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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
That’s right. He was acting when he was Archie Bunker. That came up when The Feminazis were protesting Andrew “Dice “Clay.
We live in a time when many young people get their “news” from Colbert and Daly. Yes, the dems seem to be knocking their knees in fear over Fred, (good!) but many people are too dumb to figure out fact from fiction.
"Television is reality and reality...is less then Television."
So how many Black Men were lynched by those he recruited?
Wouldn't you love to have that question asked of him?
Propagandists exposed.
Now you know Tina Daunt is a corrupt left wing activist.
The interesting thing about this article is it doesn’t name — explicitly or anonymously — a single person criticizing Thompson. Thus, the story is a pure fabrication by the LA Times — a non-story in which the reporters aren’t “reporting” on anything other than whatever passes through their heads.
‘We live in a time when many young people get their news from Colbert and Daly.’
You do know it’s not a person named Daly, but a show called the Daily Show, hosted by Jon Stewart, right? Just checking.
The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye.
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Look at him now.
It will be said that actors do have responsibility for the roles they play.
However, if Fred would have had a role as a NAMBLA Child Molester the Dems would have no problem with it.
You mean like the Hillary Ghandi joke? I hope that comes out too.
If that is a serious question you haven’t been paying ANY attention.
Yep, meant to type in “show”.
Just answering...
If they find he was involved in a wagon train attack in 1857, he’s toast.
Why do we let these leftwing lunatics set the rules for debate let alone tell us how to think? I reject the whole premise that there is any valid question.
Democrats? They'll chop the scene and present it as something he personally said as a lawyer back then, and the MSM will publicize it. Free Republic and other sites will show the truth, but it won't matter because the MSM won't publicize the retraction.
Indeed. Reagan portrayed the villain in one movie.
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