Presidential Hopeful Fred Thompson Hides Behind His Desk
Mark Halperin last week described Republican possible Presidential candidate Fred Thompson's "magnetism" and praised him as "poised and compelling" and exuding "bold self-confidence." Michael Moore challenged Thompson to a debate on health care.
This 38 second - one way debate - on YouTube, where Thompson urges Moore to enter a mental hospital, is Thompson's response. It is hardly the behaviour of a man exuding "bold self-confidence."
Indeed, it reeks of cowardice.
How typical of Republican "hard men". The kind of Republican "hard men" who show their bravery by insisting that other people's children fight wars that they support from behind their desks.
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There is nothing tough or folksy about Fred Thompson. He is but an actor—a con man—who has spent years honing both his tough-guy and down-home demeanor to fool the public. Thompson is the ultimate faker—a flimflammer with a red pickup truck that is being brought out by the GOP for his next scam on the political stage.
Here’s what the mainstream media won't tell you about Fred "Snake Oil" Thompson: He’s spent a good part of his political career in craven endeavors. From 1975 to 1992 Thompson was a lobbyist for corporations such as Westinghouse and General Electric, and most notoriously, the Tennessee Savings and Loan League.
Actors make good con men and con men make good actors. And in 1982, Thompson was vigorously lobbying for legislation to deregulate the Savings and Loan industry although he knew it could destroy the foundations of the institution. The deregulation that ensued gave the thrifts the freedom to invest in risky speculations and gamble away the savings of U.S. consumers.
The Savings and Loan debacle was the crowning moment of the Bush Oligarchy. Over one thousand thrift institutions collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their life savings. The ultimate cost of the crisis was $150 billion and George H.W. Bush bailed out the thrifts to the tune of $125 billion, which contributed greatly to the largest budget deficits this country had ever seen to that point. These deficits heralded the 1990-91 recession, one of the lowest points of our nation’s economic viability since the Great Depression.
John Kenneth Galbraith called the Savings and Loan Scandal, “the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance, and larceny of all time.”
Thanks for that Paine in the Ass. I didn't know about the Savings and Loan Scandal.
But I agree that Thompson is simply an actor and a con man. The idea that this is a tough guy is simply a joke.
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