CAUSE CÉLÈBRE: Will Fred Thompson's racist role have political repercussions?

LA Times ^ | May 4, 2007 | Tina Daunt,

[Carling]

One of the most memorable 3 episode characters I remember on any TV show. Knox Pooley was a bad, bad man. Thompson did a great job portraying the role. I was 12 years old at the time and I still remember Knox Pooley.

[Slings and Arrows]

Well, that just pegged my Stupid Meter.

[RedMonqey]

Will Fred Thompson's racist role have political repercussions?

Only in the sense that playing the role of president in a teevee show givee Martin Sheen the power to deploy the nation's nuclear misiles. Sheeeesh. Liberals are truly illusional

[panzer_grey]

Great show.

[Lord Basil]

Thompson played a white supremacist, spewing anti-Semitic comments and fondling an autographed copy of "Mein Kampf" on a television drama 19 years ago.

Evidently, nobody ever explained the difference between make believe and reality to the author.

[mkjessup]

This is absolutely absurd.

By this logic, Ronald Reagan’s political career should never have gotten off the ground after his role in the 1964 movie ‘The Killers’, where he played a very BAD man, he actually slapped Angie Dickinson (as part of the script of course).

‘The Killers’ was in fact the only movie in which Reagan played a villain, and it was his last movie before entering politics.

[Cicero]

Wow. The Flying Monkey Research Team has been really busy! I think Fred has them worried.

[Paleo Conservative]

Didn't Ronald Reagan work with a chimp....Oh yeah. That gave him some experience working with the dims.

At least the chimps were house broken.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

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?

Folks aren't getting the point of this article.

The purpose of this article is to bring this footage to the attention of the moonbats in hopes that they will do exactly that.

[CutePuppy]

LATimes giving Fred a Mark Fuhrman treatment? Wanted to say “amazing” but no, not really....

[epow]

Boy, if this is the best that the LA times can come up with, the Dems are in real trouble.

Better said: If this thread is the best that FR Rudytoots can come up with they are in real trouble.

I don't quite understand why they hate Fred, but I can certainly understand why they fear him.

Something else that I don't quite understand is why people who claim to be conservative will so enthusiastically support a man who has historically taken stands at least as far to the left as any of the Democrat candidates on practically all of the most important social, cultural, and moral issues. As far as I know Rudy has never expressed regret for any his hyper-liberal positions he held before, during, and after his tenure as NYC mayor. He just glibly spouts his newly discovered quasi-conservative principles and expects us to believe that they are now his sincerely held beliefs.

[syriacus]

I remember Clinton’s famous movie role...where he pretended to be a sad president, crying during Ron Brown’s funeral.

[tophat9000]

No one held it against Bill that he liked to hit on girls with big hair and big boobs.

Yea well who doesn't :>

[GoBucks2002]

And Richard Dreyfuss was a Republican Senator in The American President.

What's the point?

I can only imagine the ridicule which would rain down on someone forwarding a YouTube clip of Thompson to people outside the DU message boards.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I can only imagine the ridicule which would rain down on someone forwarding a YouTube clip of Thompson to people outside the DU message boards.

I agree for the most part. But, as hard as it is to believe (don't even try to understand), a sizable group of people in this country can't distinguish between a fantasy character an actor plays on the screen and the real life person.

Actors who have made careers playing heavies have many times been very disliked by some movie goers that believe they are really nasty people.

Some actors now get treated as if they are bright, articulate people simply because they follow a script that portrays a character that is so. When in reality, these same actors can barely wipe their own rear ends without a personal coach providing step by step instructions. Charlie Sheen comes to mind. I wonder if he can function without a personal attendant. Talk about dumb.

[Clock King]

[NeoCaveman]

Fred plays Ulysses S Grant in an upcoming tv movie, so that balances things out

:)

[ChildOfThe60s]

Point taken.

A buddy of mine and I both have smart, assertive women for wives. He and I were having a beer one day and he said, ya know, good looking dumb women do have their pluses. I agreed. Then we both looked over our shoulders to see if they heard us.

[dixiechick2000]

LOL ping!

[abovethefray]

CAUSE CÉLÈBRE: Will Fred Thompson’s racist role have political repercussions?
The democrats sure hope so! Attacked from every MSM angle, no possibility too small...