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amused this is from a while back, but it's just too hard NOT to talk about O'Reilly, he's just such a ridiculous scum bag...
In a bizarre segment with DPA (Drug Policy Alliance) executive director Ethan Nadelmann, following the drug czar's cue, O'Reilly tried to paint marijuana and Ecstasy users as supporting terrorism. When Nadelmann explained that neither drug had much to do with Afghanistan or Al Qaeda and that Ecstasy was being manufactured in Holland, O'Reilly objected -- as he so often does when facts get in the way of his world view.
"No, but it's not run by the Dutch, it's run by Middle Eastern guys," O'Reilly exclaimed, challenging Nadelmann to a $100 bet when he scoffed. The next night, he gloated he had won the bet. "OK, here's what the Office of the National Drug Control Policy says, and we quote, 'Drug Enforcement Agency reporting demonstrates the involvement of Israeli criminal organizations in Ecstasy smuggling. Some of these individuals are of Russian and Georgian descent and have Middle Eastern ties.'"
So the presence of Israeli mobsters in the Ecstasy trade constitutes "Middle Eastern ties" that link ravers to Al Qaeda. Only in Bill O'Reilly's world. You know, the one where respected American newsmen and left-wing billionaires team up to wage "crazy" wars on the drug war, and undoubtedly, Christmas, too.
Great, isn't it?
Here's the article if you're curious for more. The rest of the article is mostly about Bill O'Reilly sticking it to the leftiest of the lefites - Walter Cronkite.
March 3 2006, 18:55:41 UTC 6 years ago
March 3 2006, 19:12:16 UTC 6 years ago