Fred Thompson Calls Cuban Refugees Terrorists

At an appearance in South Carolina, Fred Thompson insulted Cuban refugees by referring to them as terrorists.

He expressed his opposition to the immigration bill in Congress and decried the flow of illegal immigrants from Cuba, saying: "I don't imagine they're coming here to bring greetings from Castro. We're living in the era of the suitcase bomb."

As Think Progress points out, besides insulting Cuban refugees, Thompson is also insulting the intelligence of his audience by playing up a fictional movie plot.

Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) has dealt first-hand with nuclear weapons--on the Hollywood big screen. In 2005, he starred as President Charles Ross in Last Best Chance, a docudrama about terrorists trying to smuggle nuclear weapons into the United States.

One of Hollywood’s favorite plots is the threat of so-called suitcase nukes, like the one featured in the show "24." But these nuclear bombs cleverly concealed in suitcases don't exist in real life...

Arms control expert Charles Thornton of the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland calls the scenario "so highly unlikely as to be approaching fantasy."

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I hope some of this stuff is getting on the World News. I listen to PBS and they rarely have any political news on there.

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freeforall on June 29, 2007 at 04:22 PM

Was this comment:

Arms control expert Charles Thornton of the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland calls the scenario "so highly unlikely as to be approaching fantasy."

About the fact that nuclear bombs have not been reduced in size enough to fit in a suitcase, or was the comment about Fred Thompson?

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davidual on June 29, 2007 at 11:26 PM

Freddy is a loser as is all GOP pundits and waterboz.

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rjsnj on July 1, 2007 at 01:05 PM

maybe he has been watching too much 24.

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jimmyc451 on July 2, 2007 at 12:02 PM

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