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:
And here’s the transcript:
SCARBOROUGH: Last week ? and I?ll just briefly say this ? last week we had a person that worked for WFAN where we did the show on Thursday and Friday talking ? she is a tri-athlete, they’re a dangerous crowd ? all muscle in great shape and she was talking about this exercise routine that she did and went on and on about it.
RIDLEY: Pilates?
SCARBOROUGH: Not exactly pilates ?
RIDLEY: Yoga?
SCARBOROUGH: She was doing the ? I?m not going to tell you exactly what it is but ? this exercise routine. It?s very ? it?s clean. Housewives ? she said I do a certain thing ? housewives across America are doing it to stay fit. And Craig Crawford came on and I asked him whether Senator Thompson ? because i know Senator Thompson, known him for a long time and I like the guy an awful lot. I got to tell you a Senator Thompson joke in a second. And also my best friend in Florida knows his wife and Senator Thompson. So she is a very attractive and I said ?I wonder if she exercises this way.? And so the blogs twisted my words; wrenched them from their context. I know this shocks you. I know this shocks you.
RIDLEY: Are you telling me that there are some folks who aren?t real journalists ?
SCARBOROUGH: That sit in their basement ?
RIDLEY: That sit in their basement and remove a portion of what you say and use it?
SCARBOROUGH: You know, the thing is. What is so interesting about this is other people ? one person writes something and they don?t tell the truth about what happened. And then everybody else, instead of looking the transcript, copies what the other person did.
Twisted your words Joe ? Here’s what you said:
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.
Yea, it was the blogger’s fault.
H/T: QandO
June 8th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
YEAH…HE USED THE SAME LANGUAGE TODAY WHILE TRYING TO EXPLAIN AWAY THE SITUATION…DOES HE NOT KNOW THAT WE HAVE HIM ON THE RECORD AS SAYING “I WONDER IF SHE WRKS THE POLE”. HE’S STILL SAYING THAT HE SAID “I WONDER IF SHE WORKS OUT THAT WAY” HE’S EVEN DUMBER THAN I THOUGHT. HE APOLOGIZED THIS MORNING TO ANYONE HE MIGHT HAVE OFFENDED…I HAVE TO SAY THAT I AM OFFENDED..NOT BY HIS COMMENTS…WE’RE ALL ADULTS AND WHAT HE SAID WASN’T ALL THAT OUTRAGEOUS. THE FACT THAT HE WON’T TRELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HE SAID BOTHERS ME…ESPECIALLY SINCE HE IS “ON THE RECORD”..ONCE AGAIN, IT’S NOT THE CRIME…IT’S THE COVER-UP….
June 9th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Are you stupid or a liar? The discussion Scarborough was referring to went on for five minutes about the pole exercise workouts that the female triathlete he was interviewing was describing. SHE said she and housewives worked the poll in this exercise routine to build their core, arms, legs, etc. Scarborough then asked Craig Crawford if Jeri Thompson was in such good shape for the same reason. Joe Scarborough lies??? I don’t think so. You are the liar. Put the whole transcript in there and stop trying to make something of nothing.
June 9th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Here is the full transcript, Carrie. You and Doug are the liars. not Joe. Find someone else to lie about. You have been busted. Going to apologize to Joe???
June 1, 6:25 a.m.
Scarborough: “Hey Tracy”
Tracy Burgess: “Yes, Mr. Scarborough.”
Scarborough: “What did you say before we came back on? That you work the what?”
Burgess: “I am taking vertical pole. I am studying vertical pole.”
Scarborough: “Vertical pole?”
Burgess: “Right.”
Scarborough: “What is that?”
Burgess: “It’s a pole and you exercise on it.”
McCord: “It’s pole dancing, Joe.”
Scarborough: “Okay, that’s what I wanted to know.”
McCord: “Tracy is becoming a pole dancer.”
Scarborough: “I am just a cave-man lawyer, I don’t know your strange ways up here in New York City. So you are one of these people..”
Burgess: “One of these people…”
Scarborough: “Who exercises and stays fit by working the pole.”
Burgess: “Yes, yes, I do. Cause you are lifting your entire body weight and so, you’re inverting yourself and you are putting yourself in moves that require all sorts of muscles that you usually don’t work and it’s good.”
McCord: “Actually, Ms. Burgess is a fine athlete. – a tri-athlete who competes all the time in these various events and she has simply added to her repertoire.”
Burgess: “Thank you, Mr. McCord”
Scarborough: “So pole dancing, what you’re basically telling me, builds your core.”
Burgess: “It does. It builds your core, it builds your arms, your legs, your thighs.”
McCord: “Look it [burgess flexes biceps].”
Scarborough: “Oh my god, look at those arms.”
McCord: “Oh, she’s got guns, come on. Good lord, she’s fit.”
Scarborough: “I’m impressed.”
Burgess: “And, I learned how to do a ‘reverse superman.’”
Scarborough: “You want to show us that right now?”
Burgess: “Um, no. If you had a pole, I would.”
Scarborough: “Well, thank you so much Tracy. I’m not gonna take a bite on that.”
McCord: “Course, we’re not pole driven.”
Scarborough: “Some of us are. Craig Crawford”
Crawford: “Hey, I saw that on Oprah.”
Scarborough: “Did you really?”
Crawford: “Yeah, they had pole dancing as exercise. That Teri, what’s her name from Desperate Housewives is into that.”
McCord: “It’s become a big deal, actually.”
Crawford: “And she did a whole exhibition of it – it was quite something.”
Scarborough: “Housewives across America taking to the pole… for health and fitness. Hey, have you seen Fred Thompson’s wife?”
Crawford: “Oh yeah…”
Scarborough: “You think she works the pole?”
Crawford: laughter “That what Hollywood careers 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 and I mean, he ain’t Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
Crawford: “I’d like to see him get back in politics because I think he’s a lousy actor. I always thought he was a better politician than actor, but that was true of Reagan”
June 9th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Bethany,
Listen to the audio, when Joe Scarborough talked about Jeri Thompson “working the pole” he was most definitely NOT talking about exercise.