Newsweek Weighs in on Fred Thompson

By Andy Selepak
Accuracy in Media
Monday, June 25, 2007

Although Fred Thompson has yet to formally announce that he is running for President, the media are already looking for ways to take down his campaign and make Thompson less appealing to Republican primary voters. Thompson, referred to as "a Southern-fried Reagan" by the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land, was the subject of an article in the June 25 issue of Newsweek magazine that ran with the subtitle: "The right has a crush on Fred Thompson, but his own papers suggest he is less conservative then they think."

By questioning Thompson's conservative credentials, Newsweek writer Holly Bailey appears to be discouraging the rise of Thompson's poll numbers within the Republican Party. According to the article, conservatives have "latched onto him as something of a political messiah" because they are "underwhelmed" with the current 2008 Republican presidential candidates. According to the latest Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll cited in the article, Thompson is running a "close second behind the current leader, Rudy Giuliani―and beat everyone, including Giuliani, among self-described 'religious right' voters."

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