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The machinations of Mrs. Fred Thompson. Jeri Rigged
The New Republic ^ | Post date 10.12.07 | Issue date 10.22.07 | Michelle Cottle

Posted on 10/17/2007 12:28:15 PM PDT by vietvet67

No one thought Jeri Kehn could do it. Back in 2000, the dishy young Republican operative, then 33, had Washington wags atwitter over her high-profile quest to capture the famously footloose Fred Thompson. Divorced from his high school sweetheart in 1985, the senator and erstwhile actor, then 57, had become one of the hottest tickets in town. A deep- drawling, broad-shouldered six-and-half footer, Thompson had a devastating Southern charm, with a gilding of movie-star glamour. Country music bombshell Lorrie Morgan, cosmetics queen Georgette Mosbacher, conservative pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, and Time columnist Margaret Carlson were among Hollywood Fred's better-known, better-heeled paramours.

Kehn (pronounced "keen"), by contrast, was neither rich nor famous. A Midwestern gal of modest means, she had met the older, more established Thompson on July 4, 1996, in a Kroger check-out line in Nashville. Two years later, she moved to Washington to try her hand at political work and to pursue their relationship. But, while Kehn impressed Beltway types with her quick grasp of their culture, few gave her much chance of realizing her romantic aims. Thompson had never been known as a one-woman man--not even during his early, still-married days as a fledgling lobbyist living alone in Washington while his first wife, Sarah, raised their three kids back in Nashville.

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KEYWORDS: fredthompson; jerikehn; michellecottle; tnr; yellowjournalism
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1 posted on 10/17/2007 12:28:17 PM PDT by vietvet67
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2 posted on 10/17/2007 12:31:38 PM PDT by vietvet67
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ZZZZzzzzzz!

So,...what else they got on Fred? Is this it?


3 posted on 10/17/2007 12:32:38 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("Sancte Míchael Archángele, defénde nos in proélio,...")
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What a piece of trash...this belongs right next to the scandal sheer tabloids on the grocery aisle. Kellyanne Fitz “a paramour” indeed.
4 posted on 10/17/2007 12:34:03 PM PDT by meandog (I'm one of the FEW and the BRAVE FReepers still supporting John McCain)
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To: vietvet67
Margaret Carlson? This Margaret Carlson?

She must've been better lookin' back in them days...

5 posted on 10/17/2007 12:36:52 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (FRED!)
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To: vietvet67
Normally, when a female journalist writes an article like this about another woman she is savaged for her betrayal.

The article adds insult to the injury by being written in a deeply-stereotyped, fundamentally unserious manner.

6 posted on 10/17/2007 12:38:43 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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Counting down until the Mittwitts bring on the stripper and hooker comments...
7 posted on 10/17/2007 12:41:44 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (265 pound Lemming with attitude for Thompson!)
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Thompson had never been known as a one-woman man--not even during his early, still-married days as a fledgling lobbyist living alone in Washington while his first wife, Sarah, raised their three kids back in Nashville.

This rep may be what sours Dobson on FDT.

8 posted on 10/17/2007 12:42:25 PM PDT by Maynerd (Hillary = amnesty, higher taxes,defeat in the WOT, and socialized medicine)
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Yup. If this had been written about a Democrat, NOW would be condemning it.

“Gal?”


9 posted on 10/17/2007 12:43:01 PM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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Personally, I think its great Thompson has a intelligent woman that is also very pretty.

How thats a ‘negative’ escapes me.


10 posted on 10/17/2007 12:45:05 PM PDT by Badeye ('Ron Paul joined 88 Democrats.....")
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To: Theresawithanh

Fred Thompson never dated Margaret Carlson. The truth is she stalked him at every opportunity, trying to get him to date her. FRT has publicly denied any romantic involvement with her, but he did it in a very gentlemanly way.


11 posted on 10/17/2007 12:45:20 PM PDT by riverdawg
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Remember the days when liberals would say, “Stay out of our bedrooms!”


12 posted on 10/17/2007 12:47:17 PM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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Subtext isn’t really about Jeri. What TNR REALLY wants to get across (to cultural conservatives — so as to repel them from Fred-support) is, FRED FOOLED AROUND ON HIS FIRST WIFE.

The excerpt doesn’t go into any proof of that. Just innuendo. “Oh, it was well-known around Washington.” That sort of crap.

What the publication of such articles tells me is, THE LIBS FEAR FRED, whether they are correct to do so or not.


13 posted on 10/17/2007 12:48:02 PM PDT by pogo101
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I did not know that. I’ve heard several times that she was one of his girlfriends, but I didn’t really believe it.


14 posted on 10/17/2007 12:48:04 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (FRED!)
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I have read alot of the dirt thrown FRT’s way, but never before this piece have I seen an allegation that he cheated on his first wife. They divorced amicably in 1985, and his ex-wife is on record as supporting him for President.
15 posted on 10/17/2007 12:50:24 PM PDT by riverdawg
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Poor Fred.


16 posted on 10/17/2007 12:52:45 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Hahahahaaa!


17 posted on 10/17/2007 12:53:35 PM PDT by 007girl ("If you're gonna go out, go out fighting." Stoney Lebby-Maddox/11 years old)
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Truly corny. Well at least Fred didn’t marry his cousin, divorce her, marry another liberal woman, have a couple kids, cheat on her in public, make a public announcement he was going to divorce her, try to move in his social climbing hussy in the same house as the liberal woman he was dumping, upset his kids, dump her kid, and marry the social climbing hussy and try to pass the hussy off as first lady material.

Whew , busy guy.


18 posted on 10/17/2007 12:55:36 PM PDT by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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I guess his supporters can truthfully claim Giuliani isn’t lazy.


19 posted on 10/17/2007 12:56:28 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: vietvet67

Poor things. They do not have anything better to do. They need to get a real job.


20 posted on 10/17/2007 12:57:48 PM PDT by MamaB
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