Wow. I need a cigarette...

Hmmmmm a scathing denouncment from Cuba's newest honorary citizen Mickey Moore....will Fred walk away from this without a limp ;-)

Delightful:

Whilst smoking a CUBAN cigar, warning Michael Moore about Castro's treatment of unfriendly movie makers.

Electroshock therapy is the method of choice in lighting CUBAN cigars, in mental institutions!!

Of course the world has gone completely MAD!!

It is just like my son said in his essay on the state of government; quoting Mussolini:

"THE TRUTH IS MEN HAVE GROWN TIRED OF LIBERTY!"

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP

Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion

Knecht Rupprecht Division

Hans Corps

1st Saint Nicolaas Army

Army Group “True North”

mikey been bitch slapped up sida his head real good.

Doubt electric shock would go through the blubber on that big greasy windbag but there's little chance of that happening to a kindred spirit. Also
Castro is in a very delicate condition, reduced to a feeble old gaffer, happy to have attention from anyone, including the Trudeau boys of Montreal who regularly visit their long standing beloved papa Fidel.

Not sure if Fred's stogy is a good choice for a prop though.

Good on Fred. Moore is now outed as a liar and a fraud and is becoming more and more irrelevant. I would love to see a Guiliani/Thompson or Thompson/Guiliani ticket. Either way is fine with me. Together they would kick butt!

Hans, you have exceptional eye sight being able to state that Fred had a Cuban cigar. I'd bet my dollars to your doughnuts that is was made in the Dominican Republic. But what do I know, my smeller doesn't work near as well as yours.

Fred Thompson for President!

The cigar band's been removed; very suspicious... ;)
Smoking...gun...Columbine

Fred is slick...Mikey's sick...

Syncro

You need to read the linked * to understand the inclusion of a cigar.

Conservatives have been dissatified with the lineup of candidates so far.

If Fred Thompson runs, he will almost certainly be the conservative choice. He's our kind of guy.

Every one of the major candidates will have trouble getting past the primaries in the South. When you're dealing with the primaries, you are completely outside of the accomodations that have to be made in the general election.

Republican primary voters have to be satisfied that you're their guy, on guns, abortion, strong and aggressive defense, small centralized government...

While most of the first-tier crew have trouble awaiting them in the southern primaries, Fred Thompson could sail through slicker than a hound's tooth.

"In light of your comments regarding Cuba and Castro, do you think the "box upon box of cigars -- Montecristos from Havana" that you have in your office have contributed to Castro's reported wealth?"

ACHTUNG: a different Bob!!

I will raise you 40 dozen BERLINERS to your devaluing dollars!!

Dueling Havanas at 40 paces, to decide healthcare!!

Why is this dude the only Republican willing to stand up and give idiot leftists exactly what they deserve?
And when is Thompson going to run already???

Holy Crap!

I've heard of this guy running. I've learnt more over the past couple of weeks. Wow. He can win. Is he conservative?

Holy Crap!

I've heard of this guy running. I've learnt more over the past couple of weeks. Wow. He can win. Is he conservative?

Wimpy Canadian asks, "Is he conservative?"

He's either conservative or a very good actor. Or both.

Kate: \

I read the "*" in your post and in it MM accuses Fred of smoking cuban cigars. I did not see a rebuttal or refutation of this assertion by Moore. If Fred actually does smoke Cubans MM has a point vis-a-vis Fred being a hypocrite.

Is their another link the debunks MM's accusation?

Way to hand the sanctimonious lard-ass hypocrite his considerable rear end, Fred!

I didn't know that only Cubans make cigars. Jeez.

So, Gord Tulk, I am guessing the concept of irony is utterly beyond you? Time to take the blinders off.

And to Fred? BZ!

http://www.cigar.com/cigars/viewcigar.asp?brand=136

Check out the "Churchill".

Cheers

Gord Tulk,

Read this.

Montecristo. The world's most famous cigar trademark. Originating in Cuba,Montecristo, is now distributed in the U.S., is manufactured by hand in the Dominican Republic

For a "documentarian", Moore sure sucks at finding out simple things like this. It took me all of five seconds.

Perhaps that's why Fred! was so in-your-face-MM about his response?

It wasn't Michael Moore that shoved a $543 billion prescription drug suppository up the taxpayers' wazoo.

And the cigar-chewing, tough-talking conservative Fred Thompson ... he voted for it too. But Mmm-mmm! He's going to bitch-slap those sanctimonious lard-ass hypocrites real good. Or vice-versa. Whatever.

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Just Moore advertising. New fictumentory coming out, needs buzz, issues "open letter" against someone who has media attention. He even managed an oh-so-clever placement of the movie title in the letter.

Spring is in the air and Michael is besotted with his new Bush.

I'm disappointed that FT won't be debating MM. It would be fun to watch.

Juxtapose Fred's rectal fisking of Blubberbag Michael Moore and Dick Cheney's eloquentia perfecta moment giving the glare of steel to Wolf Blitzer and I think you have the makings of a great Die Hard 5.

Michael Moore is Rosie O'Donnell after a Type 2 Flabalanche.

That was well said. It is true that some things should, could be better in the US one of the things that could be better in Cuba is for a person to speak out or even poke the government in the eye like Michael Moore does in the US. It was good to see the refrence to the Cuban political prisoner here that Thompson brought up. In Cuba, a fact based documentarian got assigned to a mental hosipital for electro shock therapy and meanwhile in the US a spinmeister can throw his stuff out without restriction to his freedom. No doubt Michael points out that if he was doing a piece as a Cuban film maker that took a similiar approach to something in Cuba, you wouldn't be seeing this movie or even really knowing about him. Surely Michael doesn't do this film ignoring the suffering of his fellow film makers in Cuba, surely he asks the hard questions that his hard won freedom would more than strongly suggest he be required to.

"So Fidel, we hear that you put people in prison for disagreeing with you and your government, that they are abused in prison, certainly you and your government can stand a some cricitism, look at me here talking to you, the abuse I heap on my government and its not falling?" That happens very close to the start, doesn't it?

I'm going to send a three pack of Cohiba Robustos to the PM. Maybe that will stiffen his resolve and help him find his backbone.

40 Below Tory

Lydia:

Thanks for clearing that up. Kate's post certainly did not.

'Montecristo Churchills' for those with a parliamentary preference.

What a brilliant concept, SMOKIN!!

Hey, CUBAN MISSILE crisis with CIGARS!?!

Until Fred came along, I had determined to sit out this election- no vote, no money, no on-the-streets activism-- and I've been a citizen activist since Barry Goldwater's run.

Yes, I thought the "choices" offered were that bad. God-awful. Boring. So "last century..."

Fred, I would vote for. Walk the streets for. Give money to.

This episode merely reinforces my belief that Fred, and only Fred, is the right man for the job. While the other candidates were "debating" each other- pointless chatter- who listens to this stuff anyway, besides talking heads?--

Fred put up the perfect response, in the New Media.

Why doesn't Moore bring the 911 workers to Canada for health care or does Cuba have a better system?

"Montecristo. The world's most famous cigar trademark. Originating in Cuba,Montecristo, is now distributed in the U.S., is manufactured by hand in the Dominican Republic"

That was the operative point Lydia, Cuban hostility to the US has moved their primary cigar and fruit markets to other suppliers...among them the DR...I actually like the DR cigars better....and I smoke them in the pleasure of knowing I didn't further the cause of communist slave labor.

Viva la revolución económica!

Viva la república libre de Cuba! !

Vive la fre republic da Cuba!!

"Kate's post certainly did not."

That's because Kate doesn't care what he smokes.

Several references have been made about MM being a documentarian. What a joke! Moore writes fiction in the guise of a documentary. He has been shown to be a liar and a fraud. How anyone can objectively say that he writes documentaries is beyond comprehension and cannot be defended.

Fred Thompson, first of all, would kick his sorry lying ass in any debate, and second, would not flatter Moore with a debate in the first place.

Re:Cuba

I've just returned from Varadero and a side trip to Havana - I can tell you that the Cubans you meet have a reasonably capitalist instinct and the fastest way to break the communist regime would be to LIFT the embargo - maintaining it only prolongs the state control which a closed economy permits, like convertible pesos.

As it stands, the Chinese are investing heavily in Cuba. There was an Air China 747-400 on the tarmac at Varadero when I left, which had brought some PRC bigwig, and there are three PRC TV channels on the hotel cable - one Chinese, one Spanish, one English. We know how their intervention has done such positive things for Sudan. It seems Fidel has found a new sugar daddy and the Chinese are looking for the foothold in the Americas the Soviets used to have.

Mark, the Chinese are on the hunt for raw commodities, anything they can suck out of a mine or oilfield to take home. Their foothold in the Americas is Walmart. If Walmart closed tomorrow, China would be in a serious world of hurt.

There are a lot of Cuban American entrepreneurs a short distance of 90 miles from Cuba that will reclaim Cuba when Castro croaks. Watch for Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, both disingenuous weasels, to be pallbearers. Add Jimmy Carter to the funeral entourage too. Good God, there are so many weasels in this world.

Yup, the embargo is pretty much a useless joke.

You can still buy Montecristos in Havana, but it's just one of the many pre-Castro brands that have are being manufactured off the island as well, often by companies that bought the rights to the name from the original manufacturers, who left Cuba after their businesses were nationalized. Even the Cohiba - the premium export brand of the nationalized Cuban cigar industry - has been trademarked by a competitor outside of Cuba, and there have been lawsuits and threats of lawsuits about this.

Fred believes that you never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

What an extemporaneous flourish Mr. Thompson! Or rather, an insipid recitation prepared by some eager underling, without regard to the subject at hand, which I believe was healthcare. This was an obvious deflection to all but the factionalists.

Fred's the Man. All of about 20 seconds to tear MM a new one and deftly done. Love the look over the glasses. He and Rudy would make a great team. Either way.. Fred for Prez and Guiliani for Veep or the other way around, I don't care. Two men who tell it like it is, do not mince words and have the steel spine to stand up to anything. There IS hope for this election yet.