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I have a friend who should be our arch-enemy. He has been in the past,
and he is ideologically just about 180° opposed to everything I support,
except that in the recent past he has come to the conclusion I tried on
him many years ago, getting the response that I was an icorrigible "libbrul."
Check this out:
The Washington Insider
Your Trusted Source for Hollywood-New York-Washington
Entertainment News
Fred Thompson Under Contract to Play “The Conservative”
(Washington, D.C.) Fred Thompson, well known for his role as the District
Attorney in NBC’s wildly successful “Law and Order” series, has been signed
by Faux Productions to star in its new political soap opera, “The Conservative.”
The prime-time soap will appear on the Political Network.
The series’ debut is expected any day, after summer production mishaps that
saw the replacement of many top staff executives. Financing for the show also
proved harder to obtain than originally expected. But Faux Productions
President Howard Baker maintains a steady optimism about the new soap’s
prospects for success.
“We have done massive research into what the American public wants in a
politician today,” says Baker, “and we’re going to give them everything they
want.”
“They want a strong national-defense conservative, so we’re giving them a
strong national-defense conservative.”
“The public wants a fiscal conservative, so we’re giving them a fiscal conservative.”
“And most of all, they want a social conservative, so we’re giving them a
social conservative.”
One Faux executive confided to The Washington Insider that the producers
wanted to sign Thompson for the series because he was seen as a “natural,”
having already impersonated a conservative U.S. Senator for eight years. It
is not yet known whether the new production will bring back the old stage
props, such as Fred’s red pickup truck. That may be fine for Tennessee, the
executive said, but too unsophisticated for a national show. Rumors are also
rampant that Jeri Thompson, who plays the leading distaff role as The
Conservative’s child bride, doesn’t like pickup trucks.
Off the record, company officials confided that the summer production delays
probably ended up as a plus for the Faux soap. This year the political
entertainment schedule started early, without waiting for the usual Fall launches.
With the summer Nielson ratings showing no clear market-share winner, they
feel this is the time for “The Conservative” to come to the rescue of
values-oriented viewers throughout the nation, but especially in the South,
where new Republican-oriented presidential entertainment must dominate the
ratings in order to win a majority of the national viewership by November
2008, which brings a four-year contract under Political Network rules.
In the summer trials, “Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11 Show” led the pack but failed to
dominate the ratings. Hollywood insiders, remembering the success of the
movie “Some Like It Hot,” thought that series could be rescued with some
lively cross-dressing scenes starring The Mayor, which are already available
surreptitiously on the Internet. But the show’s producer, Military-Industrial
Productions Inc., decided those scenes were best left in the set’s closet.
The “Conservative Mitt Romney” show has done better than expected, but is
being sued for character defamation by the producers of the “Massachusetts
Mitt Romney” show, which had a decidedly liberal cast. And nobody knows what
has happened to “The Maverick,” starring John McCain. He was last seen,
apparently lost, somewhere in Sioux County, North Dakota.
That leaves the field wide open for a Faux production.
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This is from my friend (yes, he is really a friend of mine, so sue me!),
Richard Viguerie.
They are not only getting it, they are beginning to discover that thinking
for themselves can lead them to strange places, such as to our doorstep.
Don't get me wrong, Richard will never be a supporter of ours or any of our
major positions, but he has realized that the rhetoric and the reality of the
radical right and the power-crazed Cheneybush crowd have as little to do with
conservatism as they do with liberalism. Greed is NOT good (apologies to
Gordon Gekko), and though it may work in the short term, it always leaves
disaster in its wake, and even guys like Richard Viguerie can see that a
group that is only out for themselves on the back of the rest of us is no
more a friend of conservatives than it is of progressives.
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