Fred doesn't know about Jena Six

Pat, Boston, MA — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:42:27 GMT

Thanks for the laugh First Read. Too funny.

Fred doesn't know about Jena Six

nuanced — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:46:12 GMT

That's what happens when you don't read the newpaper or watch the news. He would also need to be surrounding himself with people equally out of it. On the other hand he would be following in Bush's footsteps.

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M. Boley — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:46:57 GMT

So Freddy is ignorant too... yawn. Nothing 'newsy' about that - except that it confirms once again that many on the Right are not curious in an intellectual sense.

Fred doesn't know about Jena Six

M. Boley — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:55:05 GMT

I wonder what his trophy wifey thinks about this.

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Rufus Gibbons, DC Vlunteered in 1943 at 17 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:01:22 GMT

Well Fred doesn't seem to know much about anything he didn't know drilling in the Everglades was a hot button in Florida and now this. Maybe he is more like Bush than we thought apparently he doesn't read newspapers or watch news on television either. Is everybody ready for another ten years of "stay the course" and Iraq expense nearing a trillion?

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Alan Ladstone — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:11:33 GMT

Hey, Fred's in good company. Jesse and Al, and the rest of the protesters that showed up, don't know anything about it either.

Fred doesn't know about Jena Six

Dave, Tn — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:23:14 GMT

Does Fred know about Christopher Newsom & Channon Christian? They could ask him about that one too.

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Bee — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:37:46 GMT

His candidacy is a joke, and i don't think he is well informed. Get rid of this joker, he's even worse than Bush in ignorance.

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Flat-earther, Georgia — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:39:25 GMT

He is better than Laural and Hardy.

They are all entertainers; clown category.

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PJ — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:02:06 GMT

ni-night Fred

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Shadow, Hamden, CT — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:13:46 GMT

Thompson replied "Didn't Phil Collins sing for JenaSix?"

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Al, KS — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:21:38 GMT

So, what do you know about, Fred? I'm waiting.....still waiting.....

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Jennie Denver,CO — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:25:00 GMT

THIS is the hope of the GOP? He might make for some good comic relief, otherwise I wish he had just stayed out of the race. Of course, we do know you republicans like your presidents dumb...

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Nick Staha, Austin TX — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:29:07 GMT

I was at the fundraiser. Thompson wasn't saying he is related to Davy Crockett. The analogy was a Tennessean coming to Texas. Ancestor meant Tennessean more broadly.

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RJ — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:39:16 GMT

Why would a presidential candidate worry about 6 violent teens? Seems like a local situation to me.

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mikeeg,abdn,wa — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:48:27 GMT

fred, what day is it?

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HA! — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:49:39 GMT

So can this guy actually get nominated? Never though GW would. Man I miss him on Law & Order!

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bluesun — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:54:00 GMT

Either he is really ignorant and uninformed, or he is purposely not stating his opinion because he knows most of his supporters are racist and he cant blatantly be quoted as being a racist.

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Anthony Palmer, Columbia, SC — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:22:51 GMT

Fred Thompson's "aw shucks" demeanor reminds voters of what they used to like about George Bush. However, this little episode reminds voters of exactly what they don't like about him: ignorance and incompetence. Does Fred Thompson not read the newspaper or watch the news on television?

If Thompson doesn't know what's going on in America, how can he claim to know what's going on elsewhere in the world? It seems that he is a fraud, but will conservatives penalize him?

Look for Newt Gingrich to end this nonsense and jump into the race.

You can read more of my analysis of Fred Thompson here: http://theseventen.blogspot.com/2007/09/fred-thompson-disconnect-part-ii.html

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Dave, AZ — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:05:46 GMT

Fred Thompson is a bigger idiot than I even thought. This guy wants to be president? Isn't the Texas Alfred E. Newman we currently have as president destroyed our country enough that we have to elect an even dumber person? Maye we should bring back Abbie Hoffman's old candidate Pigasus and run him. Can't o any worse.

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Victoria, Philadelphia, PA — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:32:31 GMT

I really hope this guy is not in charge of anything that is too important. Sounds like he's bright enough to just fetch a cup of java and nothing more.

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mike, Manton, Ca — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:57:53 GMT

I'm not saying that most conservatives are stupid people...I'm saying that most stupid people are conservatives...

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nuanced — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:46:46 GMT

mike, Manton - it is not so much stupid as it is a curious incuriousness and a willful ignorance. You can be very intelligent but not so interested in looking beyond what you've been told to believe.

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SP Biloxi — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:15:09 GMT

And Aqua Velva Fred wants to be President? LOL! It's no sense banging your head on the desk from Fred's comments. Thanks for the laugh for the day. Pass the popcorn...

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TS — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:14:17 GMT

There's another Georgie deep inside.

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A. Baxter Jackson, TN — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:03:17 GMT

GO FRED GO!!! Look out Hillery, the Thompson train is coming down the track. Finally a candidate that speaks his mind, isn't afraid to say I dont know. Who cares about a murder case...there's thousands of them in the nation each day.

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Heather Brandon, Gainesville, Florida — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:03:08 GMT

I don't care whether it was 6 black students, 6 white students beating and kicking another person of ANY race! This sort of behavior should NOT be tolerated! I can't believe people are rallying to defend 6 people who brutally assaulted another human being and that's the case!

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RealB.G. — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:30:41 GMT

A descendent of Davy Crockett and he doesn't know anything about the Jena 6. No wonder he is afraid of the Morgan State debate.

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The truth, Albany, NY — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:51:28 GMT

Good to know that the GOP candidates are interested in whats going in among non-White Americans. Let Freedom ring!!! (For some people of course)