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Published by BG on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:27 AM.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Another candidate question from the AP yields more comedy gold from Fred
The AP has rolled out the answers to one more of its silly candidate questions, this one about who is the candidate’s favorite 20th century president.
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Which brings us to teh Fred, recipient of Rep. Steve King’s endorsement yesterday.
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: “Martin Sheen.” The fellow actor played two Democratic presidents on TV, the fictional Josiah Bartlet in “The West Wing” and John Kennedy in a miniseries.
He must have chuckled to himself all the way through filling out this questionnaire, much as a mischievous 6th grader filling in joke answers to questions on a test that won’t count to his final grade (yeah, I used to do that all the time, all the way through college).
Alright StB, does this show...
(a) A humorous side to the candidate, apropos of no larger agenda
(b) A light-hearted jab at the ridiculousness of answering the same questions over and over again on the campaign trail
(c) Contempt for the so-called "Liberal Media" by refusing to play their reindeer games
(d) An attempt to inject some of that down-home charisma that's been missing in his appearances into the campaign
(e) Something else entirely that I'm missing
I find it kinda goofy and endearing, although it's hard not to picture an angry elitist Thompson at his keyboard seething with contempt over being made part of the same dog-and-pony show the damned Librul Meedya is running everyone else through.
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