Posted on 05/03/2007 5:40:00 PM PDT by traderrob6
Ronald Reagan became president even though he worked with chimps in B movies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger played a murderous robot, and that didn't keep him from becoming governor.
So can "Law & Order" actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) become the first presidential candidate with this credit? Thompson played a white supremacist, spewing anti-Semitic comments and fondling an autographed copy of "Mein Kampf" on a television drama 19 years ago.
His colleagues say that he was just an actor putting everything he had into playing the role of a charismatic racist, named Knox Pooley, in three episodes of CBS' hit show "Wiseguy" in 1988. "Do you call Tom Cruise a killer because he played one in a movie?" asked show creator and writer Stephen J. Cannell.
But in the age of YouTube, this performance could raise an intriguing political question: How does a performer eyeing a presidential run deal with a video history that can be downloaded, taken out of context, chopped into embarrassing pieces and then distributed endlessly though cyberspace? Some conservative political blogs are already considering the problem.
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Boy, if this is the best that the LA times can come up with, the Dems are in real trouble.
A small TV role, 20 years ago? Come on!
Giving new meaning to the term “reach”
They are digging around in the gutter. Poor things, they do not know any better.
What makes you think it’s the DemonRATS behind this? Rudy or McCain are just as likely to be digging up dirt
No one held it against Bill that he liked to hit on girls with big hair and big boobs.
the good thing is, i believe, people are becoming somewhat jaded about what they see and hear in the media. if it’s not some dumb daughter of a billionaire getting naked it’s a bunch of people making fools of themselves on world wide television via American Idol (a brilliantly crafted show of goodwill for the USA in the world). Everyone is goofing these days. I think it’ll blow over pretty fast. If Akon can get his freak on in full view and not be ostracized by darn near everyone, the left can’t talk. Verizon, can you hear me now. Stop paying misogynists to be your spokespersons.
You mean they are actors and not real nazis? Wow.
Oh please Freddy did roles after that Hunt for Red October other movies and Law and Order
Beside come think of it if Freddy could handle Lennie briscoe and Jack Mccoy he could handle Chia Pet
Boy, the MSM is really stretching to make this connection. I cannot believe they would go back 19 years for a role where he PLAYED a racists.
pppfffttt...
gnats!
It seems Tina Daunt is laying the groundwork for the left wing media to trash Fred Thompson before he even announces. She’s really reaching.
Oh, man, they are truly running on fumes.
The chimp would’ve probably made better decisions for America, and shied away from cozying up to Marxist dictators.
Excellent. Your FBI file will be shredded today. Yours,
HR Clinton
This will hurt Thompson as much as Robert Byrd’s past has hurt him.
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