Video: Fred’s message to Iowa voters
posted at 8:32 pm on December 30, 2007 by Bryan
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A video like this one, 17 minutes of Fred addressing voters directly via the camera, forces viewers to ask a few basic questions. One, is what he is saying true and is he saying it clearly enough so that it makes sense? Second, does what he’s saying reflect my values and does he have a record of sticking to those values? Third, does he make a plausible president?
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Wow.
17 minutes well spent.
Bob's Kid on December 30, 2007 at 9:51 PM
this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh3Lhw4xYq0
from the sidebar at the youtube page for the video for this thread is rather hard on him, in not very subtle ways, it looks to be from a local lll station.
trailortrash on December 30, 2007 at 9:52 PM
A badge I proudly pin to my chest.
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 9:52 PM
He obviously wasn’t supposed to be looking towards the camera at the cut-aways. If he had, it would have looked like a bad Stephen Colbert parody.
And I suspect they intentionally wanted a less professional, less slick looking set. Everybody’s seen Fred on TV; I’d guess they now want him a little more human.
Or the local cable access studio was available cheap.
Definitely one of those.
For what its worth, if he looked and sounded that good there, I can’t even imagine how good he’d be in the Oval Office or at a State of the Union address.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 9:52 PM
Well, like I said, they all have some warts, but if we’re looking for someone entirely without blemishes, we need to look for someone who has never done anything.
a capella on December 30, 2007 at 9:53 PM
My fellow Americans…
(windows shatter, Congresscritters run screeching for cover)
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 9:54 PM
For the record, if we make it to comment 100 with a mostly positive, entirely respectful thread, I’m going to assume this is all a happy dream which I’ll forget by morning.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 9:55 PM
That’s from Sept. Who cares?
bnelson44 on December 30, 2007 at 9:55 PM
I know, and in all honesty, it was his support of CFR that has held me back until this point. He was wrong, and so was congress, the Pres., and the SCOTUS. CFR was a black mark for the Federal Govt. as a whole.
Weight of Glory on December 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Hillary meets that requirement, but she is a living, breathing, walking blemish.
Well… I guess she did ruin some bimbo lives.
RushBaby on December 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Yep. I understand what you mean. I’ve pretty much resigned myself to a poor incoming President. I don’t like any of the D’s and the R’s are pretty poor - when Huck and JMac are polling as high as they are: sad. When Fred might be the best of them, pretty pathetic.
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
They’re wrestling the dead threads. SHHHHH!!!!!
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Shhhhhhh. They might hear you.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Oops, sorry Professor. I might have just blown it. I think my comment was 103 or something though.
RushBaby on December 30, 2007 at 9:57 PM
There are no other threads here as far as I’m concerned. I’ve found nirvana.
But I’m obviously dreaming. Or dead.
Is … is this heaven? Are you an angel?
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 9:58 PM
Yeah. The more I think about it the more it bothers me because of the sheer magnitude of its effect. He was wrong, and yeah so were the others, but the others weren’t the driving force. I don’t really give credence to his apology because if he wanted to make up for his error he would put some effort into a new bill to modify the previous bill instead of running up to the judges to defend it. It’s not too much different then John saying he wants to secure the border first now. Pillow talk is all it is.
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 9:58 PM
THE TRUTH ABOUT FRED THOMPSON!
sonnyspats1 on December 30, 2007 at 9:59 PM
You know, when you said that, it reminded me of Achmed the Dead Terrorist again.
“Is this Paradise? Are you my virgins??”
ROFL
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 9:59 PM
Hillary comments don’t count.
And one of you is about to harsh my mellow. But I’m not saying your name or reading your comments. It could be much, much worse. At least its not He Who Shan’t Be Named.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:00 PM
There’s a funny 90’s grunge joke in there somewhere, but I can’t find it right now.
Weight of Glory on December 30, 2007 at 10:00 PM
See? We even think alike. At the same frackin’ time!
Someone hold me.
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Weight of Glory on December 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Though, don’t take that as a comment on my opinion of your judgment. I’ve always enjoyed your posts as I recall.
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Get a blimp.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:01 PM
I think I lost track somewhere. If you’re talking about Fred, he’s a FORMER senator. What the heck kinda bill can he put up now?
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:01 PM
Best comment from YouTube:
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:02 PM
Does this count?
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:03 PM
SILENCE!!!! I keeeel you!!
broker1 on December 30, 2007 at 10:03 PM
Thank’s Spirit, that’s kind of you.
Weight of Glory on December 30, 2007 at 10:03 PM
Woof. Kinda ruff if you ask me.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:04 PM
“Did they say the virgins would be women?” - Jeff
“Holy crap. Wait…I can have Clay Aiken.” - Achmed
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:05 PM
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 9:50 PM
If there is a wedding, I’ll be there with lavish gifts for you, and yours :) With RushBaby we could be “….. of honor”, or something, anything with “Fred” or “HA” in it.
Professor, I’m so glad you didn’t leave, until after the primaries. I was worried in the othe thread.
How are csdeven, the Kennedy kid, Buy Danish, and Tommylotto going to hande this avalanche?
AP’s probably drunk with disdain already.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Funniest skit Ive ever seen….
broker1 on December 30, 2007 at 10:06 PM
I’m having second thoughts now that I watched it.
Limerick on December 30, 2007 at 10:06 PM
If they show up now, I’m blaming you. Speak no evil.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Well, thank you, Professor.
/one of my noms de plume
Bob's Kid on December 30, 2007 at 10:07 PM
I’m still trying to figure out how it is that everyone is marrying me off.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Actually he is pretty tame here. Google his name and he posts ALL OVER the internets. He is ummm whats the word “passionate” about his stances.
broker1 on December 30, 2007 at 10:08 PM
Agreed, and I got to see it live a few months ago. I nearly died laughing.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:08 PM
:)
Your welcome. Didn’t know it was one of us.
I think it was the “as a teacher” part that got me.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:08 PM
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Fred was still a player in Washington. Could he have introduced a bill personally, no. If the issue was important as he said and he wanted to rectify it, he has allies and friends. It would not be that difficult (though getting it to the floor after the mid-term election might be more difficult). Remember, as Fred reminds us, he was called into shepherd Mr. Roberts through the conformation process. He was still active. Or as Fred might say:) he didn’t just fall from the apple truck.
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Well, bless him…he’s made my week. AND…he’ll be buying drinks in San Diego when all this is over!
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:09 PM
And I think you knuckleheads just said his name three times.
Why not just look in a mirror and say: “Biggie Smalls, Biggie Small, Biggie Smalls?”
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:10 PM
lol
trailortrash on December 30, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Do you honestly think that he’d be able to get that past THIS congress? Even if he did try, which I honestly don’t have an issue here, this is not the Congress to do it.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:12 PM
$80 a month of my hard-earned moolah goes to union dues, so believe me…I’d love to see them at the very least put my money to some good use.
Bob's Kid on December 30, 2007 at 10:12 PM
I see your point, though the second camera makes it more apparent that he’s reading from a teleprompter. I agree that he has a lot of charisma, and would be even better on camera in the Oval Office, but I’m just surprised that his media presentation, once the campaign started, has been less than the sum of its parts–solid conservative values, plain spoken, telegenic, professional actor.
dedalus on December 30, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Video favorited, voted for, and embedded in my blog as well as linked here.
MadisonConservative on December 30, 2007 at 10:14 PM
And in other Tennessee news, my Titans are not yet getting creamed by the Colts.
If Jessica Alba walks in naked in a second, I’ll be pretty sure this is all a dream.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:16 PM
No?
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:18 PM
He didn’t need to wait until this congress, he could have acted when the effect was obvious. I don’t hold him accountable for that, I’m just saying his apology is pretty empty when he went up to the Supremes to defend it and didn’t do anything to fix it. It’s also, for what it’s worth, a pathetic apology - it didn’t do what I wanted it to do. What that’s not even the point when you are treading on the BoR’s pal. Anyway.
I’ll stay on-line for a few if someone can give me a specific answer on what Fred intends to do about the war. Specifically in Iraq and also in general. I do get the sense that he understands the jihad and clash of civilizations, but I don’t get the message from him other then that he’d let the generals decide. That’s a poor answer for a CiC, so surely he has cleaned that up. Is anyone versed in that?
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 10:18 PM
No.
Less fire.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Spirit, my impression was that he was a stay the course guy. I couldn’t cite it specifically, but I got the impression from something he said.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Damn, all these guys suck…. that being said, I don’t hate Fred. I hope he get’s a strong third so he can stay in the race. He talks the right talk. Perhaps in a smaller field……
Dirthead on December 30, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Damn. Fire. Good. Warm.
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Not so much in a mode of transportation. lol
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:22 PM
OK. One blimp. Less fire. Honest.
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:23 PM
At least use helium. Hydrogen - bad.
Plus I don’t know if you can make that funny voice with hydrogen. Someone should try that.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:23 PM
What a relief it would be to have Fred instead of Hillbamaward.
Wake up Iowa.
The Huckster is shinola.
profitsbeard on December 30, 2007 at 10:24 PM
I laughed out loud. I may have peed a little. But in a good way.
Teddy is hot.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:24 PM
We’re not - just in case you do, we want to be there for support.
It might be fleeting, but there is hope for a better San Diego gathering.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Id like to see Fred with LINE ITEM VETO!
President Fred Dalton Thompson has an ooh so nice ring to it.
Does it not?
By the way,
the last Fred thread got 547 posts .
TheSitRep on December 30, 2007 at 10:25 PM
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. bleck.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:25 PM
this video
Trailortrash on December 30,2007 at 9:52PM.
Trailortrash:I checked it out,thanks for the link.
So in my opinion,the media can’t corner
Fred on his beliefs.In other words this
would be like Teflon Don in which the Lib
media can’t nail him on.
canopfor on December 30, 2007 at 10:26 PM
Thanks TD, that’s worth something. I couldn’t find Iraq on his website, and the only real reference to specifics that I saw was in his white papers, the plan to revitalize the military which he echoed in that Citadel speech he has posted.
If anyone does know more though, please expand or drop a link and I’ll check back. In the meantime, ya’ll have fun (in my best Fred twang).
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 10:27 PM
Precisely why the media don’t want Fred. He’d trounce any leftie.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:27 PM
What you see is what you get. Very nicely done Fred. uhh, I mean Mr. Thompson.
kahall on December 30, 2007 at 10:28 PM
But it was mostly arguments, jousting tournaments and marriage proposals…lol.
Well, for that…thanks. LOL.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Divorce!
RushBaby on December 30, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Sorry, babe… that was not aimed at you. You’re a lady. The professor is most decidedly not.
I should have added a warning. My bad.
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:29 PM
wccawa, love-struck, will come to the rescue.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:30 PM
Great….just great….Thanks a lot all…I asked the wife to come in and view the video. She loved it. Then she started reading the comments. Now I am being interrogated as to who the hell Entelechy and tickleddragon are. I think she is calling Allah on the other line.
Limerick on December 30, 2007 at 10:30 PM
Yeah but Helium’s weight is twice that of hydrogen, but with 1/1000th of the excitement.
TheSitRep on December 30, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Yes. It did. I found that … interesting.
It may well be too little, too late (not to inject too much realism into the love-fest) … but Frederick Dalton Thompson seems to have people a bit enthused lately.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Okay, I just want to make some points clear.
1. wccawa has not yet embedded the youtube video of Fred.
2. I have.
3. I’ve also hotlinked to this HotAir thread.
4. If Fred came upon the two of us, he’d walk over, and whisper in wccawa’s ear some advice. wccawa would miss the knowing wink Fred would give me and run at me howling an Indian war whoop. I would then call on the Might Of Fred and punch that hippie back into Oregon, there to feast on his tofu. Fred would pat me on the back, and tell me not to take no Politico articles lightly, and that tickleddragon is waiting for me.
Therefore, I win. TD, would you mind joining me at the altar? Fred is a God in and of himself, and he has offered to marry us.
MadisonConservative on December 30, 2007 at 10:31 PM
From Fred’s website, for those who have trouble with, uh, websites:
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:32 PM
ROFLMAO!!! Priceless!
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:33 PM
True dat! and that includes the GOP field.
TheSitRep on December 30, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Here are a few of the links that I think Maverick Muse was trying to post, I think. (Not sure if anybody’s done it yet.)
One
Two
FloatingRock on December 30, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Did you tell her about RushBaby yet? Better be discreet Lim. Women are dangerous, no matter how sweet.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Also, Lim, you should have kept your HA life a secret :)
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:37 PM
What an amazing coincidence.
I just got off the phone with Fred DALTON Thompson (not to be confused with your bizarro friend), and we had a pretty good chuckle about how helpless and pathetic you would look as he ripped out your spine and beat you to death with it.
Tears. Just tears.
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Hehe…I’d wondered where you’d gotten off to.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:39 PM
You people may need two blimps.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:39 PM
LOL….nah….no worries…my wife is Irish (hence this screen name)….she knows how to knee-cap with the best of em….that keeps me on the straight and narrow I can tell ya.
Limerick on December 30, 2007 at 10:39 PM
My phone line is too slow to play more than a few minutes of Fred’s speech.
Has he said much about the millions of illegal “immigrants” who are ILLEGALLY in the United States?
Has he said what he would do about the fifth column plantation owners who are drawing illegals here like flies so that they don’t have to pay a competitive legal wage to their fellow Americans?
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Nevermind pal, if that’s the best you can do, you’re not the man for the job. Those are, as I noted, a plan for the revitalization of the military and generalities about the threat of militant Islam (which I ref’d as Clash of Civ)
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Sigh.
Mmm-kay. Good night!
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:42 PM
Hey, I thought this was a snarkless thread.
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:42 PM
What was the thing Fred said to me at the altar? Oh yeah…
MadisonConservative on December 30, 2007 at 10:42 PM
We came so close to 200 comments. I was doing my best to ignore the only bad apple.
It’s still a beautiful thread. If only for the picture of Ted Kennedy in a Hooters outfit … and all the blimps.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Not in those exact words but he did touch on every issue, except for fetus harsvesting.
TheSitRep on December 30, 2007 at 10:44 PM
So did I, we were both wrong: “From Fred’s website, for those who have trouble with, uh, websites:” No hard feelings. I just want the real answer on this. This is my second major concern re: Fred. I would like to see some strength from Fred on the wot. He has done that with his social security plan, etc. He has to have more than the stuff he has up on his site. But reality is he may still have those cards up held up to his chest to see how it plays out. I was hoping post-surge successes he might have given some specifics, esp in regard to what we are going to do when we have the troop draw-down which is coming, etc. HA readers are generally pretty informed, thought maybe someone might know.
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 10:46 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, just how cool would a HA conference be? I ask ya!
tickleddragon on December 30, 2007 at 10:46 PM
MB4, he did. He touched on all our ’sensitive’ items. Tone, voice, mannerisms, presence,
smilesmirk just perfect. Men, women, children, all want to just marry the guy. If only it weren’t so late.Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:46 PM
You too. Er, you and Jessica.
Spirit of 1776 on December 30, 2007 at 10:47 PM
You and your bizarro friend just enjoy yourselves. (rolls eyes)
There are only two good things that have ever come out of Wisconsin, boy… and they are…
ummm…
well…
OK. I forgot.
But I meant it before I was against it! (or forgot it) Or something like that. And I am drop dead serious! Next?
wccawa on December 30, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Yes, ticleddragon, but would we wear masks or not?
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 10:47 PM
FRED THOMPSON STRAIGHTENS THINGS OUT!
sonnyspats1 on December 30, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Whoa. He’s for gay marriage?
It would have to involve a great deal of alcohol.
And, of course, a blimp.
Professor Blather on December 30, 2007 at 10:48 PM
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