SCREENSHOT: Fred Thompson exploits stint as Love Boat's Gopher

[yurbud]

Forget Obama, we should run Isaac.

http://fredpresident08.blogspot.com">


See more at http://fredpresident08.blogspot.com">Go for Gopher in '08!

[dragonlady]

1. This website has it all mixed up

Gopher was played by Fred Grandy, who actually went on to serve four terms in Congress from Iowa as a Republican. (This is from Wikipedia--it also gives the interesting facts that he was roommate to David Eisenhower at prep school, got a degree from Harvard, and speaks both French and Arabic).

[yurbud]

3. maybe someone confused them on purpose

[nuxvomica]

2. Ahem. Fred Thompson wasn't Gopher.

But he is a "thespian" and that's going be a problem for him in the South.

[yurbud]

4. see note above

[LiberalFighter]

6. I didn't know he was a thespian... I didn't know a man could be a thespian

What does his wife have to say about him being a thespian? Does she like the fact he has thespian sex? In the south they don't tolerate thespian sex. It is just not natural. The bible is against thespian sex. Paul says they are an abomination.

[dragonlady]

8. Not only that, he's a sextagenarian too! n/t

[tabasco]

12. A sextagenarian thespian!!1!1!!

Wait till the fundies find out!!!

This is hugh!!!1!1!!!

[Skip Intro]

5. I wish I could find the clip of thomson on Rosanne - he was a jerk of a boss

working people like servants for crumbs.


that has to be on youtube somewhere

[ComerPerro]

9. clip here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU2vwoGy7FM

[abq e streeter]

7. Some respect for Gopher

Yeah, as soon as I saw this,I also remembered it had been another Fred who went into politics. Interesting thing about him too: I don't know much about him politically except that he was (is?) a Republican , which would have eliminated any chance of my having any respect for him except for one thing which redeemed him in my eyes. I hope my memory serves me correctly here. He did a couple of terms in the house, and decided to not run again. He then teamed up with a Democrat , who did the same (the name escapes me and I'm too lazy to go trying to find it right now), and the two of them wrote an open letter explaining why they were bailing . This was in the days when term limits were the "cause celebre" du jour (uh oh, Frenchy words, guess I can kiss a career n politics goodbye). Grandy and the other guy's letter said they wanted term limits for constituents and said that America's problems were not so much from politicians not paying attention to what voters wanted, but TOO much attention; i.e. , promising the impossible ( no new taxes while at the same time maintaining services etc.) because you couldn't get elected without telling the rubes the pretty lies they wanted to hear. Of course , in my view, most of this hypocritical pandering is done on the Repub side; (it'd be interesting to know if Grandy has renounced his party), but we're not immune to leaders or would-be leaders telling audiences whatever it is they think they want to hear. For that one act of honesty, I've always had some respect for Fred Grandy.

[iverglas]

10. Interesting!

He seems to be doing some media stuff worthy of note. The site where I find it requires registration, and I don't feel like it, but here's google's cached version of a page:

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:v1ETjgfEifkJ:www.wmal.com/showDJ.asp%3FDJID%3D16433+site:wmal.com+%22fred+grandy%22+resigned&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=ca

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

No Admittance To Virginia Schools For Illegals…

Is This A Reasonable Proposal?

Virginia Republicans announced legislation that would prohibit public colleges and universities from accepting illegal immigrants even if they attended a public high school and were brought to the US at an early age by their parents. GOP leaders said some Virginia residents are being denied access to college because too many illegals are taking available slots. Immigrant-rights activists say illegal immigrants aren't being admitted to Virginia colleges anyway and accused the GOP of trying to needlessly scare voters.

Is this a good plan? Will it help the citizens of Virginia? Is it fair to block young people from getting an education? Can you punish the son or daughter for something their parents did? Would it matter if the students paid out-of-state tuition? Or, do you agree with denying admittance across the board?

Looks a big push-pully to me ;) -- in the right direction.

Fred Grandy has lived a life about which most people can only fantasize. He starred on the wildly successful TV series The Love Boat, which not only obliged him to visit the world’s most romantic ports of call, but actually PAID him to do it. Yet at the height of his show business success, Fred abandoned Hollywood to launch a campaign for Congress in his native Iowa.

Fred began an eight year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was greatly respected and liked on both sides of the political aisle. While a member of Congress, Fred won eight “Watchdog of the Treasury” awards.

He the left government and entered public service where he took over one of our nation’s largest charitable organizations, Goodwill Industries, as the President and CEO.

Sounds like not a too bad guy. Might even get a chuckle out of the new website.

As for the other one, speaking as a Canadian, all I can say is how glad I am not to have to look at him on Law and Order (which is proportionately much more popular up here) any more. My loss ... your pain. ;) but no -- really, the pain would be at least equally mine should he become president of our often much too pushy neighbour, actually, so I'll volunteer to put up with whatever he does on my TV screen if you make sure that doesn't happen.

[abq e streeter]

11. Thanks for the additional info.

Does seem like a pretty decent guy.

[yurbud]

13. the site is clearly satirical. Fred Thompson played the captain, not Gopher.