Fred Thompson challenges other actors who played president to debate

[yurbud]

Beloved TV icon and GOP presidential candidate Gopher Fred Thompson went on the Tonight Show last night to challenge other actors who have played presidents to debate. Several prominent actors were included, and Thompson weighed their relatives strengths and weaknesses, but he also pointedly excluded several and explained why:

ACTORS INVITED:




MARTIN SHEEN

THOMPSON: Sheen is smart, earnest, hard-working, and has played the president on TV for a couple of seasons, so he'll get a lot of those confused voters who think he's already president. No question it's tough to dislodge an incumbent.

On the minus side, he's way too liberal on the show and in real life. And I heard around town his boy Charlie is pretty wild, so he won't go over with the family values crowd.

LENO: And he's short.

THOMPSON: ...and he's short. You can't stand tall if you aren't tall.




HARRISON FORD

THOMPSON: He'll be a tough, tough opponent because he fought off terrorists on Air Force One in that action movie...what was it?

LENO: Air Force One.

THOMPSON: That's right, it was about Air Force One, but I can't remember the name. I do have one advantage over Ford; he's got a very monotone voice. The president has to do that weekly radio address as reading the teleprompter at speeches and repeating what ya hear in the earpiece when reporters ask questions. I've done a lot more voice over work than him--I was the narrator of all those Disney nature movies back in the 60s.





MICHAEL DOUGLAS

THOMPSON: This boy is a real contender. He's got the fire in the belly, and he's a real poon hound. After the Clinton impeachment failed, our focus groups showed that Americans admired a president with a strong heterosexual libido. That gives Douglas a real edge over most of the candidates in the GOP mens room if you get my drift.

LENO: Uh, why are you tapping my foot under the desk, Fred?


http://fredpresident08.blogspot.com/2007/09/fred-gopher-thompson-challenges-other.html">WHOSE NOT INVITED?

[Swamp Rat]

1. Fred Thompson

Swamp Rat: He's not human.

[Bicoastal]

2. Nice satire...

I even thought this was real for a split second--ya know, as a comedy bit that Leno's writers came up with. I could totally hear Thompson getting in a dig at Martin Sheen for being liberal and short....

Of course, then I read the entire thing, and realized I'd been had.

[yurbud]

4. donkey shorn, mine hair

[Breeze54]

3. Roflmfao!!

:rofl:

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:kick: & Recommended! :P

[madokie]

5. this squeezed out my first chuckle this morning

the first is always the best too

[MadBadger]

6. Jed Bartlett would crush him.

[yurbud]

7. I thought Gore would crush Bush and Kerry would at least beat him, but hard to beat that Gump act