DesJarlais Calls Chattanooga Police 'Dukes of Hazzard'

Dr. Scott DesJarlais, trying to deflect accusations that he's insane, sure did sound a little cracked in an interview with the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Confronted with a Chattanooga police report from 2001, he went on a rant against the officer who ordered him to leave the apartment complex where his ex-wife was living at the time. We think DesJarlais should consider anger management counseling.

As the above TV ad details, DesJarlais' first wife claimed in their divorce case that he was "violent and threatening, dry firing a gun outside the locked bedroom door” and “holding a gun in his mouth for three hours.” DesJarlais has denied all this, pointing out there was never any police report to back up any of it. Well, it turns out there was a police report on DesJarlais, as Congressman Lincoln Davis' campaign helpfully supplied to the media last week.

In 2001, Chattanooga police reported DesJarlais “became extremely agitated” when an officer told him to leave his ex-wife's aptly named Gunbarrel Road apartment complex. "His face flushed red and he glared at me," the policeman stated. He said it was the second time he had intervened with the couple.

DesJarlais said the off-duty police officer was a friend of his ex-wife “and I felt like I was being set up.”

“This is like the Dukes of Hazzard when the officer breaks out someone’s light and then writes him a ticket,” DesJarlais said.

Here's the Davis campaign memo on DesJarlais to "interested parties":