Posted on 12/12/2007 4:37:51 PM PST by lesser_satan
ABC News' Christine Byun Report: At a post-debate campaign stop, Republican candidate Fred Thompson explained his reason for refusing to answer a debate question by a show of hands, calling it "monkey business."
"I just decided that I wasn't going to engage in any of this monkey business that they like to engage us on sometimes -- making us look like trained monkeys reaching for peanut or something ... 30 seconds is brief enough and when they try to reduce your answer to just a hand raise -- I 'aint going to play that game," the former Tennessee senator said.
During this afternoon's debate, the GOP candidates were asked to raise their hands if they thought climate change was a serious threat caused by human activity. Thompson spoke up saying he didn't want to answer without time explain himself.
Thompson says he's gearing up for the next two weeks leading up to January 3rd. When asked by reporters about his chances in the Iowa caucus, Thompson said he believes voters are "beginning to pay attention" now to the elections and feels he will be in "good shape."
"The real campaign is just beginning," Thomspon said.
Ping!
yeah reaaallll tantrum. What were they watching? Keyes had a tantrum. Fred just told it like it is
Notice too where they interviewed him: “At a post-debate campaign stop”. I thought Fred was too lazy to do more than one event a day. lol at the MSM’s cluelessness.
Furthermore, it was a two-part question. Question 1: Is global warming a serious problem? Question 2: I global warming caused by human activity? If one thinks that global warming is caused by human activity but is not a serious problem, or that global warming is a serious problem that is not caused by human activity, how does one answer that question by raising one's hand? Raising it halfway?
The very nature of the question displays the bias in the entire global warming debate. If global warming was a natural phenomenon, we would be looking at ways to adapt to the change, like we had to adapt to cooler temperatures in Victorian times when Krakatoa exploded. But it is the supposed status of global warming as being caused by humans that gives proponents of the theory the ability to make people feel guilty about their fossil fuel consumption. And with guilt comes the need to assuage guilt. And with the need to assuage guilt comes mucho dinero for the folks out there peddling absolution.
Posted by: Gridlock | Dec 12, 2007 6:46:21 PM
Man...what they won’t try to spin...it’s really getting kind of funny. Almost.
I saw the YouTube clip on Thompson’s smackdown of the Leftist reporterette moderator.
The other candidates knee-jerk-raised their hands in response, and Thompson slapped her down.
And further, Romney chimes in, “I agree”, and the others applauded - but NONE of them made a move off script before Fred stepped out of ranks.
He took the lead, and the others followed the path he beat through the weeds. They gave him the mantle of leadership, without a word.
For the very first time since this whole circus began, I can honestly say...
I grok Fred.
Fred isn’t my guy but I gotta agree that he had a good point. The real Tantrum came from Keyes.
Folks can judge for themselves :)
Yes it is. GoFredGo...
Got the link?
Please post it.
I noticed a few other “ideas” that some of the candidates have recently had are almost verbatim from things Fred has said.
I loved seeing Fred shut down the liberal Global Warming quetion!
Fred Thompson on Global Warming. This is what Fred said when he was sitting in for Paul Harvey some time ago. :)
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NTQzYWY1MGM5NTkyZTM2YWVlMDMzMDlhMzQwNThhNDU=
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Pods in their cellar....?
Tantrum? Fred? bwahahahaha!
Anyone catch the exchange between Carl Cameron and Shep earlier where they played the clip of Fred’s little exchange with Romney? What you said is exactly what they said. It’s a new turn for the campaign. We’ll see what FOX does with that now. I heard Fred’s name mentioned more in the past few hours than they’ve bothered to do in the past 3 weeks. If they don’t start including Fred in the discussion, we’ll know for sure that they are trying to influence the outcome.
Great Tantrums through history:
“I paid for this microphone!”
“Tear down this wall!”
“Nuts!”
(Feel free to add your own.)
Was it a macaca monkey?
Howard Beale: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”
lol, I hope not.
Ping
Whatdya want, greek?
More like Fred cocked a leg, if you'll pardon my indelicacy :)
Beautiful, Sarge!
Thanks for the link.
Good for Fred.
These stage managed pretend debates are less than worthless and can do real damage.
I would like to see republican candidates band together and demand that the foolishness stop.
Too many times moderators are trying to influence the perception of the audience as opposed to allowing the candidates a fair opportunity to psesent and/or explain their position on an issue.
Plutonic Warming
By Fred Thompson
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.
NASA says the Martian South Pole’s “ice cap” has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto.
This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.
Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.
Ask Galileo.
Yes, Fred smacked this one out of the park. Smack it good, too. If you look at the video, you can clearly see Roodie, Myth, Huckabee, and McCain raising their hands. Duncan Hunter, Tancredo, Keyes, and even RuPaul (to his credit) did not.
Tantrum? Tantrum? I've thrown some mighty tantrums in my lifetime and that wasn't no tantrum........not even close, not even close to a pout. Sheesh!
Romneys, “Takes one to know one” retort to Fred’s, “You’re getting to be a pretty good actor”.
Shakes head...good comeback Mitt.
I thought that Fred’s passive resistance or as Nancy Reagan would say, “just say no” stance, was classic and much needed. Thompson put that pain in the a$$ moderator in her place.
It will be interesting to see if the same moderator is just as much of a pain in the a$$ to the Dem candidates....
Watch carefully.
Y’mean Fox might dump Giuliani and move toward Fred? How cool is that?!?
No it was not a tantrum, but FT got some attention, buzz, and many, many, news clips for a few days.
I would say that is a success!
These are not debates - this is the political equivalent of Speed Dating.
All the more reason why I am impressed by Thompson's actions today - he realizes that he who controls the language controls the debate, and he's waking up (no pun intended) to the motives of The Enemy.
Indelicacy, nothing, the analogy is PERFECT!
Missed it. Thanks. And yes, Fred got some attention. Methinks that his camping out in Iowa, with the Huckster’s true colors being shown, is going to mean a sea of change in the polls. Gotta run, have a great night...
If stupid abc news thinks that this is going to hurt Mr. Thompson then they are stupider than they think.
I, for one, am looking for a candidate who will grow a pair and stand up to the so-called “monkey business”.
Mr. Thompson just went up in my estimation.
Send me the link on You Tube. I couldn’t find the clips under the searches I tried.
Re-watch the debate - a couple of the candidates mimicked Romney’s phrases verbatim.
I didn’t hear it but Romney’s response to Fred about the actor line was “takes one to know one.”
What a childish thing to say.
Do you think they stole Willard's BIOS routine? Cracked his OS kernel?
I did not have sex with that woman,
“I’m paying for this microphone”. Sounds the same!
I would have done the same as Fred. Good for him! He’s right, it was a trained monkey question.
The debate has been over for hours and terrorist leaders all over the world are still afraid to come out from under their beds. Fred kicks Butt. Wait till he gets on stage with Shillary.
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