Conservative Christians Not Laughing at First Lady's Comedy Act

First Lady Laura Bush may have stolen the show with her surprise comedy routine at this weekend's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but her jokes and one-liners have made her no new friends among conservative Christians. In an official statement, one 'pro-family' advocacy group warned that Mrs. Bush's jokes at the President's expense were in violation of the Biblical command that wives respect their husbands.

Some shocked by Mrs. Bush's reference to herself as a "desperate housewife" 

By Russell D'Arby

WASHINGTON, DC—The First Lady may have stolen the show with her surprise comedy routine at the 91st White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but not everyone appreciated her jokes and one-liners poking fun at President Bush. At least one organization of conservative Christians quickly lashed out at Mrs. Bush's performance, warning that her remarks at the President's expense were a public refutation of the Biblical command that wives should respect their husbands.

According to an official statement released over the weekend by the Coalition for Traditional Values, an organization that seeks a more flexible relationship between church and state, Mrs. Bush's jokes at her husband's expense amounted to a public emasculation of the President. Pastor Roy DeLong, the statement's author and chair of the group, warns that the First Lady's performance comes at a time when the Mr. Bush's "manliness is already under attack."

Laura: Meet Ephesians
"As a believer, President Bush is no doubt familiar with the passage from Ephesians that says 'Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord,'" says Mr. DeLong. "That means that just as Christ is the head of the church, the husband is the head of the wife. That is not the

Mrs. Bush interrupted a speech being given by her husband at the annual dinner, remarking that "I have a few things I want to say for a change." She then proceeded to mock his performance, both public ("if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later") and private, noting that by nine o'clock, Mr. Bush, whom she referred to as "Mr. Excitement," is typically sound asleep.

"One of the Proverbs says that 'a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that maketh him ashamed is as rottenness in his bones," notes Mr. DeLong. "I bet President Bush is feeling pretty rotten today."

Manliness in question
The rebuke to the First Lady's stand-up act comes on the heels of mounting concern about the President's image. Last week, Mr. Bush was seen holding hands with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Then the President raised eyebrows anew when he asked a crowd of supporters in Galveston, TX, if they celebrated Splash Day, an annual gay pride event in that state, best known for attracting tens of thousands of buff men, wearing little more than suntan oil.

Even some members of Mr. Bush's famously loyal party looked askance at his recommendation during a speech on the nation's energy needs last week, when he encouraged Americans to consider driving hybrid vehicles, widely believed to be 'gay' cars.

Depraved housewives?
While the Coalition for Traditional Values was the first conservative advocacy group to jump on the First Lady's comments, more criticism is expected. In her remarks, Mrs. Bush likened herself to a desperate housewife, a reference to the hit show on ABC, noting that she watches the show with Lynne Cheney, wife of the Vice President.

"Desperate Housewives" has come under heavy fire from pro-family groups, including the American Decency Association, which has called for a boycott of ABC for airing the "degraded" show. Last fall, Mrs. Cheney asked the federal government to step in to protect the nation's children from the "Desperate Housewives."

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[Paul Gregersen]

The enemy within the christian conservative movement may be doing far more damage than the liberal media to our cause. We have learned that several million Christians failed to vote in this last election. I have also learned that the end times doomsday theology has a great influence into the mindset of many Christians today. A christian church having nearly a million members is claiming that December 14th will be the beginning of the tribulation period, and the trump will sound. I tried hard to influence a such people to vote this year! Why would they not want to vote? It was a contradiction to their religious convictions when according to them, America has already been judged by God. Why not vote?
What was their hang up? Why vote if Christian’s are caught up in a rapture to heaven, and when the anti Christ will dominate the world anyway according to prophecy? The most frightening thing coming is the popular 2012 date set for the rapture spreading anticipation like wild fire! It may draw many more Christians into a doomsday mentality, potentially hurting the next election much more so.
The conservative balance of power may be determined by such critical voters who may yet determine America's future. We need all christians to stay loyal to America, not the Rapture! What is wrong with this anti-christ beast theory? Look at Waco Texas, and David Koresh, and Jim Jones, and others. What happens when normal human beings are drawn into abnormal behavior by strong religious convictions coming from a doomsday theology! This hidden enemy exists within our conservative center, and it may already be doing far more harm than the liberal media has done to conservative causes.
Revelation 15:2 clearly states that the mark of the beast is something Christians must personally overcome to gain the victory through the blood of the lamb? This description and obvious wording in the Bible seem to identify mans fallen nature, not some computer implant which many wrongly speculate. Did Christ die for our sins, or did he die for computer implants? Is this not a ridiculous theology which millions of Christians have fallen for?.Lets list some rational truth's concerning this subject taken directly from the Bible.
The mark originated with Cain, in the Old Testament. Cain killed his brother Abel and sought to cover his sin by hiding his murderous crime. God asked Cain,where is thy brother? Cain said, I know not, am I my brothers keeper? Cain was marked after becoming the the example of satanic behavior God detests.
God then cursed the works of Cain’s hand’s, the ground he tilled no longer brought forth her strength. In other word’s, a bad economy then followed the mark. Can we not identify this mark as Gods curse upon Cain’s right handed works? Why? Cain had yielded himself to Satan’s power by failing to bring forth good fruits, breaking Gods commandments.
It was Satan who was symbolized in the Bible as being the cursed beast (the Serpent) in the Garden of Eden. A type of snake bite, a beastly mark identifying the sin nature which Satan injected into mans heart, was being depicted as the mark of sin.
Later we learn in the New Testament that people who follow Cain like nature are also called beasts. “Jude 1.
The Bible gives us an even clearer example of this mark, when Joseph’s brothers sought to kill Joseph and sell him as a slave into Egypt. The brothers hid this sin from Jacob, their father. How? By killing a wild beast and placing an animal’s blood upon Joseph’s coat of many colors. How? By using an actual beasts bloodstain as if it belong to Joseph.. The brothers then lied to Jacob, by showing Jacob Joseph’s coat with a marked bloodstain. They told Jacob that Joseph was killed by a wild beast. This false evidence convinced Jacob that his only birthright son was dead. This was the secret plan Jacob did not know. It was a mark upon Joseph’s coat which was actually "the mark of the beast” and not coming from Josephs torn body .
The mark of the beast becomes a deception which hides and removes Gods will by replacing it with Satan’s deception and plan. It was Gods will that Joseph become the birthright son. Suddenly, Joseph is removed from sight by the hidden cover up, The mark of a wild beast literally hid the lie, and removed true authority.
The brothers had sold Joseph to the Egyptians for money. Thus, buying and selling the lie behind beastly mark through deception for worldly gain. The interpretation of an anti Christ is to remove Christ’s will, and then replace it with the mark of the beast, or Satan’s power. Gods will was being sold out through the lie, coming from a secret combination.
When Nebuchadnezzar forced the world to worship his golden God in Babylon, he used the power of the state to replace Gods true authority by using a calculated and manufactured lie.

King Nebuchadnezzar also used Gold (money) to build his God, selling out the value of worshiping the true God. Again, replacing Christ’s will with Satan’s deceptive mark. Babylon today represents any government or spiritual system which rewards selfishness by removing the true God.

After Nebuchadnezzar imposed his sin of pride using his political authority, God cursed Nebuchadnezzar by transforming him into the nature of a wild beast. (Read Daniel chapter four.) Nebuchadnezzar was marked like unto Cain, removed from men, acting inhuman like a wild beast.
In other word’s, Babylon is a state of mind which destroys our humanity!
Nebuchadnezzar finally repented after going through a terrible withdrawal process for 7 years, removing him from his evil addiction for power. The 666 number in scripture clearly identifies Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue by its dimensions and exact size. The statue was gold, which represents Nebuchadnezzar himself who became the image of the golden statue, as recorded by Daniel. “Daniel 2.” King Nebuchadnezzar was literally the 600 BC man.
The entire ancient world represented his power given to one single man marking 600 B. C. in history.
His giant golden image was carefully measured and recorded by Daniel as being 60 cubits high and 6 cubits wide. “Daniel 3:1″. This biblical event marked the Babylonian attempt to replace God with a six hundred and three score, and six man. The 600 BC man was Nebuchadnezzar himself, being enlarged into a huge statue almost a hundred feet tall. Babylon is about a little man trying to become a great big man using earthly political means.

The world did not have the modern media in Nebuchadnezzar’s day to make him self larger than life. This huge golden image represents a man seeking to reach notoriety and Godly status by becoming larger, more visible to the world. This explains why John would instructs believers to count the number of the beast, to find the hidden man.
Is the true measure of a man not measured by his inflated image to be seen by men, revealing his beastly pride? Or, is that not the measure of the beastly side which hides his true image!
The true measure of the man is being obscured from view Nebuchadnezzar’s false image was 666. “Daniel: 3-1″.
The true man was hidden from our view by sin until he became humble. “Daniel 4" "Revelation 13:18." In other words, you can find the answer to the world’s greatest Bible mystery 666, directly recorded inside your very own family Bible. The search is now over...
God actually frees the beast of Babylon from his evil mark after Nebuchadnezzar repents. Evil men today are seeking to remove our God given freedoms by replacing “one nation under God” with state supported socialism. why? In order to make slaves of free Americans. It is not the same spirit of Babylon returning to us again today. Fallen man is still seeking to make his worldly image large in order to remove God, replacing God with a god of gold, purchased with our own money by state decree. The new god becomes mans exalted authority being granted through the state and not God.. Remember Moses and the golden calf image represented a beast God in Moses day! The golden beast was created by collecting the people’s own wealth.

Once again, they are setting up another God of gold using our money to pay for it. Why? Is it not to going to force Americans to worship this golden God of the state? Or become fired, exiled, or destroyed through the power of political correctness? No man or women will be able to buy nor sell, or hold a job, unless they contribute to this god of Babylon being forced through higher taxation, personal loyalty and sacrifice. We now witness a state, growing within a state, within our nation.
Look at the bailouts and the national debt being the taken from us to create Babylon’s God. No one is calling for legal hearings to place Kriss Dodd and Barney Frank in prison after they created this world economic crisis. Instead, They with their friends have been placed in charge of this bail out money and our economy…Every man, every women, and every child born today, including the unborn, must pay for an out of control national debt bringing America into a modern Babylonian bondage. Untold billions of our money must transfer directly into these social democrats hands transforming America into a predatory beast. The secret plan must hide their goal to change America into a new nation under their god. This god of money now becomes the new savior of America through a government bail out as our salvation. This is the true anti Christ that no one yet is looking for already happening directly in front of us..
It is another god of gold, like unto the 666 god in 600 BC! This god is now being constructed for the salvation of Americans who are being forced to worship its image, and make huge sacrifices unto it.
"All small and great, rich and poor," must sacrifice for the god of this new change… Remember Obama, declaring that all Americans must sacrifice for his image for change? The change is a lie, it is a beast which seeks to make us into its slave.! We are now changing America into the modern beast of Babylon, being robbed of our own right hand works, our own money as its sacrifice. This has been made possible through calculated lies planted within our own foreheads or our deceived minds.
What kind of evil beast has entered into over half of America’s foreheads, or intellects, causing them to vote for the institution of their own slavery? Millions of votes were cast against a free America? It was surely an evil beast which deceived their minds by calculated lies orchestrated from the politically correct media.
The mark of America's power comes directly from which votes are being marked on ballets, the peoples right handed works represent their spiritual mindset going on inside their thoughts or in their foreheads. A mark represents a goal, or end destination like a map. There are two marks from the Bibles beginning, the tree of life, and the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. God’s true followers were marked with Gods name in their foreheads, and right hands, according to John. Revelation 22:4. Was Jesus ever going to use computer implants to mark his followers? The mark of God, and the mark of Satan clearly represent a spiritual identification being witnessed through the person’s spiritual mindset, and also by our outward behavior manifesting through our right handed works. Who do we serve? Babylon represents Satan’s government of slavery, and Zion represents Christ’s free form of government.

Which of the mindsets are we being marked into, becomes the final question?
We must awaken Christians to this lie about computer implants being spread by Left behind books. Why? These popular books focus Christians on doomsday instead of helping God unite his servants to labor the final harvest. We can now understand why the harvest is great, but the workers are few!There is a spiritual distraction going on about a the rapture. There is a reason Christ never wanted us to know the day, nor the hour of his coming. Look at Waco Texas and David Koresh? Look at our last two elections when 4 to 5 million Christians stayed home. Look at the bad fruits coming from the teachings being spread from the most popular Christian book sold today called "Left behind! " The left behind books teach that the ancient city of rebuilt Babylon located in Iraq, must become the future seat of the anti christ!
In otherwords, our troops really not fighting for anyones freedom, but are being sacrificed to provide the anti christs with his future home located in Soddam's restored Babylon. The left behind books also teach that the U.N. will be located in Babylon next to Baghdad. Christians are left with no choice but to beleive than Obama's anti war views are more rightious than both Sarah Palin, or George Bush because Obama apposes the Iraq war and therefore apposes anti christ! These teachings help Satan by neutralizing Christian’s spiritual resolve! This self inflicted distraction is causing more damage than anything the liberal media has yet accomplished.
I need your help to challenge this doomsday theology before it becomes a bigger monster in 2012. In the next four years this anticipation about the end of the world may destroy our conservative and Christian unity. People blindly follow an out of context interpretation not coming from God nor the Bible.

Please help us get a new biblical understanding to as many Christians as possible. Why? Millions have become deceived by thousands of money grabbing preachers who have downloaded the wrong understanding of the mark of the beast into their foreheads! These deceived Christians are still waiting for a computer chip implant to bring in the rapture. This is happening when the mark of slavery is already coming upon them.
It is always important to provide another alternative view for people in order to challenge something like this, rather than let it just run wild. We need every christian to vote in future elections, and not allow such apocolyptic distractions to dominate their hearts in 2012. Watch the online video from start to finish, and understand the basis behind Babylon’s mark for today.. Click
http://www.eternaltruth.net

[Anthony]

I can only say that Laura Bush is a dumb as her husband

[Mari T]

Well, this whole protest against a few harmless jests just set Feminism back a hundred years. Shall the men retreat to their brandy and cigars while the women are left to play bridge in the parlor now?

[RED]

Anything that pisses the low IQ bible thumpers off is OK with me!!

[j1p1]

At the risk of giving away my age, we used to call the people on the political left "radical," that is advocating revolutionary change. People on the right were known as "reactionary," opposed to progress. Rather than demonizing the fundimentalists as they do to progressives (my first instinct), I think the appropriate designation is Christian extremists. After all, they don't reflect mainstream views and values

[Maxine]

I thought Laura Bush's few minutes of glory was a bit crude but what if she had told secrets about the real George Bush???? I hope she gets a job on Sat. Night Live and maybe this "Resident" Bush will retire before he ruins the entire world.
We have no business pushing out beliefs on other countries.
Nuff said....

[VietVet]

I believe the performance was simply to distract (as it did) people from paying attention to the document printed in "The Times" (the Real Times, the one in London) which clearly shows Bush/Blair conspiring to find a way to attack Iraq.

"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WDM. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Yes, "...the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Amazing. But no Grace there.

God Bless

Especially God Bless the TENS of THOUSANDS of Iraqi CHILDREN maimed and killed in our war. Killed whilst our president holds hands and plays kissey-face with a leader of a despotic country: a country from which came the vast majority of those who attacked us on 911.

[Glenn Sugden]

Anyone catch the segment about her routine on Jon Stewart? Stephen Colbert played the "unedited" version of her stallion joke - too f**king funny. "...even worse, he _knew_ it was a stallion...even worse... he asked for another stallion..." :-D

[G. M.]

It was nicely staged. At almost the same time the comedian George Wallace staged in front of Condolezza Rice.
Some kind of public relation. But does it really help these people? Bush, Chenny and Rice are advocating the murder of innocent Iraqi civilians.

[Biff]

It was funnier when the onion did it first...but you still got Drudge.

P.S. This is not praise, get a friggin' life.

[Tim]

The onion does it better...but you still got Drudge.

P.S. This is not praise, get a life.

[Cheryl]

I think that Laura Bush's comedy routine was offensive to the
1,500 troops who were sent to Iraq by her husband and who have been killed.
If this is a time of war and sacrifice, then Laura Bush needs to
acknowledge the sacrifice that these young men and women have made and forget about the narcissistic "humor".

[Ah, Irony]

No wonder Bush got elected in the first place...
America, you need to wake up. It's all a joke.

[Ho]

I came for the women and found only pesky satire.

[Me]

I don't know whether this article makes me want to laugh because the Bushes aren't the evil bastard ignorant neocon holy rollers I thought they were, or cry because they sold out our country to appease the evil bastard ignorant neocon holy roller vote.

That portion of our country's controlling element is going down, and soon, according to many sources recently. Personally, I can't wait. They have overstepped their boundaries so many times, people have forgotten what it was like before Church ruled the State.

Did anyone notice the poll sidebar at the top of this story? "What issue should people of faith take on next?" I realize some of it is tounge-in-cheek, but why should people of faith "take on" anything concerning our laws, ESPECIALLY in the context of "faith?"

And speaking of faith-based issues, where in this poll is there any reference to the poor, sick, hungry, uneducated bretheren that share this world with us all? Why are the issues always about money and morality? SO typical of you bible-thumpers.

Try reading your good book without your cloak of morality wrapped around you quite so tightly, and you may actually come to understand what you're reading.

[Me]

I don't know whether this article makes me want to laugh because the Bushes aren't the evil ignorant neocon holy rollers I thought they were, or cry because they sold out our country to appease the evil ignorant neocon holy roller vote.

That portion of our country's controlling element is going down, and soon, according to many sources recently. Personally, I can't wait. They have overstepped their boundaries so many times, people have forgotten what it was like before Church ruled the State.

Did anyone notice the poll sidebar at the top of this story? "What issue should people of faith take on next?" I realize some of it is tounge-in-cheek, but why should people of faith "take on" anything concerning our laws, ESPECIALLY in the context of "faith?"

And speaking of faith-based issues, where in this poll is there any reference to the poor, sick, hungry, uneducated bretheren that share this world with us all? Why are the issues always about money and morality? SO typical of you bible-thumpers.

Try reading your good book without your cloak of morality wrapped around you quite so tightly, and you may actually come to understand what you're reading.

[jr]

wow, reading through this was worth it, rare for so many blog comment pages.

i can't believe what has happened to my country in the last 5 years. with the complete neutering of mainstream media (liberal slant or not, respect for facts and journalistic integrity are real and declining at an alarming rate), it seems that blogs and webnews has filled the space, and frankly most of the people that make the internet are smarter or at least more clever than most of those who just read it, or just showed up in the last couple years.

the religious right wing cannot and should not be allowed to complete this slow-motion coup of mainstream society. there is plenty of religion and religions on the left that are being silenced by this organizational juggernaut known as the christian right. i'd be more supportive of the right if they sent their own christian soldiers to fight and die in Crusade III instead of the poor and dark-skinned masses 19 year olds we always use to fight our wars.

if christians spent as much time improving their community as they do criticizing and trying to legislate/stop mine, the results would speak for themselves. but as a former catholic whose glad my priest kept his hands out of my pants i find this parady to be the single funniest thing of the week. the parady worked because it's right on the line next to what we expect from these types.

comments from dedicated conservative pastors explaining how jerking off horses, sexually frustrated married women, and how W and L must be the best president and first lady ever because they say jesus louder than the rest of them mingling together made my morning. yet their actions in their daily duties seem to go against so much of how i understand god and christ to want us to act.

great story, sad times in the united states of america.

[American]

You people are absolute geniuses. This is perhaps one of the funniest satires I have ever seen, especially because so many people were stupid enough to be taken in by it. I'd like you to see my site:
conservativedemocratnews.blogspot.com and let me know what you think. I have a link there to another satirical site (well, I will soon).

[Marty]

Howard Stern also fell for it. He was quoting from the letter from the Coalition for Traditional Values on this morning's show. Pretty sad day for the Stern Show. Shows how much he is blinded by his hatred of Bush.

[M. Simon]

Thank Jesus Bush wasn't trying to suck the milk out of the horse.

And we don't even know for sure if the horse was homosexual. Suppose the encounter was not consensual? It boggles the mind that Bush would be chasing a non-consenting horse.

I know Jesus was against stoning adulterous females. But I also know he didn't say stoning gays was wrong.

I say we warn Bush once. If he doesn't take the warning to heart: get out the rocks.

I think Bush needs to keep his wife in a closet. And whatever they do in there should be done in total darkness. With the music turned up loud. "Jesus Loves Me" would be appropriate.

[Steve]

Once again this is a false report. There is no Pastor Delong. Check out your informaiton before you believe it.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2248

[wonkster]

What a gaggle of dupes. No wonder over 45% of you still think Saddam was behind 9/11.

[joe bascemy]

Truly stunning and disheartening comments. Left and right, here we have mostly the gullible indulging in a fit of Web bulimia, gorging indiscriminatley on a mock controversy viewed on a satirical site, and as usual getting all fired up over nothing as long as they get a chance to spout and spew for awhile. This is the rabble who vote for Bush, and, unforunately for the president who will have to clean up Bush's ungodly 'conservative' mess, this is the buch of nitwits the man will have to address as a candidate. I am weary of buffoons who condemn all politicians and remain blind to their own corruption and stupidity. Nothing will stop them from clogging up the internet with their semiliterate maundering, though.
Hey, wingnuts, read your stuff and THEN complain about the schools! And, just once, remember what YOU did there. Oh, PERSONAL personal responsibilty is not your taste in rants? Too bad. Try E. B. White or Rudolph Flesch; it's kind like AA for people like you.

[Laurilei]

Oh, dear lord in heaven! I don't know what's scarier: that the world has become so twisted-nuts that even flat out satire looks real; or that so many postings don't get the JOKE! It's a joke, people! It's satire. Where is Will Rogers when you need him?

[HB]

"Conservative Christians Not Laughing at First Lady's Comedy Act" is a superb example of the brilliance of The Swift Report. Can't wait to hear the Christian-conservative think tank types go on about the unfairness of it all. If people have trouble discerning the difference between the news and satire it's because most of MSM news is a joke, and most MSM broadcasters are hacks. Great work, Swift Report!