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To: veronica
I don’t think this is slime. Merely reporting the facts. Do you think Fred Thompson will escape scrutiny by the press?

Perhaps a little analysis is in order. Consider the first "paragraph" of the article (if two sentences can constitute a paragraph).

If voters on the right think Rudy Giuliani's love life is too racy, what will they think about Fred Thompson? The former Tennessee senator, who is considering his own run for the GOP nomination, was a swinging single during most of his eight-year tenure in the Senate, making him a favorite of gossip columnists, who often referred to him as the "Tennessee Stud."

The first sentence suggests an equivalence -- or at least a comparison -- between Rudy's philandering and serial adultery with Thompson's love life, while the second sentence refers to Thompson as a "singing single" and references gossip about Thompson. While the rest of the article addresses a few facts about some of the successful and attractive men Thompson dated, the article is much more gossip and innuendo than it is "reporting the facts".

In closing, I think most men will look at a guy who dated (and apparently dumped) Lorrie Morgan much more favorably than a guy that fought to move his bimbo mistress into the mayoral mansion while he was going through a nasty divorce.

51 posted on 04/16/2007 7:02:35 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: VRWCmember

I’m approaching my late 30’s, but if I had dated Laurie Morgan or Kellyanne Conway, I wouldn’t be keeping it a secret, I would be broadcasting it on loudspeaker. If this is the best the MSM can drag up, they’re in serious trouble with Fred...


165 posted on 04/16/2007 9:28:14 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("We're Living In A Twilight World..."- Swingout Sister)
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