The liberal editor who interviews Fred was as hostile as could be:
She e-mailed me back that Thompson “was so vague that I would be hard-pressed to write a story. Simply put, there is no news peg other than he came to the newsroom with his model wife and a beehive of staffers. When I asked him specifically what he would do as prez for farmers in Bremer County, he resorted to glittering generalities.”
“When I asked him specifically what he would do as prez for farmers in Bremer County, he resorted to glittering generalities.””
LOL. That liberal editor was hopelessly clueless. Fred gave a very specific and quite conservative answer to the question. What a shame that some people believe our government is a system of spoils where the president does little more than distribute goodies to his constituencies.
That article didn’t pass the smell test with me when the guy was btiching that Thompson cancelled his downtown tour to go run to the fire station to meet 15 people waiting there.
Um, we’re those people just hanging out and Thompson dropped in because people just hang at the fire station at all hours, so Fred knew he had a automatic crowd when he walked in? Of course not, it was scheduled, meaning he didn’t do downtown becaues HE RAN OUT OF TIME.
But the jackass reporter made it look like he ‘stiffed the little people’ cause he didn’t walk around town.
You’re taking for granted that Roger Simon really received that email and isn’t just making things up.