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The Return of Drug Propaganda Thursday
Ali G foils a British drug agent.
The U.S. version with a DEA agent is slightly less funny.
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Egon|4.26.07 @ 4:12PM|#
That would be a "British drugs agent."
|4.26.07 @ 4:51PM|#
I read the article below yesterday and thought of "Drug Propaganda Thursday."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-04-25T172634Z_01_N25424617_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARIJUANA-STRENGTH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
|4.26.07 @ 5:19PM|#
Drugs are illegal, and yet alcohol, which makes people do things like this is legal. Interesting.
Ramsey|4.26.07 @ 5:39PM|#
I missed drug propaganda Thursday. I was jonesin for a fix
|4.26.07 @ 5:40PM|#
The U.S. version with a DEA agent is slightly less funny.
I don't know. I think the laugh track hampers the British version. Uncomfortable silences are half the humor.
|4.26.07 @ 6:34PM|#
Yeah, the laugh track takes away from it, but it's pretty funny.
|4.26.07 @ 6:48PM|#
I like the British version better because the agent seemed smarter and his deadpan was excellent. He also had the good humor to laugh at least once.
The American agent really has learned to deliver the word "weed" in a natural way.
Brian Sorgatz|4.26.07 @ 8:11PM|#
Prediction: Judd Nelson will play the American narc in the movie.
|4.26.07 @ 8:35PM|#
Government employees still let themselves be ambushed by Ali G?
I love it (and I may be the guy least tuned in to popular culture on the planet) but I can't believe that they still subject themselves to it!!??
antiquarian|4.26.07 @ 9:10PM|#
These are old clips.
Asharak|4.26.07 @ 10:46PM|#
Fantastic.
On a related note, why is it that drug warriors assume that every person who criticizes the War on Drugs either condones using drugs or is using them? Neither is true in my case, but I just don't think throwing people in jail is the solution.
|4.27.07 @ 10:32AM|#
why is it that drug warriors assume that every person who criticizes the War on Drugs either condones using drugs or is using them?
For the same reason that eco-warriors assume that everyone who criticizes the War on Carbon is either in the pay of Big Carbon or is a "denialist" worthy only of contempt.
When the basis for your authoritarian rantings is more pretext than premise, your best move is to ad hominem your enemies.