A writer named Tina Daunt at the Los Angeles Times is clueless:

Ronald Reagan became president even though he worked with chimps in B movies.

Hahahahaha. One movie late in his film career,, one chimp. Ronald Reagan was a A-movie actor. Clueless.

But she next turns her powerful mind to Fred Thompson:

So can “Law & Order” actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) become the first presidential candidate with this credit? Thompson played a white supremacist, spewing anti-Semitic comments and fondling an autographed copy of “Mein Kampf” on a television drama 19 years ago.

What ?!?

Daunt is dense. Check this out:

But in the age of YouTube, this performance could raise an intriguing political question: How does a performer eyeing a presidential run deal with a video history that can be downloaded, taken out of context, chopped into embarrassing pieces and then distributed endlessly though cyberspace?

Hey, Tina, it will be a barrel of laughs for you lefties, but the rest of us understand that play-acting is a career, a job. We know the difference between fantasy and reality

It is not fair to blame Tina. She was told to write the story and she did, and it is a legitimate question for some people. The way she wrote it was scatter-brained, but she’s a reporter. It’s what we sometimes get.

(HT, Patterico.)