Posted on 05/15/2007 1:25:35 PM PDT by Sherri
Fred Thompson responds to Michael Moore on youtube
Give me his response in a nutshell.
I am at work and have no access to watching it.
Responds? To what? What is the subject?
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Mikey wanted to “debate” Fred. Watch the video if you can...it is a real hoot!
Good one! LOL
It’s more a dramatism than anything else. I don’t think that a Presidential candidate should be responding to anything Michael Moore says. Enough of this nonsense. If Fred’s running, then he should run.
Thompson told him he should look into a stay in one of Castro’s nut houses. Pretty funny!
Thompson is the BOMB!!!!
1.http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=611
2.http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm
**EXCLUSIVE: MICHAEL MOORE CHALLENGES FRED THOMPSON TO DEBATE Tues May 15 2007 6:00:01 ET
LETTER:
May 15, 2007
Senator Fred Thompson American Enterprise Institute
110 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036
Dear Senator Thompson,
Given that it has been publicly reported in The Weekly Standard, a leading neo-conservative publication, that you support Fidel Castro and the Cuban regime by being a purveyor of fine Cuban exports despite the trade embargo, I was surprised to see your recent op ed in a more traditional conservative outlet, The National Review, regarding my trip to Cuba (I suspect you choose The National Review in an effort to pander to an outlet that had criticized you for your opposition to medical malpractice legislation).
In your May 2, 2007 National Review article, “Paradise Island,” you specifically raised concerns about whether my trip to Cuba with 9/11 heroes, who have suffered serious health problems as a result of their exposure to toxic substances at Ground Zero that have gone untreated was somehow going to support Castro ad the Cuban government:
“It always leaves me shaking my head when I read about some big-time actor or director going to Cuba and gushing all over Castro.” [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWNhNzA2YmY3NTNjZjZhNjE1NmZjMDFkOTdjN2Q4ZmE=]
Putting aside the fact that you, like the Bush Administration, seem far more concerned about the trip to Cuba than the health care of these 9/11 heroes, I was struck by the fact that your concerns (including comments about CastroÕs reported financial worth) apparently do not extend to your own conduct, as reported in The Weekly Standard’s April 23, 2007 story, “From the Courthouse to the White House Fred Thompson auditions for the leading role” (emphasis added):
“Thompson’s work space looks just like what the home office of a successful politician or CEO should look like — though a little messier: a large desk, dark wood, leather furniture, lots of books and magazines and newspapers, a flat-screen TV, and box upon box of cigars — Montecristos from Havana.” [http://weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13528&R=1136E33842]
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 CastroÕs reported wealth?
While I will leave it up to the conservatives to debate your hypocrisy and the Treasury Department to determine whether the “box upon box of cigars” violates the trade embargo, I hereby challenge you to a health care debate.
Survey after survey has indicated that health care is one of the top issues to the American voters. Today, more than 46 million people lack health are coverage, including 9 million children. We pay significantly more than any other country in the world — and get less back. Americans life expectancy is lower than other Ground Zero 9/11 workers live in a society where the Bush Administration has shown more concern about their travel than about their health.
Our debate would provide you an opportunity to appeal to the right wing of the Republican Party by continuing to attack me; it would give me a chance to discuss health care and tell you exactly what happened in Cuba, given your apparent inters; and it would provide the American people an opportunity to see just how serious Hollywood can be, with a purported conservative and an avowed progressive Hollywood personality on stage.
Over the course of the debate, we could specifically address the following issues:
(1) Your work as a lobbyist in light of the fact that the health care and insurance industries have maintained the current health care system through their effective control of the political establishment.
(2) The fact that you raised hundred of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the health care and insurance industries.
(3) Discuss the fact, highlighted in yet another conservative outlet The New York Sun, that you inexplicably wanted to cut funding for AIDS research. [http://www.nysunpolitics.com/blog/2007/05/thompsons-1994-issue-positions.html]
(4) Your relationship with the Frist family and by extension HCA, one of the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chains. It has been reported that former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (who was renowned for his over-the-television-screen Schiavo diagnosis) is serving as one of your confidantes on your potential presidential campaign. The Frist family has historically controlled HCA, which paid a record $1.7 billion in civil and criminal fines, including a $631 million penalty for Medicaid fraud — in other words, ripping off the taxpayers.
(5) Discussing whether Arthur Branch, as the District Attorney of Manhattan, supports a woman’s right to choose, gun safety reforms, gay marriage, the trans fat ban and anti-smoking laws (which would impact Cuban cigars, including your Montecristos).
Like American Idol, we could even have the country vote to determine which one of us wins the debate. Though in the spirit of full disclosure, I feel obligated to forewarn you that I was the winner of the 1971-72 Detroit Free Press Debate Award for the state of Michigan.
The winner of our health care debate could even light a Victory cigar with one of your Montecristos (though we may want to consider shopping them to the safe house where I have put a master copy of SiCKO in the event that the Bush Administration tries to seize the film).
Sincerely,
Michael Moore
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LO, what eloquence.
Something to the effect that he doesn’t have time for a debate, but the next time he’s in Cube, Moore might think about a doc film maker who did something Castro didn’t like so Castro put him in a mental institution and gave him shock “therapy.”
“Mental hospital, Michael. You might think about it.”
Rip roaring funny.
The man has a way with words! Ouch!
Short but effective and to the point. Very nicely done.
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I will ask you soon how one does that, takes a frame and makes it into a still.
You’re so right. He should clearly kiss ass the way Bush has done. That is much more effective.
OUT OF THE BALLPARK!
Thompson gives Moore the venue he deserves, YouTube.
He doesn’t have time for him in his schedule.
He tells Michael that he might want to ask Castro what happened to Nicholas guein, the last film maker who went to Cuba. He ended up getting electo-shock.
He ends up telling Moore to “a mental-institution, Michael. It ought to be something you should think about.”
You have to love the big fat cigar in his mouth, don’t ya?!
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