Why doesn't the MSM ever include LOBBYIST on Thompson's resume?

[mitchum]

That's the "day job" that he held the longest

[muntrv]

1. Hey you! No talking bad about Arthur Branch on "Law & Order."

:sarcasm:

[napi21]

2. I've actually heard it mentioned a few times on CNN/MSNBC.

When he declares, I'm sure you'll hear a lot more about it.

[rusty charly]

3. for reference:

http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/05/he_took_on_some_lobbying_clien.html

"Notice anything smoothed over in there? Anything at all? Yes, that's right - there seems to be a strange-yet-massive 18 year gap in there between Watergate at his election to the Senate that is explained by a 6 word aside: "He then took on some lobbying clients." The throwaway nature of this line leads us to believe that Thompson's shilling for Big Money interests is just mildly interesting yet nonetheless extraneous narrative color - the kind of thing you might mention along with, say, someone's proclivities for a kind of music ("He then took on some lobbying clients and began listening often to Menudo"). Because in Washington, selling out to special interests isn't seen as controversial at all - it's just what you DO inside the Beltway. And reporters aren't about to - gasp! - point out that the latest presidential flavor of the month has spent far more time as a paid shill than as a public servant."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2092187,00.html

"Despite his background as a Washington lawyer and lobbyist, Mr Thompson attacked Congress as out of touch with constituents. Mr Thompson, who once said life in Washington made him "long for the sincerity and realism of Hollywood", announced he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2002 because he "simply did not have the heart for another six-year term". But Mr Thompson, apparently politically re-invigorated, said he was planning a campaign that would use blogs, video posts and other internet techniques to reach voters turned off by "politics-as-usual"."

[Clark2008]

4. Because he's their darling.

Didn't you know?

[BrklynLiberal]

5. VERY Highly paid PR man...and the media is still leaning toward complicit.

[whistle]

6. Don't forget "Sugar-Daddy"

[rusty charly]

7. more

"Over about two decades of lobbying… Thompson made nearly $1.3 million and represented clients including a British reinsurance company facing billions of dollars in asbestos claims, Canadian-owned cable companies, and deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, according to government documents and media accounts from his first run for the Senate in 1994…'There's nothing wrong with lobbying. It's an honorable profession,' Thompson spokesman Mark Corallo said…A year after stepping down , he registered to lobby for British reinsurance company Equitas Ltd. The company paid him $760,000 to guard its interests against several bills seeking to protect businesses from asbestos lawsuits."

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/06/01/the-gops-white-knight/

A little more:

"Thompson spent eighteen years as a registered Washington lobbyist, doing the bidding of such high-powered clients as General Electric and Westinghouse, pushing for the passage of the deregulatory legislation that led to the savings-and-loan crisis of the eighties."