DEPOIS DE SER ACOSSADO NA INGLATERRA, MAGNATA RUPERT MURDOCH EXIBE SUA FACE POLÍTICA NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ONDE SEU JORNAL THE DAILY PUBLICOU EXTENSA REPORTAGEM SOBRE O SUPOSTO APREÇO DE BARACK OBAMA PELA CANNABIS NA SUA JUVENTUDE; ELE FARIA PARTE ATÉ DA “GANGUE DO BASEADO”
247 – O magnata australiano Rupert Murdoch, maior empresário de mídia do mundo, é, sobretudo, um animal político. Nos Estados Unidos, ele fez campanha tão ostensiva contra Barack Obama nas eleições presidenciais de 2008, que o candidato democrata rotulou a Fox News, de Murdoch, como um “partido político”, não como um veículo de comunicação.
Naquela ocasião, Murdoch apoiava John McCain, que foi derrotado para Obama. Hoje, quatro anos depois, o empresário australiano apoia o também republicano Mitt Romney, que tem chances reais de derrotar Obama na disputa de novembro. Essa definição da mídia como organização política inspirou o deputado Fernando Ferro (PT/PE) a criar a expressão PIG – Partido da Imprensa Golpista – que se popularizou no blog do jornalista Paulo Henrique Amorim.
Pois, neste fim de semana, Murdoch, que vinha enfrentando sérios problemas na Inglaterra, onde se viu forçado a fechar o tabloide News of the World, resolveu atacar. Um de seus jornais, o “The Daily” publicou uma matéria sobre os hábitos de Barack Obama na juventude.
De acordo com o periódico, Obama era um inveterado maconheiro, que fazia até parte do que ele e seus amigos definiam como a “gangue do baseado”, no Havaí. A reportagem está ancorada numa nova biografia sobre Obama, que já havia admitido ter experimentado a cannabis sativa.
A tese, agora, é de que seus hábitos relacionados ao uso de drogas na juventude foram muito mais intensos. Leitores do The Daily, no entanto, não ficaram muito satisfeitos com a reportagem do jornal e a apontaram como uma prova de partidarização da mídia nos Estados Unidos (clique aqui e leia e a reportagem do jornal de Murdoch).
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
According to new bio, young Obama was an enthusiastic pot smoker
It’s not news that President Obama had dalliances with marijuana as a young man. He wrote candidly about it in his 1995 memoir, “Dreams from my Father.” And as a presidential candidate in 2007, then-Sen. Obama admitted that when he was a kid, “I inhaled frequently, that was the point.”
But according to David Maraniss’ forthcoming book, “Barack Obama: The Story” — excerpts of which were leaked online yesterday — the president’s adolescent drug use was more, shall we say, dedicated than previously thought.
“When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning ‘numbing tobacco’) instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around,” a source told Maraniss.
According to the book, “Barry and his pals” at Honolulu’s Punahou high school even had a name for their pot-smoking clique. The Choom Gang, they called themselves — choom being a verb meaning “to smoke marijuana” — and they traveled around in a VW bus dubbed the Choomwagon.
Hardly just a passive member of the Choom Gang, the president-to-be is even credited with starting a few pot-smoking trends among the group.
Obama, according to the book, originated the concept of “T.A.,” short for “total absorption,” which entailed holding in a hit of marijuana until no smoke came out. He also popularized a method he called “roof hits,” which involved the Choom Gang smoking in a car with the windows rolled up, and then, when the pot was finished, tilting their heads back and inhaling the remaining smoke billowing down from the ceiling.
Another inventive move by the young Obama was the “interception.”
“When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!’ and took an extra hit,” a source explains in the book. “No one seemed to mind.”
Obama even acknowledged his reefer-addled buddies in a section of his senior yearbook in which students were encouraged to express thanks and define their high school experience.
“Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang and Ray for all the good times,” he wrote on his page.
Ray, according to Maraniss’ book — which is due out next month — was a “long-haired haole hippie” and a “dealer” who could always be counted on to “score quality weed.”
Click here to see the Choom Gang rules
But according to David Maraniss’ forthcoming book, “Barack Obama: The Story” — excerpts of which were leaked online yesterday — the president’s adolescent drug use was more, shall we say, dedicated than previously thought.
“When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning ‘numbing tobacco’) instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around,” a source told Maraniss.
According to the book, “Barry and his pals” at Honolulu’s Punahou high school even had a name for their pot-smoking clique. The Choom Gang, they called themselves — choom being a verb meaning “to smoke marijuana” — and they traveled around in a VW bus dubbed the Choomwagon.
Hardly just a passive member of the Choom Gang, the president-to-be is even credited with starting a few pot-smoking trends among the group.
Obama, according to the book, originated the concept of “T.A.,” short for “total absorption,” which entailed holding in a hit of marijuana until no smoke came out. He also popularized a method he called “roof hits,” which involved the Choom Gang smoking in a car with the windows rolled up, and then, when the pot was finished, tilting their heads back and inhaling the remaining smoke billowing down from the ceiling.
Another inventive move by the young Obama was the “interception.”
“When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!’ and took an extra hit,” a source explains in the book. “No one seemed to mind.”
Obama even acknowledged his reefer-addled buddies in a section of his senior yearbook in which students were encouraged to express thanks and define their high school experience.
“Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang and Ray for all the good times,” he wrote on his page.
Ray, according to Maraniss’ book — which is due out next month — was a “long-haired haole hippie” and a “dealer” who could always be counted on to “score quality weed.”
Click here to see the Choom Gang rules
Obama and his friends made no secret of their hobby, labeling themselves the “Choom Gang.”
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