Posted on 07/07/2007 9:54:02 PM PDT by pissant
Imagine you're the district attorney character on, say, television's long-running "Law and Order." You have five witnesses who say they either saw the accused, or learned contemporaneously, that the accused did the alleged bad thing.
Then imagine the accused's defense is essentially a variant of "I don't recall. There's no paper trail. Nope, I didn't do it." And the accused has a friendly witness who at first doesn't recollect if the accused did the bad thing, then ratchets up to "It didn't happen."
If you're the DA, you probably still think you've got a case, right? Maybe you'll just let the jury decide.
That appears to be where we're at in case of The People v. Fred Thompson, the people being family-planning types who say they hired Thompson to lobby the first Bush White House to overturn an anti-abortion executive order. The story was broken by Michael Finnegan of the Los Angeles Times.
Thompson, the former Tennessee Republican senator who appears to be running for president even though he hasn't yet officially announced, says, through a spokesperson, he didn't do the lobbying at all back in 1991. That's a surprise to the family-planning folks who say that's exactly what they hired him to do back during his Washington lobbyist days, to specifically lobby then-White House chief of staff John Sununu.
This matters, of course, because Thompson has been wooing the anti-abortion activists and social conservatives so important to winning the Republican nomination. They're on the jury.
If this story gains legs, that increases Thompson's challenge in winning over that group. If the people who recall signing on Thompson to lobby the first Bush White House are seen as more credible, Thompson will not only suffer with those opposed to abortion but also more generallly because his truthfulness will become
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Here we go again with this BS hit piece . This makes about the sixth time today this has been posted . Will you post it again tomorrow as well ?
In fairness, it’s a piece about the piece, but it is kind of ridiculous. It’s also a lame line of attack.
The DUmmies are scared to death of Fred.
Hillary behind story of Fred Thompson lobbying for abortion:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862148/posts
Of course there is also the lil form he filled out but who cares..HE IS THE NEW REAGAN!!! RIGHT? RIGHT?
Probably. I was gone all day. I did a search for this title.
If the Times is pulling this out of their arse, Fred should sue them for libel. Seriously.
Thanks
They should be, if they aren’t yet.
You don’t sound like a Fredhead.
So if they are lying about that, what do you think the odds are that they are lying about the whole thing? The whole TANG fiasco with President Bush shows the left is very willing to manufacture documents to support their claims.
It would not suprise me if they are lying, in the least. Especially the LA Times.
The “conservative” Boston Herald piles on...
Acting up: Thompson plays dumb
GOP thespian Fred Thompson can now be added to the long list of presidential candidates whose awkward pasts are haunting them.
According to the Los Angeles Times, minutes of a meeting held in September 1991 show that “staunch” pro-life candidate Thomspon worked for several months as a lobbyist for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, an abortion rights group.
The Thompson camp is adamantly denying ever lobbying for the pro-choice group. But pols are popping out of the woodwork to express puzzlement at why the former actor and senator would declare the report false.
Judith DeSarno, president of the family planning association, confirmed Thompson’s employment to the Times, and former Rep. Michael Barnes (D-Md.), a colleague of Thompson’s, finds his denial “bizarre.”
Regardless of whether or not he worked with the family planning firm, why deny it, the thinking goes? Being a lobbyist is just like being a lawyer - you sometimes take on cases you don’t personally agree with. And if Thompson turns out to be lying now, well, he might as well go back to acting if he wants to play the president.
I read it 3 days ago.
Hey, fake but accurate! Worked for CBS and Dan Rather so well, didn’t it?
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Previous posts by the RG fan club...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862195/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862152/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862152/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862148/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861995/posts
This is the story about the story, not the “story”.
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