Hollywood Fred's Campaign Launch Gets Bumpy
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Sep 04, 2007 7:31pmThis has to be the laziest possible choice to enter into a presidential campaign. Fred Thompson will not be at tonight's FOXNews GOP debate tonight, but has opted to make his presence known by purchasing commercial time on Fox during the debate. The ad:
FOXNews is clearly a little miffed at being snubbed by Frederick of Hollywood, with a fun article entitled "Fred's Follies":
Fred Thompson is set to kick off his official announcement week on the Tonight Show tonight... but it could be overshadowed by more turmoil to come in the Thompson campaign.
When Thompson appears on Jay Leno tonight it will mark the campaigns complete repudiation of a new media campaign strategy and announcement plan that the original Fredheads had designed over several months and finalized in August.
More resignations of key founding Fredheads are coming. Soon NONE of the people who got the buzz started in March may remain.
Thompson did Leno in June and numerous senior aides said at the time he would "never return to Hollywood to announce -- that's what McCain did! We won't use video, that's what Hillary did. We will let Fred be Fred. We are launching from the (Grand Ole) Opry then hitting New Hampshire and Iowa." Now they are copying both McCain and Hillary by appearing on Leno and a video.
The original Fredheads are no longer angry or frustrated; most have been fired already or given up. The remaining originals say they will quit soon.
The latest person let go by the campaign was Jim Mills, a long-time Capitol Hill producer for FOX News, who was told on Friday. A little over a month earlier, Mills was personally recruited and hired as spokesman by Fred and Jeri Thompson at their dinner table.
Oh, meow. Can you believe this came from the RNC Propaganda Wing FOXNews? Carl Cameron's blog (ick--I hate giving him hits) is quick to point out that Thompson also hasn't enchanted some key members of the base:
The influential Arlington Group, a coalition of prominent leaders of the so-called "religious right, has decided to withhold their planned support for the fledgling campaign of former Senator Fred Thompson.
Although the members of the group do not directly endorse candidates as they would risk their tax exempt status as religious organizations, many are affiliated with or control political action committees and so-called 527 groups which do endorse and support candidates
Many of the candidates have met with the group recently and there had been a plan in place for the 527s and PACs to begin working on behalf of Thompson starting tomorrow. That has now been put on hold in light of a posting on the National Review Online by Campaign Manager Bill Lacy in which he said that Thompson would oppose an amendment to the US Constitution banning gay marriage.
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Dis Fred first!
Old man thompson deserves to go down in flames.
This is just too funny. This is "their man". Give me a break!! Put him in a rocking chair, toss a corn cob pipe in his hand, and put a little banjo music in the background.
HICK!!!!!!!
Fred would make a campaign lunch lumpy and bumpy. What a turd.
Wow. Could that be more disheartening for the Thompson family?
First Tommy craps out, and now Fred??!!
He'll be the Pat Paulson of 21st Century GOP Presidential politics.
"I'm running..." chuckle chuckle...
Is it asking too much that our next president not come off as another phony yokel?
That's the problem with one-size-fits-all candidates -- they don't fit anyone particularly well.
Fred, this is your rude wake-up call.
Fred Sockpuppet.
If people we're idiotic enough to vote for GW Bush Fred is going to be their dream candidate if he fully emerges from the ashes.
Repugs want someone with a southern drawl. They would elect Larry the cable guy. They don't want someone who is smart. They want someone they can manipulate.
The Right Wingers are nuts about this guy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=Fred%20Thompson
Fred started sucking even before he entered the race, and now, he sucks double.
Soon, he'll suck more than Ruby, Mutt and McLame combined.
L.A. Confidential @ 10:
Authoritarians do like a father figure.
cd @ 14:
That and they loved to get lied to and screwed.
No guts Freddie Boy....skipped the debate, goes on Leno Show to announce, runs an ad and
apparently thinks these types of actions are going to get him the Repig nomination !!!
What a loser; but guess he felt obligated to spend that 3.5Million raised in his campaign;
personally, he would be much wiser to forget about running and return the donations/
contributions to the doners. In a Repig race of 3, he is number 4.
Bobble head
What's the thing he's doing with his head? Why does it bob around so? Is that some kind of acting gimmick? I know I couldn't concentrate on the jibberish he was spouting because I was so mesmerized by the hed movements.
Come 'n listen to my story
'bout a man named Fred
A rich DC shill
Who drove a truck of red
And come that day
His country tottered
Where it stood
He pulled up his stakes
And he moved to Hollywood
Swimmin' pools
Movie stars
I was gonna mention the bobblehead but someone beat me to it...maybe he has Parkinson's...HEY! Maybe Rush Blimpball will mock him on his show soon!
On a more insidious note--anyone notice how even on paper the GOP is tied into FOX? I mean Roger Ailes from Bush I dynasty runs the damn thing, Tony Snow left FOX to continue explaining Bush II from BEHIND the podium, and it looks like they had a FOXIE in Freddy's camp...how much do you need as proof before you strip this station of its NEWS designation? I want these people to have to list 24 hour television ads as an expense for the GOP. Not fair the Dems have to pay for their play 30 second spots at a time while these assclowns get 24x7 campaigning...make em pay for it!
I can still remember when Jay Leno took over the Tonight Show.
He said the one thing he wouldn't do is have politicians as guests.
Of course, he used to be funny, too.
Something I was thinking about earlier....due to the fair coverage thing, where like when Arnold ran for Governor in CA, they didn't run any of his movies on a lot of stations because that would be like advertising for him.
I assume the same will apply to Thompson, and I wonder if that means TNT will suddenly go bankrupt from their afternoon powerhouse lineup of Law & Order for 85 hours a week? and of course USA and BRAVO and all the other stations that run those old Law & Order eps with him on it....
Haven't heard anyone mention it so I figured I would throw it out there...
That man is 5 pounds of crap in a 10-pound bag.
Heh-heh. The problem is "the base" wants another Bush, but the rest of the country is fed up with the phony good ol' boy we already have.
In other words, Fred, that dog won't hunt.
Y'all.
Fred Thompson. The only good thing I can think of to say about him is that he seems to understand tort reform is not valid goal.
He scares me because, even though I imagined that there was NO WAY that America would embrace Ronald Reagan, I lived to
see him elected and lauded.
Fred Thompson...more 'shoot from the hip' crap from a Republican. His deep booming voice and country cadences are
tailor made for the lunkheads in the midwest and south.
Please, GOD, don't let it be a Thompson v. Clinton race.
Jason W. @ 23:
I would say 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag. Overflowing.
I can't stand this clown. He is a turd. He's a sack of crap. He really pissed me off in that video when he told Michael Moore he should be in a mental institution, all the while chomping on that damned (apparently Cuban) cigar. I hope his campaign sinks like a rock.
Jack, what video was that?
Ron @ 26:
The very second I posted that- yeah, well, you know... long day.
Jack, I just found the video. Actually he told Michael Moore that the next time he was in Cuba visiting "your buddy Castro" to look up another documentary film maker who had done a documentary that Castro didn't like, and so Castro had him put in a Mental Institution and put him through electro-shock therapy.
Then at the end he said "A mental institution....you should think about that"
I didn't take that as him saying that Moore belonged in one, but that he should realize that Castro isn't a warm and fuzzy kinda guy.
Don't worry ... he's not dead he's only pretending.
Our next president needs to be a computer-generated image, a la 'Dark Knight 2' - then when Jimmy Olsen discovers the truth, Lex Luthor and Brainiac (the true puppet masters) can have him killed. And then Batman will save the day while Superman realizes his true self and identity.
Freddy's launch reminds me of the computer president in the story - have we seen him shaking hands? Have we seen him kissing babies? And now he won't go on stage to debate the other so-called humans AND he announces his intent to run via a video message and late night TV. As far as I'm concerned, Fred may as well be a holographic president.
And Lex and Brainiac just keep on snickering - MUUUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
no, Bud, he's REAL *wide eyed naivete expression* I just saw him on TV the other day on TNT...or was it USA? anyway, he was there...and he was real "Presidential" acting, even though he wasn't a President. And he had a tough voice and a strong personality and he could TOTALLY be President, I was thinking, because...well...they have good writers.
So has his campaign been taken over by BushCo goons? With McCain going down in flames they must be looking hard for a new boy. While Romney looks like he's willing to play ball, I don't think he'll be their toady.
By the way that's another point that people don't seem to mention. I would be willing to bet there's a lot of people out there that only know him from Law & Order or the movies and see his on-screen persona and think "now there's a guy who should be President"
Hell, before I was getting into knowing about the world around me, I'd see him in movies and the L&O series and think that very same thing. "he seems very Presidential - like" I always though.
Now I know about him and pray he doesn't get to be President.
Good Lord, a presidential hopeful even less interested in the job than Dubya.
Fred Thompson: Ambling For President
Question: What do the Republicans do best?
Answer: Eat their own.
Oh yeah - why does the Free Republic website look like its stylesheet has been deleted?
Jazzy, I used to be a fan of L&O and I'm not kidding - I stopped watching it the moment I heard he was going to be on it. His tough guy act, even on fictional TV, is so lame. Its too bad because IMO, Sam Waterston (sp?) is a good actor. Losing Jerry Orbach didn't help either.
I agree with a previous poster - the best news that come from this in the short run is that any TV show or TNT weekend follies film ('Hunt for Red October', anyone?) should be pulled from the airwaves during the campaign. Of course that means all we'll see is 'Rush Hour' every weekend... which is worse?
Hey, they did it to Arnold - they should do it for My Holographic Presidential Candidate(tm) too.
Goseph Gerbils @ 38:
They had a stylesheet?
:lol:
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
:shock:
errrrrrr.
I'm not going there.
"My Holographic Presidential Candidate(tm)"
I just had a nasty vision in my head of a Fred Thompson Action Figure - comes complete with plastic red pickup and a REAL chewed-up cigar!
Made in China, of course.
Fraud Thompson is another Pope Reagan wanabee.
"I'm an actor, therefore I am most like the now-dead Pope in Chief, Ronald. Elect me and I promise to channel His spirit. It's easy. It'll be just like reciting the lines on Law and Order. I can definitely do this."
This is a carefully crafted Schwarzenegger-style campaign where the principal avoids embarrassing himself on a debate and tries to trade on his hollywood notoriety to grease the skids to an election. Like Schwarzenegger, this guy is more interested in having the title and the perks of "being president" than actually having and doing the job of president. Remind you of a certain monkey's asshole that resides in the White House right now?
The bobbing head was the very first thing I noticed, and others already brought it up. Doesn't he realize that we've seen him acting on TV? He didn't move his head there, so WHAT GIVES? Trying to look energetic? Wants to look more foolish in real life than on TV?
Anyone ever see that old SCTV skit about the use car salesman giving lessons on how to act (and use your hands) during a TV advertisement?
An Average Joe @ 6:
He's not running. He's not even riding a golf-cart. This stupid motherfucker is dragging a walker to the Presidency. By the time he gets there the fucking thing will be over.
So Fred "Dumb as Hell" Thompson is tired of the divisiveness and is going to be the one to unite the country...
with his big-R RepugnantCon, anti-abortion, pro-religious-right, pro-torture and pro-Gitmo stances. Yeah, that worked great with the Shrub, the other Great Uniter. I guess the logic must be that if Repugs like Thompson wear the mainstream down enough so that we just give up and go along with these positions of the far-right, and even become far-right ourselves, we will all be united as a country!
/sarcasm
Jazzysoul....You're correct; I knew what he actually said; it's just that Thompson makes me sick with his tough talk. Further, I don't think Michael Moore actually visited Castro, especially since Castro has been sick, and I certainly don't think they're buddies. So if Thompson can take liberties with words, I think I am entitled to as well. Glad you wouldn't vote for the guy!
Its unbelievable that these dumbasses (the base) actually want to continue this Bush nightmare, and they want to replace him with this decrepit morbidly jowled bozo.
What's with Grandpa Fred's jerky head movements? He doesn't have Huntington's disease, now does he?
Watch the tape again, this time yell 'boing' every time he snaps or tips his head... it's really very amusing... E
Jack, yeah I was mad just watching that video though because of his smug a**hole attitude.
Don't sell Fred short, he's a tremendous slouch.
Hey, the assholes in America could fall for it you guys. They elected Ronald Reagan. And cut the guys some slack, a debate would be hard work. Showing a fancy commercial is WAY easier. Maybe sometime soon he can go clear some brush in Crawford and relax with George on one of his vakayshuns.
Fred Horatio T. Foghorn lazy barnyard dog lying in the dusty dirt.
Bizarre head-bobbing, mouth-stretching delivery. I found it very distracting. I thought he was supposed to be an actor.
Sorry world, the whole freedom thing means we have to let him go ahead. We'll do better, promise.
Amazing that the only night he could book on Leno was a Repub debate night. He couldn't be avoiding something, could he? Not that he has much to fear...between the boy chameleon, Mr. Mitt and George M. Cohan (sorry, Mr. Guiliani) and Great grandpa McCain, I would have to agree with the post that called him the fourth man in a three-man race.
Dear Lurch Thompson,
Hang up the spikes. You're old as Hell and sound like Foghorn Leghorn on sleeping pills. Just because Margaret Carlson pretended to enjoy it doesn't mean the American public will
This guy is a complete phony, which means he'll probably be the next president of the USofA
I remember the last time a Republican was selling "unity". It turned out to be "unitary". No fucking thanks.
I never liked Thompson's character on L & O. A smug prick who would drop a dried up old homily like a dried up old turd as he walked out of the room.
Look everyone, Fred Thompson has been an actor on Law & order for a while. He knows how to act in front of a camera and how to read his lines. Do not underestimate that. It has more than Guliani and the Repubs ar desperate for a substantive repub candidate.
Fred might be the Conservative savior they were looking to herd them into their sheep pen. He already commands much interests from the GOP voters. I understand their twisted attraction in a "spank me daddy" type of way.
I know libs look at him like a loon but we are not voting republican, they are.
Dude, that guy looks OLD.
Big, dumb, fulla c*m.
He's not even announced his candidacy and already I'm the most tired of him.
His faux folksy spiel on Leno was simplistic and dangerous. He's a mediocre character actor, but would be a horrible president.
I propose a new word:
"Fredtarded"
Pass it along.
Why didn't this clown join the other's on the Fox Circus this evening? It dosen't make any difference, I just woundered.
There, passed along:
Fredtarded.
Oh, his downfall will be so sweet. Nevertheless, I actually like how he disses the other bozos of this so called GOP. They are all working their asses off, and he just sends in some clips. Nice.
I'm betting the "liberal" media have already annointed Fred. The drumbeat will include comparisons to another one dimensional B actor, Ronnie RayGun. Fred appeals to southern voters so why do the rest of us bother to vote. Gomer is the decider. Sunday AM pundits will talk about how tall he is, his baritone and how he will steam roll Hillary, Barack or whomever the Democrat (sic) Party sends out as a sacrificial lamb.
It's over folks - the "liberal" media has a winner.
Barf.
Thompson is trying to out slick the slicksters. He's scripted and coy. He's going to be gobbled up in about 15 minutes. Hell, he can't hack competition, he can't even debate.
Meh all it takes to 'woo' the repug base are gay hookers and a pile of money. One good meth party and he's in.
I just had the greatest idea. The Democrats should run Martin Sheen against this sock-puppet buffoon! I can see the 29%ers now...
"Well I thought Fred would make a great president 'cause he was so darn presidential playin' that judge on the TV. But that Sheeny, he actually played the president! There's just no chance I'd vote for a judge over the president. Maybe Sheen should nominate Fred for the Supreme Court someday."
Hollywood Fred:
Intellectually lazy, uncurious, simplistic, phony, old and ill....
He's a wingnut's wet dream! I can just hear all of the little authoritarian weenies spanking it out there.
Fred Thompson is just another of those great Republican, “I am the decider.” This is a man who could not decide when to decide if he should decide to run for President. It would not give me warm fuzzies knowing this indecisive man has his finger on the ultimate button.
Fred Thompson is great!
This guy REALLY knows how to speak to his base. Just see how he differs from Barack Osama.
http://www.liberalsmustdie.com/2007/09/06/Fred+Thompson+A+Man+Of+Principle+Singular.aspx
Big News! Another old white guy runs for president!
LiberalAssKicker @ 77:
Wow. Creepy site. So much for "compassionate" conservatives. What a bunch of phony hyocrits. Sheesh.
At 6'5", he's awful big to be a chicken, but fowl he is.
He sure bops his head a lot while speaking.
Is that a nervous tick?
Doesn't matter who the Repugs run in 2008, they're going to get their ass kicked!
Yeah, I can't wait to see the debates between Frederick of Hollywood and either Edwards, Obama, or Kucinich. It'll be like Kennedy/Nixon all over again.
I am willing to lay money on the fact that he cannot think on his feet. He skipped the debate because he doesn't have all his wing-nut points memorized. And he cannot use that southern good ole boy routine to win this election. Granted the republicans will vote for a tree stump if its republican. But the American people want the Iraq war to end, universal health insurance, security at our ports, re-tax the rich, global environmental issues, no torture, no Gitmo, no warrantless wiretaps, etc.
Thompson does not look well at all. It would not surprise me - or disappoint me - in the least if he were to pass away from natural causes during the campaign.
It sickens me that this mediocre, stupid piece of shit will likely be our next president. Yes, I'm that fucking cynical. But at this point how can't I be? The American people are like goldfish swimming in circles, forgetting what happened two seconds earlier. He's exactly the kind of phony asshole to sucker this dumbshit nation. Sorry, but it's true.
I guess I can assume that so far not one person on this thread is a Fred fan. Well, I won't vote for him either, but I will ask this question: Who won the Republican debate? It certainly wasn't Fox news.
This was a slick way to announce something that has been known by every interested person for tha past three months; pre-empt the 27th debate on Leno's show which probably had 10 times the number of watchers than the "debate".
Since Fred only has to speak to those who will nominate him, I think he handily won. As to whether he will be a good candidate in the general election, that is a question to be answered later. But right now he has done a pretty good job of avoiding all the problems the early announcing candidates have had. Maybe the "live boy" will get him but we will see.
Impeach Bush/Cheney @ 84:
The majority of the American people are apathetic.
Litabell @ 79:
Oh come on. You been played, kid.
You know what the rethugs big problem is? Their prize candidate was George Allen. He had a fake southern accent, was a dumb, narcissistic bully, and unlike our present Georgie, was an actual football star instead of a cheerleader. But then he went and imploded in his big macacca moment. Now they're desperately searching for somebody -- anybody -- who can play the big macho tough guy they're all in love with. No wonder half of them are closeted gays.
You're right, Delia. And isn't it sweet that a kid with a video camera actually destroyed the GOPs hope for 2008 in one short moment?
He's too cute! What a clever little man.
Vanna @ 89:
Oh my, 'hyocrits'? It's spelled 'hemocrits' -- unlike you mass-murdering hypocrits, we actually circulate our OWN red blood.
What's it like to live off the bleeding of the innocent for profit?
Fingerbo @ 86:
You got the fucking part right. The only question is why you are such a mediocre piece of shit to think that defeatism and cynicism is some kind of gift to humanity. Why don't you try working for change and keeping your hysteria to yourself?
I like this site I've been saying that Good Ole Fred is a crook in waiting for a llooonnnggg time! We can't afford another criminal in the White House.
DR RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008. CAUSE WE NEED HONESTY AND INTEGRITY!
KEITH
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