda, and rap star LL Cool J.
source: http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050501/pl_afp/usbushmedia_050501220236
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Victor Cristales / Reporter-News
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals members Julie Kelton, left, and an almost naked Brandi Valladolid make their plea Tuesday to Abilenians not to attend the upcoming Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. They spent an hour protesting at the intersection of South 32nd Street and Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene.

Baring a Message
PETA activist strips down to protest circus' treatment of animals
By Staci Semrad / Reporter-News Staff Writer
May 4, 2005
Motorists gawked and police kept watch as a woman exposed herself Tuesday on Buffalo Gap Road to protest the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus.
The circus comes to Abilene May 19-22.
Animal activist Brandi Valladolid, 29, removed her silky red robe, put shackles on her ankles and wrists, and stretched out in front of a banner that read: ''Circus Animals Shackled, Lonely, Beaten.''
Valladolid works as a campaign coordinator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and traveled from the organization's headquarters in Norfolk, Va., to shared her message in Abilene.
With her back to traffic and bearing mock scars, Valladolid sat wearing black panties through the noon hour under cloudy skies and a temperature of 55 degrees at the intersection of South 32nd Street and Buffalo Gap Road.
She covered her top half with her long brown hair and wore pasties.
''As long as they keep their essentials covered, we're OK,'' said Abilene police Sgt. Joe Tauer, who was among a few police officers monitoring the situation.
People driving by honked, waved and smiled. Many pulled out their cell phones or camcorders to record the moment.
Fully clothed and standing with Valladolid, PETA intern Julie Kelton, 19, held a video monitor with footage showing alleged abuse of animals in a variety of circuses, including Ringling Bros.
Ringling Bros. condemns animal abuse, said Melinda Rosser, a Florida-based spokeswoman for the show. She said that Ringling Bros. is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding circus animal treatment, but she could not speak about matters currently being investigated.
Ringling Bros. trainers handle elephants with an ankus - a tool with a spike and a hook on the end, but it is not painful to the animals, she said.
''It doesn't benefit us to endanger anything that has to do with our animals,'' she said. ''Our animals are a regular extension of our family.''
Ringling Bros. last performed in Abilene more than a decade ago, Rosser said. She was unhappy with Tuesday's protest and coverage.
''I can see why this is news in Abilene, but for us it is not,'' she said.
Rosser wasn't the only one upset by Valladolid's demonstration.
''We totally disagree with her doing this ... for moral reasons,'' said Stacie Murrah, who was driving by with her husband and complained of the proximity to Jackson Elementary.
Several people stopped and got out of their vehicles either to commend or scold the demonstrators.
One young woman handed Valladolid a brochure about Jesus and admonished her for causing passers-by to commit the sin of ''adultery.''
''Actually, I was born a Christian, and I'm still practicing,'' Valladolid said. ''... I'm not causing people to sin. You know what's a sin is people are beating animals for entertainment's sake.''
Area resident Vicky Faulks, 60, watched from across the street.
''We're shocked the way you can run around without your top,'' she said.
Another neighbor, Joe Stalls, who said he was ''over 60,'' didn't like the display.''They're abusing our sensibilities by what they're doing there,'' he said.
Chris Garrison, 28, of Clyde, was less bothered.
''As long as she's in compliance with the law, that's her right,'' he said.
Valladolid said people saw no more of her skin than they would see at the beach. She said she stripped down to attract media and public attention to her message, and succeeded in doing so.
''We've gotten a lot of thumbs-up,'' she said.
Contact staff writer Staci Semrad at 676-6734 or semrads@reporternews.com.
source: http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/nw_local/article/0,1874,ABIL_7959_3750301,00.html