about the spectacular fred thompson goatee infomercial about bush's tax rates. i confess in our news meeting today when we decided what stories we were going to cover on tonight's show, i confess that the whole stop of this show was slightly more interested in this story leading our show than we would otherwise have been, because the commercial stars, you know, fred thompson. fred thompson being in any story makes it inherently more fun to cover. note to all republican political operatives out there. if you are looking for coverage of your cause, liberals will talk about anything that involves fred thompson, because anything fred thompson does, anything he says, at some level, is inherently funny. fred thompson is inherently funny. if you would like to learn more, please go to our new website we purchased today, it's www.fredthompsonisinherently funny.com. seriously, we own it now. ♪