Psychological Projection 101
Go for the sleeper hold, SOMEbody!!!!
I'm lovin' this.
Posted on 05/02/2007 8:46:55 AM PDT by areafiftyone
You have a consistent record of posting negative Fred pieces, or adding snide insinuations to positive Fred pieces, or spreading rumors that aren’t in the piece at all.
Do you REALLY believe I’m the only one who notices this?
I want him to run, but if I was him, I would not. Who wants the headaches. The media makes you evil, the pay is horrible (President Bush is the first to make 400,000. Before him it was 250,000). He makes 100,000 an episode on Law and Order, you really have to be careful with the perks (eyes everywhere). To me there are other ways to support the country. But whatever you decide Fred, I am behind you.
I personally don’t care what you think. You are just starting trouble and you know it. You are an instigator and nothing more. If you can’t take hit pieces on FT from a Duncan Hunter consultant fine but don’t go blaming me for this piece that was written just because you didn’t like what I said on another thread. You are living in another plane of reality if you think any candidate is not going to get hit by the other campaigns or by the MSM. They seem to be able to take it but not you.
Reagan was accused of being lazy. Carter, on the other hand, used to micromanage everything.
Who was the better President?
Psychological Projection 101
"C'mon Fred. If you ran for president, you'd actually have to get out there and campaign for Pete's sake. And...and there goes the cushy acting gig. And...and being president would definitly mean a cut in pay. And think of this, Fred: this is really going to cut back on all those lazy, leasurely days kicking back with the wife. Now, ask yourself, Fred: is running for president, much less being president, worth giving that up?"
LOL! If they're going to do hit pieces, they have to do better than this. And what's really funny is the pretense that this is "from Fred Thompson's perspective." Obviously it isn't his point of view, because obviously he is seriously considering running, and I would imagine that he has considered what it is going to take for him to run for and possibly be president. Otherwise he has no business doing either
PING!
Not at all. I'm just pointing out that Fred is going to get hit by other campaigns, the MSM, and areafiftyone.
The fact that Fred is running an unconventional campaign, to the detriment of the Beltway elitists and political establishment, means nothing to them.
I’m reminded of some crazy barnyard cat that keeps dragging dead mice onto the farmhouse porch.
Translation: We are afraid that with just a little effort Fred will beat the pants off of all those who are running around like heads with their chickens cut off.
I get the feeling that Fred is the kind of guy that looks for efficient ways to do the same amount work that other folks do with twice the effort.
Me, too.
Hunter ought to demand this guy retract his hit piece.
Reagan took naps. So what?
Yes, you're right about that. It tells me that some folks in the Duncan Hunter campaign are tremendously bothered by the prospect of a Fred Thompson run.
So what you're saying is that Fred is all for division of labour, while the rest of the GOP pack are still in the hunting/gathering stage?
Nothing to see here : )
It may very well be true that Fred does not work nearly as hard as most other politicians. I don’t know know.
However, overworking is just as ungodly as underworking.
Many of today’s A-type personalities, executives, power brokers, and politicians made it to where they are by abandoning time for God, worship, rest, and family.
The reason many do this is they have a sense of depending on themselves to make their way in the world and provide for their own needs. I have suffered from this in the past, and am slowing learning how to get out of that way of thinking. It is meaning far less income in the short term, but much more happiness and peaceful living.
By resting, what we are doing is telling God we rely on him, we obey him, and trust that he will supply our needs, even if there is pressing work to do.
I’m not saying that one can never work on rest day (pick yours, Sunday or Saturday). Sometimes life doesn’t allow that. But habitually working evenings and weekends, just to live up to a slightly higher lifestyle, is wrong.
Today’s work “ethic” is unhealthy and ungodly. It centers around making money.
Fred Thompson’s work ethic may very well be healthy and pleasing to God. I don’t know much about him, but It comforts me to know that he does not work himself to death.
Well, and doubting this guy represents the thinking of Duncan Hunter (he simply felt ethically compelled to note he works for their campaign), Fred without working hard is beating the pants of Hunter, who I presume is working HIS butt off in the way presidential candidates are supposed to do.
It doesn’t seem to be doing Duncan Hunter much good — the “betting pool” poll shows that Cheney and Hagel are both doing better than Duncan is.
I don’t know what the answer is, but Duncan does well in a few straw polls, but not in fundraising, not much in getting his name on the news, and not effectively in getting pundits and news organizations to acknowledge his existance.
What’s with this idea that acting is a cushy job?
99% of actors work two jobs and live like paupers unless or until they get a TV show or a movie. (There’s a question actors ask each other when they get their first TV series: “What color are you going to paint your house?”)
The very few who make it into the 1% either have wealthy families already (not their fault) or have worked their tails off and sacrified for many years.
The craft itself requires research, physical training, coaching, independent study of all sorts. Drilling scenes. Working out forty different options to tackle a scene to see what works. Practicing gags (I know an actor in Minnesota who made his entrance in a production each night, walking into his house. He would throw his hat across the stage, effortlessly, and it would land on the hat rack, every single time. The audience was floored. He probably practiced that hundreds of thousands of times.) An actor prepares.
Then, joining a company of actors for a serious stage play, one has to be prepared to abandon many preconceived ideas, already working out in one’s head, in order for the company to work as a whole, and take new direction. One has to be ready to give a director any number of emotional readings on cue, one after another. And be believeable and entertaining at the same time. Not easy to do.
Rehearsals can actually be so boring you get tired from boredom. When on stage, your emotional and physical energy has to be absolutely sharp. Your voice must be warmed up and strong. Try doing that when you’ve been rehearsing for weeks, working a job as a waiter or bartender, and trying to memorize lines for the next show.
In filming for TV or the movies, there is down time, yes, but one fills it by preparing, and working on other projects. That take you did a week ago? The one where your character was 12 years older than you’re playing him this week? You have to go reshoot bits because of a continuity problem, or the director just got a new idea. Never mind that you’ve totally immersed yourself in your new character now. Or that you have to match exactly what you were doing with your face, your hands, your breathing, your eyes, your voice, at the moment you were filming a week ago.
Being an artist, as I am (singer, pianist, composer, designer, writer), it is very frustrating to hear some conservatives bash artists when they have no idea how much pure energy and work we put into our craft. It makes the majority of conservatives look like boobs, and it is one of the valid criticisms of the left that the right does not understand art or artists.
Art is a noble profession. God is an artist. He created the world as a dazzling, living thing of beauty, purely for the purpose of mutual enjoyment: his enjoyment of us, and we of him. And he did it for the sake of beauty.
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