More than 20,000 people have now viewed the 15-minute interview of former Sen. Fred Thompson by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson, who wrote a blog post at National Review's "The Corner" about the interview:
On Monday, former senator Fred Thompson spent half a day at the Hoover Institution, discussing policy with a roomful of Hoover fellows. In this, my first encounter with Thompson, I was hugely impressed—hugely. He proved relaxed, likeable, determined, warm, funny, and—a trait not always seen in candidates for high office—humble. (He reached into his briefcase, pulled out a three-ring binder, and then spent the entire session taking notes as assiduously as a college student.)
When we broke for lunch, Thompson and I sat down for a brief interview. To take a look at the man for yourself, click here.
I recently spent some time surfing some Lefty blogs, and found numerous references by various leftwing commenters to Fred Thompson being intellectually lazy, unintelligent and incurious. In other words, the Left is gearing up to try the same attack line against Thompson as it used against George W. Bush and, before him, Ronald Reagan. But intellectually lazy, unintelligent, incurious men do not spend time at half-a-day policy seminars at places like the Hoover Institution filling a three-ring-binder with notes.
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