Fred Thompson "Owes Nothing to the Media"

h/t to ARRA news Service, for this video. A bit from ARRA's post, which can be found here.

• Thompson to Media "I Owe the Media Nothing" after spreading false rumor
  
• During the Iowa Caucus, The Politico and other media sources spread the false rumor that Fred Thompson was withdrawing from the GOP race. Robert Novak revealed yesterday that the false rumor was started by the Mitt Romney campaign:
  

  Published reports that Fred Thompson soon will withdraw from the Republican
  presidential contest and endorse Sen. John McCain have been traced in part to Mitt Romney's
  campaign, trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson.

  On this morning's Today, he declined to engage in horse-race speculation about his own prospects, then took the media to task for its propagation of that false rumor about his impending withdrawal.

ARRA has the full transcript on their post. I will post the first part, because it really stuck in my mind about why we are electing a president and what is most important for this country. And that is not pettiness. Fred shows that he ain't gonna play petty games.

• FRED THOMPSON: I'm not going to engage in that -- further beating the process issue to death. We're talking about the future of our country here and the fact that our worst enemies are trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons and we're bankrupting the next generation. That's what I'm talking about. The rest is all speculation and I don't engage in it.