Is This The Best They Can Do?
Trying to Hit Fred Thompson
By Erick Posted in 2008 | Fred Thompson — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Is this the best the Wall Street Journal can do? It tries to make salacious the fact that Fred Thompson's PAC has been paying Fred Thompson's son, a professional fundraiser in Tennessee, money to manage Fred's PAC.
The salacious details are
Mr. Thompson, of Tennessee, announced that he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2002. But since then, his political action committee has paid $244,000 in "management/consulting fees" to his son's consulting firm in Nashville, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
OMG! Notice they had to lump it all in to make it a really big number because saying they paid him about $48,000.00 a year for five years just doesn't sound as scandalous -- especially when you consider similarly situated candidates have been paying multiple people orders of magnitude more per year to manage their PACs.
And what is more scandalous? Fred Thompson has given more money to charity than to candidates for public office! Oh, the horror.
Pffft.
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The WSJ is the last place to worry about. We'll see how the Times articles stack up.
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance"-Socrates(the real one ;)
I enjoyed your interview on the redstate podcast. Again you did an excellent job.
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance"-Socrates(the real one ;)
The WSJ editorial page is thoroughly leftwing when it comes to immigration. Whether its (literally) calling for open borders, or maligning those who dare to hold conservative views on immigration, you can count on the WSJ to be terrible on immigration.
my adult sons. They are two of the very best men I know. Of course five years ago they were complete idiots.
That's just the flip side of the old observation, "When I was 15 my father was a complete idiot. When I was 20, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 5 years."
Seriously, Fred's PAC paid less than $50,000/year for consulting work. His son? Tony Thompson is an attorney in Nashville. Does he run the consulting firm?
Okay, now that the WSJ has established that Fred Thompson has done something, we're not sure what, they ought to ask why his pack did not hire his wife, Jeri? She was a media consultant at Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson.
Yeah, they're trying. They haven't found anything, the editor is probably a little cranky, so they ran with whatever this story is. I'm still not sure.
This sure seems like a hit piece. Why does the WSJ want to go after Thompson; who is their preferred candidate?
The editorial page of the WSJ & their opinionjournal.com are conservative, but the reporters writing the "news" pages are pretty much the same type of ignorant liberals you find at other newspapers.
The WSJ is for Rudy McRomney, with Rudy or Mitt at the top of their list. Either one would be fine with the WSJ because they both support open borders and amnesty for illegals. Fred Thompson, although not as far to the right as Duncan Hunter on immigration, is more conservative than Rudy McRomney.
Fred Thompson is a perceived threat to the establishment in DC because he actually has opinions of his own which might not parallel those of the Rockefellar wing of the party.
when they start hit pieces before he has announced! The left knows that Fred Thompson would knock them out! And, he would have coattails...that scares the left!
and I think they are more afraid of the coattails than him winning the presidency. I mean, just imagine if he managed to pull the Senate to a filibuster proof Repbulican majority...
Better? Who knows, but more is certainly on the way.
I'm looking for a list of every subject FT has ever changed his mind about. Flip flopper.
Glad I'm not running for POTUS. They'd just interview my adult sons. They are two of the very best men I know. Of course five years ago they were complete idiots. Flip-flopper that I am.
Here comes the Fred tidal wave...
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