AP photographer swoons over Fred Thompson's Ferragamo shoes, Yahoo News considers it news-worthy

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Republican presidential hopeful, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson R-Tenn., is seen wearing Ferragamo shoes, while making his campaign rounds at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines Aug. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)



Republican presidential hopeful, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson R-Tenn., holds a baby pig at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Aug. 17, 2007. Thompson made his rounds at the fair in a fine pair of Ferragamo shoes. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

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[BootinUp]

1. A serious case of Shoe Envy apparently. n/t

[msongs]

2. didn't OJ wear ferragamos the night he didnt do it? nt

[Crabby Appleton]

6. No, O.J. was wearing Bruno Magli shoes

http://www.cnn.com/US/9701/06/simpson/index.html

[spooky3]

9. you may be thinking of Condi Rice's shoe shopping trip

And isn't it interesting that when Rethugs spend money on looking nice, they are admired, but if Dems. do it, they are hypocritical phonies too shallow to be considered for public office?

[LibDemAlways]

3. So Thompson is so void in the ideas department that

a photographer concentrated on his shoes and photographed him with a pig? It says as much about the photographer's opinion of Thompson as it does about the candidate. LOL

[ccpup]

4. my thoughts exactly

when there's no story there, you gotta turn in something to the Editor, right? Better it be shoes and pigs taking up your word-count than the sound of that one brief painfully out-of-touch, ignorant talking point echoing through Thompson's empty skull.

[Sparkly]

5. Oooh, they're so MANLY!!!

I can almost smell the Old Spice!!

[AX10]

7. It also shows how out of touch he is with the working man.

[sufrommich]

10. I wonder if that was the point of the pic.

Ferragamos at the State Fair, wading in pig shit. Perhaps the photog was mocking him.

[zulchzulu]

8. I have a couple pair of Ferragamo shoes...maybe I should run for President...

They're great! I'd have to fish them out of my closet though...

[SergeyDovlatov]

11. Pathetic. There is no substance to that man, that is why they have ...

to resort to reporting "news" about the shoes he wear.

Media is participating in horrible fraud by doing a selection of "approved" candidates so that people cannot choose more interesing candidates like Gravel or Kucinich (or Paul on republican side)

Do you think that Kucinich would have been much higher in polls if the media devoted as much attention to him as that of the "front runners"?

[Vickers]

12. Wow, a $400 pair of shoes...what a man of the people!

:patriot:

[Orangepeel]

13. good. stupid story, but better than one about his pickup truck

bush is a spoiled son of privilege who made his political career pretending to be an unpretentious, down-home rancher. Thompson is trying to claim that position. Nip it in the bud.