[SmithL]

whatever

[Riodacat]

It's not like he played Yosemite Sam in Looney Tunes:

[Bender2]

Re: Thompson Played Grant _ No Hero in South

Talk about liberal SFGate crap... the last film role Ronnie Reagan played was Jack Browning, a real rich, double-crossing POS SOB in 1964's The Killers.

And it did not seem to hurt him at all in the South, who, BTW, don't really like rich, double-crossing POS SOB like the Clintons at all!

[rhinohunter]

Let's see now.... First, we learn that Thompson is bereft of any "fire in the belly", then we hear that he is saddled with a "trophy" wife, and now... now we receive the shocking news that he once played a Yankee general in a movie!!!

Hangin' is too good for this man!

[colorado tanker]

Big deal, it’s not like he played William Tecumseh Sherman or something.

[x]

He was also the voice of Andrew Jackson in the TV movie Rachel and Andrew Jackson: A Love Story.

And this was interesting:

Barbarians at the Gate (1993) (TV) .... Jim Robinson

But if any role is going to get him in trouble it would be "charismatic racist Knox Pooley" in three episodes of the CBS show "Wiseguy" in 1988. More here.

But really, people who do vote know the difference between television acting and reality.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Thompson is a drooling, lethargic geriatric under the control of his Svengali trophy wife.

(Just giving you next week’s headline in advance)

[stand watie]

at least he didn't play "sherman, the WAR CRIMINAL"!!! (fwiw, we hanged "general yamashita" for precisely the same thing that "billy sherman" did. either neither should have hanged or BOTH should have!)

playing "us grant", i can live with.

free dixie,sw

[Redcloak]

Therefore we should...

• Vote for the RINO from NYC
• Vote for the RINO from Boston
• Vote for the cheese-eating surrender-monkey from Texas 

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

I’m for Fred if he plays Usama in his next film. Grant was just doing his bloody job the best he knew how and so was Fred.

[skinkinthegrass]

this is strange....1st pot-shot @ FDT from $hrillary (desperate measure?)

[SuziQ]

"I want to tell you, I drew the line at playing General Sherman," Thompson said, referring to the commander still reviled in much of the South for the damage his troops inflicted.

I'm sure the cadets got a hoot out of that!

[wardaddy]

actually Grant was decent with his terms to my ancestors as was Sherman.

I am amused as a Southerner though that no one gave a rat’s ass how the Federals waged a total war down here on our own soil against kinsmen and yet we wail incessantly over silly shite like Abu Graib and insulting Islamopigs.

We are so soft nowadays.

Ulysses would not be proud.

[Saundra Duffy]

Fred is not funny.

[puroresu]

I think he was just having a little fun by noting that he played Grant. No one seriously thinks that would, or should, hurt him in the South.

[BlueNgold]

Seriously, are we looking for reasonable commentary on GOP candidates from the SF papers????

And besides that, honestly, it was probably a pretty good joke when he said it.

[meyer]

Gosh, the lamestream media is sure afraid of Fred. I wonder why? Probably for the same reason that they prefer Hitlery - they’re just not too bright.

[azhenfud]

“Hang him out and dry him..”

(He’s an actor - it doesn’t matter to me whichywhat he played...)

[rdl6989]

They must really fear FRed on the left coast.

[Cat loving Texan]

From my perspective as someone who grew up in the midwest and moved to Texas I believe the south has changed. Unfortunately today on a Dallas area discussion board that is open but leans conservative I saw this:

http://www.dallasdigestforum.com/forum2/39742.html

I really hope this is elitist media bias but things like this concern me.

[Fudd Fan]

O fer cryin out loud
he was an ACTOR.

Someone needs to get a life.