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  • Will Fred Thompson's racist role have political repercussions?

    05/04/2007 11:56:38 AM PDT · by Fred · 79 replies · 2,013+ views
    LA (behind the) Times ^ | 05/040/07 | By Tina Daunt
    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...