Faux-Boy Bush

The funniest jokes are the ones that are true. Laura Bush apparently brought the house down at the recent White House Correspondents Dinner (full transcript) with zingers like:

"George always says he's delighted to come to these press dinners. Baloney. He's usually in bed by now," she said to laughter. "I said to him the other day, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later.'"

Nice to know the leader of the free world can get a good night's sleep while American soldiers are dying in Iraq.

The first lady followed that up with what anyone who's really from Texas already knew - G.W.'s bullsh*t Crawford ranch was just a bit of political theatre cooked up by Karl Rove:

And the native of the Lone Star State poked fun at her husband's patrician upbringing: "George didn't know much about ranches when we bought the place" near Crawford. "Andover and Yale don't have a real strong ranching program.

"But I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse." She paused. "What's worse, it was a male horse."

Too bad the American public bought into his carpet-bagging exploitation of the Texas cowboy archetype. At least we can all laugh about it now. Ha-f*cking-ha-ha.