Cross snorts coke 40 ft. from Obama

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 23rd, 2009

Drudge is linking to a story in The Politico that says that David Cross snorted cocaine forty feet from the president of the United States of America. How do we know this? Because Cross bragged about it from the stage of D.C.’s Warner Theater Wednesday night.

Folks on the right will cite the incident as indicative of a general corrosion of decorum in D.C. “This is what happens when you elect a rock ‘n’ roll president,” will go the script. Sorta similar to the tut-tutting when Jimmy Carter brought Billy to town… or when Bubba favored Fleetwood Mac over Mozart. Or when Andrew Jackson was inaugurated.

Jackson was the first President to invite the public to attend the White House ball honoring his first inauguration. Many poor people came to the inaugural ball in their homemade clothes. The crowd became so large that Jackson’s guards could not hold them out of the White House. The White House became so crowded with people that dishes and decorative pieces in the White House began to break. Some people stood on good chairs in muddied boots just to get a look at the President. The crowd had become so wild that the attendants poured punch in tubs and put it on the White House lawn to lure people out of the White House. Jackson’s raucous populism earned him the nickname King Mob.

It was 1824. The more things change…

Folks on the left will simply reply: Well, Bush actually did cocaine!

And, of course, both would be correct in their own way.

Still others will ask, “Where’s the harm? So what? He did coke at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Big deal.”

Actually, it is kindofa big deal. And Cross knows that full well. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have concocted and performed the bit. So “So what/Big deal” doesn’t fly.

But, the supreme dumbness of admitting something like this onstage at a concert, in the nation’s capital, in close proximity to where the illegal deed was originally done, is staggering.

We would think that there might have to be some sort of a cursory investigation, right? If someone loudly bragged about, say, bringing a small gun into the Rose Garden during the Easter Egg roll, wouldn’t the Secret Service be obligated (along with the FBI) to at least check out the story? So that it doesn’t happen again? So as to perhaps debunk the story and thereby restore the reputation of the Secret Service.

Of course, Cross will fall back on the “It was a joke!” And he’ll deny that he has ever done coke in his life. (At least that’s what his attorneys will tell him to say.)

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