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Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Posted on 11/25/2007 8:10:09 AM PST by Josh Painter
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports During an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R- Tenn., grew testy when shown clips of conservatives Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer saying that the former Law and Order actor could not win.
Thompson said such doom and gloom had been a "constant mantra" of Fox News since he got into the race.
He complained about the show's decision to show his poor performance in New Hampshire primary polls and pointed to how he is doing nationally (where some polls have him in second), in South Carolina (where some polls have him "leading or tied for the lead") and in Iowa (where third still puts him numerically ahead of Rudy Giuliani).
"For you to highlight nothing but the negative in terms of these polls and then to put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn't do it kind of skews things a little bit," said Thompson. "There is a lot of other opinion out there."
When asked by Wallace if anyone thinks he has run a great campaign, Thompson said, "It's not for me to come here and try to convince you that I've run a great campaign."
He then pointed to praise his policy ideas have received from the conservative National Review magazine.
"I understand the game of build-up and I understand the game of take-down and we all go through it. And I am perfectly willing for you to do that with regard to me as you do the other candidates. You have the right to put in your one side - to put in the Fox side - and I have right to respond to it and thankfully you've given me the opportunity to do that," added Thompson.
Wallace replied to Thompson's answer by saying, "Senator, I'm glad I asked the question because I got a heck of an answer."
“Look, the Emperor isn’t wearing any clothes” ping.
Excellent.
That I think is telling.
Thompson has a valid point.
Fox’s bias is indirect - it has talking heads (”analysts”) who tend to be only from one side of a given issue. For Thompson, almost all Fox wizards belong to the “Thompson is dull and boring” school.
Similarly, Fox’s on-air voices are pretty much one-sided in the support for open borders and amnesty on the illegal immigration issue.
Fair and balanced? - Not always!
*FRed Derangement Syndrome
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Wow....Sure does sound like a Democrat...Blaming others for his own shortcomings.
FoxNews is in the tank for Rudy? Say it ain’t so ...
Go Fred! Go Duncan!
Sam Cheney’64!
Is Fox News part of the vast right-wing conspiracy?
Where have I heard these accusations before..
FRed was on his game this morning.
You sure sound like a Dem trying to bring down Republican candidates. There’s a rumor floating that a bunch of Dems are trying to disrupt FR, you hear that one?? Welcome aboard.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
No he is blaming others for their shortcomings i.e. focusing on the NH poll and ignoring Fred's national standings. That is hardley fair and balanced, as Fox likes to claim for itself, and Fred was justified in pointing that out.
Haven’t seen the show yet, but could it be that the panel was taped previously and therefore was not there to respond to Fred’s interview? But then, seems they all would have been there since the whole show is taped. I usually agree with Charles K, but he is dead wrong about Fred! :)
S’true, just tune in for the Rootie Tootie baby killer booster show 3 hours a day, that’s all he asks.
My Fox viewing time is probably ten percent of what it was before amnesty, as I saw which side they were on, minus Hannity.
Is Fox pro-Rudy? It is in what I see.
Take off your makeup and come on out of the closet, boys.
Fox News: All the political nutritional value of cotton candy.
Fox news has become a travesty of a sham.
My FNC time is down to zero— unless I know there’s something I want to see.
It would have been more accurate to describe Barnes and Krauthammer as "neocons" rather than "conservatives". I respect Krauthammer, but who cares what Fred Barnes thinks about anything? I'm sure if Thompson called for an open borders policy Barnes would be praising him. I think Krauthammer is still rational on that issue and thinks the U.S. should actually defend it's borders.
If the National Review is supporting Thompson and The Weekly Standard is not then Fred is in good shape.
There is nothing wrong with that in a civilized society.
The most dangerous modern despots are the ones that are very good at appealing to the common man's need to be entertained and excited.
He’s right.
Wrong!
Fred was merely stating a fact. And running against the drive-by media is a very smart thing for a conservative to do.
Now go do your homework, and then you can go out and play.
My opinion of Fox News changed when Bill O'Reilly held up a bunch of worthless paper he claimed as evidence and charged Free Republic of racist postings. Follow up with the producer asking for links revealed Fox made it up.
Bill O'Reilly was bearing false witness against FR in an attempt to morally equate this site to DU, Kos, et. al.
Now this.
What they fail to realize as they attempt to run the Jedi mind trick is conservatives are all about truth, they don't collectively march, they independently think. ...and it took like what... 4 seconds to put the spot light on Brit Hume and Fox in general and call them what they are - shills.
No Mr. Thompson it did not begin when you got into the race. See if you can get a replay of election night 2004 and observe the euphoric glee displayed by these supposed new casters when they bought the polling bait JFKerry was going to win. Only Mr. Barone was wise enough to not buy into the leftist deception.
And when Rooty's main cheerleader, the dimwitted Sean 'Help, I Need Talking Points' Vanity sees this he'll throw a hissy fit. His fawning over Rooty is utterly sickening.
On Hugh Hewitt's show a couple of weeks ago, Charles declared that rudy is going to win the Republican nomination. The 20th Century Foxes are really pushing for the guy.
Yet the pro-Thompson Hunter bashers will blame Hunter's poor support on his bad campaigning, not media bias.
It was obvious a long time ago, as long as Fox is in the tank for Giuliani, Fred won’t get a fair shake from them. The FNC perspective on 2008 GOP campaign is anything but fair and balanced.
No, it became part of the drive-by media about the same time that Rudy Giuliani announced he was running for president.
Purely coincidence, I’m sure.
It took 11 posts for a Mittwit to show up?! As much as he’s paying you people, that is disgraceful!!
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Yeah, welcome to the club.”
Precisely. Fred is sounding way to conservative for the free traders/open border media, and yes, that includes Fox.
“For you to highlight nothing but the negative in terms of these polls and then to put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn’t do it kind of skews things a little bit,” said Thompson. “There is a lot of other opinion out there.”
You don’t get in spats with people that buy ink by the barrel or have the cameras 24/7....
I don’t think that it’s “Hunter-bashing” to say that his campaign hasn’t been up to snuff. [He got a restaurant-owner for a communications director, for goodness sake!] It’s nothing personal.
OK, Fred, so show us some of that great campaign. Doesn’t look like the fire is there, just yet....
Just talking to us in a folksy manner about the “genteel” life in Tennessee isn’t going to cut it.
If you are going to be an emulation of Ronald Reagan, make up your version of “The Speech”, and get out there delivering it at every opportunity. No Q and A, no ad libs, just make “The Speech” and get on to the next stop.
mad_as_he$$ wrote: “Tancredo was on Roger Hedgecock’s radio show yesterday and called Fred “a nothing burger”.”
Consistently polling at 1% or less, Tancredo is projecting his own “nothing burger” reflection onto Fred Thompson.
Oh, I agree, as far as that goes. But some will drag him through the mud, in an attempt to try to build up Fred. Meanwhile, Fred makes the same claim of media bias that we Hunter supporters do.
Why don’t you knock off the crap and grow up. Stop accusing people of being Democrats. You really are a tool.
Then today he came across as someone who is feisty - - - after months of this nauseating, soft charisma campaigning by the other candidates.
He separated himself from the rest of the pack and towered over Barnes, Krauthammer, and Matthews with that little bit of righteous indignation.
And now . . . if he can keep that new-found edginess, he can pull this thing out.
C'mon, Clara Lou, don't you know when you start with the snarkiness, you'll get it right back. Maybe you shouldn't start it? Duncan could have picked a felon drug dealer like Fred did.
ovrtaxt wrote: “Yet the pro-Thompson Hunter bashers will blame Hunter’s poor support on his bad campaigning, not media bias.”
Hey, there’s been media bias against all of the conservative candidates, from Hunter to Brownback to Tancredo to Fred Thompson.
Yet Thompson is the only one of that group who has had the political smarts to do well in spite of the media bias.
Why don’t you email Thompson your words of wisdom? They’ll mean so much coming from an experienced person like yourself.
There ARE quite a few racist posts here on FR.
The difference is that when they are reported they are generally removed. I know because I've reported a few myself.
The only other way to do things is to have every post reviewed before it is allowed to be posted, which creates an entirely different type of site.
When there are hundreds of thousands of posts, of course some are going to be "hate speech." A reasonable person would look at an entire thread and see whether the hate posts are supported or confronted. Generally on FR, hate speech is confronted and refuted. Again, I've participated myself in such refutation.
This is very different from DU and other leftist sites, where hate speech is generally cheered and reinforced.
I had Barnes and Kondracke pegged the day after one of the early debates.
Barnes: Are you suprised that China trade issues didn’t come up in last night’s debate?
Kondracke: I don’t hear anyone talking about it. Now here’s a picture of me on a yak.
How do you come up with that conclusion?
Wallace replied to Thompson's answer by saying,
"Senator, I'm glad I asked the question because I got a heck of an answer."
Fred clubbed him like a baby seal. Lazy? Humph!
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