Confusing TV With Reality: NYT TV Writer Thinks Thompson is His TV Character

NewsBusters.org ^ | 6/2/07 | Warner Todd Huston

[SE Mom]

This is really mind-numbing.

[trisham]

the left wants to create this for Thompson

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Exactly right. They will do anything they can do to make him appear less dignified, less important, less valid a candidate, regardless of how ridiculous it makes them.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Wasn’t Frank Church the ‘Rat senator who decimated the CIA in the mid 1970s?

[Cicero]

Yes. Similar sounding name, similar betrayal of our country. The Church Committee, 1973.

[x]

Think about it: McLean Stevenson never became President either.

Funny thing, McLean Stevenson started out in politics working for his second cousin (once removed) Adlai's campaign and got sidetracked by the bright lights of Hollywood.

Judging by the characters McLean played, show business may have benefited by his decision: politics certainly did.

[x]

This TV writer is a dolt!

Well, this is the paper that gave the world Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd.

Show biz and pop culture are the cultural context for the Times.

It's funny to find them complaining about the fusion of politics and show business when you can see the same thing on their op-ed page.

[The Pack Knight]

I just read another one analyzing “Arthur Branch’s” chances. And they really used the record of Arthur Branch!! I decided it was just too stupid to post on FR.

Reminds me of when the front page of Gray Davis' campaign web site featured a big picture of him shaking hands with Martin Sheen. I really wish I could find it...

[Sonny M]

i've never even noticed this about Arthur Branch... this sounds much more like Jack McCoy... this entire piece of writing is bizarre!

Your right, I watch the show, he has only had one executive ADA, and 2 who worked under McCoy, one of whom he fired.

....and neither was tall, and one he didn't even hire.

[socialismisinsidious]

This is pretty funny coming from the left. You know the same people who put some two bit actor on a train with a presidential candidate and sent them cross country (he really should have been given a script) to talk to America.

The same people who gave political voice to idiot, hollyweird types who say "if you think that rape should be legal, then don’t vote." and "get out the vote or die".

These same people hold the likes of Streisand, Dreyfus, O'Donnell, Fonda and many other socialist sickos up to be political geniuses precisely b/c they are on t.v.

So which side doesn't understand fiction from nonfiction?

[Atlas Sneezed]

Query:

If “journalists” think that actors are unqualified for office, why do they spend so much energy reporting about the political views of actors?

(Oh, never mind. It’s because they think actors are wise when they are liberal, and unqualified when they are conservative.)