Joe Scarborough's Imus Moment? ....says: "Thompson's wife works the pole?"

[KoKo]

Scarborough has an “Imus moment”


Presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s second-and-current wife Jeri, who is considered by some to be a “trophy wife,” was the topic of an interesting conversation on Friday’s Morning Joe radio talk show, which aired live on MSNBC. During a rather suggestive segment, Scarborough asked Congressional Quarterly writer Craig Crawford if Thompson’s wife, who is twenty-five years his junior, “works the pole.”

Here’s the video (transcript below):

SCARBOROUGH: Have you seen Fred Thompson’s wife?
CRAWFORD: Oh, yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: You think she thinks she works the pole?
CRAWFORD: That’s what a Hollywood career will do for you, I guess.
SCARBOROUGH: 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 would like to see him back into politics because I think he’s a lousy actor.

We’re not exactly sure what Scarborough is suggesting - there are a few interpretations and we’ll leave those to you - but we are sure that MSNBC doesn’t need another Don Imus-like mess on their hands.

http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2007/06/04/scarborough-has-an-imus-moment/

[MadBadger]

1. Nowhere near an Imus Moment

[Warpy]

2. He'll try to say it's spelled "P-O-L-L"

The trophy bimbette is actually a high power GOP insider/political wonk. She only looks like a streetwalker.

[Greeby]

10. Except streetwalkers make an honest living

GOP operatives on the other hand.....

[damntexdem]

22. Well, it only suggests she's a stripper, not necessarily a streetwalker.

But it sure sounds like MSNBC does think that it needs another Imus event.

It subjects a woman to scorn on the basis of her looks, and those of her husband. Yes, Imus' remarks were much worse; but these should be considered bad enough to sack Scare-borough.

[Jed Dilligan]

31. There are other possible implications

of "works the pole."

:evilgrin:

[rodeodance]

3. bet scar will give an explanation soon

[AX10]

4. You don't see me disagreeing with Scarborough's assesment.

Because I'm not.....

[MadBadger]

7. I Laughed.

[PCIntern]

5. Joey S, is gettin randy...

the other day it was all about 'reach-arounds'.

[devilgrrl]

6. He was making fun of the Polish?

:crazy:

[TacticalPeek]

8. She works the pol.

:evilgrin:

[Ganja Ninja]

20. If she didn't she wouldn't be much of a trophy would she? n/t

[jgraz]

9. Nope, you can still disparage women with almost complete impunity

For fuck's sake, Glen Beck SEXUALLY HARASSED A FEMALE GUEST ON THE AIR and he still has a show.

[PCIntern]

12. Yeah? What'd he do?

Enquiring minds want to know...

[jgraz]

13. Here's the link

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/28/glenn-becks-got-a-camera/

Fair warning: it's extremely cringe-inducing. Beck makes a complete ass of himself -- "ooh look at the pretty lady". What a joke of a human being he is.

[PCIntern]

15. Thanks!

:hi:

[PCIntern]

16. What a slimy dick he is.

If a Dem did that, it'd be THE BIG STORY ON ACTION NEWS. For 3 months.

[MistressOverdone]

19. EWWWW

Thanks for the biggest laugh of the day, talking about possible misogyny by calling somebody a "slimy dick"!

good one

[seabeyond]

18. what a pig. i am so tired of fuckin pigs.... they are in abundance of late n/t

[jgraz]

21. Hey -- what have you got against pigs?

:evilgrin:

[Wickerman]

27. Hell, GWB** sexually harrassed German Chancellor Merkel and he still has his job

[shain from kane]

11. I'm thinking "pol", as in politician. You know, she works him until the juices flow.

In other words, "Get up, old man. You got a job to do. Don't be so lazy. It's not a free ride. You got to outperform the competition. Work for that vote of confidence."

[Bucky]

14. In the future, please spare me your speculations on dirty Republican pillow talk

I'm already fighting the mental images.
.

[PCIntern]

17. Hey Bucky:

How'd you get that life-size pic of Fred's you-know-what into your post at the bottom there?

:hi: :rofl:

[Missy Vixen]

23. Oh, my GOD

I'm sorry, but I'm just dumbstruck.

>You think she thinks she works the pole?<

I don't necessarily think a lot of Jeri Thompson, either, (let's just say I wonder about her simply for her choice of husbands,) but that's really, really uncalled for.

Julie

[PCIntern]

25. Sure it is...

that's why a simpleton not-bad-looking Rethug who has a talk show can get away with having a dead intern when he was a Congressman and saying stuff like that as well. As a culture, they can say that about anyone they want...until someone says that about his wife. Then all Hell breaks loose.

here's his family...can't tell if his wife does THE pole, or just HIS pole...'cause I don't believe she's in the picture.

[MadBadger]

24. People here say things like that all the time

So I'm sorry If I dont act all shocked and disgusted.

[Catherine Vincent]

26. Someone should save that video of Scarb saying this.

It will put him on the hot seat.

[Jacobin]

28. I'm confused

I'm not really up to date on such things, but here are my possible interpretations:
1)Works the poll, as in a stripper dancing on a poll in a titty bar?
2)Works the poll, as in assisting her older husband in getting an erection?
3)Works the poll, as in helping her husband work 'pols' or politicians to get support?

I dunno.

Others?

[KoKo]

29. It's hard to know but whatever it meant...can't be anything positive...

:-(

[KoKo]

30. ... this comment should cut across the aisle between Dems & Repugs for Joe to Spitefully

do this...pushing the envelope as he Hawks for Imus Job.

Disgusting the lengths the corporate whores go to ...to push themselves as "controversial" for the BIG RATINGS. :puke:

[Raine]

32. Stripper pole

that's what I think he meant.