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Gretchen Carlson cites Woody Harrelson's "hemp tux" as example of message that drug use is "cool"

March 11, 2010 9:22 pm ET

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    • Author by DellDolly (March 11, 2010 9:27 pm ET)
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      No, Gretchen, his Hemp Tuxedo tells us that we're foolish to fail to utilize hemp for all the cool things we could use it for.
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      • Author by John Paradox (March 11, 2010 9:59 pm ET)
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        [http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens4397642module31542532photo_1241554113hemp01.gif]



        And, harkening back...



        [http://cannabisymas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hempwar.jpg]
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        • Author by Bongo Fury (March 11, 2010 10:17 pm ET)
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          Good one JP,and don't forget John Prine's illegal smile."It don't cost very much but it lasts a long time.Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone.I'm just tryin' to have me some fun.Hot fun,hotdog bun,my sister's a nun."
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        • Author by The_Cat (March 11, 2010 11:28 pm ET)
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          Don't forget the Department of Agriculture's famous WW II flick:
          [http://www.usaei.us/31.jpg]
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          • Author by John Paradox (March 11, 2010 11:43 pm ET)
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            Yeah, I have that... just didn't want to clutter the page up too much. (In fact, I was introduced to it via Public Access TV)
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    • Author by soze169880 (March 11, 2010 9:28 pm ET)
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      You know the kids and their Woody Harrelson!
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    • Author by Bad News (March 11, 2010 9:30 pm ET)
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      There He Goes Again "Bill-O The Clown" and his Maniacal Spin.
      Eric Massa & Bill O'Reilly, Two Pervs that belong in the same Skin.
      Oh, Wait a minute, Eric Massa atleast did try to Apologise.
      But not Bill-O, He's still wearing his "Andrea Mackris Proof" Pillar of the Community Disguise.

      Speak truth to power.


      Mr. News
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    • Author by raddave43 (March 11, 2010 9:31 pm ET)
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      Woddy Harrelson has been and advocate for the use of hemp for years now.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 9:34 pm ET)
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      And what...Charlie Sheen was wearing a Vicodin necklace? And Lindsay Lohan was wearing a heroin skirt?

      I mean, was Woody Harrelson SMOKING his tux or just wearing it?

      Somebody tell Wretched that most people probably had no idea that Woody Harrelson wore a hemp tux...unless you're one of those idiots who follows stuff like that. Oh...sorry, Wretched
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    • Author by worrierking (March 11, 2010 9:35 pm ET)
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      "Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."

      -President George Washington, 1794
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    • Author by Dem02020 (March 11, 2010 9:53 pm ET)
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      Maybe I'm high, but when the Barbie Doll was launching into her theory about rising drug and alcohol use among teens (and I neither know nor care whether such a rise exists), and she wants to talk about "the message of society is it's cool" [it was cool to be Cheech and Chong, back when they were cool], o'reilly interrupts her, "wait wait wait wait... WAIT", so that he can ask "where is that message?"

      Never mind Barbie's Academy Awards nonsense, o'reilly answered the question himself, at the end of the clip...

      "Media intrusion on the young people."

      OK, I don't care what that's supposed to mean, but I'll ask this, do you know how much BEER is sold on television, and how much that sale is apparently aimed at young people?

      I watch ballgames, college football mostly, and LORD do Budweiser and Miller and Heineken and Coors and Molson and the list is just too long, all of them showing commercial after commercial where kids they look like, are thoroughly enjoying a lifestyle that seems soaked in BEER!

      "Media intrusion on the young people."

      Is that what o'reilly's referring to, television ads that sell drinking to kids?

      I doubt it, even though that's no small part of kids thinking drinking is fun and they just can't wait to be old enough to do it, why they'll even find someone to "buy" for them if they're not yet old enough (remember the way you used that word "buy" back in the day).
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 9:58 pm ET)
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        I heard a radio news report today that "huffing", inhaling chemicals for the purpose of getting high, is more popular among teenagers than pot smoking. I would have assumed that O'Reilly and his panel of cultural hipsters would have known that. ;>)
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      • Author by John Paradox (March 11, 2010 11:51 pm ET)
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        Some stats I quickly found at the CDC shows that drug use is down across the board, slightly from 2007 to 2008, and considerably (by statistical standards) since 2002.
        Note .pdf file
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    • Author by dnbrn (March 11, 2010 9:55 pm ET)
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      Well, the fact that Harrelson was wearing a hemp tux is very cool. Hemp is badly maligned and was the fabric of choice for Founding Fathers (and mothers). Hemp is not THC and Gretchen is a goofus.
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    • Author by drempala (March 11, 2010 9:56 pm ET)
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      Drug use IS cool.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 10:03 pm ET)
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        "My uncle says smoking crack is kinda cool."

        Eric Cartman, 2000
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        • Author by drempala (March 12, 2010 8:11 am ET)
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          "My dad says, 'Dope is for dopes,' but he's usually drunk."

          -- One of the "Kids in the Hall"
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      • Author by Bongo Fury (March 11, 2010 11:08 pm ET)
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        and a matter of choice not law.
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    • Author by bintx (March 11, 2010 9:57 pm ET)
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      Gretchen, you know better that that. Hemp ropes are some of the best ropes made. Hemp is a valuable crop all over the world and not as a drug.

      Lordy, these people are ridiculous.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 10:06 pm ET)
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        The even make hand cream (The Body Shop) from hemp.
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        • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 10:14 pm ET)
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          http://www.strategyonline.ca/articles/magazine/19981109/23645.html
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          • Author by Conchobhar (March 12, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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            Well, hemp is in the cannabis family, as is pot, so of course they're the same. Just as Great Danes and Dachsunds, both in the canine family, are identical.
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    • Author by grmce (March 11, 2010 10:05 pm ET)
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      And what does Ms Carlson's top say? Possibly that she's woolly headed?
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    • Author by whatIthink (March 11, 2010 10:12 pm ET)
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      I would like to turn myself in to the FOX News morality patrol. You see, when I was in the Army, I too used hemp products. It wasn't a voluntary choice on my part, I did not realize until much later that many of the ropes we used during our training, escpecially our rappelling training, were in fact made from hemp. Later I learned that the use of hemp ropes is quite prevalent in the military. As the saying goes, ignorance is no excuse, so on behalf of the millions of men and women who have, and are, serving in the military, I would like to turn myself in. By using the hemp products, as FOX news has quite clearly explained, we were promoting, albeit unwittingly, that "drugs are cool" and I fear that if the kids of America realize that the military uses hemp products they might join for the wrong reasons. I also have come to the conclusion that since FOX news has shown such disdain and disgust with people that use hemp products, thereby promoting a dangerous lifestyle, that FOX news must only have contempt for the military. For the reasons stated above, I would like to apologize for my actions and turn myself into the FOX morality police.

      F--king morons. We have two interminable wars, an economy on a very slow recovery, a health care crisis, etc and they're freaking concerned about what a celebrity is wearing to a masturbatory awards show.
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      • Author by robrob (March 11, 2010 11:47 pm ET)
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        It's because they aren't real reporters or journalists. They hear the word "hemp" and conflate it with marijuana.
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    • Author by little poncho (March 11, 2010 10:31 pm ET)
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      GRETCHEN, IS SITTING BEHIND A DESK........ OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 10:37 pm ET)
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        That explains why she's not impulsively tugging at her skirt. It must be in her FOX contract that she is REQUIRED to wear skirts that are too short for decency on camera.
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      • Author by goshzilla (March 11, 2010 11:02 pm ET)
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        She's moving up at Fox News, very soon she may even be allowed to form an opinion that's not on a teleprompter.
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    • Author by The_Cat (March 11, 2010 11:37 pm ET)
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      Oh, look. The FOX Propaganda folks don't know the difference between industrial hemp and cannabis. Why am I not surprised?

      Bill, you could smoke a literal ton of industrial hemp, and it would have no measurable effect on you.

      Gretchen, you claim that drug use is on the rise. I've studied this for twenty-five years now. I know that drug use, which has been studied for nearly one hundred years now, is cyclical. It goes up, it goes down, it goes back up again.

      Why don't you go find out what the Republican mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia, found out when he studied this problem in his attempt to protect the city under his care and get back to us.
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    • Author by robrob (March 11, 2010 11:46 pm ET)
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      "hemp tux" as example of message that drug use is "cool"

      Uh, no. It's a message that hemp fiber (from non-THC bearing Hemp plants) is a renewable resource that can be used for many things.
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    • Author by fishgirl26 (March 12, 2010 10:49 am ET)
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      Yo Gretch, you can't smoke hemp! Wow, a useable garment made from a readily renewable resource! Oh the humanity!!!!
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    • Author by shaggles (March 12, 2010 12:58 pm ET)
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      Hemp and marijuana are not the same thing. I didn't know this until recently either though so I can forgive Carlson her blunder.
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