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, you think 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.
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Is this meaning to suggest that she.. ? Or that she’s a stripper? Either way I want to see more.
Scarborough Attacks Fred’s Wife…
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…
[…] 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): […]
Still dissing women at MSNBC…
So, NBC hires a “diversity leader” and trades Don Imus in for former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough–who at some point used to be a conservative and then absorbed the MSNBC Kool-Aid into his bloodstream. Scarborough’s idea of incisive radio comment…
!WOW! What a ho.. Not just Mrs. T. but Joe Scarboro.
I think there’s been a misspelling. What he said was:
“You think she thinks she works the poll?”
Anyone who drank beer with his buddies in college knows what he meant. It is a phallic reference for goodness sake! I mean I think it is weird a girl that much younger than he is would want to be married to Thompson. But I wouldn’t talk about it on MSNBC and I wouldn’t make the sexual reference. Save it for the frat party Joe!
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Easy way to think about this::: What could be the other word that sounds like “Pole”?__Could it be “poll”?__
What would presidential politics have to do with “polls”?___ could Joe be suggetsing that Thompsons wife helps his polling numbers?__I’m not so sure that’s such a far stretch to make___”work the poll”?__is this a term?___maybe jumping down his throat before it is discovered what it is he did say (pole/poll), is a better way to handle this.
“You think she thinks she works the pole?
A) she looks like a stripper;
B) she gives a superb handjob;
C) Boy oh boy, she could suck a golf ball through a garden hose;
D) She looks like a great lay;
E) She has extensive experience installing cyclone fence;
F) “Wichita Lineman”was in fact written about Fred Thompson’s wife;
G) She beat the crap out of a guy named Stanislaus.
I love it when fascists eat their own.
Scarborogh makesa good point, Thompson’s wife totally is hot. But why is she with such a geezer? Weather its poll or pole she can obviously still work a ____.
If you don’t want to hear innuendo about trophy wives and philadering movie stars, the best way is to not marry a trophy wife and not philander. I think after all the sniffing around in the Clinton’s panty drawers, we need to learn about the other candidates sex lives, especially the ones that go to Liberty University and screech about “abstinence”.
Actually, I think Scarborough is suggesting she is working the Hollywood system. She’s working the pole like some would work a corporate ladder, not the stripper pole. Still, if she’s a stripper someone out there will have nude photos of her and I expect we’ll see them soon!
Maybe I shouldn’t have any green with my brown coffee before I post, but my last sentence was the exact opposite of what I was trying to say, (and now this post is even more stupid since I’m wasting space now) but…. [*edit]__”maybe finding out just what he did say, before jumping down his throat and posting about his “Imus Moment”, is a better, more gracious way to do this.”
That peroxide headed ho!
Many many women are using a stripper pole as an exercise device. That is what he meant for Christ’s sake. Could you people please try to keep up!
A more appropriate question would have been: How do you think Thompson’s daughter feels about having a step mother who is 4 years her junior?
Watch the tape Volum. What are you talking about? Even giving him the best intentions still makes it a bad comment.
I think I’ve got it. By “she works the pole”, Scarborough is referring to the fact that she’s a scientist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Thompson clearly loves her for her brain.
I think there should be more transparency in this campaign. Let’s put a camera in the Thompson bedroom.
Oh–there are two bedrooms, you say?
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Jeri Kehn was communications director of the Senate Republican Conference.
I figure the allusion that Jeri Kehn has worked as an independent contractor (i.e. stripper or escort) at some point in her past only helps boost Fred Thompson’s image with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce/pro-small business Republican types. Shake what yo momma (or yo plastic surgeon) gave ya!
Does your wife..you know…nudge nudge, wink wink…know what I mean? Say no more! Say no more!
I have a better question–is 6′6″, 65-year-old Fred Thompson too old to slug Joe Scarborough in the mouth?
Whatever you do, if you’re at work right now, do NOT search Google images for “works the pole.”
Actually, I did; you don’t have to click on them. Almost all of them refer to strippers dancing.
That clip/convo is taken totally out of context. In the previous segment, Tracy had been talking about taking a pole class, for excercise. Tracy looks great and was explaining the benifits of the pole.
Everyone needs to calm down and grow up!!
Women do not like token wives. He looks like an old coot. Check it out.
http://www.redkingpix.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio4/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Celebrities&image=042906Thompson.jpg&img=0&search=Jeri%20Kehn&cat=all&tt=&bool=phrase
I’m pretty sure Henk has it right — pole-dancing classes are popular now, and he was wisecracked about how fit she is (with innuendo added).
Yep…the Sat. Night Seduction might be the place Scarborough saw her.
I think Fred and Jeri look great together!! They look very happy!!
I think it’s obvious what Joey Scar meant — the bodacious Mrs. T is starting an acting career of her own, starting with a guest appearance on Rescue Me as a firefighter. She’ll be sliding down the pole in the firehouse, is all. Jeez, y’all have such dirty minds.
Absolutely she works the pole. That is what Joe was alluding to. Do you think she wants a big guy like Fred on top of her In addition, Viagra or not, the tub-o-lard probably doesn’t have the stamina to keep up with his little hottie of a wife anyway.
I think he meant is she using her looks to go up the corporate ladder. But so what if she is? Why is that Joe’s business? That was tacky on Joe’s part. Why didn’t he simply say “Fred Thompson’s wife is attractive?” I know the answer is that the MSM is still getting their ratings by producing smut. MSM wants smutty talk, and Joe wants a job — so, the question becomes “Who is the bigger whore, Jeri or Joe?”
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Please … the only reason a geezer like Fred Thompson has a wife like Jeri is because he’s an actor/politician. That doesn’t happen in REAL life. She probably spent her life working the pole so she could bag someone like him.
I just love it when the Repukeliscum make it safe for trophy husbands to dump their old wrinkly flabby wives and get those young hot babes with perky tits that do NOT droop.
Babes with Perky Tits for Fred!!!
Maybe he meant those low cut dresses will help Thompson on the next MSNBC poll. Yea Sally. I am sure she was director of the Senate Conference. Sounds like an important title was it a conference to study polls?
Well, there’s a pic out there of Mrs. Thompson playing kissy face with renowned ladies’ man Paul Wolfowitz. You tell me.
Hey Joe, find any dead girls in your office lately?
Gosh, they’re missing all the important stuff!!
How DARE they leave out the price of Thompson’s haircuts?
This country is DOOOOOOMED!
Scarborough has an ‘mus moment’…
The Palmetto Scoop has the transcript and the video. (On the video you can hear the idiotic Crag Crawford laughing about it and saying he’d like to see him back into politics because he thinks he’s a lousy actor.)Presidential candidate Fred Thompson…
Just Google “Works the pole” to see how most people use this term. Seems like a video of Lindsay Lohan doing a stripper routine is the top ranking Google result for this expression. The top 10 are all about strippers.
Sorry, I exagerated. 9 of 10 are about strippers. One is about wood workers using a type of Lathe technique called “Pole Lathe turning”.
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I am certainly not a prude and it would be hypocritical of me to remark on any man’s infidelities because of my own in the past. (Farther back than DeLay’s. If I weren’t an atheist I could go and repent and it would be like they never happened in the eyes of some God. That God may forgive but I’m still not sure if my wife does. She may forgive but not forget. 49 years last April.) If a woman dresses with everything showing except what she charges she will get snide comments. It’s her business but in the public eye you get them approvingly or the other kind. The pole.
My 27-year-old mother lives in Tennessee and she says Thompson campaigned/dated country music star Lorrie Morgan, who was nothing but a slut! She said something about her being the other woman in a case among the CW stars, then she dumps male star after she breaks up marriage. Chris Matthews loves to sniff the Clinton’s underpants, but talking about Guiliani’s, Gingrich’s, and Thompson’s infidelities, marriages to much younger women is off limits. There seems to be a double standard on Hardball for Democrats and Republicans.
‘One is about wood workers using a type of Lathe technique called “Pole Lathe turning”.’
ha ha! Got wood?!
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The pole reference was obviously to Her interest in foreign affairs as she was referring to the denizens of Poland, meaning she works the Polish (East European ) side of the room when at political affairs…
Tennessee does have a large Polish population…especially in Nashville, where they make all that wonderful Polka Music.
MSNBC’s Scarborough: ‘Do You Think’ Mrs. Fred Thompson ‘Works the Pole’?…
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“but we are sure that MSNBC doesn’t need another Don Imus-like mess on their hands.”
Um, Scarborogh’s remark may be rude but to the point. She’s the trophy wife of a Hollywood actor running as a traditional-values conservative. I don’t think he married her for her piety and I’m sure she didn’t marry him for being the sexiest man on earth. The value of rude people like Scarborough (whom I generally hate) and Imus is that they will say the things that need to be said. Imus was getting dodgier and dodgier with age but he was at one time a brilliant satarist.
But yeah. Let’s start throwing people off the air (the natural outcome for a “Don Imus-like mess) for making demeaning remarks seeing as human society has such an undoubted track record for distinguishing between legitimate criticism and genuine assholery.
Poles, holes? Viva la difference!
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i think joe was talking about fred thompson’s pole.
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G) She beat the crap out of a guy named Stanislaus.
I laughed out loud at that one.
I wonder, would he have said “ya think she works the pole” (even about an exercise routine!) about Barbara Bush (41’s wife, not the daughter). How about Hillary? Laura Bush? I think not. The exercise routine is pretty much irrelevant, ’cause you know how he meant it.
“I love it when fascists eat their own.”
LOL. Yeah, we’re fascists. ::eyeroll:: But he’s not one of “our own,” kiddo. And some of you guys (esp. you, “POed Lib”) using it as an opportunity to go after ALL on the right are just hilarious. Hypocrites.
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dude, this is in no way comparable to what Imus said. This is tame compared to the tamest of Clinton coverage. You’ve got to be kidding me, saying this is like Imus. Unbelievable.
Yall got big on us today. Don’t leave us regulars in your dust now. Remember who all was here from the start!
Good stuff guys.
Bit-too-farborough…
I have absolutely no problem with making fun of Fred Thompson for getting married to a woman younger than his own daughter. I do have a problem with attacking said trophy wife when she hasn’t done anything to deserve it…….
Sometimes a cigar is just a Polish gardner…
Jesus’ General
I see the francosphere is, once again, going all PC on three of our most patriotic and god-fearing broadcasters. First we have the Palmetto Scoop taking issue with Joe Scarborough’s comments about Fred Thompson’s youthful wife. It’s…
Young attractive women = pole dancers….
Think Progress
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…
I get it now. Scarborough has an Imus moment. And Britt Hume calling John Glenn a spearchucker? What double standard?
Good comment Scarborough, she dresses like she is playing to the red carpet crowd. My wife wants the name of her plastic surgeon.
Amazing what Levitra will do for a guy, oh wait or maybe it was his $$$$
Scarborough once had a young female staffer turn up dead in his office. She died of a head trauma. It was alleged that Scarborough was having an affair with her. Right around this time, Scarborough resigned from office mysteriously to “spend more time with his family.”
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html
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scarborough is a suspected murderer
“jeri” is a mindless moralless power grabber and elite ladder climber
thompson is a pretender and opportunist
if america keeps on the way it is going it deserves all these people as
a graphic example of how a once great nation has become a fat elvis characterization of itself
(off topic but I wonder from the photo who licked their comb more, … my money’s on “jeri”,
although wolfowitz the war criminal and slut keeper has been known to lick alot of comb
Just another Viagran and his blow up doll.
Scarborough Insults Jeri Kehn Thompson…
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We’ll always have Paris…
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If you’d played the entire clip and put it in context, everyone would know that they were talking about a show of “Oprah” that talked about how people are using stripper poles as a new way to exercise. But it’s no fun to put things in context nowadays, is it?
If you’d played the entire clip and put it in context, everyone would know that they were talking about a show of “Oprah” that talked about how people are using stripper poles as a new way to exercise.
Dee,
Scarborough said, “You think she works the poll?” Put that in any context you want and it’s still vulgar and rude.
And he had no reason - especially knowing full well the inference that was to be made from his phrasing of the question - to bring Jeri Thompson into the discussion.
We can have a lively discussion about baseball, but that doesn’t give me a free pass to use the words “stick” and/or “ball” to suggest something completely unrellated about someone completely uninvolved.
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Fred Thompson even at 65yrs old, would have no problem kicking Joe’s ass. What a dispicable thing to say. They say jealousy brings out the worse in people
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