May 4, 2007
Fred! is a Bigot
Can we really expect anything different from a liberal media?
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.
It's the other different side of the "moral authority" coin that is invoked when people like Martin Sheen must be listened to because "he played the President on TV."
The alternate reality of television is real. At least to some.
Though I must say, it's stunningly weak.
(tip to Hot Air)
2008 Race Posted by AlexC at May 4, 2007 4:34 PM
Stunningly, chrushingly, mind-bogglingly weak.
Posted by: jk at May 4, 2007 6:24 PMQuoting from the article: "People who work out their politics on the Internet understand how potentially troublesome things like this can be. Like pebbles in a pond, you can't know where the ripples are going to stop — or what the gullible or the mean-spirited may make of them."
So which is it to write a "news" article in a major metropolitan newspaper headlined "Will Fred Thompson's racist role have political repercussions" and devote 8 full paragraphs to transcribing dialog from the first episode? Gullible or mean-spirited?
This proves one thing for certain... Fred Thompson is on the presidential campaign map and he's making a lot of people nervous.
Posted by: johngalt at May 5, 2007 8:35 PM | What do you think? [2]