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  White House Airing Super Bowl Ads 

Posted by FoM on January 30, 2002 at 18:03:33 PT
By  Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press Writer  
Source: Associated Press  

The White House is airing two commercials during the Super Bowl warning that buying illegal drugs could finance international terrorists. An administration official said Wednesday that British director Tony Kaye made the 30-second spots, which will debut during the game Sunday -- television's biggest and most expensive attraction of the year. Some 130 million viewers are expected to watch at least part of the NFL championship game. 
The Office of National Drug Control Policy is coordinating the effort, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Neither President Bush nor any top administration officials appear in the ads, which were shot in New York this month, the aide said. The message of the spots was that the sale of illicit drugs can contribute to funding terrorism. Several White House officials declined to comment on the campaign. It wasn't clear who would star in them, or what the budget was. AdAge.com, which first reported the ads Wednesday, said the government will probably pay more than $1.6 million to air each spot, which it said would be the biggest single-event government advertising purchase in U.S. history. Administration officials said they could not confirm the figure, and a spokeswoman for Fox, which is airing the Sunday's game between the New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams, said she did not know. Jon Nesvig, head of ad sales for Fox Broadcasting, said earlier that the average price in the game was ``a little south of $2 million.'' Source: Associated PressAuthor: Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press Writer Published: January 30, 2002Copyright: 2002 Associated Press Related Articles:White House Buys Anti-Terror Super Bowl Spothttp://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=33931Propaganda for Dollars http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread4317.shtmlDeal With TV Networks, US Drug Office Reviewshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread4313.shtml

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Comment #20 posted by FoM on February 01, 2002 at 09:42:43 PT
Super Bowl Ads
CNN was showing portions of the Super Bowl commericals and Pepsi has a group of Happy Hippie type people with a painted up bus and tie dyed clothes. Way to go, Pepsi!Then they added that the ONDCP spent nearly $3 M dollars for it's anti drug commercial and they frowned when they said it. 
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on January 31, 2002 at 23:07:12 PT
Lehder 
My husband has never wanted to watch Football. I'm glad he doesn't. I dated a guy on the football team in high school and when he took me to see a game I never went out with him again because I disliked it so much. It looks like a bunch of over weight guys using all kind of padding to make themselves look cool. Just a strange thing to me football is.PS: Please be kind to me if anyone reading this is a football lover. I understand.
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Comment #18 posted by Lehder on January 31, 2002 at 22:59:56 PT
boozeball
those are my my sentiments too, FoM, on football. it's extraordinary, though - mixing beer commercials with anti-cannabis messages! such baldfaced hypocrisy! people find this amazing, but it's true - i have never watched a football game! i don't even understand the rules! i've never seen more than a few minutes of a game, and that was decades ago. but i look forward to superbowl day - that's when the girls come by. they tell me, " this is the only place we know where we won't have to watch football!"
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Comment #17 posted by FoM on January 31, 2002 at 20:46:33 PT
Upcoming PBS Show Feb. 5th - Trading Democracy
Hi Everyone, 
I found this while looking for news and with the Enron scandal this might be interesting to see. 
NAFTA: Trading Democracy 
The OTHER Chapter 11. 
TRADING DEMOCRACY will air on February 5th on your local PBS station.
Everyone's heard about NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreement — and all the talk about jobs. But almost no one has heard about one obscure section of NAFTA — Chapter 11 — except for multinational corporations who are using it to challenge democracy. 
Chapter 11 is only one provision in the 555-page North American Free Trade Agreement — negotiated to promote business among the US, Canada and Mexico. It was supposedly written to protect investors if foreign governments tried to seize their property. 
But, according to this Bill Moyers Report, corporations have stretched NAFTA's Chapter 11 to challenge environmental decisions — the decisions of local communities — even the verdict of an American jury. The cases brought forth by corporations against state or national governments total almost four billion dollars. 
Web Site -- http://www.pbs.org/now/indepth/020102_td.html
PS: legalizeit nice to see you.
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Comment #16 posted by legalizeit on January 31, 2002 at 19:56:33 PT
Terrorism funding
Hmmm, I seem to recall that Bin Laden is Saudi Arabian, most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi Arabian, and many of the rich Saudis are in cahoots with Bin Laden.So... if all this is true, could it be that the real funder of terrorism is SAUDI OIL??!!Just like drug lords, OPEC sets the price they want and we have to pay! So they vote to cut production and just watch the money roll in!Oh, I forgot... only illegal commodities can be bad. 
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Comment #15 posted by mayan on January 31, 2002 at 16:44:13 PT
Golden Opportunity
Exactly Morgan! I will be with a large group of people, most of whom partake in the herb - but some don't. I will make it a point to address the fact that prohibition, by making drugs worth their weight in gold, actually is the real terrorist funder. This is a golden opportunity for us to bring up our side of the story! & while were on the subject we can bring up the latest drug war news(Prince Harry, Noelle Bush,etc.) & the injustices resulting from the WOD.People have always sought a means to enhace,explore & expand their consciousness & people always will. We can't change the fact that people will do drugs, but we can change the drug laws!
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Comment #14 posted by DdC on January 31, 2002 at 13:41:17 PT
OiNkDeCePtion's Super Bowl Anti-Some Drugs Ads
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:12:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ONDCP's Super Bowl Anti-Drug Ads
From: Dale Gieringer canorml igc.orgKevin Zeese observes:It it interesting to see the first signs of the direction John Walters will be taking ONDCP and their proaganda efforts.
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=33931WHITE HOUSE BUYS ANTI-TERROR SUPER BOWL SPOTS
Biggest Government Ad Buy Ever for a Single Event
January 30, 2002
By Ira TeinowitzWASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- The White House anti-drug advertising program will break two anti-terror ads on the Super Bowl in the biggest single event 
http://www.adage.com/images/random/whitehouse0130.jpgWhite House spending $1.6 million each for two TV spots. Largest government advertising buy in U.S. history.Media buying sources say the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy will likely pay over $1.6 million per spot. The drug office will get free matching spots from Fox Broadcasting Co. in other high-profile events.Outside normal channels 
The drug office will use the Super Bowl positioning to break a new campaign, developed by WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather, New York. It is the first major effort created since the start of the drug office advertising program in 1997 that goes outside the normal channels of the Partnership for a Drug Free America.Two 30-second spots produced by award-winning iconoclastic British director Tony Kaye.
http://www.adage.com/images/random/kaye0130.jpg
Tony Kaye dressed up as a sleeping Osama bin Laden. Read the Kaye profile in Ad Age's Creativity. drug sale profits may help fuel terrorism. Neither the drug office nor Ogilvy would discuss the ads, and the drug office also declined to say why it didn't develop the creative with the Partnership.The drug office also declined to comment on why a British director is producing such a prominent campaign from the American government.Mr. Kaye is director of commercials and U.S. feature films such as New Line Studio's American History X. He has occasionally dressed as Osama bin Laden in appearances in New York comedy clubs.Attempts to reach Mr. Kaye's agent were unsuccessful.By law, media companies that want some of the ad buys must provide a free ad or something of equal value for every paid ad. Lately the drug office has shrunk the alternatives to providing a free ad.Unsold Super Bowl slots Fox has been having trouble sellingSuper Bowl spots this year as the economy and the availability of other marquee events like the upcoming Winter Olympics vie for attention. Fox has two to three spots left to sell as of today and hopes to have the rest sold in the next two days, according to sources at Fox.
http://www.adage.com/images/random/war_button.jpgNormally the Partnership develops themes for the drug office ads and then selects ad agencies to produce the ads. Up to now Ogilvy managed the account and bought media time with media shop MindShare and produced some minor ad creative for niches or publications in which Partnership creative didn't fit. Ogilvy's only big creative work on the account had been done as part of an effort for the Partnership.
http://www.adage.com/images/random/superbowlpromo.jpgThe drug office ads will be only the second time in recent years that the government has run national advertising on the Super Bowl, although the agency had bought local spots during the game. In 2000 WPP sibling Y&R Advertising, New York, spent slightly less than $1.5 million for a single ad for the Census Bureau on the Super Bowl. That year Super Bowl ads were selling for between $2.3 million and $3 million. Other Related Stories:
WHITE HOUSE DRUG OFFICE PUTS ACCOUNT IN PLAY
Proposals Requested for $152 Million Ad ProgramWHITE HOUSE CUTS OFF OGILVY CONTRACT
Action Follows Criminal, Civil Probe Into Anti-Drug AccountOGILVY & MATHER: HONEST MISTAKE OR FRAUD?
FBI, GAO Continue Probes of White House Drug Account Billings year they have been selling for far less.Ogilvy's last hurrah 
For Ogilvy, the creative on the Super Bowl could be a last hurrah on the campaign. Accounting and billing issues that have resulted in an ongoing criminal investigation of the agency has prompted the drug office to put its account into review.The selection of a winner is expected in March. Ogilvy remains among the competitors for the account.Wayne Friedman and Richard Linnett contributed to this report.Dale Gieringer (415) 563-5858 // canorml igc.org
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on January 31, 2002 at 09:59:41 PT
Oh Dear Me
I have never watched the Super Bowl but now I will have to. I want to see the Commercial. This is the first time I wished I had a VCR that could record Commercials and skip the program. Just a little humor here.
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Comment #12 posted by Morgan on January 31, 2002 at 09:24:30 PT
Prohibition fuels Terrorism
As you watch these commercials, add this point that will be left out:
Prohibition fuels Terrorism
Prohibition fuels Terrorism
Prohibition fuels Terrorism
Prohibition fuels Terrorism
Prohibition fuels Terrorism
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Comment #11 posted by Kaminaree on January 31, 2002 at 07:52:48 PT:
drugs=terrorism?
perhaps the networks realize that this sort of campaign will not work at all... i mean, really... they demonize us, push us underground, make us all criminals in the eyes of the state all the while flaunting two legal drugs that are far more dangerous than the ones they ban... and then expect us to listen to their pathetic drivel on television? i think not. the networks have, therefore decided to take the u$ gov'ts money and run.another point of irony i noticed is that this is football, not an industry well-known for its restraint in the drug use area.whatever...
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Comment #10 posted by boppy on January 31, 2002 at 07:39:41 PT
J. Edgar Hoover alive & well...
OK, so I won't buy any illegal substances just in case they do support terrorism (as if). I'll just grow my own.
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Comment #9 posted by Sam Adams on January 31, 2002 at 07:19:41 PT
what a joke
I'm sure families around the U.S. will be throwing down their crack pipes right in the middle of the game after seeing these ads! I just wanted to point out that the entire pro sports world is financed by the beer companies (they pay for the ads, the networks pay the league).Each year 43,500 Americans die in car crashes.... I think something like 70% of fatal car crashes involve alcohol? So that's 3,000 deaths to terrorism, 30,000+ from drunk driving.Next time you're driving late at night, look around and realize the most dangerous terrorists are the fellow Americans behind the wheel.....
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Comment #8 posted by TroutMask on January 31, 2002 at 07:00:08 PT
Dying gasps of the Drug Warriors
Yep, they're really reaching on this one. There will be a lot of gullible "whatever the gubmint says" people who will buy this BS, but this will also be a great time for us to further publicize the self-serving lies of the ondcp. Next Monday is a letter-writing day. Let's all get busy and fill the mailboxes of our local papers!-TM
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Comment #7 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on January 31, 2002 at 04:27:14 PT
Here's another toke for terror...
  There's a really informative article in the latest print issue of Cannabis Culture about this whole issue. The Northern Alliance makes and exports drugs, too. Some Dutch coffeeshop owners had some complaints about their carrying Afghani hash after 9/11, but they point out, if you want the Northern Alliance to win, the best way to help is by buying their hashish.
Get some Afghani genetics now, before mail irradiation is commonplace...
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Comment #6 posted by Ron Bennett on January 31, 2002 at 00:28:01 PT
Drug use is now terrorism is way over the top!!
The ONDCP has stooped to an all time new low...equating drug use with terrorism. Using that twisted logic perhaps Bin Ladin is hiding at the University of Mississippi where the U.S. government grows cannabis for several medical cannabis users - and remember the U.S. government actually helped Bin Ladin early in the past decade as well until more recently supported the Taliban.It's bizarre that the U.S. government supports crazed maniacs with money, etc all over the world while at the same time characterizing its own citizens who like to partake in various recreational substances, such as cannabis, as being terrorists. Talk about twisted logic!Heck, why doesn't the U.S. government go after water bottling companies for selling a potentially deadly product since "water toxicity" (NOT the same as drowning) kills numerous Americans every year. Water is far more dangerous than cannabis and yet cannabis users are now being considered terrorists.The drug war is a total scam and a violation of our rights...and it can't continue forever since people will always find a way to alter their consciousness...heck even the Jeb Bush's daughter does drugs! So much for the success of the drug war...D.A.R.E == Drugs Are Really Exciting!
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Comment #5 posted by Patrick on January 30, 2002 at 23:13:05 PT
Money
I think it is money that funds the terrorists. We should all give up money. Actually, just send all your money directly to me. I'll see to it that it goes directly into my bank where it safe from terrorists.
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Comment #4 posted by freedom fighter on January 30, 2002 at 23:05:20 PT
How about OIL?
Ya know, the gas you put in your tank every time support a terrorist and probably killed two human beings on the other side of the world?Sounds pretty farfetched?? NOT!Glad I do not own a car..In addition to OIL, it is your TAX dollars supporting these terrorists..Since they are gonna blame on DRUGS but will forget to mention it is the PROHIBITION that is funding these terrorism. Not sure wither to call it a short or a long term memory problem!ff
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Comment #3 posted by SirReal on January 30, 2002 at 20:27:27 PT
FOX
I'm emailing Fox right now. Anybody got any duct tape?...because my heads gonna explode from this ad campaign that ignores the real funding scource.Shame on the "fair and balanced" Fox network
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on January 30, 2002 at 19:29:43 PT
Diamonds
Diamonds fund terrorists but you won't see that on any Super Bowl ad! Narrow minded, self serving lot they are!
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Comment #1 posted by MikeEEEEE on January 30, 2002 at 19:18:16 PT
Really Sad
buying illegal drugs could finance international terrorists. Of course, we know better about prohibition and its side effects: black markets, high profits, crime, etc.I wonder how the Amerikan public will view this, then again, most of them will be on the Fed approved drugs alcohol and nicotine.The corporate media will take a blind eye to the 3.2 million.
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