Posted on 10/04/2007 10:04:34 AM PDT by presidio9
As you know, I’m far from being a Fredhead. But this story sounds a bit fishy, NY Times style. Asking for applause?
Did anyone really expect the NYT to give a fair assessment anyway??? They know he’s the front runner and are totally feeding on the silly perceptions in various conservative circles (like here) that Fred has no fire. Completely predictable.
I think CBS is bombing out
I heard that he really did ask for applause. However, some of the people afterwards said they liked him. It wasn’t all negative.
Barak Obama is making mistakes left and right. So is Hillary Clinton for that matter. I’m waiting for the NYT or See BS to decide that one of those stories is major news.
Well, if CBS and the the NYT say that Fred isn’t setting the world on fire, I guess it must be true. I mean: why would they lie about something like that??
So the media doesn’t like what Fred has to say. Did anyone expect otherwise?
Personally, I’m quite pleased with what Fred has had to say for himself. And I’ll be voting in my State’s Republican primary. The author of this article will not.
Wishful thinking on the part of CBS.
What it really means is that they see him as a threat to Hillary.
If its from CBS it must be true.... LOL
See BS reports that:
The New York Times presents a searing portrait of Fred Thompson’s lackluster performance...
Yeah, like we’re really gonna believe that.......They must be terrified of and near panicked over Fred..................
But I guess I shouldn't have expected anything different as that is the way he was on Law and Order.
Another liberal hit piece posted on conservative Free Republic.
Like we don’t know See-BS and the NY Slimes are anti-Fred, anti-conservative and anti-Republican.
The New York Times doesn’t know how to report any actual happening.
They only know how to spin a story.
I wouldn’t believe them if they said today was Thursday.
The NY Times. . .now there's a reliable media outlet.
:::sarc tag in case its needed:::
I attended the Thompson banquet in New Port Richey, Florida and made a detailed report on this forum. Fred brought down the house before a politically-savvy audience. Many standing O's.
Woe betide anyone who spins and prevaricates if we have knowledgeable freepers in the audience who can string some words together to report the truth.
Leni
“They know he’s the front runner”? I don’t agree with just about anything the NYT says, but last I checked, he’s not the front runner. At least not now.
Fred Thompson Bombs On Campaign Trail
CBS News
The New York Times
No matter whom we are backing or NOT backing in the Repub race, can we PALEEZE stop quoting LIBERAL/COMMIE sources in order to slime Repub candidates?
It’s very simple really. The press follow these candidates wherever they go. They see it all: the high points and the low points. If they don’t like a candidate, they are free to report every low point in excruciating, even embellished, detail, while reporting nothing positive in balance. By contrast, a candidate they like gets the opposite treatment: gaffes are overlooked, “uhs” and “ums” are edited from quotes, crowd sizes are juiced up, crowd reactions are amplified in the positive, etc.
If the MSM doesn’t want Fred, they’ll do whatever they can to make him look bad.
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