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 ...
this is pretty disgusting....the writer is doing the groundwork for the Looney Left.
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.
Would Carrol O’Conner be welcome at the DNCC?
Have you ever heard of the dems Robert Byrd? He played one in real life.
Too funny! The LA Pravda uses FILM ACTING as poltical arguments. What a bunch of total losers.
they have got to be kidding, 1988?
The dems are very afraid of Fred.
yesssssss!
Didn’t Fred Thompson used to be a NBA ref? /s
These are the people who can’t distinguish fact from fiction: democrats as represented in the press. Bah. Reminds me of their highly-touted show about a woman president (I can’t even remember the name)with Geena Davis which tanked and was cancelled after one season. Another fictional fact that didn’t work out for them.
Stupidity personified.........But then, for them, that’s what passes for intellectual discourse......
Can Sally Fields ever be trusted by non-blievers or liberals, if she played the role of the Flying Nun. Grow up, as**ole.
Hitlery Clinton Roll Plays everyday. She plays the roll of >not< being a Marxist.
"Hello, this is Tina Daunt."
"Tina! This is Senator Clinton! I just wanted to congratulate you on the fine job you did in the LA Times' article! Good work!"
"Well, thank you, Senator! Anything I can do to help the Party!"
"Excellent, excellent! Now in your next piece, I'd like you to focus on..."
The author writes this as if another possibility exists.
Unbelievable. The headline and the author assume this to be the case before any such discussion ever occurs.
And who in a billion years would ever equate playing a role 20 YEARS AGO with a man’s character today? What idiots are these people in the MSM!!!
Earth Calling....
If you think the same people who make up thier own facts, lie, create fake memos, negotiate with and donate money to the ENEMY, use MASSIve vote fraud, willingly take bribery and corruption without fear of retribution, and dance on the caskets of dead soldiers wouldn’t jump at using things like this against an enemy, your living in Lala land.
Luckily, I think Thompson can handle this stuff in the same way that Reagan did...
digging deep for Fred paranoia, ping
The more interesting question is this — IS FRED THOMPSON EVEN INTERESTED IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT ?
>He played a role, so that’s who he is?<
This is what I’ve been telling you guys all along. :o)
More from the Fredophobes at the LAT.
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