I missed the Super Bowl and the tasteful drug ads. Fortunately MetaFilter provided a link to I Helped. I was speechless. Others weren't.

Brooke Biggs at the bitter shack of resentment:

The Superbowl Ads from the White House Which Equate Drugs with Terrorism
It's enough to make a girl choke on a pretzel and bang her head on a coffee table.

The gist is that people who buy drugs help those who profit from drugs, some of whom are terrorists (most of whom are not, but whatever). This shifting of blame to regular people -- especially young people, is so crazily over-the-top hypocritical, I want to poke someone reallly really hard.

A kid who looks like he may have done some recreational drugs at some point (definitely no addict) says: "I helped kill a family in Colombia." Compare that to the US government, which sends billions to Colombia in "anti-drug" money which inevitably gets funneled to the government's right-wing paramilitary thugs who not only kill innocent people who get in the way, but also profit from the cocaine trade by controlling vast swaths of the coca-growing regions and shaking down farmers. That kid has probably paid more in taxes in his life than he has spent on drugs, and it's those taxes his government sends off to Colombia to finance executions in the name of the Drug War.

A girl in the spot says "I helped kill a judge." Well, so did your government, darling, which through Plan Colombia, sent money to the very folks who assassinated this guy a month ago.

Geov Parrish makes a good point that you're more likely to be financing a Middle Eastern despot or terrorist by filling your car up with gas.