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p> COLBERT CAN'T SAY NO br> Re: George H. Wittman's Mexican Badlands : /p>

In the early '80s, there was a reaction against having TV make light of drug use and give at least indirect support and approval to drug use. There was even a failed variety show that had a skit on drugs, after which Buck Henry broke character and turned to the camera and gave, in the spirit of a reluctantly fulfilled duty, a little sermon on how bad drug use is, whatever the humor there may have been in the skit.

One very sad evidence of the shift away from this reluctantly more moral position has been the frequent joking and bantering by Jay Leno about his bandleader's supposed use of marijuana. But the most blatant offenders lately have been the two Comedy Central hits, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Both have had representatives of drug movies on for repartee and yucks. At least Stewart tried to include, without any real success, arguments that drug use is ultimately bad and wrong. Colbert doesn't even try.

p>Now Colbert is doing a Christmas special in which he is going to sing a drug-based parody of "Little Drummer Boy" with the well-known druggie Willie Nelson; it will be called "Little Dealer Boy." So Colbert will manage to be both drug-promoting and sacrilegious in the same song. Outrage is appropriate, and even more so, with the evidence of the drug-domination of Mexico provided by Wittman's column, not to mention the power of the drug trade among some ethnic groups and gangs inside the U.S. br> -- Richard L.A. Schaefer br> Dubuque, Iowa /p> p> WE'RE NUMBER 1!

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