Best. Smackdown. Ever.
By Greg L | 15 May 2007 | National Politics | 8 Comments
This has got to be the finest political smackdown ever delivered. Lefty nutjob Michael Moore goes to Cuba to tout the benefits of communist healthcare, and ends up under investigation by the Treasury Department for violating the U.S. trade embargo. Potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson points out how inane this trip was, which prompts Michael Moore to challenge Thompson to a debate on several hand-picked issues, all of which are equally inane. So here’s Fred Thompson’s response:
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Moore should seriously consider this advice.
H/T: NovaTownHall
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Just tremendous.
You have to love the fact that he delivered this response with a cigar in his mouth, given that was what Moore used to attack him.
Its like one big middle finger.
Nice touch with the cigar. Looks like a La Gloria Cubana, Serie R No. 7 maduro to me. I’m enjoying one right now.
James, you haven’t violated the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba now, have you?
I LOVE IT!!! Laugh out loud moment. I’ll even have to show it to my wife.
Having experience in this, there is only one way to violate our embargo–that is bringing in cigars directly from Cuba. If you bought Cuban cigars anywhere in the world other than Cuba and bring them in–you’re fine. Trust me, I know these things I was in Cuba three years ago and did my homework. My folks live in Israel and when I vistied I bought some Cubans legally, and brought them back legally. In a way, its almost like money laundering.
Greg, La Gloria Cubana’s are all Dominican, rolled primarily in Miami by Ernesto Perez-Carillo (well, his company, anyway). Had the pleasure of meeting him last April at an event for the 35th anniversary of the Old Virginia Tobacco Company.
Chris, I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about that. Last time I was in Buffalo, I drove over to Canada. When I returned, I was asked. Perhaps the border guard didn’t get the memo.
Fred Thompson is definately impressive. Too bad he has not not jumped all the into the Presidential contest.
Maybe the USA should be putting Moore into a mental institution. I lived in Cuba for three years and they are scared to death of Castro. The only reason these people “volunteer” to show up at political events or to harvest sugar cane is because their lives are threatened. As told to me, “we’ll be found dead on our wive’s doorstep” if they don’t volunteer. They have to sit right next to their radios and TVs with volume on super low (listening to outside news sources) so their neighbors don’t turn them in for subversive action.