Captain's Quarters -

Predictably that is how the people in the MSM work. I question why they give a REAL bigot in Robert (KKK) Byrd (D-WV) a free ride and go after someone like Thompson for ACTING the role of a bigot. Just shake your head and move on Fred.

Funny how this dovetails nicely with Fred's editorial today, taking the MSM to task for ignoring the REAL bad guys in the world...

How does one become a "pop culture expert?"

Weird article. In CA our Governator said naughty words on camera and terrorized Linda Hamiliton (i saw it) and voters forgave him for that. Clinton smoked but didn't inhale, W Bush was a reformed party animal. Maybe the LA TImes' pop culture expert is a tad out of touch?

Wasn't it Dick Tracy that flirted with running for governor?

The underlying notion here is "Do the vast sea of unwashed masses really understand the subtle and highly nuanced distinction between acting and being? Can they really get it?" We should probably interview more "experts" and see if there isn't something that we can do about this terrible situation.

For Pete's sake, ALL POLITICIANS ARE ACTORS!!! Remember the old saw about "Politics is showbiz for ugly people." Well, its true! Get over it!

We really aren't that stupid, but its so revealing of these two liberals' attitudes that its actually instructive for anyone who wants to understand the mindset of the other side.

Well, it's not like Tina Daunt is a journalist; She just plays one on the LA Times.

"The Los Angeles Times saw average daily circulation fall 4.2% to 815,723..."
Forbes 4/30/2007

Gee, wonder why...

Par for the course for the MSM. Remember when it was breathlessly reported that Ahh-nold was born in AUSTRIA... like Adolph Hitler? Or when the dems tried to get mileage from "Bedtime for Bonzo" when the Gipper was running for office?

If you're a Republican, EVERYTHING you ever said, did, or thought about doing is fair game, including acting.

Well I don't live in California, so i never had Arnold on a ballot I could mark. But I have friends in California who voted for him. They feel he has done a good job, but were really hoping he'd rip the arm off just one moonbat and beat them with it. So, under the "fool me once" criteria, I'm not looking for President Fred, who I'm backing, to do much cool movie stuff either.

At this point I have to agree with Sheryl Crowe ----- one sheet (of the Times) is certainly enough.

I guess Nurse Betty is working at the LA Times under the pen name of Tina Daunt.

In the next installment of their hard hitting investigation into actors turned conservative politicians they will be reporting that California's governor once appeared as a relentless robot assassin and that despite his claim to come from Austria do we really know that he is not from the future?

If this story fails to gain any traction they will follow up with a report that he once appeared in movie pregnant and could well be a transsexual.

Similar to the first poster Sen. Robert "Kleagle" Byrd, who played a Klansman in real life, immediately came to mind upon reading Tina Daunt's drivel. Tina Daunt appears nearly as shameless as Chrissy Matthews was pitching Bill Clinton in last night's debate.

If Tina Daunt or the equally asinine LA Times editors who cleared her article actually address the Robert K. Byrd issue they'll probably give Old Byrdbrain bonus crafts points for his pointy homemade costuming and woodworking credits for making those crosses he used to burn.

The LA Times has joined the NY Times as yet another leftist propaganda rag my parrot refuses to read.

If Byrd had pretended to be all those things that he really was then the Times would write a story about his character (if he was a republican) but since he wasn't pretending to be an awful character there's no story to write about him. Least, I think that's how it works.

I wonder if Tina Daunt was too busily distracted by apple-off-the-tree Patrick Kennedy getting out of rehab to bother asking Mary Jo Kopechne about the pivotal reality TV "role" Chappy Teddy played in her life? Oops, too late.

Or Bobby and Marilyn? Or Condit and Chandra? Or Kennedy-Smith and the Palm Beach girl? Or Skakel and poor Martha Moxley? Or Bubba and Juanita Broaddrick? Or Barney Frank and his magical basement brothel? Or Nifong and the Duke Three drama? Or Revrum Al and (was it Freddie's?) Fashion Mart? When is the TV docudrama about Sandy "Pants" Berglar slated for broadcast?

Tina misses so much watching re-runs!

Roll over and bark Tina and maybe the DNC will throw you a snack? Now fetch!

Of course this is a non-issue - EXCEPT that if Thompson is the nominee, some 527 group will run the edited clips as ads the day before the election. If it were a close race, it could make the difference with people so dull they haven't decided who to vote for by November.

Now, the major networks and cable news outlets would refuse to run it, probably, BUT they would highlight the proposed ad on their newscasts for free, giving it full exposure while patting themselves on the back for NOT "running the ad."

It's a doggone shame the level to which the average intelligence in this country has sunk. Heck, a recent poll showed even the French have a lower opinion of the French than Americans do. We just aren't trying anymore. . .

Re: The bonus question: Well, given Hollywood's anti-anti-communist leanings, the last one is a definite possibility. When they make hagiographic movies about communists, it definitely shows in which direction their sympathies lie.

Before you let you indignation run away from you, think about this article is actually saying.

Like it or not, the exposure most people have of Fred Thompson is his roles on TV and in the movies. His opponents have to find some way to counteract those mythical creations.

How would you propose they go about dealing with it?

Gee, I don't know ... how about looking at his record in the Senate, his public speeches, and his platform?

Repeat after me: actors play a part. Fred is not a neo-Nazi just because he played one on TV. How hard is that, really?