Byron York interviews Fred Thompson for a piece in National Review. Apparently, the former senator has about had it with the media attention on his wife.

"She has taken a lot of comments that should have been directed toward me," Thompson told me. When he started looking into running for president, Thompson said, there was a lot to be done and very little time to do it, and his wife played a key role in getting things going. "We started literally from the kitchen table a few months ago," he said. "While I did the things that I felt like I needed to do - I had a contract with NBC television, I had a contract with ABC radio, I was chairman of the advisory board on international security for the State Department, and a lot of other things - while I was disengaging from that and getting my thoughts together on issues and things of that nature, public comments I knew I would be called on to make, I asked her to do certain things for me. She did what I asked her to do."

And if they are going to talk about her, the least they could do is get the facts straight:

Some of the reports, Thompson said, have contained substantial factual errors. "Things that you would think could have been checked fairly readily," he told me, "but things that are clearly erroneous - like she's not a lawyer and she's never been married before. I listened to a news show with an expert commentator about a week ago talking about Jeri, and in a short segment he had four totally erroneous factual errors about her."

Fred should take comfort that the opposition (be it Republican or Democrat) is focusing on his wife. That's a sign of weakness. If the best they can do against Fred is to raise questions about his current wife, Fred is a very strong candidate indeed.