Thompson charges Fox News is biased against his campaign

[RamboLiberal]

Source: The Hill

Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) suggested on Sunday that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency.

In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," host Chris Wallace pressed Thompson on how some conservatives have lambasted Thompson's campaign and showed clips of Fox conservative commentators Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes criticizing the former senator.

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."


Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/thompson-charges-fox-news-is-biased-against-his-campaign-2007-11-25.html

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:rofl: Gee Fred if you think they're biased against you what does this "unfair and unbalanced" noise machine do to Dems?

[ccpup]

1. can't someone

just put Grandpa in his hammock? Like chastising FOX is going to make them suddenly like him? You're toast, Fred. You're toast.

[pinkpops]

2. No no Fred. Fox is Fair and Balanced. They report You decide.

[DesertFlower]

4. fair and balanced, my ass.

[Vincardog]

3. FAUX is pushing Goulianin vs HILL

[RavensChick]

5. Oh, boo-hoo-hoo!

Gramps is upset 'cause Faux Noise is out to get him. Face it, sir, you won't get the nomination so go back to your trophy wife and drink your prune juice!

Boy, it's so good to be a Democrat.

[hayu_lol]

6. 'Ol Fred is dumb as a stone...

ask him any question about any topic and he obviously does not know the answers. Maybe thats ok where he comes from...but...oh boy.

I'm surprised that he watches Faux News.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

27. It's okay in parts of NC as well...

I'm seeing more and more Thompson '08 bumper stickers. I can't think of any other Repub candidate stickers I've seen, but for Ron Paul. Oh, and some loon with Condoleeza '08 slapped on the back of his behemoth SUV.

Why does Fred watching FUX surprise you?

[WheelWalker]

29. An unexpected outbreak of Acute Involuntary Reality Syndrome?

Painful, isn't it? Fred? Wake up, Fred!

[WheelWalker]

28. Dumb as a hemlock stump. I'm surprised he can

work the remote.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. Faux is biased? I guess this won't win him any friends. Go cry in your grits.

[Ian David]

8. How does Fred Thompson manage to be so funny while all the comedy writers are on strike? n/t

[RamboLiberal]

9. Huffington Post has the video at their link

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/25/on-fox-news-sunday-thomp_n_73994.html

[Ilsa]

10. I've also heard Faux News hit Romney this weekend. Romney is getting "Dukakis'ed"

Mitt is taking the heat from them over appointing a judge who released a convicted murderer. It is he top item on their poliical page.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312743,00.html

Uproar Over Mass. Judge Who Released Killer Takes Political Tilt for Romney Campaign

DERRY, N.H. — The uproar over the Massachusetts judge who released a convicted killer now being held on two fresh murders in Washington state has taken a political tilt for the campaign of Mitt Romney, who nominated the judge when he was governor.

The GOP presidential candidate on Saturday personally called for the resignation of Superior Court Judge Kathe M. Tuttman, who overruled a lower court ruling and released convicted killer Daniel Tavares Jr. in July, rejecting prosecutors' request to set his bail at $50,000 after he was arrested on assault charges. Tavares had also once threatened to kill Romney.

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[Downtown Hound]

11. Well Fred, yes they are

but so is everybody else.

[Fly by night]

12. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha (f***ing) ha. Watch the basset hound-dog moan.

[CatholicEdHead]

13. Well over Thanksgiving flipping through channels at the hotel

Fox News was going after Romney pretty bad yet came back to plug Rudy in-between. It appears that Murdoch has appointed Rudy to be the winner of the GOP nomination/Presidency. Fred is not in the official "in" group. Unless Murdoch approves, nobody can get anywhere.

[yellowcanine]

14. This is one of the funniest things I have heard yet this political season. Is Fred trying to be

funny? What a guy!

[Danger Mouse]

15. Fred wakes up from one of his twenty daily 'naps' to mumble something about Fox News...

before drifting off into heavy slumber yet again.
Sources close to Mr. Thompson wiped a long string of drool from his chin.
This incident follows soon after Mr. Thompson's statement that 'prune juice keeps me reg'lar. muffin cakes. sweetie pie.'

[1932]

16. Fox is supporting Guiliani.

[Alexander]

17. It wasn't already obvious to him that FOX News supports Giuliani?

Maybe Nixon was right and Thompson is indeed "dumb as hell".

[FREEWILL56]

22. Hmmm. Does Fred talk to dead people?

[gratuitous]

18. Why does Fred hate the troops so much?

Wait, is the standard line applicable to Republicans as well?

[Prophet 451]

19. Welcome to our world, Mr. Thompson n/t

[FREEWILL56]

20. No shit Fred, you don't say? Who'd have ever thought Faux Noise

would have ever shown bias against a republican let alone anybody else? You're just pissed they aren't supporting you as your republican nature wouldn't have given a good shit if they would have done that to all of the other repukes running and was pushing your sorry ass instead.
:dunce: :freak:

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Attention all personnel. Food fight in aisle 3. Stat. Stat. Stat.

Bwahahahahahaha.

[FREEWILL56]

23. Bad part is

they don't clean up their own messes.

[shenmue]

24. Wait a second...

Fox biased against a dipshit Republican? Is this even possible?

[cboy4]

25. Why do I always feel like I want to slug Chris Wallace

in the head?

[EST]

32. It's called sanity and rationality.

[pattmarty]

26. This is great. Let them all eat themselves up.

[jimlup]

30. A Taste of the FAUX machine

This is the funniest thing I've read in awhile! Gives me slightly more respect for that dumb-as-a-rock Fredo'

[Mosaic]

31. He's got a small point

Faux news favors the extremist, fascist neo-conservative rethugs rather than the paleo or true conservative like Thompson. One is rabidly pro war the other rabidly pro war, not much difference there. Where they differ is in social issues which is why a liberal rethug is the darling of Murdoch, the mid east player at the top of this crooked organization.

[EST]

33. There's a further facet of this saggy saga.

Murdoch knows it's highly likely he's going to have to deal with a fairly united and strong democratic majority but he's cagey enough to pull the necessary strings to own the GOP nominee. He didn't get to owning or influencing half the world by being silly or careless, nor for the lack of a long term strategy.

There's just gotta be a way to put a stop to the blatant bribery that is the life of national politics.

[yellowcanine]

34. Ol Fred has his panties in a wad. What part of "fair and balanced" don't you understand, Fred?

Snicker.

[damntexdem]

35. This is remarkable for a Republican!!!!

Thompson actually noticed what Faux is like!

Sure, it's because of bias against him; but still it shows more awareness than I've seen out of any other GOPer.

[JNelson6563]

36. I'm overdosing on irony here

and believe me, I'm pretty hardcore with irony.

Julie

[robertpaulsen]

37. Back of the line, moran.

:eyes:

[Supersedeas]

38. the Gouliani for President channel