Thompson claims bias...against Fox News
Fred Thompson makes the charge that Fox News has been biased against his campaign:
Thompson said, "This has been a constant mantra of Fox, to tell you the truth." He noted that other conservatives have praised his bid for the GOP nomination and took issue with a Fox promo that focused on polling in New Hampshire, where Thompson is registering in the single digits.He said he is running second in national polls and has been leading or tied for the lead in South Carolina for "a long, long time."
Thompson, in a firm, but measured tone, scolded Wallace: "...for you to highlight nothing but the negatives in terms of the polls and then put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn't do it, kind of skew things a little bit. There's a lot of other opinion out there."
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Comments
Actually, I agree with Fred. Roger Ailes is a partisan hack. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.
From watching Fox News, it seems that Fox is firmly in the Rudy Guliani camp.
Posted by: Jace Walden | November 26, 2007 12:40 PM
Remember reading Jefferson's words about a free press? He assumed that journalism (the press) was guided by reporting rather than fabricating and promoting events and story lines.
At the gut level, diehard conservatives are holding their respective noses over Rudy's social policies. Mitt is a solid businessman, yet a Nor'easter nonetheless.
Guys like Fred and Huckabee are striking nerves. They are hitting people in the gut. It is not enough that Rudy may "take states away from Hillary." It is also believed that a real one-on-one (which Hillary will never do) with either Fred or Huckabee would decisively draw the battle lines.
When it comes to settling or compromising or selecting the lesser of evils. that requires brain work. Not that middle-America is ignorant, stupid or incompetent. Simply that words are cheap and we have followed the Party into oblivion.
Regardless of polls and press hacks, people want to follow a candidate whose words sit well in the gut.
There is a line between older and younger voters. Older folks will follow the maxim that 'no words are valid if there is an uneasy feeling about the speaker." It's the gut-reaction thing.
Posted by: Larry Stanley | November 26, 2007 04:03 PM