Wexler’s Cocaine Crack Just a Joke, He Says
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) says he was just playing along with the joke when comedian Stephen Colbert prodded him in an interview to say: “I enjoy cocaine because it’s a fun thing to do.”
The Democrat, unchallenged for re-election, appeared on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central and was asked to say things that would “really lose the election for you if you were contested.”
Colbert asked the congressman to complete this sentence: “I enjoy cocaine because ... “
Wexler said after his interview aired last week that he had never seen the show before and had appeared at the urging of his younger staffers.
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