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Policy

Drug Propaganda Thursday

Radley Balko | 1.25.2007 6:56 PM

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Alternate Universe Ron and Nancy talk to the nation about drugs.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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  1. taktix   19 years ago

    Sources close to the White House say, "the Video Editor was on drugs."

  2. taktix   19 years ago

    Damn, I just realized that some teenager on YouTube might see that and think it's real...

  3. Edward   19 years ago

    It's amazing how after having Bush as President, Reagan seems less moronic than he used to.

  4. tros   19 years ago

    I got yer drug propaganda right here.

    http://forums.lycaeum.org/index.php/topic,19771.0.html

  5. Gary   19 years ago

    I have a similar sound file that's circulated more or less for the 15 years or so. I remember coming across it back in high school.

    Good times.

  6. chico   19 years ago

    "Cocaine makes me happy"... LMAO!!!

  7. Renegade Enlightenment   19 years ago

    http://www.bluelight.ru

  8. Brian24   19 years ago

    Edward,

    Yeah, he seems just sort of dazedly stupid, rather than aggressively ignorant like W.

  9. joe   19 years ago

    I saw this in 1993, as the opening attraction for a movie about Karen Carptenter done with Barbie Dolls.

    Tragically, I can remember it clearly.

    Anyone else remember that?

  10. Jesse Walker   19 years ago

    Anyone else remember that?

    The Karen Carpenter movie? Yeah, it's called Superstar and it was directed by Todd Haynes, who went on to make Safe, Velvet Goldmine, and Far from Heaven.

  11. joe   19 years ago

    Superstar!

    I saw in the old Biograph on M Street.

    I think it's a real estate office now.

    Sad.

  12. dhex   19 years ago

    superstar is something else. no wonder it got (threatened/sued??) out of existence.

  13. nate   19 years ago

    I bet the original version is much funnier.

  14. Rick Barton   19 years ago

    It's amazing how after having Bush as President, Reagan seems less moronic than he used to..

    Reagan wasn't at all. He was an idea guy. He read Hayek and Reason. Bush doesn't seem like he ever ponders anything intellectual and interesting.

  15. Edward   19 years ago

    Ever see the movie "A Fish Named Wanda"? The Kevin Klein character claims he can't be stupid because he reads Nietsche. But Jamie Lee Curtis points out that he doesn't understand Nietsche. Reading by itself isn't everything.

  16. Isaac Bartram   19 years ago

    Rick Barton

    Reagan wrote all his own speeches til he became president. Very few presidents in fact have as much of a record of writing. In addition to his speeches Reagan's work included essays and poetry.

  17. Edward   19 years ago

    Okay, okay, the guy was a genius. Geez!

  18. Edward   19 years ago

    Colors, a Poem by Ronald Reagan

    Leprochauns are green
    And commies are red
    When all's said and done
    The best commies are dead.

    My mind's not the best
    It must be the trees
    They're lethal, you know
    I forget the rest....

  19. Godfrey   19 years ago

    Funny!

    But not as funny as THIS.

  20. Pro Libertate   19 years ago

    Edward,

    That's one of the greatest insults in cinema history. Let's review:

    Otto: Don't call me stupid.
    Wanda: Oh, right, to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. I've known sheep that could outwit you, but you think you're an intellectual don't you, ape?
    Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.
    Wanda: Yes, they do Otto, they just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things here. Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "every man for himself," and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. Now, you have just assaulted the one man who can keep you out of jail and make you rich. What are you going to do about it huh? What would an intellectual do? What would Plato do?

  21. andy   19 years ago

    Godfrey,

    Yeah, that video is funny but some of the comments on there are cringe inducing. Oh, well. People get the government they deserve.

  22. Edward   19 years ago

    Thanks, Prolibertate. It is a great insult.

  23. J sub D.   19 years ago

    It's amazing how after having Bush as President, Reagan seems less moronic than he used to.

    After GWB, Ernest T. Bass seems less moronic than he used to.

  24. J sub D.   19 years ago

    Pro Libertate, Edward,

    Afish called Wanda is IMHO the best work the "Queen of Scream" has ever done.

  25. Warren   19 years ago

    Geezus, I forgot what a queen of the undead Nancy was - ughuhuhuh[shivers]

  26. Edward   19 years ago

    Nancy and her astrologer were the brains behind Reagan's pretty face.

  27. Larry A   19 years ago

    Say what you want, Reagan was the right president to confront the crumbling USSR.

  28. Brian   19 years ago

    superstar is something else. no wonder it got (threatened/sued??) out of existence.

    Superstar is on YouTube:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ZV32ZhZgk

  29. Edward   19 years ago

    "Say what you want, Reagan was the right president to confront the crumbling USSR."

    It's a good thing it was crumbling.

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