Fox: "Has the Air Gone Out of the Fred Thompson Presidential Campaign Before it Ever Left the Ground?"

That sounds promising, but the headline turns out to be Fair & Balanced.

Brit and Fred's scintilating analysis: everything's good in the 'hood for the GOP front-runners.

Thompson's down, so that's good for him.

HUME: So you think that the little downturn in Thompson's fortune is a good thing? Just what he needed?

BARNES:Absolutely.

And Rudy's down, and that's also -- wouldn't you know it -- good for him!

HUME: What is happening with this? I mean, it really did seem that Giuliani had surged ahead of everybody, and then begun to fade—

LIASSON: And then came down a bit, that's right.

HUME: —and that his campaign was beginning to sink a bit.

LIASSON: I think that, as Fred said, he is a great performing candidate.

HUME: So he hits these states, and people get fired up.