ABC’s Stephanopoulos Attacks Thompson Again: Campaign Must be Perfect

Published: September 6, 2007, 12:31 pm

Tags: campaign 2008, conservatives amp amp republicans, revolving door, fred thompson, george stephanopoulos, mike huckabee, mitt romney, robin roberts, rudy giuliani, abc, good morning america, this week

For the third time in less than a week, ABC anchor and former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos appeared on "Good Morning America" to dourly assess Republican Fred Thompson's 2008 chances. On the Thursday edition of GMA, the host of "This Week" attempted to set an impossible bar for the former senator. "...He can't make a mistake," Stephanopoulos breathlessly claimed. Earlier in the segment, the ABC host negatively spun Thompson's standings in the polls. Some might compliment the performance of a candidate who, upon entering the 2008 race, is only narrowly trailing the front-runner. Not Stephanopoulos. After claiming that many thought the former actor would surge into first place early in the summer, he critiqued, "That hasn't happened. Most of the latest polls show that he's in second place behind Rudy Giuliani....He hasn't quite rocketed out the way he expected." Despite Stephanopoulos's inference that Thompson has entered the race

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