Why is ABC News <i>paying</i> Fred Thompson to run for President?
By Nicole Belle Sunday Jun 24, 2007 12:03pm
Just about two months ago, Fred Thompson appeared on Fox's Hannity & Colmes and pontificated openly in that sweet Southern twang--you know the one that makes Republicans instantly vibrate--about making changes in his "contractual" relationships because of his candidacy. The Domed One said, "obviously, there's some practical things, some contractual things that I'm doing."
Well, it's looking like those "contractual things" are as important to him as the sanctity of marriage. At least with first wives who aren't still granted nap-time after show-and-tell is finished.
Of particular interest currently, is that Thompson not only maintains a constant presence on ABC Radio delivering opinion and analysis, but also provides daily podcasts for the ABC Radio website along with his own goofy version of a blog. He is doing this, mind you, after already having declared his intention to run for President numerous times... read on...
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Damned Librul MSM!!!!!!
Frist.
Nothing new here. Recall that Fox News brought on Ralph Reed to analyze the Abramoff an affair, a scandal in which he was implicated.
For the details, see:
"Ralph Reed: Abramoff Crony and Fox News Scandal Analyst."
Perhaps ABC will feature Libby Defense Trust adviser Thompson on the subject of a pardon for Scooter Libby...
Cranky Old Fred's campaign slogan:
"Hey you kids, get off my lawn!"
Every time I read something on Freddy T. this question pops up in a cloud over my head, "Why is he thinking of running for President?"
Who the hell is he fooling? Oh yeah, the Reagantonians......I guess
BTW, that cloud is still hang there..
ABC is as republican as FoxNews. Remember Disney forcing Miramax to dump Farenheit 9/11? The future biggest grossing doc of all time? What a steaming load of shite when these wingnuts claim it's about "profits" or the "market system".
Yeah, how does the "market system" explain Disney/ABC walking away from a doc that went on to gross 100 MILLION DOLLARS? Yet funding ass-clowns like Hannity and Thompson?
@#@$ you ABC.
I was asking myself the same question when he appeared (well, figuratively) in a "news" feature on WBZ-AM radio (a notoriously right-wing-leaning station) in Boston.
I dismissed him even before hearing his political ad disguised as commentary. It just cemented my opinion that he's not any better than the hacks he seeks to replace.
Someone pull the flush lever please, and turn out the lights when you leave.
I can practically smell his presidential-ness!
soothsayer @ 3:
LOL!
oops,
it should conclude, "BTW, that cloud is still hanging there...."
Why does Fred Thompson scare democrats? Is it just maybe he might be popular enough to win the presidency?
Haha, Liberal media funds republican politicians! What will rove think of next?
Yeah, spell-whatever, I'm quaking in my boots over the prosect of this musky-smelling he-man taking the reigns of commander in chief. My fear is that Americans are dumb enough to even consider him.
"At least with first wives who aren’t still granted nap-time after show-and-tell is finished."
Oh, come on, she's 40. Is snark really necessary? So she looks good. I'm 35, I look pretty good too. Is it nap time yet?
spell my checker @ 10:
Thompson is herr dubyah part 2. He's another extreme reich-winger that will placate the most fringe elements to win election. He'd gladly sell out this country for the sake on his party. He's another party murder, pro death, pro disease, pro war GOPig.
I can't wait until Fred (Flintstone) Thompson puts himself in the hot seat, for an intense one-on-one interview.
Switching seats back forth like that so quickly for so long will whittle down his waist in no time.
smell my pecker freds dead
I can't see this decaying bag of shit winning anything...
He is one of a few whom if elected I will leave the country...
How quickly the reich-wingers abandon "let him run on his record" when an extreme reichty comes forward with a lousy record.
To me, this is partially a symptom of the flaw in our country to start presidential election coverage, punditry, polling, yada, yada, yada so damned early. I can't fault the guy for exploiting a loophole if there is one. He's setting an interesting precedent for the future though.
Hmmm, the trolls really love them some Fred.
They're swirling all over our blog claiming we are also "afraid o' Fred". Shit, he's a pussy actor from Hollywood that my grandma could whup, unless his teenage bride got in the mix.
goatsage @ 12:
Americans know him from Law & Order, and since he does such an excellent job getting the bad guys on the TV show, whos to say he couldnt do the same great job in real life? After all, there are many people dumb enough to buy into the Jack Bauer ticking time bomb scenario, so why not this? He's even acted along side Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2! If that doesn't qualify him to be president, I dunno what will.
English Leather ain't free, motherfudgers.
Reich-wingers are so simple minded and live completely outside of reality that they would vote for Jack Bauer if they could.
Because Turd Blossom told them to, that's why.
He's NOT a candidate, so let's take a step back and breath.
Comments like "The Domed One" and "granted nap-time after show-and-tell is finished." Have NOTHING to do with the subject matter and in my opinion take away much of the relevance of the actually "news" found in the blog. I'm not a fan of Fred Thompson, but I don't give a damn about how old his wife is. I'm also not interested in puns on this guys looks: I want to know his political actions-Wow, when did we just pick up and decide to go with the rights playbook?
I saw Fred Thompson's wife dance at Crazy Rock in Naiperville, she only accepted $100s at the time. I suppose thats how Grandpaw Thompson swept her off her feet.
Now what the public really wants to know is who has the biggest boobs, Hillary or Fred?
With a fluff candidate like Thompson, he will get fluff attacks. What are we supposed to analyze his comments during the 2 republican debates? He wasn't at them! Are we supposed to analyze his term as an elected representative? Nobody remembers anything he did!
Stick to the issues? What issues are Fred Thompson involved in? Playing a bigoted balding elderly white man in TV's Law and Order? I got news for you: it ain't an act.
If he's running, he should drop the show. It sounds like he's exploiting his position for as long as he can, but ABC doesn't need to go along with it.
Ol' Fred sure has a lot of people worried! Gee, wondering if his boobs are bigger than Hillary's sure strikes a nasty blow!
I'm glad that "balding" is the common denominator when describing what a scalywag Thompson is. Since I'm baldiing, it makes me wonder if this is intelligent argument or the same type of shallow attacks I see coming from the Right. It may be cool and hip, but it kind of turns me off.
ysbaddaden @ 27:
No, they want to know if Fred smells really, really good. And, they want to know about that chiseled jaw line.
This is just another attempt by the EXTREME REIGHT WING MAIN STREAM MEDIA (ERWMSM) to control who become our elected officials.
I'm looking forward to a Dem in the White House if THIS is the best the repugs can do!
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Bic @ 32:
I'm balding too, but since it's in my crotch no one will notice, much to my chagrin.
Disney Corp. Putting a happy face on fascism since 1929.
The 50% of the population who looks for a stern, authoritarian daddy-figure as president will eat this guy up. Our country has emotional problems.
Surprised? This is the network that blamed 9/11 on Clinton.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S LOSING MY POSTS AGAIN!
THIS is annoying!!!!!!!!!!!
ABC News and ABC are as far up the Republican parties butt as FAUX NEWS. They have lost any high ground they may have once occupied, their slogan should be "Underhanded all the time".
Well...doesn't every venue of big-business have their own candidate?
There certainly is enough up there to go around.
It's been said many times before, but it still cracks me up that 'liberals', and supposedly Democrats, are the ones led around and funded by Hollywood elites or whateverthefuck jibe the GOP likes to toss around and yet it seems that the majority of the time it is the conservatives who look to the Actors Guild for their next Daddy: Reagan, Schwarzenegger, and now this clown. I mean, I don't really care either way. If a person has the brains, the opinion and the wherewithal (and the citizenship, naturally) then go for it. We all have a right to an opinion and to run for office. Heck, George Clooney for Anything! But see, I'm not one with a big hard-on of hate for Hollywood types.
Ahhh, hypocrisy!
Almost 40 comments that amount to infants throwing a tantrum about the wrong things for the wrong reasons....In other words, different day same ol' crap from you.
Get ready for an attitude adjustment.
soothsayer @ 3:
NICE! Thanks for the chuckle.
Winghunter @ 45:
Huh? Blib blib blib? Hubba wubba?
No idea whatcher talkin' about.
What a handsome, cigar smoking, lazy son of a bitch. He would be a great replacement for the lazy son of a bitch liar we have in there now. That's the man for the stubborn 29%.
spell my checker @ 10:
Yeah..that's it Go freddy the freeloader. He'll have it all wrapped up with his experience and credentials. His plans for the future are stellar...as in he has NONE! He's right up there with ghouliani. The repug party days are over. The rats left the sinking ship months ago, and the only ones left are going down with the bones.
This is the perfect melding of the media and the neo-facist candidate for president. Whoa mamma this is the trifecta!
Fred Thompson scares me because he looks like he has old man smell (mixed with English Leather).
Jesse @ 39:
ding! we have a winner.
God help us if Fred wins - and I'm an atheist. The only people who could vote for him are the mouthbreathers who endured eight years of Bush's compassionate conservatism without figuring out why their asses hurt so much.
By the way, I agree with Ed et al. regarding Schecter's flacid attack on Thompson's wife's age. Leave her be. (Until he starts talking about the sanctity of his first marriage.)
Thompson reminds me of Reagan but without Reagan's good qualities. Thompson has that 'Friendly Fascism' thing that for some reason people love even though it means their destruction.
John's article "Another day in Iraq" had a poster that talked about a reporter's word usage from Suicide Bomber to Homicide Bomber and I posted about the power of words. This is a good example of misuse of power:
"At least with first wives who aren’t still granted nap-time after show-and-tell is finished."
Nicole, do you really think it is necessary to disparage the fact that he is in a relationship with a younger woman? Of what significance is that to run for office? Many of us have wonderful relationships with younger and much younger lovers and mates and that is a slam at us also.
If we are attempting to bring a more civil and honorable world into being, then using old, cliche, name calling isn't the way to nurture it, do you think?
Lets Break it down for the FReepers...
Fred refuses to officially announce so he doesn’t have to debate his opponents or participate in the process he is quick to criticize.
Fred refuses to field questions from reporters or even his own supporters.
Karl Rove, who is the mastermind behind the amnesty bill, is the one pulling strings and stiff arming people into showing support for Fred.
Matlin/Carville sent Thompson to Israel and London this month to pad his resume and make it appear Fred has foreign affairs experience, when in reality, he doesn't.
Fred was for abortion before he was against it depending on who is standing in front of him at the time.
Fred was for McCain/Feingold before he was against it.
Fred, after working hand in hand lobbying with Harold Fickes, a Bill Clinton insider, Fred voted NO to impeach Clinton.
Fred is a globalist.
Fred is a lobbyist.
Fred has never held a leadership role.
Fred is a dirty ol man with a fetish for young girls.
Fred has cancer, is in remission, and could die before the end of one term.
Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration
Sen. Thompson in 1996 voted against the Simpson Amendment to S.1664. It was a vote in favor of a chain migration system that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million. Sen. Thompson supported provisions that allow immigrants to send for their adult relatives. Then each of those relatives can send for their and their spouse’s adult relatives, creating a never-ending and ever-growing chain.
Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996
Sen. Thompson voted in 1996 against the Feinstein Amendment to S.1664. The Feinstein Amendment would have reduced annual admission of spouses and minor children of citizens to 480,000 and significantly reduced annual limits other categories of chain migration such as parents of citizens and adult unmarried children of citizens. By voting against the Feinstein Amendment, Sen. Thompson voted in favor of a system of chain migration that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million today.
Voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997
Sen. Thompson voted to grant legal status to Nicaraguans and Cubans who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children. The overall ten year impact of this legislation will be the addition of some 967,000 people to U.S. population. There was no separate vote on the amnesty, as it was inlcuded in the DC Appropriations bill. The only opportunity Senators had to vote in favor of or against the amnesty was the Mack Amendment to S.1156. The Mack Amendment passed 99-1.
In 1996, removed higher fines for businesses which hire illegal aliens
Sen. Thompson, in committee consideration of S.1664 protected businesses from having to pay higher fines when they are caught hiring illegal aliens. Under the idea that current fines were not enough of a deterrent against businesses cutting their labor costs by hiring illegal aliens, the Senate immigration subcommittee approved higher fines. Various study commissions have found that the willingness of U.S. businesses to hire illegal aliens is the No. 1 incentive for foreign workers to become illegal aliens here. But Sen. Thompson voted with a 10-8 majority in the Judiciary Committee to remove the higher fines from the 1996 legislation against illegal immigration.
Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996
Sen. Thompson voted IN FAVOR of the Abraham Amendment to S.1664. He was part of a coalition of pro-business conservatives and liberal civil libertarians who tried to use the amendment to kill the establishment of voluntary pilot programs in high-immigration states. The programs were intended to assist employers in verifying whether people they had just hired had the legal right to work in this country. Such verification is considered by many experts to be an essential tool for withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens.
Info is from NumbersUSA.
Voted to strip legal reforms from 1996 bill
Sen. Thompson helped defeat legal immigration reform when he voted for Senator Spencer Abraham’s amendment to remove the legal immigration reforms from S.1664, the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996. This vote effectively killed any chance of Congress considering the Jordon Commission recommendations on easing legal immigration levels.
Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.
Sen.Thompson voted for S.2045, the Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers. On the heels of the release of a GAO report finding no proof of a high-tech worker shortage and evidence of abuse in the H-1B program, Sen. Thompson voted for this foreign worker bill that contained no worker protections or anti-fraud measures.
As Committee member, produced H-1B doubling bill in 1998
Sen. Thompson was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that created the Abraham H-1B doubling bill in 1998, S.1723.
Nearly doubled H-1B foreign high-tech workers in 1998
Sen. Thompson helped the Senate pass S.1723 in a 78-20 vote. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years. Although the foreign workers receive temporary visas for up to six years, most historically have found ways to stay permanently in this country. Sen. Thompson voted for more foreign workers even though U.S. high tech workers over the age of 50 were suffering 17% unemployment and U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.
Voted in committee against including worker safeguards in H-1B bill in 1998
Sen. Thompson joined 9 of his Senate colleagues to keep employee safeguards from inclusion in S.1723. An amendment would have accomplished two important goals: ensuring no American was laid off or displaced prior to hiring an H1B employee; and, that employers demonstrate they had previously taken timely and effective steps to hire a qualified American.
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998
Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. Thompson had an opportunity to vote for a measure requiring U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. Sen. Thompson voted against that, joining those who said the requirement would give government too much authority over corporations’ right to hire whomever they please from whatever country.
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998
Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill(S.1723), Sen. Thompson had an opportunity to vote for an amendment that would have prohibited U.S. firms from using temporary foreign workers to replace Americans.
Sen. Thompson opposed that protection.
He Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998!!!
He Voted to kill programs that were intended to assist employers in verifying whether people they had just hired had the legal right to work in this country!!!!!
Sen. Thompson, in committee consideration of S.1664 protected businesses from having to pay higher fines when they are caught hiring illegal aliens!!!!
Voted to grant legal status to Nicaraguans and Cubans who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children. The overall ten year impact of this legislation will be the addition of some 967,000 people to U.S!!!
“We can not deport 12 million illegal aliens.” Fred Thompson
ABC/Disney is Faux II. Remember Pathway to 9/11?
JM @ 5:
Don't forget their TV FICTION, "A Path to 9/11" by the Youth with Mission religious film producer.
HulksHeroes Says:
Yeah..that’s it Go freddy the freeloader. He’ll have it all wrapped up with his experience and credentials. His plans for the future are stellar…as in he has NONE! He’s right up there with ghouliani. The repug party days are over. The rats left the sinking ship months ago, and the only ones left are going down with the bones.
So I guess you think that Clinton, Obama or Edwards have massive experience? Without googling, name one piece of legislation that any of these three have put forth.
Fred Thompson is also being groomed as replacement for senile, corporate fascist neo-con sympathizer Paul Harvey. Anyone think they want Fred Thompson as president? Would you like Rush Limbaugh's fill-in for president? Or Sean Hannity's fill-in for president???
But the Democrats are forced to pay millions and millions to get a two second sound bite on any of these networks.
This is exactly the reason we need to blast the right wing freaks in the FCC, until they comply with the regulations
The Air Waves belong to the American people and we do not want to look at these goons all day as none of them are qualified to be President and none of them will be President period.
Disney owns ABC and they are paying Fred Thompson and giving him a vehicle to communicate to the American people that it doesn't give the other candidates. Does that mean the Fred is a Mickey Mouse candidate?
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Joe @ 61:
No, the Goofy candidate.
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