War on drugs speech becomes video fodder

CHRISTIE CHRONICLES Gov. Christie's statements against the war on drugs have been given the auto-tune treatment from the Gregory Brothers (of Antoine Dodson fame).

The video (www.inquirer.com/

warondrugs), now circulating the interweb to mark the stoner holiday of April 20, is a mash-up of politicians - libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Christie - making statements against the war on drugs. Christie's backup "singers" are famed New Jersey potheads Jay and Silent Bob, who are superimposed.

The partial quote the Gregory Brothers pull from Christie is from these remarks last July in a speech at the Brookings Institution: "The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure. We're warehousing addicted people every day in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment, sending them back out on the street after their term of incarceration, and wondering why recidivism rates and go up, and why they don't get better, why they commit crimes again."

yMatt Katz, www.inquirer.com/Christie Chronicles