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“I sure hope not. He should announce on July 4th as far away from Hollywood as possible!”

I agree. Enough of this announcing to media personalities and TV comedians.
Others have posted:

“I would like to see Fred announce on payed for airtime speaking directly to the American people. He should give his reasons from his heart (and his script) not in reply to some Hollywood or beltway hack. Put the announcement simultaneously on U-Tube and elsewhere on the net so the spinmeisters cannot edit with impunity. He said he wants to run a different type of campaign, announcing to Letterman is not the way to do it.”

To that I would add an Internet announcement is not the way either. We are going to get only one chance to make the best impression on the American People for Fred. That would be for a stadium-sized announcement event. Preferably on the 4th. We, as Fred’s minions need to show the nation and the world, and FRED, that we are here and we have the POWER!

Yes we need the primetime coverage, and yes we need a net simulcast. If logistically these things are not yet possible, then Fred's announcement should be postphoned until they are. The teaser campaign is still paying benefits. Putting 40,000+ fired up people in the seats will eliminate the opposition. Even the news media will have to stop covering the dwarfs, because they will have lost credibility. Let's quit playing around and deliver a knock out blow from the get-go.

...He should announce on July 4th as far away from Hollywood as possible!
See also. from Michael Barone, in US News:

Fred Thompson Is In

May 31, 2007 11:26 AM ET | Permanent Link

That's what Stephen Hayes is reporting in the Weekly Standard and Mike Allen in Politico.

Last night I attended an off-the-record American Spectator dinner with Thompson and his wife, Jeri; George Will and Robert Novak were also there.
I'm not supposed to say what was said there, but nothing I heard inclined me to think that Hayes and Allen have gotten it wrong...

Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

And, from Stephen Hayes, in the Weekly Standard :

Testing the Waters
Fred Thompson is running.

by Stephen F. Hayes
05/29/2007 10:21:00 PM

FRED THOMPSON IS RUNNING for the Republican presidential nomination. In a conference call Monday, Thompson addressed a group of more than 100 supporters and fundraisers whom the campaign has dubbed First Day Founders. He told them that he would be setting up an organization that will allow him to begin raising money and recruiting staff.
In official campaign finance parlance, the move represents a shift from "giving serious consideration" to a presidential bid, as Thompson said he would do back in March, as a non-candidate, to a "testing the waters" period where one is, in effect, a candidate-in-waiting with a campaign-in-preparation. Thompson advisers point out that the new testing-the-waters entity is not quite a campaign committee, though it will officially begin accepting contributions on June 4. On that day--the First Day, as it were--the campaign will take in donations that it can then tout as an impressive one-day haul...

-- snip --

...The new committee allows Thompson to continue to fulfill long-standing speaking obligations, while ramping up his inevitable presidential effort. His advisers describe it as a "natural progression" on the road to an announcement, which could come as early as late June or early July.

One rumor making the rounds last night anticipated an official announcement in his hometown in Tennessee in a month--on July 4th.

Independence Day could be Announcement Day.

So, perhaps Fred when is on the Tonight Show this Tuesday, he will promote that Fourth of July event in Tennessee -- as the time for his REAL announcement?