Fred Thompson just blogged about immigration and Cuba, and his post is so awesome I thought I’d skif it (the reverse of fisking):

This has been a good day for America.

I’ve been a bit tired today, but otherwise it’s been pretty awesome.

For a while, it didn’t look like Washington was going to listen to us regarding real immigration reform.

Isn’t cool how he says “us.” Because he is one of us… but even better.

Thankfully, we’ve been spared a serious mistake, but I wonder if things would have turned out the way they did without the work done by the bloggers, talk radio and the American people.

He’s thanking me, a blogger (also, I’m an American people). It’s nice when politicians thank others.

Rush, Hannity, Laura Ingraham, RedState, Powerline, Pajamas Media and a lot of others have done a great job.

I’m part of Pajamas Media! I got thanked again! Isn’t it nice how Fred Thompson doesn’t ignore us like certain Republican Senators.

Take that, Fairness Doctrine.

No squelching of freedom of speech under President Freedom Thompson.

I’m up in New Hampshire today. Met some great people and got to help the state GOP up in the Granite State. I did want to clarify something coming out of my time yesterday in Columbia, South Carolina.

He speaks so clearly, yet he still likes to clarify. You always know what Fred Thompson is saying.

Anybody who knows my track record or has read some of the things I’ve written about the Cuban-American community knows where I stand. While the communist dictatorship has been a tragedy for Cuba, America has been in some ways, at least, the beneficiary.

We do know where Fred Thompson stands; that’s part of why he’s so awesome.

One of those benefits is the presence of the great Cuban-American artist, Gloria Estefan. She co-wrote a song called “No hay mal que por bien no venga” which I understand translates something like — there’s no bad that doesn’t bring some good. The bad that is Castro’s tyranny has given America one of the greatest communities in the Western Hemisphere.

Because America is awesome. We take what Castro made bad and make it super awesome.

And no one knows better than that community that the Castro regime remains dedicated to infiltrating American institutions to spread his ideology of tyranny. Castro admitted it himself in an interview with CNN in 1998.

It’s great to have a leader still on the lookout for Commies trying to infiltrate our country. Just because we have terrorists to deal with, that doesn’t meant the Communist threat is gone. Fred Thompson understands that.

This is why the Cuban government rightfully remains on the State Department’s terrorist list for its continued support of terrorism. It’s also why we must oppose the illegal immigration of Castro’s agents into the United States while welcoming the vast majority who immigrate legally and with legal intentions.

And he brings it right back to terrorism and illegal immigration and its difference from legal immigration. Fred Thompson knows what are the important issues.

It seems to me that few Americans understand the threat that the illegal entry by Cuban spies represents to our country, though Cuban-Americans have never forgotten or stopped pointing it out. Ambassador Otto Reich, the former Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere has called Castro’s efforts to penetrate U.S. intelligence networks “relentless.”

Few Americans — including Fred Thompson. You can’t get anything past him.

The best-known incident involving Cuban espionage, which many believe may have provided U.S. secrets to hostile Middle Eastern regimes, is probably that of former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Belen Montes — convicted of espionage in 2002. Now, our intelligence picture has been further complicated by the emergence of oil-funded Hugo Chavez and his anti-American, pro-Castro regime. We know that Cuban intelligence officers, for instance, are in South America — presumably training Venezuelans and others in the intelligence arts.

He’s going to protect our secrets and keep an eye on the little Venezuelan thug — all while thwarting Islamic terrorists. Beats the promise of socialized health care from the Democrats, huh?

Our national security is too important an issue to let folks twist words around for a one-day headline. Cuban-Americans are among the staunchest opponents of illegal immigration, and especially so when it’s sponsored by the Castro regime. We know we have a porous southern border in which they can currently slip through easily. Our enemies know it too.

Back to border security and poking holes in the idea that we have to give in to illegal immigration to pander to Hispanics.

All of us should be rightfully concerned about Castro and his ideological pal Chavez sending agents and provocateurs into the United States through Mexico. I’m sure that Cuban-Americans share this concern as well.

Most importantly, it’s Fred Thompson’s concern, so we know it something is going to be done about it.

We’ve seen today what the voice of the people can do in Washington. Let’s hope similar voices can do the same thing for Cuba.

That’s right! We brought down the shamnesty bill, so now let’s bring down the Communist regime in Cuba! With Freedom Thompson behind us, I think it’s finally going to happen.

Y’all need to read this story about when Tammi’s sister shot her in the head. Because it’s funny (no offense, Tammi). [profanity warning.]

Since so many Senators don’t seem to understand we don’t want any talk of amnesty until the border is secure when told that in plain English — and they don’t seem to know Spanish either — how do we communicate that to them?
My main thought is to grab them by their collars and vigorously shake them.

Why don’t we deport failed politicians?
I think those who hold special power should face special punishment, and thus the Senators behind the amnesty bill should be deported to Mexico and their pictures handed out to all border agents with the instruction that these people are never to be let back into America under any circumstances.
This won’t be an easy policy to implement, though, as it will take either a Constitutional amendment or a large, angry mob.

Apparently, a number of Republicans were trying to ram through the amnesty bill because they think that it will cause Hispanics to vote for them… because Hispanics are all criminals who hate the rule of law and thus approve of illegal immigration.
If in the future those Republicans want to pander to Hispanics in an insulting way, why don’t they instead walk through Hispanic neighborhoods handing out free tortillas and sombreros. It will be cheaper and probably less disastrous for the country.
BTW, Allahpundit has put up the celebratory video of a humping robot since cloture failed so spectacularly.

Liberals control the news, movies, TV, and even have a majority of the blogosphere traffic, and yet all of that is offset by a few loudmouths on the radio? Shouldn’t that tell them exactly how crappy their ideas are?

A liberal Rush Limbaugh? Isn’t that like an armless Michael Jordan?

Still the liberals persist, thinking that if they can just get into talk radio, then Americans will finally accept their ideas instead of laughing in their dumb monkey faces. So they’re trying to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine to force liberal radio onto the public (other than just NPR).
Even if they pass the bill, though, it’s not going to work. It’s not some magic conspiracy that keep liberals from being successful in talk radio; it’s that liberal ideas just don’t work in that format. Where liberals usually dominate in the media they never put out their ideas in a frank manner; they subtly put them into how they cover the news or into a movie plot — the only way such idiocy is even slightly palatable to the general populace. They way liberals talk about politics is all about concealing what they actually think: “I support the troops by wanting to bring them home,” “everyone should pay their fair share in taxes,” “I’m not saying there is a conspiracy; I’m just asking questions,” etc. They’re whole method to debating abortion is to yell “choose” and “choice” over and over until you’d think they were arguing against people who wanted to limit Baskin-Robbin’s 31 flavors to just vanilla.
That won’t work for talk radio. There, you have people very clearly saying what they believe: kill terrorists, cut taxes, build a fence, etc. Ever heard liberal ideas stated so starkly? It rarely happens outside of a university because here is what it would sound like: “I hate America! It is the greatest danger for the world! Conservative should not be allowed freedom of speech because their ideas damage democracy! The government and particularly me should be able to control all of everyone’s money! Everyone in the military is a brainwashed killer idiot and they should not be allowed to vote! They should not even exist! People who disagree with any of this should be given special reeducation until they are enlightened!”
Even liberals are scared by their own ideas when stated in a clear manner. So, liberal talk radio will either be people saying the usual useless blather concealing their ideas which will be boring or it will actually have people speaking like complete lunatics and scaring everyone away.
Then liberals will finally realize that the American people hate their ideas. And what will be next for the Fairness Doctrine?

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Pretty girl at that. Ok, so guess what premieres tonight! Hey, Pauler! Oh, YES, I will be liveblogging this over at mountaineer musings (scroll down for content if you still haven’t learned to use Firefox, or if your company really hates internet security and still makes you use Internet Explorer — I know about the bug but haven’t fixed it yet).
Also, in case you’re missing the flamewar going on between Rachel Lucas and me, that chick had the NERVE to claim that her dog Sunny (who is cute and doesn’t look anything like ’70s shag carpet) is cuter than Rowdi (ok, maybe I started it just a little in her comments, but she’s the one that challenged me to the GIRLFIGHT!
Pictures of Sunny’s butt. No wait, her face.
The cutest puppy in the whole wide world.
Rachel thinks she can win with puppy pictures.
Which only made Rowdi hungry.
Keep tuning in for more. It’ll only get better.

In America, we love to root for the underdog, but America is so awesome that we haven’t been the underdog at anything in like a hundred years.
I don’t think foreigners appreciate exactly how hard it is to be us.