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 actually good news. The FReepers will be informed, but many Democrats and independents might actually vote for him only based on what they know from Law & Order.
That number: 0.0.
Why is it that the left consistently thinks the American public is as stupid as... well, your average leftist.
Well, he must be. After all, he DID play the President in a movie once.
Fred even portrayed “Jim Robinson”! Check # 15 :o)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000669/
Oh brother, you gotta be kidding me. He played a role, so that’s who he is?
I guess by this logic, most actors are heterosexual, since that’s the role they usually play? Right.”
SOOOOOOOOO— you want me to believe that Toby McGuire can really fly and spin a spiderweb???????
Should I believe that Jack Webb was really a cop?
David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson were really lifeguards??
Harrison Ford can stop a terrorist attack on a flying airplane?
GET A LIFE!!!!!!!
This is a “bedtime for Bonzo” moment.
Thompson must be a real threat to the favorite liberals of the drive by media. (Guiliani and clinton)
The funny thing is that the Knox Pooley character was more of a con-man exploiting people’s fears for ‘donations’ than a genuine racist. I wonder if this LA Times writer even watched the entire 3 episode arc.
What an idiot. Did this journalist forget to buy a map? Working in LA seems to signify she would mingle with the theatrical class. Did she believe that Martin Sheen was really president when he played one on “the Left Wing”?
...that’s NUTHIN’....!!!
For eight YEARS the Democrats paraded Bill Clinton around and pretended he was an “honorable man”.....
Thompson has played a district attorney (currently on "Law & Order"), an FBI agent, a detective, a White House chief of staff, a CIA director, a lieutenant colonel, a rear admiral, a major general, some guy named "Big John" in Tom Cruise's "Days of Thunder," and a U.S. president.
Looks qualified to me, by her own admition. Play the role that's who you are.
I can’t believe they didn’t mention Thompson’s small recurring role on Roseanne—playing her sexist boss at Wellman Plastics.
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Of course, now it’s more and more the computer screen but still, what a prescient movie!
I guess it is like McLuhan observed, ESP is old hat when effects precede causes.
Oh yeah, now that you mention it, it rings a bell. So I guess that kind of experience comes in handy in the Democratic Party.
“...Thompson can handle this stuff in the same way that Reagan did...”
And Pres. Reagan would have said,
“Well, there you go again.”
I’m pretty happy with the article. It is so stupid and over the top that it might have a boomerang effect.
As far as I can tell, Thompson doesn’t have any enemies in Hollywood. He is a conservative Republican, but his acting career has been distinguished, and even the libs he works with seem to have nice things to say about him.
By attacking him over a role he once played, this could possibly generate support from Hollywood types who would rather stay on the sidelines. True, 90 percent of them are dyed-in-the-wool Dems, but this attack on Thompson is an attack on their profession. Some of them might actually take offense.
Baby’s Day Out, is probably Fred’s, Bedtime for Bonzo
That’s a real stretch, Tina.
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