Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ah, those carefree days of innocence

Wolfie Hill

Raw Story:

CNN host Wolf Blitzer admitted on the air Monday that while he may not know what a marijuana plant looks like, he'd certainly be able to identify the smell.

Retorting, co-anchor Jessica Yellin jokingly asked, "How would you know what it smells like?" -- a question that drew more than a laugh from CNN pundit Lou Dobbs.

Both hosts were engaged in a discussion of Rep. Barney Frank's (D-MA) recent comment that because he is not an "outdoorsman," he would not recognize a marijuana plant if he came across one. The aside was made in response to a follow-up question by a reporter who discovered that Frank was present when his partner was arrested for possession of marijuana in 2007.




Frankly, I find this bit of public discombobulation somewhat hilarious.

People who attended higher education (oops, I meant 'university') in the 1960's and 70's who wouldn't know what a pot leaf looks like, but they know it by the smell, and they might, perhaps en passant have put what the jazz musicians and other scruffy bohemians called a 'joint' or 'reefer' to their lips once or thrice, purely in the spirit of noble scientific research, but of course they didn't inhale it - - and henceforth managed to stay blissfully unaware of same throughout the 'If it feels good, do it' and 'Just Say No' eras, in spite of constant media bombardment (increased by a factor of eleventy bazillion by the Internet) right up until, say, their life partner gets busted running a grow-op in his own house while they stood obliviously by...and then circumstantially proposing federal legislation that would remove penalties for adult possession of the leafy villain.

But they wouldn't know what it looks like... That being reserved exclusively for the provenance of 'outdoorsmen'. Of course.

Baked In A Tie

Oh look, it's Paul Bunyan

;>)

3 comments:

zencomix said...

That man never drank a Duff in his life!

Distributorcap said...

i think newspeople are making used car salesmen look like einsteins

darkblack said...

The level of credulity required from the fifth estate in these times must really put a strain on the old kneepads, DCap.
I don't have an issue with Barney Frank, albeit I'm somewhat hip to his game...But to report this rather blatantly self-serving silliness with a straight face and then fall all over themselves pretending to some sort of conceptual affinity - Does their mother know what they do for a living?
It's not too late to get that job playing piano in a whorehouse, Leslie...er, Wolf.

;>)