I realize that the boys at Fox News have chosen Rudy Giuliani as the best strict daddy candidate of them all, but must they keep on trashing poor ole' Fred Thompson?
Exhibit C or highlights from a recent Special Report with Brit Hume:
Brit Hume: We’ve been getting a further sample of Senator Thompson and his uh, and his uh, and his wares. How’s this going?
Jeff Birnbaum: . . . Even though he’s a practiced actor, he didn’t seem to have rehearsed very much for his speech. He isn’t much of a player in a lot of the serious, substantive debates that are going on. . .
Brit Hume: In other words, he had no articulated position?
Jeff Birnbaum: Nothing to say and has been shooting at people like Rudy Giuliani over his anti, uh his gun control position which Thompson complained was too much anti-gun. . .
Charles Krauthammer: You know this could be a first. The Thompson campaign is going negative before it even begins. (Laughing from panel.) I don’t know if it’s ever happened, but it’s historic. Look, he’s a good guy; he’s a nice guy but he was in the Senate for a while, and I don’t think he’s left many traces. He’s an actor who is popular, accomplished in other ways, and uh, has had a boomlet. I think the boomlet was…. is ….
Brit Hume: Peaked?
Charles Krauthammer: May have been spent.
Elsewhere Crooks and Liars reports that Holly Bailey of Newsweek says that ole' Fred could face 10-15% in fines for campaigning while being a non candidate. Fox News and the FEC too? Poor ole' Fred.
Fox News Hates Fred Thompson -- Exhibit A & B:
Fred Thompson Acts Lazy and Wears Gucci Loafers at Iowa Fair (Sez Fox Video)
Fox News: Fred Thompson Bombs at Veterans Convention (Video)
Non-Candidate Fred Thompson FEC Complaint Rudy Giuliani Politics Fox News Brit Hume Republican Tennessee News
