Did Fred Thompson Have A Cameo In The Bear?

“Even if we won’t be going around in the woods trying to find any bears to kill, sometimes the bear visits whether you’re looking for him or not,” he [Fred Thompson] said. ~Kathleen Parker

Is this some oblique reference to the Reagan “bear in the woods” ad from long ago?  Is this yet another lame attempt to relate to the youthful experiences of Davy Crockett (who was, after all, from Tennessee)?  Perhaps this talk of unexpected bear visitations would make more sense if we were not, as a matter of policy, virtually permanently camped out, Grizzly Man-like, in “the bear”‘s cave.