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Michelle Malkin:

I’ll have a bit more to say related to this in my column tomorrow, but here’s my quick two cents: I love Laura Bush because of her natural charm and unaffected style. “Grace” is a word that had not been synonymous with “First Lady” for many years. Anyone who has watched Mrs. Bush in action–she was lovely on Jay Leno’s show about a week ago, cracking easy jokes about Bush and baseball–already knows she has a brain to match her grace. No need to go out of her way to prove it.

Most of Mrs. Bush’s humor at the correspondents’ dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her.

Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.

“Lighten up?” How about cleaning up? The First Lady resorting to cheap horse masturbation jokes is not much better than Whoopi Goldberg trafficking in dumb puns on the Bush family name. Unlike many Beltway and Manhattan commentators, I do not think the Wonkette-ization of the White House is a good thing.

Except she didn’t use the words “horse m———-n.” You did. And I won’t because it’s disgusting. She made sly and clever reference to it, and everyone that thinks that is some great crime oddly seem to have no problem with being as blunt and crude as possible about it themselves.

And btw, more people are probably reading those two words on Michelle’s blog in the middle of the day than were watching Laura’s circuitous references on C-Span in the middle of the night. Now who needs to clean up?

Update: Bill at INDC Journal reacts.