Pulled Quote June 25 2008

Georgia Public Television had set up a debate that it looked like he couldn’t wiggle out of. But then, as I was walking to my car one day, an Atlanta Constitution reporter told me that Newt had said I was “scurrilous.” Jokingly I said, “Oh, f**k him and the horse he rode in on.” I knew the reporter wouldn’t print it, and he knew I sure wouldn’t want it printed. But it was overheard by a writer for Atlanta’s alternative paper, Creative Loafing. He printed it verbatim. ... Gingrich demanded an apology. On television I told him that I was immediately apologizing to his horse and that I would apologize to him at the debate.

-- Ben Jones, former “Dukes of Hazzard” star and U.S. representative, on his failed 1994 run against Newt Gingrich, in his new memoir, Redneck Boy in the Promised Land. Jones will appear at A Cappella Books on Thursday, June 26, at 7 p.m.