Posted on 10/09/2007 11:15:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Who’s Fred Barnes? Is he someone important?
Everything Beedle Barnes says is bought and paid for.
Inside the beltway, he passes himself off as a conservative. He has a show on the Fox News Channel called the Beltways Boys which sums him up pretty good, because he is all both all beltway and all boy.
This makes me nervous.
If I’ve learned anything over the years, its that whatever Fred Barnes says is a contra-indicator of reality.
One of the Beltway Boys on Fox, his sidekick is Morton Kondracke. Also he's one of the editors of The Weekly Standard along with William Kristol.
What I find a bit surprising is that I was under the impression that Fred had already written Fred off...
Fred must have liked the way freddie stood with his hands in his pockets, rocking side to side and the way he so nonchalantly pinches the tickles away from his nozzles, LOL
Yikes! I'm a FRed-head, but the only person I'd less like to see paying kudos to Thompson besides Barnes, is Mort Kondracki.
(Warning, I have a fairly limited definition of person)
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
I didn’t get a chance to watch the whole debate. Did Fred do any impressions of Chauncey the gardiner? I was half expecting him to have a little fun with Chris.
When Matthews made a snide remark about a labor-relations response (”that was long, you should have stopped at ‘no’”) Fred snapped back “nobody wants your opinion, Christopher” (or words to that effect). Fred’s zinger got a good “burn!” reaction out of everyone, including the audience. I predict that clip will get some play.
Fred started off a bit shaky/timid but he picked up steam and by the end I thought he did well and held is own. His calm manner has a way of making him seem above the fray. By comparison it made Romney and Guiliani seem like they drank too much coffee.
Sounds good. I taped it and will be sure to look for that. Thanks for the info.
Exactly !
I thought Thompson did poorly. He was just a comma in that debate.
Fred came across as knowledgeable and likable. Fred can hold his own and is the clear favorite right now, despite the MSM trying to downplay him.
“I thought Thompson did poorly. He was just a comma in that debate”
Other than the Kos, Huffpo, commentors, you are one of the few to feel that way.
Fred did fine. I look forward to hearing and seeing more. My one criticism is that he doesn’t necessarily seem optimistic enough. He was good humored, however.
Are you a Ron Paul supporter?
That was snarky, as are all of your posts about Fred. You’re always in a bad humor evidently.
sorry, I’ll try to do better in assessing the exact nature of Fred Barnes comments in the future :)
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