Thompson Has To Ask "Sleepy" Crowd For "Round Of Applause"

Later in the day, Thompson addressed a sleepy crowd over lunch at Tremont on Main in Marshalltown, IA. The crowd of about 60 people seemed nonplused by the candidate's speech, treating it much like a lecture with little applause or laughter. Thompson was even forced to finish his speech by saying, "First of all can I have a round of applause," admitting that he had to "drag" it out of them. On the street after the lunch, two independent voters, Kathy Larson and Mary Brooks, said that they were pretty disappointed by what they heard.

"I have a couple friends who urged me to come to hear him because she said he crosses party lines," Larson said. "So I, in good faith, came. But I didn't hear specifics...no substance, you know, feel good. Well I don't feel good."

"He was so vague," Brooks added.

"And folksy and feel good, but that doesn't cut it," Larson said. "We really wanted to know about foreign policy, and I don't think he said much about it at all."

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Comments

[whomung]

Time to stick a pitchfork in Fred, he's done....

I bet the actors who actually stared in "Law and Order" (Fred was on every few weeks for a cameo --he was a bit player-- hardly one of the team (Sam Waterson, etc) who carried the show for a decade of success) are pissed as hell at not getting their syndication checks....

Their income stream is cut off because this dork is "wandering aimlessly for the Presidency -in between his naps and dementia"

[NegSpin]

When we stick the pitchfork in do you think he'll react? His lifelessness is making me tired more than an hour before bedtime.

[whomung]

I think he'll react if proded with a pitchfork....

but there will be a time lag of a century or so.... the old synapses aren't what they used to be..... and Nixon is on record saying he was a dim bulb when he was young.... before the drooling and dementia set in.

[sugarmoes]

the creature from the black lagoon has no energy. he's just running to say he ran.

[Grannysue]

Wait till he breaks out his bible and start carrying a flag into every event. Hell he will probably drape his bimbo wife in a crown and give her a magic wand! The Republicans are a washed up bunch of old white rich guys, who love tellin everyone what to do, how to live and bombing the hell out of everyone. In their spare time they like to give those big tax breaks to their rich boot lickers and take away healthcare from kids. Good by and Good Riddance to them all!

[leahlex]

Chattanooga, Tn anouther local Republican resigns in shame from the same city council that former Mayor Bob Corker Presided over.I like to call him Senator Walmart.
He and Congressman Zack Wamp are rubber stamps for GWB. Check their voting records. They were instrumental in the draft Fred Thompson plan. These I call the deliverance boys.You know, Christan when it suits them.
I here Bill Maher say all the time he just can't figure out why people in the South are so.....well dumb.
Get Zack Wamp or Bob Corker on your show and you'll see what I'm talking about. They are sooooooooo­oooooooooo full of shit and they and they especially Zack are all for Freddy. Personally I don't think he'll make through to become the candidate.But thats there deal.

[lefilmnoir]

Fred should stick to reading other people's material & give up auditioning for the President gig.

[buddydave]

Thompson's been in show business long enough to know that asking for your own round of applause is equal to dying onstage. He'd have been better off by ending with, "Excuse me, but I have to go shoot myself in the face now."

[mrcontinental]

zzzzZZZZZzzzz. I wasn't sleeping I was just resting my eyes.

[UkieOlie]

Good ole Fred only rents an old pickup truck when he's campaigning.

[BrickSykes]

You Guys have Gotta go to the "Rolling Stone" piece on Fast Freddy! This crowd sounds like the same one Matt Taibbi writes about:

"He gets audiences purring in a cozy stupor. Their eyes glaze over and they end up looking like a bunch of flies happily lapping up their own puke!"

http://tinyurl.com/23ddt5

No Sh*t! You'll love it.....

Brick

[bluesnot]

Matt rocks.

[JGatsby]

Bick, thanks for the link, a great article.

[djthedj]

So independent voters were unimpressed. Maybe because they actually have a brain. Republicans will love Fred, he's stupid, greedy and lazy....perfect republican. Besides, he drives a red pickup and talks folksy southern, what more could we possibly need in a president?

[viperphantom]

Thompson is a lazy bum who should resist the urge to come back to politics. go back to lobbying or mediocre acting.

[Qbear]

Fred "fizzle" Thompson there is a reason script writers get large salaries and have their words protected as intellectual property.
Because thinking is HARD, knowing how to lay down your thoughts into the right phrases is HARD.
You obviously think just trying to bullsh*t in a layed-back southern folksy way will be enough, it AIN'T.