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David Cross Admits to Snorting Cocaine at the White House Correspondents Dinner
hollywoodreporter.com ^ | 2/22/2012 | Erin Carlson

Posted on 02/22/2012 9:39:47 PM PST by grundle

Fact: David Cross once snorted cocaine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The actor confessed to the persistent rumor in an interview in the March issue of Playboy magazine, saying he pulled the stunt while sitting some 65 feet away from President Obama.

"It wasn’t even that much cocaine. It was literally the size of, I don’t know, a tick. It was a tiny granule of coke that I put on my wrist and said, 'Watch this. I need a witness,'" Cross recalled.

"And then I ducked under the table and did it. It wasn’t like I got high," he continued. "The jolt was similar to licking an empty espresso cup. It wasn’t about that. It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did cocaine in the same room as the president."

Cross, the star of the IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, recently took heat for his rant against a producer on Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, a film he's vilified in public as "most miserable experience I ever had in my professional life."

As for the White House incident, Cross said he's not "ashamed" but regrets the embarrassment it caused his fiancee, actress Amber Tamblyn, who had invited him to the dinner.

"I was her date, her plus-one, and she got dragged through the mud because of what I did. She had nothing to do with it. And because of that she’ll never be invited to the White House again. That’s not cool."

Another Cross confession: he remains "curious" about new recreational drugs, and considers crack to be wack.

"I smoked it once, and it was a huge wake-up call ... When it came time to get some more, I knew very clearly that if I stayed there—and I wanted to—my life would change right then and there for the worse. I never touched crack again."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ambertamblyn; davidcross; dementalillness; hollyweird; tobias
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1 posted on 02/22/2012 9:39:58 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

I suppose the Libs think this is amusing...


2 posted on 02/22/2012 9:45:42 PM PST by Ronin (VOTE NEWT! He's Not Romney! Huh? He did?? Scratch that! GO SANTORUM!!!)
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To: grundle

Never heard of this person till now. Well, he knows how to get attention.


3 posted on 02/22/2012 9:52:35 PM PST by rfp1234 (RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
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To: Ronin

Next up, rehab, a slap on the wrist, an apology/press release, and his girl friend gets to go hang out with the Marxist again as a sign of good will and acceptance by the _resident. Couple of imbeciles.


4 posted on 02/22/2012 9:52:45 PM PST by TheZMan (Obama is without a doubt the worst President ever elected to these United States)
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To: TheZMan

Well gee... I guess we should be reasonable about this. I mean, it’s not like he was smoking a cigarette or anything really bad, right?

/disgusted sarc


5 posted on 02/22/2012 9:54:14 PM PST by Ronin (VOTE NEWT! He's Not Romney! Huh? He did?? Scratch that! GO SANTORUM!!!)
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To: Ronin
I never touched crack again.

This is how all liberal bedtime stories should end.

6 posted on 02/22/2012 9:54:45 PM PST by Buddy Sorrell (Basta! Both Obama and Ranieri must go!)
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To: Ronin

This is true. A few more dollars of tax on a carton and I’ll have to quit thanks to social engineering.


7 posted on 02/22/2012 9:58:45 PM PST by TheZMan (Obama is without a doubt the worst President ever elected to these United States)
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To: rfp1234

Yes this is all about him getting attention. I heard this when it happened in 2009 because he talked about it in an interview at that time. The guy is a loser and I hope he goes away


8 posted on 02/22/2012 10:02:48 PM PST by funfan (and his crew)
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To: grundle
Surprised he has a girlfriend - draw your own conclusions:


9 posted on 02/22/2012 10:18:49 PM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: grundle

...And on a related note, her amazing Dad: Russ Tamblyn.

10 posted on 02/22/2012 10:19:14 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: grundle

Never heard of him.


11 posted on 02/22/2012 10:23:54 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: grundle

This red diaper baby is even worse than Bill Maher

an awful hater of traditional American culture

how do these folks get heard?


12 posted on 02/22/2012 10:24:11 PM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Wow... what an incredible dance by Russ Tamblyn (whom I’ve never heard of before)! He’s Amber Tamblyn’s dad?


13 posted on 02/22/2012 10:31:46 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: capydick; Lancey Howard

Ick... Amber Tamblyn is engaged to this creep? WHAT does she see in this creepy guy??


14 posted on 02/22/2012 10:34:15 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: grundle
Children want attention. I had seen him in Arrested Development. He was entertaining enough in the sitcom.
15 posted on 02/22/2012 10:40:59 PM PST by Jay Santos CP ("Idiocracy"... It's no longer just a movie.)
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To: lonestar

He’s an analrapist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz8aYiH_nRg


16 posted on 02/22/2012 11:02:45 PM PST by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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To: grundle

Libs are overgrown children. Emotionally, they never progressed past high school.


17 posted on 02/22/2012 11:26:46 PM PST by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: grundle
We ducked under a table and puffed a cigarette in 7th grade which is equivalent to this equally exciting liberal escapade by Cross at the White House.

What a DUMBASS.

18 posted on 02/22/2012 11:36:00 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: nutmeg
He’s Amber Tamblyn’s dad?

Yes.

19 posted on 02/23/2012 12:24:41 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: nutmeg
Russ Tamblyn is one of those guys who has had an active, successful Hollywood career but seems to fly mostly just under the radar. His biggest role in movies was probably as the leader of the Jets gang in 'West Side Story' in 1961, but he's been in a bunch of other movies, too.

Tamblyn also had a nice role as Dr. Jacoby in the David Lynch TV show, 'Twin Peaks' in the early '90s. He has worked with musician Neil Young for many years and he was even in the movie 'Drive' just last year. He's 78 and still working. I guess that's not too surprising seeing the kind of athlete he is.

By the way, Tamblyn's brother Larry played keyboards in a pretty popular '60s band called 'The Standells' ('Dirty water').

FRegards,
LH

20 posted on 02/23/2012 12:44:15 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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