Is Sam Adams doped up?
There are some moments in these two videos in which the mayor of Portland seems to be on some fairly strong medication. Check out "the opportunity to do" at around 0:45 of the top one. Then nearly slurred speech at 1:10. Stumbling for words at 1:35, then rambling like a guy who's been at the bar all afternoon. On the bottom one, 30 seconds in, he can't get the word "extensive" out of his mouth. Then nobody in his office has the good sense to keep these videos off the internet. Something's not right.
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Comments (13)
He's a dope alright and doesn't need dope to be dopey. It's just his natural state.
Posted by dg | April 3, 2012 10:02 AM
It's all to cover the pain, so little time, so few bike lanes.....
Posted by Bart | April 3, 2012 10:32 AM
An acting teacher once told me the best way to play a drunk is to play like someone trying too hard to seem sober.
Sam must've had the same teacher.
Posted by Garage Wine | April 3, 2012 10:36 AM
I watched the second one, and he didn't seem the slightest bit doped up to me.
Posted by Dave J.. | April 3, 2012 10:38 AM
You're not serious are you? I didn't see anything like you noted.
Posted by Robert | April 3, 2012 10:43 AM
What bothers me is that the word-tripping could easily have been edited by any 10-year-old with iMovie. Why would you choose to not clean it up?
Posted by PDXLifer | April 3, 2012 11:04 AM
I’ll take you word for it without watching the video. I am going to lunch today at a great PDX spot and I don’t want to ruin my appetite.
Posted by Gil Slater | April 3, 2012 11:36 AM
Sam Adams is an ass, but this posting is just silly. It's plain in the first video he's just inserting a clause in a sentence, not stumbling incoherently. In the second, he's simply reading from a teleprompter. He guessed the word wrong and corrects himself mid-syllable.
The guy creates plenty of opportunities (real ones) for criticism - and mockery.
No need to plump up something like this.
Posted by Max Rockbin | April 3, 2012 12:48 PM
I'd go a step farther and say that the language he uses about this case needs to be very precisely worded to avoid any sort of lawsuit from Officer Frashour or the police union. If you detected anything out of the ordinary, I would guess it was Sam being nervous after being instructed to stay exactly on script with this one.
Posted by Dave J.. | April 3, 2012 1:23 PM
Agree with Dave J., but have to say the mayor really looks kinda whacked but that may be camera angle.
Posted by paul | April 3, 2012 4:16 PM
I think he looked okay and just tripped on a word. I don't see signs he was loaded.
Posted by Megan | April 3, 2012 9:35 PM
And I can't stand him!
Posted by Megan | April 3, 2012 9:35 PM
I wouldn't say that he's stoned. I'd just say that his natural form of communication is the vowel movement.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | April 4, 2012 8:12 AM