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Catch Me on TV

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

I’ll be on Fox Business Channel tonight at 8pm ET discussing SWAT stuff.

It’s for John Stossel’s show, and the entire hour is devoted to the drug war. You should try to catch it, or at least record it. My segment was brief, but there’s some great discussion with Harvard economist Jeff Miron and the Wall Street Journal’s Mary O’Grady.

There’s also a token drug warrior whom I think you’ll all find pretty amusing.

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12 Responses to “Catch Me on TV”

  1. #1 |  Yizmo Gizmo |  June 17th, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    token drug warrior?
    Bill Maher? No I guess that would be “tokin”

  2. #2 |  Marty |  June 17th, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    are they bringing in Meese?

  3. #3 |  Rhayader |  June 17th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    I’m putting my money on Calvina Fay. Or maybe John Walters. Or Barry McCaffery. Shit there are too many of these dickheads.

  4. #4 |  Cynical in CA |  June 17th, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    Yizmo — quick on the draw.

  5. #5 |  MacK |  June 17th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    IS Cheye Calvo going to be one of the people giving his point of view?

  6. #6 |  Monica |  June 17th, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    Thanks for the head’s up Radley — DVR is set to record.

  7. #7 |  JS |  June 17th, 2010 at 7:06 pm

    damn it Radley! My sister just walked in and saw the “Gay Pride” banners on this site and said “Ohhhh, so that’s why you don’t have a girlfriend.”

    If she tells my mom I’m blaming it on you!

  8. #8 |  Greg N. |  June 17th, 2010 at 8:56 pm

    Dude, that drug warrior clown is going to give me a heart attack. Where do they find these people?

  9. #9 |  HTownTejas |  June 17th, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    Link to the show:
    http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4243277/unintended-consequences-of-drug-laws?playlist_id=87050

  10. #10 |  André Kenji |  June 17th, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    Unfortunelly, I don´t have Fox Business.

  11. #11 |  IrishMike |  June 17th, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    One of Stossel’s better efforts from what I’ve seen. Nice job Radley – you and Calvo had a nice rhythm going. Miron was great. That drug warrior was unbelieveable. Comical actually except for the fact that most of America would buy his nonsense. The black cop must have been summoning all his will power not to choke the guy.

  12. #12 |  Cyto |  June 18th, 2010 at 7:16 am

    The “token drug warrior” was awesome! His defense of the drug war was “we’re out there fighting every day, risking our lives to stop people from taking drugs.” Beautiful – we do it because we do it. Finally, a situation where you can actually use the phrase “begging the question”!

    I really loved the question about the constitutionality of federal prohibition of drugs – “If we needed an amendment to the constitution to ban alcohol, why don’t we need an amendment to ban other drugs?” The drug warriors response was priceless: “I fought in Iraq in the surge! We’re out there fighting every day against drugs in our streets! As a parent, it is important to protect our children!”

    I really wanted someone to respond to that… “Well,I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night….”

    Not that his response is really all that different from the official government response – basically “we can ban it as interstate commerce because it is really, really important; so it doesn’t matter if it is actually within the bounds of the constitution as written.”

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