Arnie's not mad at the moon

[Pale_Rider]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw111570084341B253

Los Angeles - California Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger does not want to destroy the moon.

A US political commentator has admitted he failed to check his facts when he erroneously reported on the MSNBC cable news network last month that Schwarzenegger had jokingly advocated doing away with the moon.

In one of the stranger mea culpas from a major US news outlet in recent years, the commentator, Joe Scarborough, a former congressman, acknowledged on Friday that the governor's purported lunar outburst on the nationally syndicated radio show of Howard Stern was actually a spoof.

Joe Scarborough ... what a loser.

[gratuitous]

1. Scarborough's a fool

But what does it say about Musclehead that such a preposterous bit of satire would actually be taken seriously?

[Double T]

2. Joe Scarborough's failure to check his unreliable sources....

...should result in his immediate retirement and dismissal of the people on his staff. An "eye for an eye".

[Jo March]

3. LOL! I didn't think that I wanted to destroy the moon!

I mean, I say a lot of stupid stuff but really... ;)

Arnie

[AndyTiedye]

4. No, That's "Baying At the Moon"

[central scrutinizer]

5. Joe "dead intern" Scarborough meets the Gropenator?

Break out the Lysol.

[K-W]

6. Its a very funny clip to see if you can find it.

Scarborough gets very condescending with Arnold for his comments.

:)

[Pale_Rider]

7. Here's a transcript ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7640364/

And, finally, Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, this guy has been in so much trouble. He‘s got sagging poll numbers. He‘s got political groups criticizing his every move. And now the governator is making all his enemies‘ job easier. According to “The London Evening Standard,” Arnold recently went on Howard Stern‘s radio show and offered his theory on how to end premenstrual syndrome, saying—quote—“If we get rid of the moon, women‘s, whose menstrual cycles are governed by the moon, will not get PMS. They will stop bitching and whining.”

Hey, Governor, way to make 50 percent of California‘s voting population turn frigid towards you. I don‘t know how it works in Austria, but let me tell you something, friend. Jokes about such matters, not laughing subjects to women in America.

[Shakespeare]

8. But.....we like the moon!

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

[Voltaire99]

9. Scarborough on Bill Maher: Catholicism cures AIDS

Apropos of nothing, he unburdened himself of the idea that Catholicism was the best and perhaps "only" organization capable of stopping the worldwide AIDS epidemic.

Yeah, using the rhythm method, right, dimwit?