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CBS was too busy in Syria and Iraq to assign a reporter to Fred Thompson's official entry into the Presidential race, but both ABC and NBC covered the announcement by the Tennessee Republican. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, of course, included a clip from her own network's Tonight Show, where he appeared instead of joining a Fox News Channel debate in New Hampshire: "GOP rivals accused him of running away." When Thompson unveiled his slogan Commonsense Conservative on the hustings in Iowa, ABC's Jake Tapper noted that the actor and senator, "who has also served as a lawyer and a lobbyist, is not universally beloved by the right."
As Thompson seeks to parlay his Law & Order persona into campaign appeal, NBC's Andrea Mitchell found a yet more powerful television entry into Campaign 2008: Oprah Winfrey, recently ranked the second-most admired woman in America. "Can the billionaire entertainer and richest woman in America turn her magic into votes for Barack Obama?" Mitchell explained why Winfrey's endorsement of Obama, her hometown senator, could be so important in the Democratic primary: "She reaches 8.5m viewers each day, mostly women, exactly the voters now largely supporting Hillary Clinton." By the way, Mitchell closed by pointing out who beat out Winfrey as America's first-most admired woman. Just guess.
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