Young attractive women = pole dancers.
By on Jun 4th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Young attractive women = pole dancers.
Last week on MSNBC’s Morning Joe radio talk show — which airs during the former time slot of Don Imus — host Joe Scarborough brought up former senator Fred Thompson’s wife, Jeri, who is significantly younger than Thompson. Without any evidence, Scarborough wondered whether “she works the pole.” Watch it:
(HT: The Palmetto Scoop)
UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has more.
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I always thought “she works the pole†meant something else.
June 4th, 2007 at 8:55 pmActually it does. These guys dont know the true meaning of it.
June 4th, 2007 at 8:57 pmIsn’t this the Joe Scarborough whose young female assistant was found dead in his Congresiional office or some such?
June 4th, 2007 at 9:00 pmThat’s disgusting! What the hell is wrong with these idiots?
BTW: Click on the link next to Jeri’s name, and scroll down to the picture of Fred & Jeri. Jeebus, the man married an infant.
You’re not supposed to date (or marry) anyone younger than your kids.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:02 pmIsn’t that just the Olde English spelling for the newspeak of pol (as in poltico)…?
;-P
June 4th, 2007 at 9:08 pmI think Joe should have Fred on his show and ask him if Jeri “works the pole.”
I’d be interested in Fred’s response.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:08 pmAre you bored, TP?
Better call out the feminist PC police to denounce the evil patriarchy.
FFS – get a life
June 4th, 2007 at 9:09 pmFlaw and Odor
June 4th, 2007 at 9:11 pmYou’re not supposed to date (or marry) anyone younger than your kids.
Comment by Zooey
Well, she is 40. Not exactly a child bride.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:12 pmAre you bored, TP?
Better call out the feminist PC police to denounce the evil patriarchy.
FFS – get a life
Comment by jonny
Idiot. It would have been just as inappropriate to speculate if Fred worked the snatch.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:15 pmWell, she is 40. Not exactly a child bride.
Comment by gummitch
Sorry, I read it wrong. I thought is said she was 25 — 4 years younger than his child.
My bad. Pass the worms….
June 4th, 2007 at 9:17 pm“Better call out the feminist PC police to denounce the evil patriarchy.”
So now the standard of public discourse is to be a boorish pig? This is the apex of society? I would have thought a dozen years of rule by the Moral Majority would have resulting in something at least slightly higher than Porky’s.
Speaking of which, I’d pork Kucinich’s babe ahead of Fred’s.
*snort*
June 4th, 2007 at 9:18 pmYou’re not supposed to date (or marry) anyone younger than your kids.
Comment by Zooey
Well, she is 40. Not exactly a child bride.
Comment by gummitch
And, really, look at Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich. She’s 29 now.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:18 pmHa ha he asked if she sucks his d_ck, Heeeee.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:19 pmAnd, really, look at Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich. She’s 29 now.
Comment by gummitch
Dude, I’m eating the worms, ok? Don’t make me look at that gorgeous red hair.
I don’t date men younger than my sons. I am wrong to hold anyone else to that standard, especially a man. Geez…..
June 4th, 2007 at 9:23 pmShe’s been working Fred’s withered old pole forever but he can’t get it up,
June 4th, 2007 at 9:24 pmMaybe we’ll all be treated to another one of Thompson’s Kinky Friedman performances (gotta see Kinky’s campaign commercials with the cigars to know what I mean) where he sits in his library and tells Scar that he should go to a mental hospital
June 4th, 2007 at 9:32 pm“Dude, I’m eating the worms, ok? Don’t make me look at that gorgeous red hair.”
Zoo, ya know if your looks are half the match of your brains, then your age is of no significance. There’s a lot to be said for, um, experience. 8-D
June 4th, 2007 at 9:32 pmSince Joe is a liberal now why is this hate site mentioning this?
June 4th, 2007 at 9:34 pm“Since Joe is a liberal now why is this hate site mentioning this?”
It’s called “fair and balanced”.
And just to be clear, we don’t hate everybody. We only hate you.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:37 pmI always thought “she works the pole†meant something else.
Comment by Mr. President — June 4, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
Anyone surprised one of the resident “closet case” b!tches would post this? Who’s *pole* did you work today – loser? Was it Rove, Bush or Jake today?
June 4th, 2007 at 9:52 pmSo Scarborough thinks the “last great hope” for the Republican Party is married to a “pole dancer?” Of course, all of America knows that the GOP is circling the drain along with Bush’s legacy–the failed Iraq occupation.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:53 pmSee the GOPers think dirty things about each other’s wives too.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:00 pmWell Fred’s such a looker, who could resist?
/sarc
But some troll said Scarborough’s a liberal now, I don’t think so. He is definitely too smarmy to be a Dem, definitely still Repuke.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:06 pmJoe should talk. How about Lori Klausutis? What I want to know from Joe is why Lori Klausutis died in his congressional office and not such much as a peep from the press? What about when questioned about it Joe: “I asked you why you aren’t in Congress. You said that you had sex with the intern, and then you had to kill her.” Scarborough laughed and replied, “Yeah, well, what are you gonna do?”
A young female employee of one of Florida’s Congressmen had died unexpectedly in the Congressman’s office. There were no witnesses to her death and the cause of death was not apparent. Klausutis’ boss, Joe Scarborough had recently resigned from Congress prematurely and unexpectedly, amid rumors about his marital fidelity and soon after a divorce. He had also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun, claiming that resigning from Congress and as publisher was necessary to spend more time with his sons. The results of the mandated autopsy, however, were deemed “inconclusive” by Dr. Michael Berkland
Dr. Michael Berkland, it turns out, has a very interesting background himself. Recently relocated to Florida, it is a matter of public record that Dr. Berkland’s medical license in the state of Missouri was revoked in 1998 as a result of Berkland reporting false information regarding brain tissue samples in a 1996 autopsy report. Berkland does not deny the charges.
It’s also a matter of public record that he was suspended from his position as Medical Examiner in the State of Florida in July, 1999
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/lori_klausutis.htm
June 4th, 2007 at 10:09 pmMy hears are still ringing from “since Joe is now a liberal.” WTF? Did he forget to sacrifice a goat at the last coven or what?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:10 pm“She works the pole”? Scarborough has a very nasty mind, so he might be thinking she smokes Thompson’s pole, so not a stripper pole dancer.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:10 pmMy hears are still ringing from “since Joe is now a liberal.†WTF? Did he forget to sacrifice a goat at the last coven or what?
Comment by gummitch
Argggggh. My “ears” are still ringing.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:18 pmZoo, ya know if your looks are half the match of your brains, then your age is of no significance. There’s a lot to be said for, um, experience. 8-D
Comment by gorn by any other name
You sweet talker, you. :-)
June 4th, 2007 at 10:21 pmOne individual that I do know works the pole is Joe Scarborough. He works the pole for the extreme right.
How many times has he given up his ass for George Dubya and the Crusading right?
Troubled Texan
June 4th, 2007 at 10:25 pmIf you are not supposed to date (or marry) anyone this young, what is Kucinich’s excuse?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:26 pmIf you are not supposed to date (or marry) anyone this young, what is Kucinich’s excuse?
Comment by Jake
For the record, I amended my statement to include only myself.
Try to keep up, old man.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:29 pmWhy is it that people are foolish enough to think that bigotry cannot be expressed through sexuality? If Joe denounced a homosexual or Muslim through religion would people defend his “religious” views? Of course not. Jerry Falwell tried that whole, “If you’re against my sermons of intolerance, you must be anti-God” bit.
This is the same song and dance number, but with a woman as target on the basis of gender and hysterical screams of, “You must be anti-sex to question my intolerance!” Do you honestly think that if people truly embraced sexuality that women would be demonized for it? Please. Puritanical streaks of misogyny-fueled moral hysteria are alive and well when every female sex act is a damn slur and sex is still referred to as filthy, dirty, nasty, etc..
Oh, and stop it the whole “PC police” rhetoric. If anything, it’s quite anti-PC to denounce the intolerance of women in society, especially by men (trust me).
June 4th, 2007 at 10:36 pmAnyone else NOT on the “Ignore List” want to comment on Kucinich?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:49 pmAnyone else NOT on the “Ignore List†want to comment on Kucinich?
Comment by Jake
You already responded to me, even though I’m on your idiotic list — why are you pretending not to have done so?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:52 pmI’ll bet TP’s sorry they put this thread up! :-D
Can we possibly hope that Joe meant “work the polls”?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:54 pmNo Jane, Scarborough was referring to something sexual.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:57 pmIf anyone knows about working the pole, it’s Scarborough.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pmWas it investigated? Im sure her family is devastated. If you fall because you faint, you do not have fractures like this woman did. Does anyone know if the police investigated it?
June 4th, 2007 at 11:12 pmComment by Jay Randal — June 4, 2007 @ 10:57 pm
Sorry, Jay, I was making a feeble attempt to take the high road. Unusual for me, I know.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:37 pmHonestly.. you should all withhold judgement until you hear the entire clip. Scarborough just got done talking to the traffic woman, who was talking about using pole dancing as a work out.. and that “working the pole” is what kept her in such good shape. Don’t go off the edge until you know the full story.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:59 pmAnyone else NOT on the “Ignore List†want to comment on Kucinich? – ‘Ake! ‘Ake!
You silly billybumbler.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:50 amHey, I am all for pole dancers. I am looking for a nice, liberal, intelligent, funny pole dancer!! I am not asking for too much am I? :)
June 5th, 2007 at 1:02 amWhy is this newsworthy? How many American kids died in Iraqnam today? How much did the federal budget deficit increase today? What is the Bush Administration doing about the increase in crime over the last two years? Everyone but the Republic Party trolls was upset a week ago when CNN announced it was hiring someone to cover “news” like Brittney Spears, Paris Hilton and Michael Jackson. By putting this garbage about Joe Scarborough on your page, TP is no different than the new segment on CNN.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:58 amMy hears are still ringing from “since Joe is now a liberal.†WTF? Did he forget to sacrifice a goat at the last coven or what
If you saw the way he kissed Ms Bill Clinton’s ass you would know he is a liberal.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:38 amYou all c’mon down to Pulaski this Oktober, and we’ll do lots o’ Pole dancin’!
June 5th, 2007 at 8:49 am“Puritanical streaks of misogyny-fueled moral hysteria are alive and well when every female sex act is a damn slur and sex is still referred to as filthy, dirty, nasty, etc.”
Comment by Jackson — June 4, 2007 @ 10:36 pm
“So now the standard of public discourse is to be a boorish pig? This is the apex of society? I would have thought a dozen years of rule by the Moral Majority would have resulting in something at least slightly higher than Porky’s.”
Comment by gorn by any other name — June 4, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
Yes.
I see a big difference from a decade or so ago, when women enjoyed some measure of respect. People did not openly, outright degrade women in public. But it’s come to this. Slowly. First we were no longer seen as women in the media – we became girls. And from girls we became “girls gone wild” party girls. Then we were seen as whores. And not even an 80’s era “heart of gold” whore, but a dirty, cheap, stupid whore.
It’s such an easy jump from dissing rich kids like Paris, opening calling them whores and making jokes about sex acts on late night tv, to ALL women in america being dirty little seducers.
Joe asking if she works the pole is like asking on air if she swallows. It’s locker room talk, and when it’s said in the open, it carries a new dangerous message. The message is that women are to be used, and NO ONE but your own mother needs to be respected.
I used to think they were trying to turn back the clock to 1950, but it’s not that. They’re trying to make us dirty and powerless enough to deserve wearing burkas. We’re to be a non-entity in america.
This has got to stop.
And I don’t think it’s going to stop until we all hit rock bottom.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:44 amI agree with #44.
Also, “working the pole” is a bit different than “dancing on a pole.”
June 5th, 2007 at 12:39 pmHint: pole = penis
Two words about that time slot: Stephanie Miller
June 5th, 2007 at 12:53 pmIsn’t that one of the supposed goals of the “islamofascists?”
Which begs the question. Who is it REALLY that “hates our freedoms?”
June 5th, 2007 at 12:57 pmThe New Republic’s Chris Orr says (LINK) that “before the comment, Scarborough had been talking to Tracy Burgess, the WFAN news anchor and, evidently, a bit of a fitness freak. (She apparently also used to appear as a guest on Imus.) Burgess explained that ‘I am taking vertical pole…. It’s a pole and you exercise on it.’ There was a little minimally risque banter on the subject before Scarborough declared, ‘Housewives across America taking to the pole… for health and fitness. Hey, have you seen Fred Thompson’s wife?… You think she works the pole?’”
June 5th, 2007 at 6:25 pm