FOX News desperately wants the base to forget Thompson’s lobbyist activities
July 22, 2007
Fred Thompson’s past career as a lobbyist…specifically, lobbying for the relaxing of abortion restrictions is a big problem for the GOP press office FOX News. When you’ve built your party around rigid ideologies, things like the reality can be a problem. But not for Brit Hume. He looks at the situation and feels that Thompson never really meant to help his client.
HUME: This is not an abortion scandal, in my view. This is a billing scandal. And what I think this tells us is…it may tell us the extent to which clients are sometimes billed for work done by the people they engage–lawyers, lobbyists and the rest–that is so insignificant that the person doing it, they don’t even remember. I believe Thompson didn’t remember this, and I don’t believe he did very much for that abortion group…
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