More On Politico's Roger Simon And Fred Thompson

To start with, just to be clear - the Roger Simon at The Politico is not the Roger Simon of Pajamas Media. I knew that, want to make sure readers do, too. But I've found another curious report in this regard.

This will give you a window into Simon's coverage of Thompson. Now take a look at this headline from the first debate.

Thompson dull in long-awaited debut

DEARBORN, Mich. — I thought that in his first debate Fred Thompson would come across as either bright or dumb.

I forgot about dull.

The AP was mostly neutral. But take a look at The Christian Science Monitor:

Thompson survives his first debate
Expectations were low, but the GOP presidential candidate passed a key test.

Washington - If there was any doubt about the stakes for Fred Thompson at his first presidential debate Tuesday, his campaign put it to rest just 20 minutes into the two-hour forum. That's when aides churned out the first of what would be a dozen mid-debate e-mails to reporters, critiquing his rivals' answers and extolling Mr. Thompson's.

It was a game of real-time defense remarkable even by the standards of today's campaign spin rooms. But in the end, it may have been unnecessary.

Despite a few awkward pauses and an occasionally pained look, Thompson made no major fumbles and fleshed out some policy ideas in the sort of detail often absent on the campaign trail. His answers went from stilted to more assured as the debate wore on, and by the end, he was joking with moderator Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, whose final question dealt with his late entry into the race for the Republican nomination.

"I've got to admit, it was getting a little boring without me," Thompson quipped, to laughter from the audience in Dearborn, Mich. "But I'm glad to be here now."

Comments

[JustADude]

Even though I commented about two Simons in the last thread, I don't follow either one of them, it was brought to my attention by a post over a Mac Rangers place and then I followed up on it.

In fact the whole thing from what I had seen was a big whoopee and why are we even counting these paper clips.

From what I have seen , I will have to maybe take a look at what both of these players do, but if this is a representative story from one of them, I don't seem to have missed very much.

[Bill C]

Dan, fwiw, kudos to you for covering this like a blanket.