THE PALMETTO SCOOP: Scarborough's Imus moment ("Does Thompson’s Wife “Work the Pole”?)

[ariesgem]

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[WCGreen]

1. Joey sayin' FT's wife is a former stripper....

Yea buddy...

What's up with MSNBC in the morning...

[zehnkatzen]

2. I'm torn...

So, here's a Republican talking head casually insulting the wife of an admired Republican's wife because she's young and sexy and looks like a trophy wife and you know, since I dislike Republicans, I should be happy. Yay! Watch the Republican Party continue to eat their own.

Why am I not?

I think I know why.

Firstly, why should I care why Fred Thompson married a young woman. It may or may not indicate character, but Fred's just another multiply-married R. So what?

Secondly, that it's so okay to just say whatever you want about whoever you want, that Joe Scarborough can probably get away with calling Mrs Thompson a sl*t. Which is, when you think about it, what he did. I don't admire and can do without Fred because he's a Repbublican but, you know what? I wouldn't just dish on his wife by calling her a sl*t.

Thirdly, you all catch that smug way he said it? See, since he's a Republican talking head, he can pretty much say whatever he wants. It's not our airwaves he's abusing or our public dialog he's casually taking a big smelly crap in. It's his play toy, and we just get to like it.

Lastly, this made it clear to me, if ever it wasn't, that the state of public discussion in this country is completely polluted and damaged beyond repair. When I was growing up, I remember that Republicans didn't like Democrats much, but there was sincere respect. There's no respect and no shame anymore–they're all optional and make you look about as out of place as any other polite anachronism, like white shoes after Labor Day (who knows <i>that</i> anymore. Moreover, witlings such as Scarborough just fling it far and wide, complain about the lack of civility when it's convenient, and meanwhile just gleefully join in when they can.

I have no use for Fred Thompson–he's just another insincere Republican phony who wouldn't even be buzzed about it the current field of Republicans weren't so embarrasingly bad. But I don't think his wife deserved such an insult in a public way.

[rodeodance]

3. no uproar over this? Or just silence from Rush and his like?

[zehnkatzen]

4. No uproar from the Republican Press?

I'd expect no more or less. Each of those Rs are going to play this for all it's worth; they want to make Right Said Fred look less Presidental.

I'd lay odds that Limbaugh in particular has no interest in seeing RSF's star rise. I can't put my finger on why, mind...I just don't think he's neocon enough for Rush.

[jodini]

6. I see your point...

Scarborough bugs me most of the time...hate how he focuses so much on "Hollyweird" (god, that is so lame!!!!!). However, the main issue here, to me, is one of hypocrisy. I like that this is pointed out re: his wife (who is 4 years younger than his daughter and I read that he left his wife of 20-some??? years for) because it sheds some light the Republican's real family values. They have far more divorces (not that I care), far more affairs (so what) and far more interest in what EVERYONE ELSE is doing in their bedrooms! Just like DeLay coming out and stating that Gingrich's affair was worse than his because by the time of Bill's blow job investigation, DeLay has already "found the Lord". What a bunch of a-holes!

[Ned_Devine]

5. Crawford's comment is funny!

Most republican actors are lousy. Just look at Ron Silver, Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono, Steven Baldwin...

[Chomskyite]

7. In fairness . . .

. . . there had been an earlier segment on the show in which an MSNBC reporter woman said she'd lost a lot of weight and gotten fit in one of those pole-dancing classes.

[zehnkatzen]

8. Point taken, but...

. . . there had been an earlier segment on the show in which an MSNBC reporter woman said she'd lost a lot of weight and gotten fit in one of those pole-dancing classes.

I think I take your point. But the difference between that and this is that the aforementioned MSNBC reporter (something which, if it doesn't happen on the Olbermann show, must be taken as a contradiction in terms) are: the reporter offered her own experience up and wasn't being lasciviously sniggered about by someone else trying to make a point, and while she said she was taking a pole-dancing class, that's a sexy thing to do that doesn't necessarily say that you're displaying yourself (so to speak) as an opportunistic woman with loose morals.

It doesn't really compare...but that's my POV.