OK, lots of people have taken pot shots at Jeri Thompson, calling her, among other things, a trophy wife. The standard reply to this rather sexist accusation is that, no, Jeri Thompson is no bimbo, in fact, she's a lawyer. Dozens of stories have run in major news outlets propagating this claim. Fox, the AP, the Chicago Tribune, London's The Independent, The National Review, the USA Today, even (gasp!) some writers at this very blog. It seems that everybody in the media was eager to defend Jeri's credentials as a smart, competent woman by stating that she practiced law.
The problem? Jeri Thompson isn't a lawyer. Where does this revelation come to us from? Well, the Washington Post got it straight from Thompson campaign spokeswoman Linda Rozett. Money quote:
"Jeri Thompson does not have a law degree."As Nixguy pointed out earlier, Fred himself also chose this day to clear up the confusion by chatting with the National Review's Byron York. Funny that. Especially after all the ink that has been spilled assuring the public that Mrs. Thompson is a practicing lawyer. Guess it just slipped Fred's and Jeri's mind to correct the record until now.
Reader Comments ( Page 2 of 4)
16. I think that Thompson's approach to running for President is brillant. The others have been at each other for months now and have spent loads of their campaign funds doing so. I'm sure most of you would agree that we are about sick of hearing all the back-stabbing and name calling. Now enters Thompson. A new fresh name, having not spent campaign monies to early and has equal TV, radio, press time as the others. Brillant! That is the kind of man we need in the White House....one with a Brain! Who cares if he was or is an actor, plumber, or yardman! He saw a need to speak out and represent his country when he started in the Senate! What are the rest of us doing...setting in the back ground picking everyone apart and trashing them. How does that help American. Why don't we trash the others for what they did before. That is exactly why we don't need the Clinton's again. They disgraced the US! Thompson..he is the right man for the Job!
Jackie at 12:33PM on Aug 7th 2007
17. The post is a left wing mouth piece, nothing more. I don't ever listen to a word. We need Thompson and his basic integrity. His wife is a pretty( dosn't make her a bad person) and those who don't like her for that can go get a face lift and stop eating Mcdonalds every day. The Repulicans need this change, and the democrats need to quit their disgusting childish bantar towards the other party.
Bill and hilary disgraced this nation and for NY and the democtartic party to stand with her. well I say you should be ashamed. I am disturbed by the partisan discussions filled wth lies and hate but more than that is that our country and politics have become a digrace around the world. What happened to character, self decipline, integrity and honor. Bill destryed that and hillary just sat back and watched. Well what would she do in a national crisis, go to her room and bajke cookies? I dont think so
Do unto others as you would have done to you
Think before you react and mayvbe we can salvage what our fore fathers had intended
John McCafferty at 12:42PM on Aug 7th 2007
18. I'm so happy. On September 5, our true conservative couple returns from their vacation with the Iraqi Parliament. The true conservatives will have a new website all ready. The latest version of campaign central calls him George Washington!? Funny, none of the founders voted for a war only to leave public service to act and lobby.
jimrob at 12:42PM on Aug 7th 2007
19. I have to tell you that there is more than enough corruption to go around, but you people amaze me! Do you ever read outside our "Non News System"? We do not get the news, we have become a corporate society and what ever makes the coporations and their operatives money, that's the way it'll be. All the news organizations are owned by corporations, you can see a connection???
Now that we speak of stolen votes, we need go no further than florida (2000) and Ohio (2004). We have not had a legitimate president for 7 years now.
I personally don't know if Hillary's campaign is a possible winner but I do know we HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT HEALTH CARE.
I watched my brother lose his house because he has heart disease and needed surgery to survive. As soon as he found out the diagnosis, his job gave him the heave ho (police officer with insufficient years to retire) and his new job's insurance said it was a pre-existing condition. This same situation is possible with so many of us, it is a true shame and we should do something about it.
Before you start in with the prepared speech about not seeing a Doctor for years under universal health care, realize that it is propoganda from insurance companies to continue to rape you and everyone else they can.
Of the millions that have full benefits at work, do you realize that they funnel 10's of BILLIONS into insurance company pockets every month? The sole purpose of insurance is to make money so they deny claims that they can, discount those they can't and raise rate insane amounts every chance they get.
The whole notion of "for profit" medicine is foreign to me, it's like for profit police protection, for profit basic education or for profit charity. We need to wake up and smell the coffee.
The changes needed as I see it are:
#1 should be health care across the board
#2 should be outlaw all campaign contributions or gifts and the lobbying of candidates and elected officials. There should be only individual voices from the electorate, not the likes of lawyers, insurance companies, drug companies and coporate lackies subverting the will of the people.
#3 We need to get our news back. The deregulation of the airwaves was one of the largest mistakes of the 20th century. Rupert Murdoch and his ilk need to be stripped of the booming voice that has drowned out and or killed the voices that are truthful, dependable and independant.
#4 We need to simply delete Nafta and all the other "free trade" treaties. This was a complete shell game where the american worker was sold down the river. We can manufacture anything as well as or better than the rest of the world. Why on earth should we compete against countries with no health care at all, no minimum wage, no working standards, no safety standards and no retirement/social security system? The only real competition that is legitimate are those countries that are on an equal with us in the above mentioned infrastructure. The rest, we are "competing against slavery".
Those of you citing religious references, get over it already! Organized religion is a pathology (sickness) and religion was meant for personal level actions anyway. No one of us, Clinton or Bush, are any better than the other. If it took "deserving" to be looked on as acceptable by God, we'd all fail miserably. And one more thing, God does not need our help winning people over, or for us to be sanctimonious. I suspect he is very sad we are like that.
carteachr at 12:59PM on Aug 7th 2007
20. Quess what folks, Fred Thompson is worth waiting for.
AlitoRAF at 1:17PM on Aug 7th 2007
21. Let's face it American, we have absolutely the worst group of candidates in many a year. I don't care if you are a Republican or a Democrate, the candidates just don't have the resume' for the job.
Look at Giuliani,he could even fix the pot holes in his city and ease traffic congestion. If you can't do that how can you be President of the U.S.A..And for Hillary, what did she do in eight years as the first lady???? Put forth a unworkable healthcare solution. And as a Senator??...And as a wife. Stuck by a man that disgraced the Presidency, & lied about his sex acts in OUR HOUSE, and wears pant suit after pant suit to tell us she more man than women. Obama said he want to be President, what has he done as a Senator accept look at the Whitehouse, and tell me I should vote for him.And I have replied that I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
Unlike many Americans who choose to vote the party line, I try to vote for the candidate with the record and the best resume'. Unless things change,
it looks like I'm at home next November. But, maybe someone like Al Gore will appear and take us all out of what will definitely be a mess.
Art Richards at 7:14PM on Aug 7th 2007
22. Imagine that... more hypocrisy from the Amnesiac Party. How soon some forget (or choose to ignore) the 100 or so who fled the country or took the 5th, the sale of our security by relaxing protections, piles of cash from the Red Chinese, doing nothing about terrorism (and lying about it currently), etc. It shouldn't surprise me though... Hillary couldn't remember where her records were (on the table in their White House residence) and you can't remember which party was/is more corrupt.
Dene at 1:28PM on Aug 7th 2007
23. Do we need another "actor" for president? It dosen't matter what the persons former job or jobs were, we need a person who can ACT like a president and represent the U.S. in a respectful manner. ---Maybe it does take an actor---a damn good one. Run Fred Run.
garland at 1:49PM on Aug 7th 2007
24. WHILE IA GREE WITH DEBI COMPLETELY, I FIND IT ODD SHE CLAIMS TO HAVE VOTED FOR BILL CLINTON TWICE AND THEN MAKE REFERENCE TO THE BIBLE AND HER DEMOCRATIC PREFERENCE IN THE SAME BREATH. MY BELIEF IS ANY CHRISTIAN WHO CAN VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE WHO IS PRO-CHOICE ( 40 MILLION BABILES KILLED TO DATE AND 1.4 MILLION EACH YEAR) AND ALSO A CANDIDATE WHO IS PRO GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT A CHRISTIAN AT ALL...." BY THEIR FRUIT YOU WILL KNOW THEM" ...i AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT POINT AND THAT QUOTE DEBI. NOT TO MENTION THE CLINTON'S POSITION ON NAFTA AND CAFTA AND THE EXPORTING OF UNTOLD MILLIONS OF JOBS FROM THE US TO MEXICO, CANADA, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA ...ETC., ETC. YES...BEFORE YOU WRITE IT...."W" HAS NOT ONLY SUPPORTED IN HIS 6 YEARS IN OFFICE BUT IN FACT EXPANDED THE PROGRAMS...CHECK OUT THE "NORTH AMERICAN ALLIANCE " NORTH AMERICAN ACCORD AND THE BUSH PLANNED NAFTS SUPER HIGHWAY ...THE WIDTH OF 4 FOOTBALL FIELDS RUNNING FROM MEXICO TO CANADA, THROUGH KANSAS, WITH A HUGE STOREHOUSE/WAREHOUSE IN KANSAS ( SOVEREIGN MEXICAN TERRITORY ...IN "OUR" UNITED STATES ????? ). HILLARY AND BILL AND TED KENNEDY SUPPORT IT...SO DOES GORE AND EDWARDS AND OBAMA !! IS IT ANY WONDER WHY THEY ALL DO NOT WANT A FENCE BUILT OR OUR CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCED ? REMEMBER....THE BORDER PATROL HAS INFORMED US FOR SOME TIME NOW....MIDDLE EASTERN MEN AND WOMEN HAVE BEEN ENTERING MEXICO AND CHANGINF THEIR NEMES TO HISPANIC SURNAMES...LEARNING A LITTLE SPANISH...OBTAINING FAKE US CREDENTIALS AND THEN ENTERING THE COUNTRY ...SOME ARE CAUGHT MOST WE MUST ASSUME ARE NOT, COND SIDERING 12 TO 20 MILLION ILLEGALS HAVE ENTERED SUCCESSFULLY I DO NOT THINK ANY ONE WITH ANY DEGREE IF INTELLIGENCE COULD ARGUE THE POINT.
DO WE HAVE CANDIDATES WHO TRULY WANT A FENCE BUILT AND NAFTA/CAFTA REPEALED ??? YES...ALL REPUBLICANS ....I AM ONLY STATING THE FACTS. I WILL VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE WHO REPRESENTS MY VALUES AND MY COUNTRY...PROTECTING ITS SOVEREIGNTY AND SAFETY...NO MATTER WHAT PARTY AFFILIATION !
STEVE at 2:27PM on Aug 7th 2007
25. PLEASE EXCUSE ANNETTE K FOR HER IGNORANCE. WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER ACTOR FOR PRESIDENT ?? THE LAST AND ONLY LEGITIMATE ACTOR WE HAD AS WAS RONALD REAGAN AND 90% OF BOTH DEMOCRATS...EXCEPT, THE LIBERAL( SOCIALISTS/MARXISTS/COMMUNISTS, AND WE CAN ALL UNDERSTAND WHY ....DEMISE OF SOVIET UNION, BOOMING ECONOMY...THE LEGACY BILL CLINTON INHERITED...LETS NOT FORGET THAT !!) AND REPUBLICANS ALL AGREE WAS THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF THE CENTURY ! NOW IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT POOR ACTORS...THOSE WHO CAN ACT BUT NOT SO WELL AND NEVER PROFESSIONALLY...BILL AND HILLARY HAVE MY VOTE AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS. BILL FOR HIS FAMOUS...LOOK MILLIONS IN THE EYE AND CLAIM..." I NEVER HAS SEX WITH THAT WOMAN....ALSO STATING THE SAME TO A GRAND JURY...AND HILLARY PRETENDING SHE HSA EVER DONE SOMETHING WORTHWHILE...WHAT HAS SHE EVER ACCOMPLISHED ? OH...I KNOW, SHE WON A SENATE SEAT IN NEW YORK TWICE....BECAUSE AS SHE CLAIMS...SHE IS A NEW YORKER ????? IT ONLY DEMONSTRATES HOW STUPIS NEW YORKERS ARE...THOSE FROM THE CITY WHO VOTED FOR HER...! ANNETTE..YOU SCARE ME WITH YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OR POSSIBLY YOU COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR THE FACTS !
STEVE at 2:26PM on Aug 7th 2007
26. YOOU KNOW A MANS WIFE SHOULD BE HIS TROPHY, BUT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHAT SHE DOES FOR A LIVING, I WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HER FOR PRESIDENT, AND WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER FIRST LADY LAWYER THAT WANT TOBE PRESIDENT..
RICHARD at 2:08PM on Aug 7th 2007
27. Hillary Clinton is just another Bill Clinton. Why do you think she is the best candidate? Bill is an adulterer. Do you want that kind of leadership running our country? Get real! Doesn't that mean according to most bible's Bill's lifestyle causes her to be an adulterer as well? Don't trust me, go find yourself a bible and read it. How do you justify what went on in the White house? We don't know if his infidelity was planned to direct attention to her as the woman scorned. Sympathy will get people's attention. Wake up America. We don't need a repeat of this kind of poison. Is this how you want to raise your children with the belief that having other sexual partner's outside of marriage is ok? How many do you have? Only guilt will find you out. I dare you to tell your wife or husband that you have other lover's. I guess that's why you hide it because you are a coward to tell it just like any honorable person would be. Down with the Clinton legacy. You better think it over.
bob at 2:18PM on Aug 7th 2007
28. Janice,
I am impressed that someone actually feels the same way I do about the Clintons. We will be in serious trouble if those two get back in.
As far as Fred Thompson and his wife. The media eats this stuff up. Can you really really look at the media with admiration for their intellectual reporting of the facts? Sorry I can't.
Merrily at 2:21PM on Aug 7th 2007
29. I wish Fred all the luck in the world and for the Demos, one of them can't control her husband how can she control the srongest country in the world. God forgive if another terrorist attack happens with her in office.She will give free passes to terrorist just like her still now husband after 4(four) known aldulterous affairs (he has a unlimited pass). VOTE REPUBLICAN!
Chas at 2:57PM on Aug 7th 2007
30. It is obvious that Republicans want to say "what if Fred Thompson's wife is not a practicing lawyer?" The difference is that Fred Thompson knew that was a lie and did nothing to correct it. The lies of republicans start out "small" and then become like all of the lies that Bush and Cheney have told, "monumental" Yes I know but Clinton lied, yes but about his personal life, not the life of this great nation, unlike others we have to put up with every day. Clearly Bush is the worst president this country has ever had and history will prove this.
alibi731 at 2:59PM on Aug 7th 2007