# Fred Thompson, pitchman: Support the troops by buying stuff from criminals **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451 "2007-06-26T09:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451/61 "2007-06-27T20:02:55Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] …Clinton to the nth degree. Wonder if he smokes cigars? **Sam**? [/QUOTE] Steady up, kinda like **Sam**. Used to call him **Sam, the Canadian Eagle** after the Muppets character, but that hurt his feelings, so I stopped. Likes Warren Zevon, can’t be all bad. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451/62 "2007-06-27T20:05:39Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] You really like to push your luck, eh, bucko? :mad: [/QUOTE] You’ll have to forgive him, he’s been out all day hiding in a ditch, killing giraffes. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451/63 "2007-06-27T20:08:50Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] You really like to push your luck, eh, bucko? :mad: [/QUOTE] I’m gonna go out on a limb and say brother **'luc** was being facetious, since it really _has_ been mostly male commentators (as **RedFury** alludes to) who’ve been drooling over Fred Thompson’s masculinity. And it hasn’t just been conservatives, **Red** - Chris Matthews was [drooling over his smell](http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/14/matthews/index.html) just a few days back. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451/64 "2007-06-27T20:41:19Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] I’m gonna go out on a limb and say brother **'luc** was being facetious, [/QUOTE] I’m gonna go out on a limb and say brother **'luc** got my whooshback just fine. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451/65 "2007-06-27T20:42:43Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] You’ll have to forgive him, he’s been out all day hiding in a ditch, killing giraffes. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451/66 "2007-06-27T21:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Steady up, kinda like **Sam**. Used to call him **Sam, the Canadian Eagle** after the Muppets character, but that hurt his feelings, so I stopped. Likes Warren Zevon, can’t be all bad. [/QUOTE] Kinda of do myself as well – like the guy. After all I have very fond memories of my years in Canada and Canadians (Montreal, to be specific) and I sort of picture him astride a horse on a recruiting poster for the RCMP. Ya’ know, the stereo-typical man’s man …but when he opens his yap about politics, he really does come off as a real masculine Coulter – if that’s possible. Would it wasn’t so, but hey, long live diversity. Beyond that, his post about Fred, really does reek of adulation. _::::shrug:::_ * * * [QUOTE=RTFirefly] I’m gonna go out on a limb and say brother **'luc** was being facetious, since it really _has_ been mostly male commentators (as **RedFury** alludes to) who’ve been drooling over Fred Thompson’s masculinity. And it hasn’t just been conservatives, **Red** - Chris Matthews was [drooling over his smell](http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/14/matthews/index.html) just a few days back. [/QUOTE] From your link: > [@Tweety](#): > > **Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man’s shaving cream, or whatever, you know, after he shaved? Do you smell that sort of – a little bit of cigar smoke?** Hot damn! This Fred guy’s starting to make Ashcroft’s report pale by comparison! Hate to have him sit next to me on a plane…might not be able to control my er, exuberance for his sex-appeal. Thanks anyway. I think I understand where **Sam’s** coming from a bit better now. And what do you know, it appears The Man likes cigars as well. 😉 \BTW, I also managed to find this tidbit related to the Coulter thread and involving Tweety as well. His ‘justification’ for having her on. Sorta’: [Matthews sez Coulter sells books!](http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/25/matthews-sez-coulter-sells-books/)\ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-thompson-pitchman-support-the-troops-by-buying-stuff-from-criminals/409451.md?page=3)