Paraphrasing Fred's answer: It is because of you guys (MSM). I watched the Fox coverage of the Iowa voting and the panel members on Fox where saying all night that McCain would come in third, it was all about McCain and when the results came in and I was third, and not McCain, there was no mention of my name.
Correct. I watched it from beginning to end and that is exactly what FOX did. Total blackout of Fred. Most of the MSM was doing it. Nightline on ABC ran for an hour and did in-depth of the candidates that night (Clinton-Edwards-Obama and Huck-Mitt-Juan. In the entire hour I recorded Fred Thompson being mentioned exactly SIX SECONDS. It was to grudging admit that Fred had "apparently" gotten third place.