WASHINGTON - The Presidential Inaugural Committee in charge of allocating tickets to the inaugural balls are running into some flack. Trying to avoid a repeat of the embarrassment First Lady Laura Bush suffered in 2006, when she arrived at the Kennedy Center Honors, in the same red Oscar de La Renta as three other women, the committee decided to screen all invitees. The committee did not want anyone,whose derriere is as big or bigger than the First Lady to be, Michelle Obama's, to be present at any of the eight balls she was likely to attend.
Some of those on the list are J.Lo, Oprah, Beyonce, Rosie O'Donnell, Al Gore and Roseanne Barr.
An Oprah spokeswoman said the television host hopes to have the "liposuction completed on her hynee in time for the January 20th inauguration."
Outspoken, Rosie O'Donnell, ranted, "they can kiss my fat lily white Irish ass, I ain't changing nuttin'."
An indignant Roseanne Barr claimed, "It's an affront to white trash double-wide trailer women everywhere. That hayseed Jimmy Carter was one of us, he used to let us drink Billy Beer and piss on the airport tarmac."
J.Lo said her butt is her business and that "if my husband Marc Anthony wants a smaller spanking area, that's our business."
Al Gore was in California's Humboldt County talking to some redwood trees and was unavailable for comment.
Suggestions that men with odd size ears were also excluded by the committee in deference to Mr.Obama, "is categorically untrue", said an Obama spokesman. When asked why Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Ted Kopel and Shrek were not invited,there was a terse, "no comment."
