Bam! A Cigar Upside The Head
Fred Thompson lays a cigar upside Michael Moore's head - in a figurative sense of course. In reply to Moore's self-aggrandizing challenge to debate about health care and Cuba, Thompson verbally lays Moore out and schools him - all delivered perfectly. Timing, voice, gestures, words, cigar - Thompson is devastating here. Without saying a single word that could be construed as an insult, Thompson manages to convey his exact opinion of Moore and Moore's choice of friends. An absolute must watch.
(This delivery is exactly why politicians are scared of him entering the race. And if they aren't, they are very, very badly advised. No other candidate - from either party - can make a delivery like that.)
Ed Morrisey has the background on the Cuban filmmaker that Thompson mentions.
UPDATE: It gets better: "He (Thompson) turned it around in under two hours, and he did it off the top of his head essentially in one take." Any candidate who is not afraid of Thompson coming in is dead from the neck up.
UPDATE: Already up and running on YouTube (and views are climbing rapidly - the comments are very interesting). Bob Krumm has a really good roundup of some other reactions to this. It's pretty much unanimous - Thompson hit one out of the park here - and anyone who isn't afraid of him coming in is not playing with a full deck. He's that good - and that media savvy.
