Posted on 05/04/2007 11:56:38 AM PDT by Fred
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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I love how journalists give Democrats talking points by asking questions. Next story: “Are All Republicans Idiots? Questions Linger”
Funny, they didn’t mind Martin Sheen playing President on television for six seasons, even though he portrayed Robert E Lee in ‘Gettysburg’...
...and we at the LASlimes would certainly never play any part in any political shennanigans or dirty tricks like to post any web links that may or may not arise or come to light in any way to damage the political career or interfere with the political process even if someone, anyone out there were to even e-mail the links or video clips to our editor's desk at the address shown on our website at www.latimes.com...
She's not doing a very good job of it.
There are some freepers I know who think Mr. Thompson’s a liberal based on his character on Law & Order. I don’t think his L& O character is liberal, but even if it were, it’s still not him.
This is just too funny.
This was already posted once, but the thread must have got pulled, because I can’t find it now.
Excellent. If this is the best they can come up with, we’re home free.
NAH!.. Don Imus was a racist democrat liberal for many years..
As are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton...
And who cared?..
Would a former grand kleagle (whatever that is) of the KKK be welcomed at the DNCC?
Carroll O’Connor did in fact make some ads for Democrat candidates in NY in the 1970s as I recall. He was quite the loyal liberal Democrat.
In this internet era though I suppose some creeps will try to air videos of Thompson when he was *acting* and try to make it look like real life.
LA Times is putting out a suggestion and a prayer that this be done, that videos be put all over the NET with the suggestion that this is Fred Thompson in real life.
BTW, that was one of Wiseguy's weaker story arcs.
RIP Ray Sharkey.
This is excellent! If the libs try to use this kind of thing to smear Thompson it will backfire very easily!
She’d better call the NSA office and report the names of all of the actors who’ve played international terrorists in the history of Hollywood. They may not have been acting and may be GENUINE terrorists. < /s >
I hope Hitlery’s true colors come out more each and every day. Rejection is one of her worst nightmares.
From what I’ve heard the kleagle is the Klan’s recruiter. Which means that Senator Robert Byrd (D) brought more racists into the Klan and encouraged them to be good active members in a supremacist organization.
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