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    Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Once again, Gawker falls short of the real story...


    As more than a few folks around town are aware, this guy was providing more than just back-up singing services for Carly, if you catch my drift. Hence, her intense interest in securing his release (there, more drift for ya).

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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Finally, Bush gets something right.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    He should have smuggled thru Islip...
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    Image of Penscribe Penscribe
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    What would Lauryn Hill do?
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    Image of Penscribe Penscribe
    11/25/08

    @Penscribe: Does anyone, like me, believe that he was more than likely guilty of attempting to distribute coke BECAUSE he went to Exeter?
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    11/25/08

    @Penscribe: An alumni was the source of my first line. Not even kidding.
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    Image of BrantAmyntor BrantAmyntor
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Just FYI, the Post was wrong (and so are you); Ben Taylor didn't go to Exeter, and that's not where they met.
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    11/25/08

    @BrantAmyntor: Milton? BB&N?
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    Image of DonPardoCalrissian DonPardoCalrissian
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Ape shall not kill ape.


    Liquid coke? Sounds more like a liquid Choate sort of thing.

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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Sure, he may be out of jail, but getting a pardon by Bush is gonna kill his street cred. Was it worth it, Forte?
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    11/25/08

    @Hiphopopotamus: John Forte never had street cred' to speak of. John Legend has more street cred.' So . . . Forte's good.
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Does this mean the repubs are now pro drug smuggling?
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    11/25/08

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives: We're out of power and have got to make a living somehow.
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    Image of American Dreamer, Again, Some More American Dreamer, Again, Some More
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    the most important element of this story is that an unidentified stranger handed forte the liquid coke immediately before he got on the plan and told forte it was medicine for a sick child at a hospital near his destination and if he didn't bring it on board the child would die


    this happens to me all the time on planes

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    Image of ElvisWorley ElvisWorley
    11/25/08

    I had something similar happen to me. I was approached by a clown in the terminal in Bogata, Columbia. He told me that there was a poor and sick Columbian kid in NYC who needed these special ballons for his birthday party. Once I arrived in JKF terminal, things did not go well.@The King of the Puppy Bears:
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    11/25/08

    @The King of the Puppy Bears: Is this true? How pathetic, if it is.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    11/25/08

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Yeah, right: "Here's a briefcase. Can you, um, take this briefcase on a plane. Yeah, it's, uh, medicine for a sick child."


    I believe in de-criminalization of drugs, but there is a difference between a going to jail for small time vending or using and carrying a briefcase full of coke on a plane because somebody handed it to you and said it was medicine. Having been to southern Colombia, I assure you that the drug trade is ruining that country. It fucks up people in shitty situations at both ends: the campesinos in Colombia and the addicts in the US. It's the middlemen like Forte that reap the windfall. Fuck him and fuck Bush, too.

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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/25/08

    @ElvisWorley: (sp1) Bogotá. (sp2) Colombian.
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    11/25/08

    @bjonston: (sp3) Colombia.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    11/26/08

    @gawkimo: Did you happen to read that article in The New Yorker two weeks ago about the narcocultura?
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    @ambitious: Mumia.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    11/25/08

    @Peter Feld: George W. Bush.
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    11/25/08

    @Iceland_Spar: That really is the only way.
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    11/25/08

    @Peter Feld: I thought about that but . . . Possibly too contentious because of the homicidiness. And too many degrees of separation from 70s singer song-writing . . . ness.


    But, and it's a big one, Mumia does have dreads. It's a tough call.

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    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Top that, Obama.
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    11/25/08

    @ambitious: @Peter Feld: Leonard Peltier
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    Image of meechybee meechybee
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    Aw, come on. Who hasn't smuggled liquid coke through Newark Airport before?


    If you put it in a checked bag, the baggage handlers will gladly take it off your hands.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/25/08

    @meechybee: I'd love it if his defense was, "Dude, come on. It was Newark. I wasn't even sure they'd let me in if I didn't have any coke."
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    Image of llamalash★ llamalash★
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    He hangs w/the kid of Carly Simon and James Taylor. Technically he's pardoning a rapper, making Bush seem (in his head) to be hip and a man of the people. But, in reality, well, Carly Simon and James Taylor! You know Bush heard nothing past that.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    HOLY SHIT! THAT'S AWESOME!


    I spoke with Forte a couple of times in Aubette right before the bust. I was so disappointed in him but he's a really great guy.


    This is almost as big as our Gov pardoning Slick Rick which is legendary.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/25/08

    @The Real JR: Nobody is almost as big as Slick Rick. I mean, I'm sure this is a nice chap and all, but come on. He ain't the ruler.
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    Image of dado dado
    11/25/08

    In reply to Bush Pardons Jailed Rapper After Hearing He Went To Exeter
    He's been incarcerated at a low security federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Sounds kinda nice, in some ways.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    11/25/08

    @dado: From Office Space: "White collar prison is no joke. I have a client in there who says on the first day you either kick someone's ass or become someone's bitch."
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    Image of twoeightnine twoeightnine
    11/25/08

    @dado: Except for that whole Pennsylvania thing.
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