It's funny how when a Republican is really the popular with a large section of the public the MSM suddenly remembers how to use the Lexis-Nexis. The latest hit piece on Fred Thompson is that Nixon called him "dumb as hell" when he was hired Senator Baker for the Watergate Committee. Yeah, Richard Nixon was a great judge of character in 1973 when he was in the grips of psychotic paranoia.Word to the wise, geniuses...if you insist on using the same playbook on Fred that you used on Reagan,...