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Radio Host Swipes at Clinton During Thompson Event
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ABC News' Christine Byun reports: While warming up the crowd for a Fred Thompson rally, a former Los Angeles AM radio host took a swipe at Hillary Clinton just a day after a man took staffers hostage in her Rochester, N.H. field office.
"Some nut job broke in there, took hostages and apparently threatened to blow himself up unless he got a chance to speak to Hillary. Now, I found this rather odd because I always feel like blowing myself up after hearing Hillary Clinton speak," John Ziegler said. The audience laughed and applauded.
Ziegler quickly added, "By the way, the opinions expressed during this portion of the presentation are not necessarily those of Fred Thompson, the Fred Thompson campaign or anyone affiliated in the Republican party."
Later, GOP hopeful Fred Thompson took the stage and talked about his stance on national security and tax reform before a crowd of 300 supporters in Laguna Woods, California.
Thompson -- who spent Saturday fundraising in Southern California - received warm support from the crowd, even when he mistakenly said "death penalty" when speaking about one of his tax proposal’s main thrusts: repealing the death tax.
"We ought to retain all those tax cuts and we ought to get rid of the death penalty while we’re doing it," Thompson said, as the audience applauded despite the gaffe.
He then corrected himself by saying he meant "the death tax, of course."
"We need to apply the death penalty to those who would…" Thompson said, trailing off as the audience again laughed, adding, "But, you knew what I was talking about."
December 1, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (27)
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First, my candidate is Richardson.
Re the comment made by John Ziegler. In
my home town, a local right wing talk
show host made the emphatic comment,
"I hate Hilliary Clinton". One thing
that both of these men have in common is
that neither one has ever met Hilliary
Clinton or any of her family. They
have been making so many negative
comments about her over the years that
they cannot bring themselves to say
anything positive about her.
It also reflects on the John Ziegler audience that they appreciated such a
tasteless remark. And on Thompson for
not disavowing Ziegler's remarks.
Posted by: Beto | Dec 2, 2007 4:33:02 PM
"Repubs have only ever had one idea: Screw the working class for the benefit of the greedy, filthy rich. The filthy rich do no real work. They live like spoiled little pigs by exploiting everyone else. Then they accuse the people who are working hard to make ends meet of being lazy. If they ever had to live in the real world or actually survive by their own physical effort they'd be dead in a week.
Posted by: Truth | Dec 2, 2007 1:07:24 AM"
Filthy rich??? Oh as in Ted Kennedy and John Kerry! Take the time to research the richest Senators and Congressmen and you just may become enlightened!
Posted by: KFED | Dec 2, 2007 7:36:50 PM
p.s. What happened to John Ziegler with KFI anyways???
Posted by: KFED | Dec 2, 2007 7:38:31 PM
There should be law that requires Presidents to have served in the military and not a lawyers. Sorry Fred, you can't be trusted with my liberty and freedom.
Posted by: Greg | Dec 3, 2007 5:21:52 AM
I was fortunate enough to be present at this event. Mr. Ziegler was there to MC an event and did an excellent job. As far as the joke is concerned, I found it humorous.
Posted by: Glenn Bush | Dec 4, 2007 3:53:10 PM
I live in Tennessee. Thompson was a lackluster Senator,doing little for my part of the state. He spent most of his time being a sot,riding in limo's around Nashville,chasing petite blonde female country singers.He's just another incompetent Bush clone,eager to sell his soul to the right wing Taliban.
Posted by: Sharon White | Dec 6, 2007 11:34:48 AM
Hey Stan, Lets compare the life and accomplishments of our sitting president with that of George Washington.
Posted by: laternighter | Dec 6, 2007 11:59:36 PM
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