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Nader speaks about Hemp on Daily Show! |
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by common sense
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27 Feb 2002
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Nader "speaks out" on Hemp on Daily Show with John Stewart |
Thought everyone might get a kick out of seeing a partial transcription of Ralph Nader's appearance on last night's Daily Show on Comedy Central, in which he argues in favor of industrial hemp.
If anyone's interested in seeing this for themselves, it will air at least once more, tonight at 7:00 PST/EST.
NADER: The important thing here, the important thing here is, there were so many issues that were never discussed on that hooked-up thing called the Presidential debate commission, which is a private corporation created
by the two parties to exclude all competitors, and...
STEWART: What would you do, who would you...
NADER: I would have asked Bush and Gore, "Why are you supporting the prohibition of the most versatile plant in the history of the world, industrial hemp, that can produce food, fuel, clothing, and everything?"
[The minute Nader says the word "hemp," Stewart does a double-take, and the audience laughs, which soon turns into loud cheering and applause.]
STEWART: Whoa! Whoa! What the hell? Wait a minute!
[Stewart begins a comic charade of checking his cue cards and searching through his copy of Nader's latest book, _Crashing the Party_, for any sign that this had been about to happen. Cheering continues.]
NADER: And, and, it has nothing to do with marijuana. It's one-third of one percent THC; Clinton and Bush could smoke a bushel a day and they wouldn't get high, even if they inhaled.
STEWART: You really have been hanging around the kids, haven't you?
NADER: Five thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese grew it. Jefferson grew it, Washington grew it, I mean, what's the big deal? American flags early on were made of it...
STEWART: Really!
NADER: ...the Declaration of Independence, it could get rid of chlorine...
STEWART: Wouldn't it be great if they were still made of it, and then when the Iranians burned it, they just got high and mellow?
[Nader laughs.]
STEWART: We gotta go. I could talk to you all day about this stuff. It's nice...
NADER: Why not?
STEWART: Because I have corporate sponsors. I'm a whore! It's nice to see you. It's nice to see your passion remains undimmed and that you're still fighting the good fight...
NADER: Thank you.
STEWART: ...and it's a pleasure to have you on the program.
NADER: Stay in touch with us on the website. [www.crashingtheparty.org]
STEWART: _Crashing the Party_. Go to the website. Ralph Nader!
THis email , I got from MAYDAY, a Yahoo! Group. |
See also:
http://www.crashingtheparty.org/
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