# Bill Frist: a triumph of good breeding. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-frist-a-triumph-of-good-breeding/229234 "2004-02-14T19:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-frist-a-triumph-of-good-breeding/229234/21 "2004-02-16T16:17:49Z")
> [@FisherQueen](#): > > There are several self-publishing concerns that offer distribution through Amazon. This looks to me like a book created through one of those and put up to make it simpler for the family to get it. Well, that might be true, or even likely, but the “reader” reviews also raise the possibility that this is a way of supporters to make campaign contributions at $50/pop without hitting donation limits. Worth considering. (As a motive, not as a purchase, I mean.) ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-frist-a-triumph-of-good-breeding/229234/22 "2004-02-16T16:33:42Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I am a Tennessee liberal Democrat who believes in being fair. There is no need to exaggerate the shortcomings or coverup the successes of the opposition. > > You forgot to mention that before Sen. Fred Thompson was an actor, he was a well-respected, nationally known attorney who served as counsel during the Watergate hearings. It was he who discovered that there were private Oval Office recordings. He helped to bring down arguably the most corrupt Governor in the history of the state. He was such a hero that his first acting role was to play himself. In the Senate, he was considered Presidential timber when, after the sudden death of his daughter, he decided to leave the political arena. He just didn’t have the heart for it anymore. > > The Frist family’s contributions are probably more evident in Nashville and include the Frist Museuem and enormous funding for the Nashville Zoo. As a physician in Nashville, Dr. William Frist volunteered twice a year to go to the Middle East to perform surgery on sick children. He continued to do that until national security told him specifically that it had become too dangerous for him to do that any longer. > > If you’ve ever had a geneological history of your family published, you are probably aware that they contain details that are of interest only to someone within that family. Dr. Frist had the interest and resources to do it and I’m sure that his family appreciates it. Not many others will be expected to. > > As for the OP, “good breeding” these days has more to do with _how_ you are raised than it does with genetics. At least that is the connotation that it has had during my lifetime in the South. > > I wouldn’t mind keeping William Frist in the Senate – althought I had rather that he be in the position of _Minority_ Leader. 😉 I really hate it when somebody humanizes a politician that I am trashing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-frist-a-triumph-of-good-breeding/229234/23 "2004-02-16T21:38:47Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > I already said, twice: just the title, as a title for a geneology. > > What’s your problem with reading comprehension? And what’s yours? What _specifically_, is your problem with the title? Do you have some sort of support for the loony miscegnation theory? Are you unused to the use of the word “breeding” as applied to humans? Do you find the very the idea that there is any such thing as “good breeding” elitist and offensive? Or do you just have some sort of Beavis and Butthead thing with the word “breed” and its logical implication of sexual congress among Rep. Frist’s forebears? For your reference: breeding NOUN: **1. One’s line of descent; ancestry: a person of noble breeding. 2. Training in the proper forms of social and personal conduct.** 3. Production of offspring or young. 4. The propagation of animals or plants. [cite](http://www.bartleby.com/61/22/B0472200.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-frist-a-triumph-of-good-breeding/229234.md?page=1)