Fred Thompson to play "The Conservative"

Here is a release about Fred Thompson's candidacy:

Richard A. Viguerie
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FOR RELEASE September 5, 2007

Richard A. Viguerie, author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books, 2006), issued the following satirical news release regarding soon-to-announce presidential candidate Fred Thompson:

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Fred Thompson Under Contract to Play “The Conservative”

(Washington, D.C.) Fred Thompson, well known for his role as the District Attorney in NBC’s wildly successful “Law and Order” series, has been signed by Faux Productions to star in its new political soap opera, “The Conservative.”

The prime-time soap will appear on the Political Network.

The series’ debut is expected any day, after summer production mishaps that saw the replacement of many top staff executives. Financing for the show also proved harder to obtain than originally expected. But Faux Productions President Howard Baker maintains a steady optimism about the new soap’s prospects for success.

“We have done massive research into what the American public wants in a politician today,” says Baker, “and we’re going to give them everything they want.”

“They want a strong national-defense conservative, so we’re giving them a strong national-defense conservative.”

“The public wants a fiscal conservative, so we’re giving them a fiscal conservative.”

“And most of all, they want a social conservative, so we’re giving them a social conservative.”

One Faux executive confided to The Washington Insider that the producers wanted to sign Thompson for the series because he was seen as a “natural,” having already impersonated a conservative U.S. Senator for eight years. It is not yet known whether the new production will bring back the old stage props, such as Fred’s red pickup truck. That may be fine for Tennessee, the executive said, but too unsophisticated for a national show. Rumors are also rampant that Jeri Thompson, who plays the leading distaff role as The Conservative’s child bride, doesn’t like pickup trucks.

Off the record, company officials confided that the summer production delays probably ended up as a plus for the Faux soap. This year the political entertainment schedule started early, without waiting for the usual Fall launches.

With the summer Nielson ratings showing no clear market-share winner, they feel this is the time for “The Conservative” to come to the rescue of values-oriented viewers throughout the nation, but especially in the South, where new Republican-oriented presidential entertainment must dominate the ratings in order to win a majority of the national viewership by November 2008, which brings a four-year contract under Political Network rules.

In the summer trials, “Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11 Show” led the pack but failed to dominate the ratings. Hollywood insiders, remembering the success of the movie “Some Like It Hot,” thought that series could be rescued with some lively cross-dressing scenes starring The Mayor, which are already available surreptitiously on the Internet. But the show’s producer, Military-Industrial Productions Inc., decided those scenes were best left in the set’s closet.

The “Conservative Mitt Romney” show has done better than expected, but is being sued for character defamation by the producers of the “Massachusetts Mitt Romney” show, which had a decidedly liberal cast. And nobody knows what has happened to “The Maverick,” starring John McCain. He was last seen, apparently lost, somewhere in Sioux County, North Dakota.

That leaves the field wide open for a Faux production.

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NOTE to EDITORS: Richard A. Vigueriepioneered ideological and political direct mail and has been called “the funding father of the conservative movement” for his role in helping build dozens of conservative organizations. He is the author of Conservatives Betrayed--How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books, 2006).

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