Mickey gets it:
You know how sometimes you put on one of your favorites songs and you're tapping your feet and listening very closely to the singer and you suddenly realize ... he's faking it. It's the fifth take and he doesn't care anymore. Or that's what it sounds like. It could be a good song, by a good group--it happened to me recently with the Decemberists. It happens all the time. But it sort of kills the effect.
I'm sorry, but that's how I feel about Fred Thompson.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/09/right-snoozed-fred/212092/
