Why should he feel the need to apologize for portraying a man, a former general and president, who served his country to the best of his ability?
Give me a freaking break! He played Grant. Big Deal. They think The South is still full of Dixie singing KKK types and THIS is gonna get people upset..............................
Dixie Ping
Big frikkin deal.
Must be a slow news day or something.
Man, they are REALLY reaching.
I mean, it’s not like played Bill Sherman. THAT might be a problem... :)
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IDIOTS!
And I don't need to hear about founding the KKK, doesn't matter if its true, it is thought to be true. All That Matters.
Whoop-tee-doo.
It was just a role in a movie for Pete’s sake. He acts for a living. Give him a break! It’s no big deal. OTOH, had he played Sherman he should be taken out and shot at dawn. (Just joking)
Algore played ManBearPig on South Park and nobody holds that against him ...
Grant...Sherman... just the kind of Generals who know how to win a war.
If this is what they can dig up ...then...
enough said.
Thompson played a role as U.S. Grant. He also played a role as a lawyer on and off TV. Consider the source for this earth shattering news. Big yawn.
And Martin Sheen played Lee in “Ghettysburg”.
Tell the hillbillies to STFU ;)
Yeah, but Grant the Southerners respected because he was the only Northern general to consistently beat Robert E. Lee. In addition, Grant supported amnesty for Confederate leaders, tried to protect the civil rights of blacks in the South, among other things.
From Wikipedia, on his Reconstruction conduct:
“Grant presided over the last half of Reconstruction, watching as the Democrats (called Redeemers) took the control of every state away from his Republican coalition. When urgent telegrams from state leaders begged for help, Grant and his attorney general replied that “the whole public is tired of these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South,” saying that state militias should handle the problems, not the Army. He supported amnesty for Confederate leaders and protection for the civil rights of African-Americans. He favored a limited number of troops to be stationed in the South—sufficient numbers to protect rights of Southern blacks, suppress the violent tactics of the Ku Klux Klan, and prop up Republican governors, but not so many as to create resentment in the general population. In 1869 and 1871, Grant signed bills promoting voting rights and prosecuting Klan leaders. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing voting rights, was ratified in 1870. Recent historians have emphasized Grant’s commitment to protecting Unionists and freedmen in the South until 1876. Grant’s commitment to black civil rights was demonstrated by his address to Congress in 1875 and by his attempt to use the annexation of Santo Domingo as leverage to force white supremacists to accept blacks as part of the Southern political polity.”
All in all, not someone that the South is likely to hate these days.
*Sherman* is the general everyone in the South hates because he burned down/destroyed/torched everything he and his forces came across.
Oh, the HUMANITY!!!
Nobody in the South cares who Fred Thompson portrayed. They care more about some weirdo in San Fransissy using the name of the Citadel in one of their newspapers. Blasphemy.
Let’s see, Thompson played a Union General in a movie whereas Hillary plays a power-hungry sociopathic bitch in real life. Choices choices.
Meanwhile Martin Sheen played Lee and couldn’t get elected dog catcher in the South....
Good Lord!!! The libs are desperate. Worse, they think Southerners are as shallow as they are.
LOL!! You can’t make this stuff up.
(I don’t much care for Grant either, but Thompson has my vote if he is the nominee.....so does any Republican for that matter.)