And when (and if) you had actually seen him on the Senate floor, Law and Order wasn't a TV show. (I have never seen L&O, either, BTW.) Your statement makes it hard for me to take your comment seriesly.
Oh, thats all it took ;-)
Actually it was. But Fred wasn't playing the DA, it was some old bald guy who later had a face life and was elected to Congress as a Democrat for California's 29th district - true story