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Is Tim Geithner Secret ‘Reefer Madness’ Nut?

copyright Spy Magazine 1989In the beloved tradition of “Is Eliot Spitzer Secret Phone Muppet?”, we bring you this picture of Treasury creep Tim “Turbo Tax” Geithner and this pot-reeking piano-playing lunatic from the classic kids film Reefer Madness. Have these two ever been seen together? No wonder Obama doesn’t want to legalize his dope — then Geithner would really go bananas.


1:29 PM on Thu March 26 2009
By Ken Layne
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  1. ManchuCandidate says at 1:32 pm, March 26th, 2009

    This might go a long way to explain his pushing the “Buy Bad Debt with Trillions” plan.

  2. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 1:37 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Obama is just showing off his chops….as a politico, you can always tick off potheads because they can never get organized about anything. Just when they’re ready to protest, tell ‘em Entenmann’s is giving away free samples at the local grocery store. Problem solved.

  3. NoWireHangers says at 1:37 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Would it really be so bad if Five Head jumped out of a window 10 stories up in a hysterical reefer-induced fit?

  4. Serolf Divad says at 1:39 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Little known fact: the Reefer Madness guy actually coordinated the S&L bailout of the 1980s.

  5. teebob2000 says at 1:41 pm, March 26th, 2009

  6. Wonkette is sure into horse porn and marijuana today. ahhhh, home at last.

  7. teebob2000 says at 1:43 pm, March 26th, 2009

    teebob2000: Eraserhead, dumbshit.

  8. CollegeStudent says at 1:43 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Huh, so is the Treasury like the appartment in Reefer Madness then? Because I had always thought of it more like the basement smoke session scenes That 70’s Show.

    Ya learn something new everyday.

  9. snideinplainsight says at 1:45 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Timmy! Timmy!

    TimmyTimmyTimmy Timmy-Timmy Timmy!

  10. CollegeStudent says at 1:48 pm, March 26th, 2009

    teebob2000: Wasn’t Erasure an 80’s pop band my kindergarten teacher listended to?

  11. sublicon says at 1:48 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Ehh, kind of a stretch.

  12. Keram2 says at 1:48 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Sorry, Wonkette. I don’t see it. Reefer dude doesn’t have a crazy forehead — Mr. Geithner’s defining characteristic.

  13. Tommmcatt says at 1:51 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Christ, look at the ears on Geithner! You could stick a kitten in one of those and no-one would be the wiser.

  14. teebob2000 says at 1:53 pm, March 26th, 2009

    CollegeStudent: Yes — WE of that age did; you gots a problem with us oldz??

  15. shanemacgowan says at 1:53 pm, March 26th, 2009

    If he was truly a head, he would have understood Michelle Bachmann’s questions.

  16. norbizness says at 1:55 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Inhale, exhale, got him an ounce in the mail.

  17. DangerousLiberal says at 1:55 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Reefers!! Give me more reefers! (Slow dissolve as Geithner is sent to a Home for the Criminally Insane).

  18. deecaffeinated says at 1:58 pm, March 26th, 2009

    But reefer guy has eyebrows.

  19. Canuckledragger says at 2:02 pm, March 26th, 2009

    “Treasury creep?” ha ha. Good one Ken Layne. Perfect description; not of Geithner, but of his plan. Like mission creep, but it costs more. ha ha.

    As for Timmeh Da G. bein’ a hophead, what makes you think it’s “secret.” Haven’t you heard the fuckin guy talk?

  20. sarahconnor says at 2:06 pm, March 26th, 2009

    teebob2000: Erasurehead… as in, totally hot for the gay british synthpop?

  21. comradepaulson says at 2:07 pm, March 26th, 2009

    So he’s high and I’m high. Why does he get to play around with trillions of dollars and I don’t?

  22. S.Luggo says at 2:08 pm, March 26th, 2009
  23. benj-thewrathofgod says at 2:09 pm, March 26th, 2009

    That’s funny. I always thought he looked like Wittgenstein (http://depts.washington.edu/chid/courses/HSTEU407/_borders/389px-Wittgenstein2.jpg). Although that’s not nearly as funny as Eraserhead or Piano Playing Stoned Guy. Not as funny at all.

  24. Internally valid says at 2:25 pm, March 26th, 2009

    benj-thewrathofgod: The existence of Geithner’s Private Language that only he can understand precludes his being Wittgenstein.

  25. space stout says at 2:34 pm, March 26th, 2009

    no, no, no - he is Angel, the vampire dude from Buffy http://tiny.cc/pxQsc

  26. CollegeStudent says at 2:39 pm, March 26th, 2009

    teebob2000: Umm, just your music. And the National Debt you’ve all left us.
    Other than that, I love you guys, but I won’t change diapers.

  27. WallyPipp says at 3:33 pm, March 26th, 2009

    I always thought of him as more of a Tony Goldwyn - the bad guy from “Ghost”:
    http://images.allmoviephoto.com/1990_Ghost/1990_ghost_001.jpg
    Danger, America! Don’t trust him, and don’t go near him. We won’t be safe til he’s impaled on the window glass.

  28. thatguyoverthere says at 3:57 pm, March 26th, 2009

    I always thought he was the crazy museum guy who ended up worshipping Viggo from Ghostbusters 2.

    Just put him in drag pushing a baby carriage through the sky…

  29. arclight says at 4:03 pm, March 26th, 2009

    If Geithner is the guy from Reefer Madness, then Dmitry Medvedev is really Boyd Rice!

  30. liquiddaddy says at 4:14 pm, March 26th, 2009

    If only Barry was more like Cab Calloway and less like Sidney Poitier, they wouldn’t have to resort to climbing up on the roof to have their fix.

  31. teebob2000 says at 4:34 pm, March 26th, 2009

    CollegeStudent: So who wants them changed at all?

  32. DemmeFatale says at 4:57 pm, March 26th, 2009

    teebob2000: Yep. Score another one for Eraserhead.
    I guess I’m THAT old.
    *sigh*

  33. Big Daddy Tom says at 5:47 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Dude is Eraserhead guy but, frankly, much weirder than anything David Lynch could come up with. What’s with the voice, the forehead, the nose, the hair, the plan! Yikes! What would you do if you woke up to that after a night of party.

  34. assistant/atlas says at 7:05 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Does Secretary Fivehead smoke weed? No, but he’d be a lot cooler if he did.

  35. Hey Daddy-Obama ma man! Hows about some cashews for my way out squirrely trove, Daddy-O? I would do the Lindy Tripp ova da moon-a-loon if you could slip my a fiver for a nickel bag, yeah. y Too.

  36. coolicula says at 12:14 pm, March 28th, 2009

    Am I too stoned, or does anyone else think that Geithner looks like Smilin’ Bob from the Enzyte boner-pill commercials?

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