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bodynotdead
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Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death
#7921092 - 01/23/08 06:30 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death 01-23 - sfgate.com
The death of Heath Ledger prompted the White House to postpone President Bush's event Wednesday promoting an ad campaign aimed at preventing prescription drug abuse.
Ledger, 28, who was nominated for an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead Tuesday in his New York apartment. There were sleeping pills near him, but the cause of his death remains under investigation.
The president was to make a statement in the Roosevelt Room on the Office of National Drug Control Policy's television advertisement about preventing prescription drug abuse. A federally financed study released in December at the White House showed illicit drug use by teens continued to gradually decline overall this year, but the use of prescription painkillers remained popular among young people.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Bush's event had been scheduled for a while.
"We thought it would be better to postpone the event rather than run the risk of anyone thinking that we were being opportunistic in highlighting the issue," she said.
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: bodynotdead]
#7921103 - 01/23/08 06:32 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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They highlighted it more by canceling. Fail.
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bodynotdead
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: bodynotdead]
#7921107 - 01/23/08 06:34 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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What I would have titled it as. BUSH POLICY SPEECH CANCELLED BECAUSE HOLLYWOOD JUNKIE OD'D!
robbyberto yes! This is not what news is. If he was reeding a bible that boys and girls would be news.
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: bodynotdead]
#7921196 - 01/23/08 06:54 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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So I guess you knew him on a personal level then, huh?
You seem to know so much about him.
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: truffleupagus]
#7921202 - 01/23/08 06:56 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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what a nice way of promoting not abusing rx drugs. lol
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: bodynotdead]
#7921281 - 01/23/08 07:13 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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You seem to be pretty judgemental, bodynotdead, for someone who is posting on a forum about drugs. Unless you knew him personally, you really can't talk shit dude. You shouldn't be so quick to judge, especially if you do drugs yourself.
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: DragonChaser]
#7921343 - 01/23/08 07:25 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Some guy dabbled with too much opiates/benzos, and they're using it as an excuse to cancel his meeting?
I guess it's better than "Bush can't make the meeting, because he didn't tidy up his toys, and has to spend time in the naughty chair."
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7921373 - 01/23/08 07:33 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Apparently he had a prescription for the pills and severe insomnia and anxiety. It may be a sign that people are dangerously overmedicated, but Ledger probobly isn't the poster child for pharmaceutical abuse.
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bodynotdead
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: DragonChaser]
#7921504 - 01/23/08 08:02 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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I am just a independent-minded individualist, I attack big government and liberal media bias, but champion the environment and animal rights.
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: DragonChaser]
#7921554 - 01/23/08 08:13 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Quote:
DragonChaser said: You seem to be pretty judgemental, bodynotdead, for someone who is posting on a forum about drugs. Unless you knew him personally, you really can't talk shit dude. You shouldn't be so quick to judge, especially if you do drugs yourself.
Yep. He also doesn't know how to spell reading.
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: bodynotdead]
#7923230 - 01/24/08 07:09 AM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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If the event had actually taken place, would anyone had even noticed? What, do Bush and his cohorts owe some kind of respect to a Hollywood OD case? I guess they've got to respect somebody, and if it isn't going to be the American people, then who? Bush's late-teenage heartthrob, aww!
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Re: Bush Cancels Event After Ledger's Death [Re: elbisivni]
#7923614 - 01/24/08 10:02 AM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
elbisivni said: If the event had actually taken place, would anyone had even noticed? What, do Bush and his cohorts owe some kind of respect to a Hollywood OD case? I guess they've got to respect somebody, and if it isn't going to be the American people, then who? Bush's late-teenage heartthrob, aww!
Lets just say he knows what Heath went through...
Edited by THEBats (01/24/08 10:02 AM)
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