FOX News desperately wants the base to forget Thompson's lobbyist activities
By Nicole Belle Saturday Jul 21, 2007 12:30pm
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Fred Thompson's past career as a lobbyist...specifically, lobbying for the relaxing of abortion restrictions is a big problem for the GOP press office FOXNews. When you've built your party around rigid ideologies, things like the reality can be a problem. But not for Brit Hume. He looks at the situation and feels that Thompson never really meant to help his client.
HUME: This is not an abortion scandal, in my view. This is a billing scandal. And what I think this tells us is...it may tell us the extent to which clients are sometimes billed for work done by the people they engage--lawyers, lobbyists and the rest--that is so insignificant that the person doing it, they don't even remember. I believe Thompson didn't remember this, and I don't believe he did very much for that abortion group...
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Fred Lobbyist Thompson, ex-Lobbyist...wasn't he a Lobbyist for many years in his past Lobbyist life?
or that we have a constitution, two other branches of the government, or that we there is actually a whole vast portion of the population that is fed up with the current situation.
So, Thompson's not pro-choice, he's just a thief.
Way to sell your product, Brit.
When Rethugs. are busted and put on the spot, just deny and lie as always.
Billing scandal? I guess Hitler was just a relocation scandal, three mile island was a dirty diaper scandal, and prez Bush is a misunderstood scandal.
If he took their money and never intended to help them that makes Thompson a fraud. Something I don't have any trouble believing.
This is why Jon Stewart will NEVER run out of material.
HE DIDNT MEAN IT!!!
HE DIDNT MEAN IT!!!
He just wanted their money....... he didnt care who gave it to him..... it was just a billing error in his favor..... he needed some way to pay for his acting lessons
John @ 3:
Yeah, my jaw dropped on that one.
So Brit is suggesting that America vote for a man who cheats his clients and whose billing practices are a "scandal"?
The entire Republican party has become some kind of ridiculous circus with virtually every candidate just making bizarre shit up as they go along.
And if you aren't to vote for Fred, you're supposed to vote for Mitt, a man who ties his dog to the roof of his car, and who honestly sees nothing wrong in this?
These are the guys the Republicans think should represent America? These, of all the citizens of the United States, are the ones who the Republicans think show the best judgement and the most wisdom?
Oh, the whiff of Old Spice is so strong it's nauseating.
Shorter Hume:
'I am a total lying bastard and no relation to David'
Thompson has multi and varied problems - his lobbying activities is just one of them.
His history with women may be another. Is his wife pre-pubescent or does she just look like she is?
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How does Brit Hume explain Thompson's yacht, the "K Street Fredster"?
# 1
Shout it from the rooftops at every opportunity"
FORMER LOBBYIST Fred Thompson.
Brit Should Be "In-Humed"?
I'm just saying....
same old, same old. If a republican does it, it doesn't count. Cheat, steal, be convicted of perjury, lobby for abortionists, it just doesn't matter, because, they are------republicans, so it doesn't count.
One set of rules for republicans and their looney base, and another set of rules for everyone else.
So, just because Fred Thompson lobbied to get babies killed, Brit Hume doesn't think he did a very good job and wasn't really interested because he felt the pay was so small, so it really doesn't count. Uh huh. Apparently, Fred didn't do a very good job at being a Senator either, because he didn't like to work much, according to his republican pals in the Senate.
It seems to me, that Brit may be right. Fred Thompson just doesn't do a very good job at whatever he is being paid for. Good republican candidate. Right up there with George Bush.
So, Romney's spokesman, Kevin Madden, dismisses the Osama/Obama sign as...
Cool!
How about another neat "alliterative play on words":
I don’t think that's equating or comparing anyone, do you?
Republicans: Narcissistic people who believe that people are inherently evil, thus needing to be controlled. Truth is sacrificed for the greater good of the Party, to advance the cause that everything can be solved by eliminating the middle class. Corporations, not the government, should be free of constraints so they can make money without penalty. Diversity is not tolerated. The supreme leader is never questioned. The news shall never question those in power, only those who question.
foolme1ns @ 15:
I don't think they recognize their own amorality. All the way from Collins and Snowe to the bottom of the barrel with Bush and Lieberman (Cheney is in another catagory altogether) -
They don't recognize their own hypocrisy.
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g1lgam3sh @ 10:
A little respect for the handicapped please - this man has had his brain surgically removed.
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Truthiness, thy name is Fox.
BAAAAAHAHAHAHA
What a joke. A fricking billing scandal?
It's a billing scandal like Monica Lewinsky's blowjob on Clinton was a hernia check.
I can see it now: Thompson, "I can't recall."
I like that fact that Newt has said he probably will NOT open a candacy campaign if Thompson officially runs. What ever happened to good old Jeb Bush.....????????????????????????????????????/
So I can fund terrorist organizations as long as I'm not doing the terrorizing myself? I think that's the logic he's trying to use.
Brit shouldn't be able to host a "straight" news show during the week and play panelist on sundays
Robt @ 24:
There's a pair of shoes deep in the back of Dubya's closet - find these - turn them over. That mess all over the soles? That's Jeb.
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Now there's some great "reporting" for another reich-wing "journalist". You don't need facts or reality if you can "believe" and "not believe".
I believe charging people for work you didn't do is grounds for disbarment. A semi intelligent layer wouldn't make that argument unless he really wanted to lose his license and get brought up on felony charges of fraud. Oh, that's right, Fred didn't say that, his bitch Brittany did. As media prostitutes go, Brittany will do and say anything for the man he really loves :)
Don't forget to add "Hollywood" when shouting from the rooftops...
Hollywood Fred Lobbyist Thompson
He ain't got a chance.
FORMER ABORTION RIGHTS LOBBIEST FRED THOMPSON!!
It's so much fun when AEI screws up. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the conference room when this one hit the floor.
McCain - down for the count (the straight talk express ran out of gas when AEI fed him all the lies.
Lieberman - what else do you have to say.
Fred Thompson - The only one drolling over him now is Mathews.
The Centre For Disease Control should be called in to investigate the apparent link between Republican political orientation and memory loss. Quick action by the CDC may be needed to stop what seems to be an equal opportunity virus infecting both men and women in the Washington area. Thompson's recent sympoms suggest that the virus may have already spread to the west coast.
FORMER ABORTION RIGHTS LOBBIEST FRED THOMPSON!!
So let me get this straight. With Fred Thompsons help, Roe v Wade may have been over turned?
Nice work Fred!!
Try the Indy route with ex-dem Joe! He could be your VP!
When Hume says "This is a billing scandel" the interviewer giggles and says "Here we go."
Go back and listen.
They can't even keep a straight face anymore when setting up the new lie talking points.
We've been watching Chimpy the English Professor lie and smirk to the American people for so long, we have become immune to the raw effect of it.
Tony Snow'dus comes out and sneers and winks through his talking point recertation everyday. These people are glaring at us. Soon enough they will just put a poster on the wall that says F--- You! We'll do what we want!
And we'll sit waiting for someone to ask "Can you guys do that?".
FORMER ABORTION RIGHTS LOBBIEST FRED THOMPSON!! needs your votes.
Shit Fumes
Using his Herman Munster-like appearance to try and shill for lobbyist Thompson.
Anyone catch John Pudhertz on "The McGlaughlin Group" today ?
With the exception of She-Yawn Insanity , why does every one of these GOP/Chimpy neo-con backing losers look awful to the point of frightening ?
Does all that lying and water-carrying really have that much of an effect on them ?
[...] Clark Link to Article fred thompson FOX News desperately wants the base to forget Thompson’s lobbyist [...]
Hume: "and I don’t believe he did very much for that abortion group…"
It's always what they believe that counts. Not evidence, not reality, but what they believe, which trumps reality.
Isn't that the exact explanation Hillary Clinton used about her work for Jim MacDougal while at the Rose law firm which the Republicans called bullshit on?
Ok, so using Brit Hume's "logic" when lobbyists push for their clients' pet legislation, they (the lobbyists)aren't required to know anything about the legislation or it's impact. Just take the money and sell the product. This is how our government is supposed to work, huh? Gee, I feel so much better already!
MCMetal @ 35:
They're repulsive people. Repulsive physically; repulsive spiritually. There's absolutely no mystery as to why all these hardcored neo-con freaks look alike. They might as well be vampires.
Old news...base is not impressed with the liberal media...article is all but forgotten..
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what brit believes is irrelevant. he claims to be a journalist and should stick with the facts, no?
the amazing thing to me, though, is that, if republican politicians are so damn smart, one would think that they spend much less time acting like stunned buggers and mumbling "i don't recall" or "i don't remember"...
but i have a strong suspicion that none of this has anything to do with smarts...
it is about deception and perpetuating delusion...
pure and simple...
ok, if we're talking shelf life here, lets forget about the clenis.
Erm...what's the opposite of "damned with faint praise", Brit? I don't think you reasoned that out too well - it sounds like Fred was a whore for the money but was too lazy to do the work. Or Thompson just wanted to take the money and hurt the client...Oops! Either way, that's fraud, Brit!
Yeah, billing for services you didn't supply! Now that IS a GOP value!! Just look at KRB.
Remember who the loyal FOX audience is. If Brit says that, through his occult (oops, God Given) powers he can see into the Heart of Thompson and KNOW that he was just robbing those folks and not really lobbying for them, then it really happened.
Man, if I had a company I would really want to advertise on FOX. I could sell their viewers ANYTHING.
(Take three of my Fat-Melt-Away pills a day and you will lose 30 pounds a month GUARANTEED!!! - Just $50 a bottle. Get then NOW!!)
Just another f**king Republic Party hypocrite!
"Law and Order" thompson, like ghouliani, romney and many others who are trying to get elected, seems to profess whatever belief is most expedient to gain acceptance with the audience he is facing. These guys are all alike - and they are all cut in the mold of bush.
This country is about to become a dictatorship, and our congress is picking daisies!
Wake up, America!
Hume-rless just sits there and sneers and says it wasn't really lobbying for that group and he didn't get paid that much. Ah, but you can't say, Brit you twit, that he 'didn't' lobby for them, WHEN THEIR RECORDS SAY HE DID. You clearly forgot about journalists needing to check the facts before they attribute something, which you clearly didn't do. Either lazy, careless, or you knew but didn't wish to say, which makes you a liar. I believe that last one. You're a liar. He was lobbying and you know it, you partisan creature.
Well, at least they are talking about it on Fox. If they had just ignored it totally, the yokels that love Fuhrayud would never have known about it.
I see, Thompson wasn't pro-choice he was a con-artist stealing from his clients. I guess that's better in the NeoCon universe.
foolme1ns @ 15:
These guys are predictable, aren't they. Nixon/Bush: "If a [Republican] president does it, then by definition it's legal." (We all know that statement will "no longer be operative" after the next election.) If any Republican besides the president does it, then it's either good or, at worst, not really that bad." Top to bottom, sos.
Machiavelli would definitely recognize the tactic!
This is a response that should be coming from a Thompson's people. I simply cannot conceive of a supposed journalist functioning as such an obvious apologist for a politician.
Hume's lack of objectivity and integrity is not a surprise or even a disappointment but still.....
You may be right, Brit, it may just be a 'billing scandal'. That may apply to Thompson.
Like when FOX pays you for delivering the news, and you don't do it, and no one remembers you doing it, so you must not have done it, and, if pushed to the wall, you could prove you didn't do it, so it really didn't happen.
But...but...doesn't that make you a thief? Or, at least, a fraud?
And do we really need another fraudulent thief in Congress?
Basically, Fred Thompson shouldnt be held up as a K Street lobbyist because he just wanted to make a paycheck and he wasnt unusually good at it.
Two qualifications needed to be the next president ere I heard them....
I see a pay raise in Brit Hume's immediate future. He should probably use it to get some Zoloft.
FOX News = fair and balanced BULLSHIT!!!
The Champ is out.
Can anyone see one single News Anchor at any other television news entity behave so embarrasingly partisan as Brit Hume?
Brit Hume is a joke. He's the biggest joke "news" anchor in the history of televised news.
AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Can anyone find film of Brit talking about the Hillary billing scandal from the 90's? She was innocent, but they hounded her for years about billing irregularities.
Hell, I just read the other day they were still at it. Still trying to hammer her about illegal billing practices, for which she was CLEARED.
They honestly don't know we have recording devices!
HA! Absolutely incredible! I firmly believe that a positive outlook on life can make you happy and successful, but when your 'outlook' runs completely contrary to reality, you are either insane, or headed to a very bad end.
Its like the Looney Toons principle of gravity. Brit thinks that if he doesn't look down, he won't fall 1000 feet off that cliff.
What's scary about this, these people have children and they probably raising them to be delusional liars like themselves. This is amazing.
Brit is just polishing his skills for his future stint as Press Secretary for the Bush State-of-Emergency Third Term. I loo forward to his tortured explanations as to why the Constitution isn't really all that important after all, why poor Junior just had to suspend it indefinitely, and how it will be reinstated when all the non-FoxNews viewers have been dealt with.
Fried Thompson...will be another anticipated fake,fakir,focus bogus.Check the voting record,check the facts,look at the sun.Same bin, same crowd,same slogans,...but said differently.GOP is not GOP,it is a Pop.
oh, I'm sorry, officer, I know I was going 120mph, I just forgot that the speed limit was 65 maph.....
You all know how that goes....
Is there a sleazier person on TV News than Britt Hume? The guy oozes contempt & sleaze!
So Brit he just took their money and then didn't do any significant work. Basically you're saying he over billed his clients for shoddy work. Is that a quality that we'd really want in our next President.
I'm sure Hume said the same thing during the Hillary Clinton/Whitewater/Rose Law Firm billing "scandal." Unlike Thompson, at least Hillary never lied and said that she no zero work for clients for which some billing records had her name on them.
Odd how Hume seems to believe conservatives, republicans , isn't it ?
Does it seem like Hume can believe anyone that is NOT conservative?
I think if Putin immigrated to America and registered Republican. Hume would promote him for President as well.
Hume is predictably one deminsional. "Them against us", Right Hume?
Ah....Republicans....
When inconvenient facts come up....they just want to forget them...'live & let live'...right???
FACT: Fred Thompson....ABORTION LOBBYIST
You can't spin that...and while most of us here, have no problem with his past actions of keeping women's rights intact....we absoluting loathe his 'new found' hatred of women's rights and people will remember this...come November 08...
He has no chance in hell of winning anything. He turns intelligent, women off.
And his unethical behavior of feeding information to the Nixon White House during Watergate investigations doesn't bother them?
Anybody reading skilled at voodoo?
Brit Hume? The closest thing to truthfulness that ingratiating lapdog of the right ever utters might be the word , "the." On separate occasions we've seen him in action interviewing Bush and Chaney. Shameful that he calls himself a journalist. It's no wonder that the words right and slime have the same number of letters. I watch Faux Noise when the televanglists aren't entertaining enough.
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