"The Boston Globe reports that while Fred Thompson loves to bill himself as a Watergate hero, it just ain't so. It turns out that while playing the role of Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel, Fred was acting as a mole/spy for Richard Nixon. The Republican actor was reporting highly confidential information directly to the White House! [via TPM Cafe]"And there's more.
" The alleged pro-life conservative Fred Thompson worked as a lobbyist for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assn. in the early 1990s, reports the LA Times.
It was Thompson's job to lobby the H. W. Bush Administration 'to withdraw or relax' the abortion 'gag rule' -- a rule that 'barred abortion counseling at clinics that receive federal money."
When you are a 'Gucci-wearing, Lincoln-driving, Perrier-drinking, Grey Poupon-spreading millionaire Washington special-interest lobbyist who poses as a country lawyer driving a red pick-up truck -- in order to fool the people into voting for you -- well, there are bound to be a few surprises."
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