Posted on 05/10/2005 7:30:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger does not want to destroy the moon.
A U.S. political commentator has admitted he failed to check his facts when he erroneously reported on the MSNBC cable news network last month that Schwarzenegger had jokingly advocated doing away with the moon.
In one of the stranger mea culpas from a major U.S. news outlet in recent years, the commentator, Joe Scarborough, a former congressman, acknowledged on Friday that the governor's purported lunar outburst on the nationally syndicated radio show of Howard Stern was actually a spoof.
Citing a British newspaper, Scarborough had quoted Schwarzenegger on the air as saying: "If we get rid of the moon, women, those menstrual cycles are governed by the moon, will not get (pre-menstrual syndrome). They will stop bitching and whining."
Scarborough chided Schwarzenegger for insensitivity, saying: "Hey, governor, way to make 50 percent of California's voting population turn frigid toward you.
"I don't know how it works in Austria, but let me tell you something, friend. Jokes about such matters, (are) not laughing subjects to women in America."
It turned out the remarks Scarborough attributed to the Austrian-born governor were actually made by a Schwarzenegger impersonator who regularly appears on Stern's show as part of a running call-in gag.
Eleven days later, Scarborough admitted on the air that he had been duped and apologized to viewers and Schwarzenegger "for my terrible mistake."
"By quoting erroneous information from that (newspaper) article, without checking it out ourselves, we, too, got pulled into that hoax," Scarborough said.
A spokeswoman for the governor, Margita Thompson, said her office notified MSNBC of Scarborough's faux pas the day after its April 25 broadcast, noting that some Democrats in the state Assembly had been circulating the erroneous comments attributed to the Republican governor as fact.
MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said the original message from Schwarzenegger's office was not passed along immediately through proper channels. "As soon as Joe and his producer were made aware (of the mistake) he made the correction."
Unnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnghhhhhhh.
Now we know why he isn't in congress anymore and works for a liberal outfit.
ditto that :-)
Maybe his borders remarkwas an impersonator, too....after all, "its a family affair" since 1965 :)
Senate immigration subcommittee chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA.) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following:
"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."
Sen. Kennedy concluded by saying,
"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1965. pp. 1-3.)
Three Decades of Mass Immigration
The Legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act
http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/back395.html
Talent on loan from Forest Gump.
Yea, I'm just not that fond of Joe. I haven't watched MSNBC in a LONG time but what I remember of it from the past I wasn't impressed.
Thanks Vn_survivor_67-68.
The insurrection has been underfoot now 40 years. Here all this time, I thought the adults were in charge. Too bad my 'sight' did not improve until 2000. As I always say, I'll go down fighting, but not bending over.
Ted Kennedy, the one that got away.
LOL!
Libs are like a box of chock-lats.
You always know what's in the BOX!
Well, it was fake but accurate.
(Ducking!)
It's no wonder that stupid joe draws about 300,000 viewers on a good night. He used to be a newspaper man and he used to be republican, now he's just a demonRAT whore.
And a Baba-Booey to ya'll.
I watched Scarborough say this, and believing it to be true, I still thought Scarborough was an ass because it was obviously a joke in any event. Now hearing that Arnold never said it at all, Scarborough is an even bigger ass. It kind of makes me nauseous, an extreme example of all the smugness by commentators who are really big zeros pretending to guide the rest of us.
ROFL!
What a milk toast that guy is!
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