-By Warner Todd Huston
I have been waiting for the MSM to start the drumbeat against Fred Thompson that they so often and so boringly used (and still do) against Ronald Reagan; the refrain of “He’s just an actor” Now, Rebecca Sinderbrand of the New York Observer has used the general theme for her latest piece, The Mysterious Appeal of Fred Thompson. Subtitled “Actor, Senator, presidential candidate… but what G.O.P. gap is he filling?, Sinderbrand makes liberal use of Thompson’s “roles” as a foil for his seriousness as a candidate and seems to be saying that the only reason anyone is considering him is because he looks the part as a result of his “camera presence”.
Sinderbrand’s entire piece is dismissive and shallow in its approach to the Senator with constant allusions to his being an actor playing a role and treats the Senator as if his candidacy is an effort at bait and switch, or at the very least a silly proposition. Throughout, Sinderbrand constantly mentions the acting aspect of the Senator’s life as if that is all there is to him just like they have always done with Reagan.
The “just an actor” accusation, though, doesn’t ring true in Thompson’s case because his acting was a late in life career move, not one that he pursued his whole life as other professional actors have done. This fact makes Thompson quite unlike Ronald Reagan who’s political career, not the acting career, was the later in life pursuit.
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A rather small section, one small paragraph, in a pretty straight forward story reveals the sheer absurdity and incomprehension that prevails in the Media today and serves to show the emptiness of what passes for thinking and logic about American history in what some feel are our cultural elites. It also shows the bias against things Southern in certain circles these days.
On Friday, Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the city of Washington D.C. could not ban its citizens from owning firearms because such a ban violates the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What was the refrain so often hurled at the right by the “good hearted” and “more civilized” left when Chelsea Clinton was brought into the campaign discussion in the 1990s? Didn’t they all solemnly shake their heads in disgust over those eeevil Conservatives who were attacking the president’s kid? Didn’t they scold the right saying that a candidate’s children should never be an issue? Well, apparently the New York Times has abandoned that genteel notion where .
The double standard of Leftists who are ignoring the outrage of Bill Maher — who alluded to his wish that Vice President Dick Cheney was assassinated – while at the same time are wildly fanning themselves in mock outrage as if they had the vapors over Ann Coulter — for calling Democrat John Edwards a bad name — was on full display in the MSM over the weekend.
What is it about the New York Times where they can’t stay above their talking points even when trying to interest the people in a higher level of political discussion and debate?
Would you be proud of yourself if your works were commemorated for helping put in power a murderous Communist who has killed thousands upon thousands of his own people over a 40 some year reign of terror?
A very interesting piece by Louis Chude-Sokei is featured in the L.A.Times today, titled 
Too many today assume that Iran getting a nuclear arsenal might not be so bad. There are various reasons they posit for this position, from Iran being sovereign and, therefore, unstoppable — and so it is none of our business, anyway — to the idea of equating Iran with the U.S.S.R. of the Cold War resulting in an assumption that a basic stalemated safety will result from a policy of containment (and a return to MAD) which will work to prevent the fanatics in charge of Iran from using them.
The worst thing about pop culture celebrities is their ever downwardly spiraling behavior. To get noticed they feel they must indulge in ever more outrageous behavior until they end up dead like Anna Nichol Smith or a drunken, debauched mess like the empty-headed Britney Spears. Sadly, the media and the gossip rags eat it up.
Last weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times gave nearly an entire page in their “Controversy” Section to a man who feels America is under attack by a radical, religion that is inseparable from Nazi Fascism. He feels it is a hateful religion that is out to destroy America and everything it stands for and it must be stopped at all costs.