It would be very easy to take some of the following quotes out of context and paint Fred Thompson as a racist:
He gets the crowd chanting: “Who’s to blame? Who’s to blame?”
“Who are these enemies?” he asks the crowd. “Some folks say it’s the Jews. In fact, if I had a quarter for every time I heard that, I would be 10 bucks shy of being Jewish myself.”
The scene continues. Thompson’s character says: “The fact remains that it would be easy to point our finger at the bankers and the financiers, Jewish or not, for the fact that our great nation can’t compete in the market place with the Asiatics. And it would be easy to blame the liberal leftist, Jewish or not, for sacrificing our working people on the altar of economic Bolshevism.” [LATimes]
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If you are trying to suggest that Fred’s acting will provide some excuse for Angry Al Franken’s over the top remarks you’re going to be dissapointed.
Thompson was reciting lines from a script, playing a character. The litany of Al Franken’s disgraceful quotes come directly from his own head.
In other words, when Angry Al says “I hate those MFers”, he’s playing Angry Al, when he pops a cork during public appearances, it’s all Al.
Nice try though..pfft.
There was once a time of personal denial that believed in the capability of the vast majority of good and loyal citizens in this country who held an amount of reason sufficient to dispel claims of blatantly apparent insanity. I can safely say I’m no longer burdened with that malady.
Last night I was confronted with the thirty-five percentile of democrats that actually admit to lending credence to the figment of some farceur’s imagination that our President had knowledge of the specific attack of Sept. 11, 2001 and allowed it to take place.
To watch the same sickness develop from another farceur of the same caliber is a wake-up call to the lock-step march of idiots….Time to open the gates of the asylum, we’ve got a delivery to make.
A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. On this one, I’ll agree with Swiftee. You are making a straw man argument.
Some of the quotes Franken made can be attributed to a character - but not all of his quotes can be explained away that way.
As much as it pains me, I must agree with Swiftee as well. Its pretty easy to see where you are going with this, and the comparison with Franken’s behavior just isn’t there.