Isn't that a Cuban Cigar Tom Delay's smoking in this week's Time?

[emulatorloo]

That is, the Time w Ann Coulter on the the cover. . .

Here's the picture from the Time website, you can't really tell here, but in the magazine it looked to my very untrained eye an awful lot like a Cuban Hoyo De Monterrey?



Web Article here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050320,00.html

Cuban Hoyo De Monterrey here:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. God, that would just be perfect, wouldn't it?

By th way, what's he doing with Larry David? :)

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. what? oh

that silly little embargo only applies to people NOT in congress

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. And as Tom would be quick to remind you,

he is congress.

[7th_Sephiroth]

5. tom needs to thank his lucky fucking stars

that my dad kept me from shooting him at an energy convention when he was with ken lay drunk off thier fucking asses

[proud patriot]

3. It certainly does look like a match

:think: quite average joe blue collar of DeLay :sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

6. if it is--what can you do about it? (first can it be said for sure?)

[K-W]

7. It sure does look like it, the right border at least.

But it doesnt look like it can be proven from that photo.

[Scout1071]

9. There are probably more pics where that came from!

[tanyev]

8. IOKIYAR

Maybe it's an exploding cigar.

[demosincebirth]

10. Lets just say it is and start some shit!

[indepat]

11. Isn't it legal for Americans to smoke Cuban cigars if out of the country

[emulatorloo]

13. Sure, but would Delay's "base" understand and accept this?

While it may be legal, wouldn't they consider it immoral?

[wuushew]

12. This may be in Israel not the U.S.

That is the region that the photographer covers, also note the possible menorah shaped lamps in the background.

http://www.polarisimages.com/photographerList.html

[Scout1071]

14. Who cares if it's in Israel? He's still a US Congressman and

that product is from a country they describe as part of the "Axis of Evil."

[jmowreader]

15. If this cigar was smoked outside the US, it's probably Cuban

Two major reasons: you can't legally get Cuban cigars in this country, and Cuba makes great cigars. (The minor reason is that, for most of the world, Cuba is where cigars come from.)

DeLay's base won't give a shit. Many of them smoke cigars, and a lot of high-end freepers actively participate in the illegal Cuban cigar trade. The ones who don't smoke Cubans want to. What's stopping them is they don't have a connection.

As for the cigar's origin: It's really hard to tell. So far we know we're looking at a mostly-white band probably with red and gold decorations...a LOT of cigars have bands like that. It's at least a Churchill-size cigar. Once again, a lot of Churchills are rolled every year. I was gonna say Remedios Clemenceau, but the band's wrong.

[emulatorloo]

18. But But But . . . .

I looked at the photo in the Magazine again and it is definately a Hoyo de Monterrey. -- this time I was able to read the label.

At any rate, Bush included Cuba in the "Axis of Evil" and said they have WMDs.

How can DeLay support Cuba then?

[jmowreader]

19. They have really good cigars, that's how

You realize that every freeper in the country is gonna be looking for Cuban HdMs because their hero Tom DeLay was pictured in a "lib'rul" magazine smoking one.

Pigboy's another Cuban fan.

[AlCzervik]

16. probably paid for by Abramoff and lit with the constitution.

[emulatorloo]

17. Confirming - It is a Hoyo De Monterrey -- I checked out printed photo

in the Time Magazine at the gym and you can see the words "Hoyo De Mont. . ." in the photo.