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MSNBC's Scarborough: 'Do You Think' Mrs. Fred Thompson 'Works the Pole'?
NewsBusters.org ^ | Ken Shepherd

Posted on 06/04/2007 8:48:07 PM PDT by SandRat

Conservative blogs are abuzz with a controversial remark MSNBC's Joe Scarborough made on his Friday "Morning Joe" program about Jeri Thompson, the wife of former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), who is mulling over a White House bid.

Hot Air has the video.

Here's the relevant transcript:

JOE SCARBOROUGH, host, "Morning Joe": Have you seen, um, have you seen Fred Thompson's wife?

CRAIG CRAWFORD, Congressional Quarterly: Oh, yeah!

SCARBOROUGH: You think she works the pole?

CRAWFORD: That's what Hollywood careers will do for you, I guess.

SCARBOROUGH: [Laughs] What do you mean?

CRAWFORD: You get wives like that.

SCARBOROUGH: I mean, look at that guy. God bless him, I love his voice, but I mean, you know, he ain't Robert Redford in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.'

CRAWFORD: Well, I'd like to see him get back into politics, 'cause I think he's a lousy actor!

Michelle Malkin is critical of the comments, noting that Scarborough replaced Don Imus, who was canned for his "nappy-headed hos" remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team:

Scarborough owes Thompson and his wife an apology.

Be a man, Joe. Would you let someone publicly joke about your wife that way?

On May 11, NewsBusters contributor Noel Sheppard documented Scarborough's kid glove treatment of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.):

SCARBOROUGH: There's been such a division in this country. I really do think that people are exhausted, and they're looking for a president who can unite the country. . . And a lot of people who probably said some very nasty things about you in the 1990s, are extraordinarily impressed with the type of leadership you provided since you've been in the Senate, how you have been a unifying force.

Last November, NewsBusters senior editor Rich Noyes noticed that Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, declared of his pre-election coverage, "I have been bashing my party more than the Democratic Party."



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fredthompson; insult; msnbc; scarborough
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1 posted on 06/04/2007 8:48:12 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: SandRat

Does Joe Scarborough?


2 posted on 06/04/2007 8:49:31 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: SandRat
There are no conservatives on MSNBC.

No conservative should be watching MSNBC.

3 posted on 06/04/2007 8:50:55 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: SandRat

What happened to Joe?


4 posted on 06/04/2007 8:51:19 PM PDT by pissant
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To: SandRat

Now Scarborough can add “rude and insulting” to his bona fides, to go along with “ignorant”, “naive”, and “whore”. What an asshole.


5 posted on 06/04/2007 8:51:56 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: pissant

He was co-opted by the gliterati.


6 posted on 06/04/2007 8:52:27 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
How did this human Scarborough degenerated for such a low life after claiming to be a conservative Republican and was a Congressman from Florida for 8 years? The answer is: Butt Kissing the liberal media and his left wing lunatics bosses at MSNBC. What a shame.
7 posted on 06/04/2007 8:52:43 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: pissant

What happened to Joe?

Too many media cocktail parties.


8 posted on 06/04/2007 8:53:44 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: SandRat

Shame on Joe for bringing the level of discourse down...he’s not a comedian. That said, ‘she works the pole’ or ‘does she work the pole?’ are hilarious phrases.


9 posted on 06/04/2007 8:53:50 PM PDT by Swordfished
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To: pissant; SandRat
What happened to Joe?

He sold out to MSNBC's agenda when they hired him.

10 posted on 06/04/2007 8:54:04 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: SandRat

What an outrageous comment!!! How is that any less insulting than what Imus said?


11 posted on 06/04/2007 8:55:00 PM PDT by stockstrader (We need a conservative candidate who will UNITE the Party, not a liberal one to DIVIDE it!)
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To: SandRat

I think he’s decided his future is in the media and you get ahead in the media (especially MSNBC) by being a liberal, or at least a liberal Republican. He’s sold out and become part of that culture now. He’s not worth listening to anymore IMO.


12 posted on 06/04/2007 8:55:31 PM PDT by Reagan is King (u)
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To: SandRat

Joe’s just jealous because Fred Thompson’s wife has a “pole” to “work” unlike his sexually frustrated wife.


13 posted on 06/04/2007 8:55:53 PM PDT by no dems ( Dear God, how much longer are you going to let Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd live?)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

He should be glad of the changes to the US Constitution.

Andrew Jackson took serious offense at a reporter of his day for insulting his (Jackson’s) wife to the great regret of the reporter after a dawn meeting on the field of honor with seconds present.


14 posted on 06/04/2007 8:55:54 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Politicalmom
The hit pieces on Fred’s wife have begun.
15 posted on 06/04/2007 8:56:14 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: SandRat

Roger that.


16 posted on 06/04/2007 8:57:53 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: SandRat

“I really do think that people are exhausted, and they’re looking for a president who can unite the country. . .”

Doesn’t that statement always mean “time to kowtow” to the marxist degenerates that infest the DNC?

for awhile now, “coming together” and/or “bipartisan” has meant capitulation to the destroyers.


17 posted on 06/04/2007 8:58:10 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Scarborough? Pole? Work? Make your own homosexual joke. I'm just sayin'..

He owes an apology. He should be IMUSed and then Fred should kick his narrow ass.

18 posted on 06/04/2007 8:58:42 PM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: SandRat

Joe’s just probably worried about the FBI files that Hillary has on him.


19 posted on 06/04/2007 8:58:46 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: SandRat
Not much distance between pole and nappy, Joe are you and the Fairy still buddies??
20 posted on 06/04/2007 8:59:07 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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