Many claim that support for Fred Thompson is only because he acted like a gruff DA on TV. In reality, though, gruff DAs are all trying to act like Fred Thompson.
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All tv and movie toughs model their characters after Fred Thompson!
I’ve been voting republican since 1984 when I finally awoke from the liberal stupor I was in as a result of 15 years in the liberal indoctrination system known as the schools and universities and I never heard Fred Thompson was ever an actor until this campaign business started… I guess it pays to avoid TV…
There is nothing tough or folksy about Fred Thompson. He is but an actor–a con man–who has spent years honing both his tough-guy and down-home demeanor to fool the public. Thompson is the ultimate faker–a flimflammer with a red pickup truck that is being brought out by the GOP for his next scam on the political stage.
Here’s what the mainstream media won’t tell you about Snake Oil: He’s spent a good part of his political career in craven endeavors. From 1975 to 1992 Thompson was a lobbyist for corporations such as Westinghouse and General Electric, and most notoriously, the Tennessee Savings and Loan League.
Actors make good con men and con men make good actors. And in 1982, Thompson was vigorously lobbying for legislation to deregulate the Savings and Loan industry although he knew it could destroy the foundations of the institution. The deregulation that ensued gave the thrifts the freedom to invest in risky speculations and gamble away the savings of U.S. consumers.
The Savings and Loan debacle was the crowning moment of the Bush Oligarchy. Over one thousand thrift institutions collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their life savings. The ultimate cost of the crisis was $150 billion and George H.W. Bush bailed out the thrifts to the tune of $125 billion, which contributed greatly to the largest budget deficits this country had ever seen to that point. These deficits heralded the 1990-91 recession, one of the lowest points of our nation’s economic viability since the Great Depression.
John Kenneth Galbraith called the Savings and Loan Scandal, “the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance, and larceny of all time.”
Oh sure-
You get one of the few conservatives in Hollywood, and it’s ‘he’s just an actor and actors are just con men.’
But Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Al Franken, Susan Sarandon, Rosie O’Donnell, et al, -they’re all people we should listen to.
Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Actors are not con men. They are entertainers and we’re not stupid enough to think that what’s happening on the screen or stage is real. Did you think that when people saw “Lord of the Rings” that they really thought that Aragorn and Frodo and Legolas were real people and that the movie was some sort of reality show? Come on. No one’s that dumb.
Actors are just people who enjoy experiencing situtations that we cannot experience in our regular lives. The fact that we do it in front of people for the entertainment is just an added bonus.
One more thing, junkyard. The S&L scandal was not the “the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance, and larceny of all time”. That honor goes to Iraq’s Oil for Food program given to us by Clinton’s friends in the UN. The Oil for Food program makes the S&L scandal look like a convenience store holdup.
All tv and movie toughs model their characters after Fred Thompson!
Fred Thompson did shoot a man in Reno back in ’67, but it wasn’t a crime, since the guy was a hippy.
You made the big time. Check this out.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2007/06/01/better_off_fred
Haha, sweeet.
I’ve been voting republican since 1984 when I finally awoke from the liberal stupor I was in as a result of 15 years in the liberal indoctrination system known as the schools and universities and I never heard Fred Thompson was ever an actor until this campaign business started… I guess it pays to avoid TV…
There is nothing tough or folksy about Fred Thompson. He is but an actor–a con man–who has spent years honing both his tough-guy and down-home demeanor to fool the public. Thompson is the ultimate faker–a flimflammer with a red pickup truck that is being brought out by the GOP for his next scam on the political stage.
Here’s what the mainstream media won’t tell you about Snake Oil: He’s spent a good part of his political career in craven endeavors. From 1975 to 1992 Thompson was a lobbyist for corporations such as Westinghouse and General Electric, and most notoriously, the Tennessee Savings and Loan League.
Actors make good con men and con men make good actors. And in 1982, Thompson was vigorously lobbying for legislation to deregulate the Savings and Loan industry although he knew it could destroy the foundations of the institution. The deregulation that ensued gave the thrifts the freedom to invest in risky speculations and gamble away the savings of U.S. consumers.
The Savings and Loan debacle was the crowning moment of the Bush Oligarchy. Over one thousand thrift institutions collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their life savings. The ultimate cost of the crisis was $150 billion and George H.W. Bush bailed out the thrifts to the tune of $125 billion, which contributed greatly to the largest budget deficits this country had ever seen to that point. These deficits heralded the 1990-91 recession, one of the lowest points of our nation’s economic viability since the Great Depression.
John Kenneth Galbraith called the Savings and Loan Scandal, “the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance, and larceny of all time.”
My question to the above post is — are you now or have you ever been a communist?
EW – nice. beat me to it.
Fred!
Oh sure-
You get one of the few conservatives in Hollywood, and it’s ‘he’s just an actor and actors are just con men.’
But Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Al Franken, Susan Sarandon, Rosie O’Donnell, et al, -they’re all people we should listen to.
Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Actors are not con men. They are entertainers and we’re not stupid enough to think that what’s happening on the screen or stage is real. Did you think that when people saw “Lord of the Rings” that they really thought that Aragorn and Frodo and Legolas were real people and that the movie was some sort of reality show? Come on. No one’s that dumb.
Actors are just people who enjoy experiencing situtations that we cannot experience in our regular lives. The fact that we do it in front of people for the entertainment is just an added bonus.
Fred Thompson would solve the oil crisis by turning water into oil.
One more thing, junkyard. The S&L scandal was not the “the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance, and larceny of all time”. That honor goes to Iraq’s Oil for Food program given to us by Clinton’s friends in the UN. The Oil for Food program makes the S&L scandal look like a convenience store holdup.