Scarborough Attacks Fred's Wife (Joe insults Fred's wife)

Captain's Quarters ^ | 6/4/07 | Ed Morrissey

[teddyballgame]

Joe Scarborough offers his keen insight and classy analysis into today's political scene in an interview this morning with Congressional Quarterly's Craig Crawford. During the Morning Joe program on MS-NBC, Scarborough suggested that Fred Thompson's wife is a whore (via the Palmetto Scoop):

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.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Was he married before? If so, divorced or widowed?

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Married at age 17. Preceding after 25 years. Amicable, and the first wife supports his candidacy. Dated for 18 years until he found the right gal.

Or so I recall.

[tioga]

I hope he does not comment. The michaelmoore comeback was about politics.........this is an insult to his lady. I think the scumbagjoe should be left gagging on his own words.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I’ve warned FRedheads at least twice that it is unwise to do this. It isn’t going to help Fred like they apparently think it is.

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Yeah, you have Fred’s best interest at heart. Which is why you pop up with your same hostile questions about Fred on nearly every thread.

Of course, I note that you don’t actually point to such posts with such conduct you think to be harmful, nor your helpful warnings.

[epow]

These tawdry vanity based put-downs are just shallow.

They're not just shallow, they show how much the Rudytooters and McMitt people are afraid of Fred. Fred may turn out to be just a flash in the pan, but until that becomes clear (and I don't believe it will for a NY minute) the other candidate's supporters are gong to do anything they can to tear him down. What we're seeing here is pretty close to desperation on their part.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I don’t cotton to rich or famous guys who get divorced and marry much younger women.

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Even when their second marriage follows the first by nearly 20 years?

And you don’t even know whether his divorce was his idea.

[trisham]

the other candidate's supporters are gong to do anything they can to tear him down. What we're seeing here is pretty close to desperation on their part.

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I think you're exactly right on this.

[mad_as_he$$]

Good point - my wife thinks he needs to defend her honor. I said yea but it is Scarborough - she doesn’t care. I think the point is that it is important to women that their husband defend their honor. Now in politics- - guess that’s why I am not in politics!!!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Having daughters changes a mans perspective, at least mine.

If I thought this was ok for such an age difference I would probably be eyeballing my teenage daughters friends pretty soon and Im never going there whether single or not.

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You are projecting a little too hard.

Maybe when you are single for 18 years, and your daughter’s friends are 40-year-old lawyers, you should come back and let us know if you still feel so queasy about it.

[Ghengis]

The dark side of Joe Scarborough.

[Shortstop7]

Positively ridiculous.............

Go FRED!

[No Blue States]

I would also like to see Fred bust Joe in the lip for insulting his wife. He deserves it.
If he did I might even vote for him.

[lonestar]

I don't cotton to rich or famous guys who get divorced and marry much younger women.

It's OK if a poor nobody marries a younger woman?

I don't cotton to people who pass judgement on other people's relationships--regardless of age and income!

[No Blue States]

If single when Im 60 Ill be chasing 50 year old skirts,
we would have much more to talk about and much more in common.
Not to mention I would still be setting an example for my daughters as their dad.

I want them to grow old with their spouse, not have him check out when they need him most.

Plus, I wont ever be single for 18 years as I am way too handsome.

[betsyross1776]

I wonder if they will do to him what they did to Imus! I sure hope so!

[LibertyRocks]

Personally, I’m only worried about it when the woman (or man I suppose) is still in their 20s. By the time adults reach the age of 30-35 years old they have had enough life experience, and hopefully know themselves well enough to understand what they are looking for in a mate. But, the only people I would presume to tell how I feel would be my own daughters. As for others, if they love each other and are happy, then I would support them.

[Atlas Sneezed]

If single when Im 60 Ill be chasing 50 year old skirts

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How nice.

From what I have read, Fred didn’t do much skirt chasing when single. They tended to chase him, and they often caught him.

Don’t know how this applies to his 40-year-old lawyer wife, but just thought you’d want to know.

[Ghengis]

The dark side of Joe Scarborough.

[dragonblustar]

Just watch the media and you’ll see what I’m talking about. As for the stupid statement, you’ll only have to count the number of votes that went to Kerry in the last election. That wasn’t a small voting block, those were millions of voters who voted for not only John F Kerry but his side kick Goldie Locks.

Mark my words, you’ll here the media gripe about Fred’s wife not looking the part of a first lady and some conservatives will compare her to Laura Bush or Nancy Reagan.

[No Blue States]

Fair enough and I understand your position.

The only thing that even makes their relationship my
business is because Im considering voting for him. Unlike Rudy and his abortion support, the age of Freds wife doesnt disallow him for me come vote day. But I do prefer he had a wife near his own age.

I have to fire up the grill, this steak is out of date.

[Plutarch]

It's OK if a poor nobody marries a younger woman?

Moot point. There is no such thing as a poor old guy marrying an attractive younger woman.

I don't cotton to people who pass judgement on other people's relationships--regardless of age and income!

Oooh, I am passing judgement, how intolerant of me.

The whole idea that those men who become rich and famous should dump their first wife and then marry a woman nearly half their age is repungnant to me. It is not any less so when the person in question has a high ACU voting record. Sorry, it is the same reaction that you have when you look at the photograph of them together. You do not get the same warm fuzzies elicited by a photograph of a married couple of similar ages.

Let us suppose that instead of 35, she was 25 when they married. Wouldn't you too have passed judgement on that? Okay, what about 18? She'd be an adult, after all. Excessive age discrepency is at some point disturbing to everyone, people only vary on how much disparity it takes to make it disturbing.