It's more of that hypocrisy coming from the conservative side. They'll be the first people to call actors and musicians nothing more then hollywierd scum if they have views that go against that of conservatives and then with the same face praise an actor with the same views as them.
Example :
Leonardo DiCaprio : We need to do our best to stop global warming.
NP : ****ing hypocrite.
Fred Thompson : Global warming doesn't exist.
NP : He should run for president.
Born in
Sheffield,
Alabama, Thompson grew up attending the
public schools in
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He attended
Memphis State University where he earned an undergraduate degree in
philosophy and
political science in
1964. He received a
J.D. degree from
Vanderbilt University Law School in
1967. He was admitted to the Tennessee
bar in 1967 and commenced the practice of law, serving as an assistant
U.S. attorney from
1969–
1972. He was the campaign manager for Senator
Howard Baker's successful re-election campaign in 1972, which led to a close personal friendship with Baker, and he served as co-chief counsel to the
Senate Watergate Committee in its investigation of the
Watergate scandal, (
1973–
1974). He was responsible for Baker's asking one of the questions that is said to have led directly to the downfall of
President Richard Nixon—"What did the President know, and when did he know it?" Also, Thompson's voice has become immortalized in recordings of the Watergate proceedings, asking the key question, "
Mr. Butterfield, were you aware of the existence of any listening devices in the
Oval Office of the President?"
In
1977, Thompson took on a Tennessee Parole Board case that ultimately toppled
Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton from power on charges of selling
pardons. The scandal became the subject of a book and a movie titled
Marie (
1985) in which Thompson played himself, supposedly because the producers were unable to find a professional actor who could play him plausibly. This film launched his acting career. Thompson would go on to appear as racist demagogue "Dr. Knox Pooley" in a
story arc of the TV series
Wiseguy (
1988) and in numerous
feature films, including
The Hunt for Red October (
1990),
Cape Fear (
1991), and
In the Line of Fire (
1993).
[edit] Senate career
On
November 8,
1994, Thompson was elected to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired portion of the term ending
January 3,
1997, left vacant by the resignation of
Al Gore, defeating six-term
Democratic U.S. Representative Jim Cooper in a landslide which represented the most votes anyone had ever received for a statewide office in Tennessee history up to that point. Thompson took the oath of office on
December 2, 1994. Almost immediately upon his arrival in
Washington, D.C. ("while I was still unpacking my boxes," as he put it), Thompson was selected by the Republicans to give a reply to a nationally-televised address by
President Bill Clinton. This was no doubt due to his acting background, but many pundits saw this as an attempt to groom him for an even larger political role. Thompson was easily re-elected in
1996 for the term ending
January 3,
2003 over Democratic attorney Houston Gordon of
Covington, Tennessee by an even larger margin than that by which he had defeated Cooper two years earlier. His name was regularly mentioned in the year
2000 as a potential candidate for
Vice President alongside the
Republican Presidential nominee
George W. Bush.
In the Republican primaries, he initially backed former Tennessee Gov.
Lamar Alexander. On Alexander dropping out of the race Thompson endorsed Senator
John McCain's bid and became his national co-chairman.
[1] While in the Senate, he was chair of the
Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1997 to
January 3,
2001 which conducted investigations into allegations
China attempted to influence American politics prior to the 1996 elections (See:
campaign finance scandal) and
January 20, 2001 to
June 6, 2001, when the reorganization of the Senate prompted by the resignation of
James Jeffords of
Vermont from the Republican Party changed the control of the Senate. Thompson then became the ranking minority member.
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Yeah, I'll put him up against Brad Pitt anyday, even Al Franken.
