San Francisco Chronicle Catches Drug Czar in a Crazy Lie
The drug czar's recent claim that there are more medical marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks stores in San Francisco has finally achieved the level of public embarrassment it so thoroughly deserved.
San Francisco's Department of Public Health, which issues permits for medical marijuana dispensaries, is also befuddled by the federal data."It was extremely incorrect," said Larry Kessler, a senior health inspector at the department. "I don't know how they got that." [San Francisco Chronicle]
SF Chronicle obtained the alleged dispensary list from ONDCP and found double listings, closed businesses, and even a business in Los Angeles. With their fraud fully exposed, ONDCP has issued a totally bizarre reply saying it's "good news" that their story got press.
It’s straight-up insane. By the time you get to the part about how many Taco Bells there are in San Francisco, you’ll join me in hoping Sarah Palin is the next drug czar so we can at least get MSNBC to give these clowns the daily fact-checking they deserve.
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redditONDCP is Imitating Bill O'Reilly's Hatred of San Francisco
Comment posted by Giordano on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 4:03pmThe ONDCP looks as if it’s taking its cues from Bill O’Reilly’s rants about San Francisco.
John P. Walters preceded his current drug czar career by working in an organization dedicated to injecting more religion into government (Walters’ religion, of course). With Walters’ ONDCP and other rightist wingnuts in bed together, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the same culture-baiting tactics employing sin-and-guilt by association with the city of San Francisco are being used in a feeble attempt to discredit medical cannabis.
Not only that, but the ONDCP is spending the taxpayers’ dime to promote a right wing religious agenda in violation of church-state separation. Apparently, Walters’ violations of the Hatch Amendment weren’t enough to do the job.
John Walters is truly fortunate he works for the most corrupt presidential administration in recorded American history, otherwise he would be in real trouble.
Giordano
No Clash This Time
Comment posted by Giordano on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 1:46amO'Reilly said on his 11/19 show that he 'knew' medical marijuana had been a 'ruse' all along.