Fred Thompson on teevee today asking folks to sign his petition to 'Renew the Tax Cuts.'

[flpoljunkie]

(if you go to the website, you will see this petition is brought to you by the League of American Voters. What is 'The League of American Voters' and who is bankrolling them? Also, notice, they dare not called them the 'Bush' tax cuts.)

Who Is Bankrolling the League of American Voters?

Source: Huffington Post, September 24, 2009.

"Standing in a medical exam room, a neurosurgeon in a white lab coat stares solemnly into the camera and warns that President Obama’s health care plan 'will hurt our seniors' and 'end Medicare as we know it.' ... How this ad came to be produced and distributed provides a case study in modern American political advocacy. It shows how a quickly assembled group with uncertain origins and funding can make a mark on one of the most contentious public policy debates in memory. The group that says it paid for the campaign -- the League of American Voters -- incorporated less than two weeks before the ad was released online. The League’s executive director, its only employee, declined to identify its founders or donors but claims that in less than two months of existence it has built a membership of 16,000 and raised about $1.7 million in donations. ... Interviews and a review of public records show that a wide-ranging group of people coalesced to launch the League or its ad campaign: Dick Morris, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and one of the nation’s more flamboyant political operatives; a one-time West Virginia political candidate (; a New York rabbi; a filmmaker best known for an ad questioning the patriotism of Vietnam War veteran and then-Georgia senator Max Cleland (Rick Wilson); and a Florida doctor who once settled a state medical board allegation that he had operated on the wrong site during a spinal procedure."

http://www.renewthetaxcuts.com

[tularetom]

1. Fred Thompson? I thought he was dead.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Nah. But he can mimic a stiff flawlessly.

Must have been all those years spent at Julliard.



Or a lumber yard, I forget which.

[StopTheNeoCons]

2. And I've been seeing their ass ads on DU ALL DAY LONG

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. I saw the commercial the other day and nearly threw up! n/t

[hileeopnyn8d]

5. I've been looking at his

crotchety old man scowl all week on DU.

[katandmoon]

6. I just signed it on behalf of a wealthy sitcom character

Using this email service:

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

[flpoljunkie]

9. Ha! And which character would that be?

Perhaps someone from the old show 'Dallas?'

[katandmoon]

10. Good idea! But I ended up being both Mr. & Mrs. Thurston Howell III

[BlueMTexpat]

7. It would be nice to know whether Fred is one of the tiny percentage of

Americans that letting the tax cuts lapse would affect.
And yes, I thought he was dead and gone too!

[flpoljunkie]

8. Of course, he would be affected.

[BlueIdaho]

11. Was that before or after he wanted you to get one of his reverse mortgages? nt.

[old mark]

12. I saw Fred do his thing on MSNBC last night...He has a beard! nt