"Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday he was unaware
that a federal judge had ruled last week that lethal injection procedures in his
home state were unconstitutional. Thompson also told reporters he was unaware
that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed this week to consider a Kentucky case about
whether lethal injection violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual
punishment. Thompson’s support for the death penalty was a major part of his
campaign platform when he first ran for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee in 1994.
Asked for his response to the recent Tennessee and Kentucky cases, Thompson
responded, “I hadn’t heard that. I didn’t know.”"
He is busy running his Hollywood campaign, how is he supposed to know about little things like this. Thompson clearly is a bad choice for president, he says that he isn't as lazy as the rumors say. This doesn't go toward making believe the rumors are just rumors.
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The issue of Thompson being lazy was featured in one of the 17 articles on Thompson in Newsweek from Sept '06-Sept'07.
Instead of damning Thompson with faint praise, Newsweek has been boosting him with faint criticism.
The question we asked at Stinkyjournalism.org was: Why was Thompson getting all this coverage? We compared Thompson coverage with the other candidates:
We wrote: ""Skim the last 12 months of news and you’ll see that no publication has followed Thompson’s political him-hawing like Newsweek. A total of 17 Newsweek articles - including a September cover story - feature Thompson. Meanwhile, the competition is suffering. John McCain’s got 10 articles. Rudy Giuliani’s got 7. The fading Mitt Romney has 6. Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul, a paltry 1. The rest of the major declared candidates Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback and Duncan Hunter don’t even register on the Fred-philic pages of Newsweek." Read more at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-94.php.
Stinkyjournalism.org tried to get Newsweek to explain but they refused to respond to our inquiries. That’s why we made the “The Thompson Twins (gay cowboys) music video". We want to draw attention to Newsweek’s undisclosed crush on Thompson that is hidden in plain sight. Please go see “My Johnson is for Fred Thompson” at You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgtLrQijdxo and spread the word.
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