I wrote last night about some of the snide comments that are starting to be made about Fred Thompson’s wife who, admittedly, is both younger than him and better looking that pretty much the spouse of any other Presidential candidate. Now, comes this comment from MSNBC host, and former Congressman, Joe Scarborough:
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.
Captain Ed puts it well:
Anyone who has watched Scarborough for any length of time knows that Scarborough can be an ass. What we didn’t know was that he could also be tacky enough to attack someone’s wife in the most personal of terms. Thompson’s wife is beautiful, but that doesn’t make her a whore or a stripper. Perhaps it speaks to Scarborough’s view of women that he immediately associates one with the other.
The counterbuzz around Thompson has started to center on his supposed “trophy wife”, as if he somehow should be blamed for dating beautiful women after his divorce. Thompson remained single for several years before marrying his current wife; he had also dated country singer Lorrie Morgan for a while as well. It’s hardly a scandal, it hardly makes Jeri Thompson a homewrecker or a whore, and it hardly qualifies as unusual.
This is nothing more than character assassination, and especially egregious as it targets someone who isn’t even a political player. Scarborough should be ashamed of himself.
At the very least, an apology is in order here. At the most, well, if I were Joe Scarborough, I’d be very sure never to be in a room alone with Fred Thomspson
June 7th, 2007 at 7:04 am
[...] Yesterday, Joe Scarborough attempted to explain his way out of the fact that he had made some pretty crude remarks about Fred Thompson’s wife: [...]
July 24th, 2007 at 9:13 am
THERE ARE SEVERAL “TROPHY WIVES” AMONG THE CANDIDATES:
MRS. KUCINICH
MRS. DODD
MRS. THOMPSON
MRS. MCCAIN
(ONLY THE DODD ARRANGEMENT IS BELIEVABLE, BECAUSE DODD IS SUCH A HANDSOME MAN IN HIS OWN RIGHT.)