| Do you remember…OK. |
| Now, OK. |
| You remember Barbara Bush? |
| I call her the silver douche bag. |
| You remember her? |
| OK. |
| Barbara Bush. |
| She is the mother of Governor George Bush. |
| I call him Governor Bush because that’s the only elected office he ever held legally in our country, OK? |
| George Bush, Governor Bush. |
| Yeah. |
| I don’t care where they hang his portrait. |
| I don’t care how big his library is. |
| He’ll always be Governor Bush. |
| I don’t even capitalize his name when I type it anymore. |
| So she’s the mother of Governor George Bush. |
| She’s also the wife of his father, George H. W. Bush who did become president in the normal, legal, traditional manner. |
| And when he did, she came along for the ride as first lady, and that’s been the tradition up ’til now. |
| A man has been elected and the woman has come along for the ride as the first lady. |
| And usually, as in American life in general, the woman is condescended to, patronized, given something to do to keep her busy. |
| A lot of times, they give her a charity or a cause, something she can champion. |
| Betty Ford was told to drink. |
| Remember that? |
| Yeah, that was…that was Betty Ford’s assignment. |
| “Betty, you get drunk and get totally falling down, fucked-up, shit-faced drunk, OK? |
| You just get fucked up drunk, and we’ll hose you down, baby. |
| We’ll hose you down. |
| We’ll put you in a facility, you’ll get sober, and then we’ll put your name on the facility. |
| Liza Minnelli can get sober, and everything is going to be OK. |
| Right?” |
| That was her assignment. |
| Barbara Bush’s assignment was getting children to read. |
| Remember that? |
| Getting children to read. |
| They figured she had had so much success with George that she would be a natural to get children to read, which misses the point completely. |
| Not important to get children to read. |
| Children who want to read are going to read. |
| Kids who want to learn to read are going to learn to read. |
| Much more important to teach children to question what they read. |
| Children should be taught to question everything. |
| To question everything they read, everything they hear. |
| Children should be taught to question authority. |
| Parents never teach their children to question authority because parents are authority figures themselves, and they don’t want to undermine their own bullshit inside the household. |
| So, they stroke the kid and the kid strokes them, and they all stroke each other, and they all grow up all fucked up, and they come to shows like this. |