As Counsel, Thompson Walked Capital’s Fine Line

New York Times ^ | 27 August 2007 | Jo Becker

[shrinkermd]

...Next month, Mr. Thompson is expected to join the Republican race for president. While he is perhaps best known for playing the tough-minded District Attorney Arthur Branch on the NBC show “Law & Order,” it is his real-life role as an investigator of government wrongdoing that has become a central part of the political biography he hopes will propel him to the presidency.

But the public image of the impartial, “let the chips fall where they may” prosecutor that Mr. Thompson has cultivated masks a more nuanced reality.

[shrinkermd]

This is a long laundry list of Thompson's accomplishments and shortcomings. Thompson Bots would be well to be aware of the NYT's take on Thompson since they shortly will be hearing similar complaints from the left.

In the meantime, it seems prudent to remember that as Alfred Adler once said, "9/10 of the world is the way you see it and 1/10 is the way it is." The subjectivity of experience plus confirmation bias makes for a difficult effort to see things clearly.

[RichInOC]

But he had to walk fast, because Marion Barry kept trying to snort it.

[Reagan Man]

The NYTimes version of the the good, the bad and the ugly, the political life of Fred D. Thompson, from the liberal perspective. The raising of questions and the infliction of small cuts that leaves enough blood for the sharks to feed on. A well known tactic of the left wing Slimes.

Go Fred go!

[jmyrlefuller]

And the MSM showers yet more attention on one of the Anointed Ones. Who says the media doesn’t pick the candidates again??

[God luvs America]

yet still no articles from the Slimnes on hussien obama’s pro-live birth abortion vote....