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Richard Gephardt
When you have invisible eyebrows, no one knows when you're frowning!
(Go to Official Page for Richard Gephardt.)

Gephardt's Olympic-Caliber Intellectual Gymnastics:
--Supporter of Bud'sWiser's Lizards & Frogs
--Chief Lizard serving as designated hitter in attack on Joe Camel.

The War Against Tobacco  (TWAT):   © 1999
Heroic efforts to "save our children" from tobacco
--So they'll have more money to spend on Bud'sWiser's Beer
In a tour-de-force demonstration of  intellectual gymnastics, Richard Gephardt, Honored Occupant of the Bud's-Wiser Chair at the Institute to Protect Our Children, explains why  the Tobacco industry's use of Joe Camel constituted conclusive proof of it's intent to lure "3,000 children a day" into a tobacco habit (which might cause them to have a slightly lower life expectancy than people who never smoke), but a beer company's use of animated lizards and frogs in advertising on sports events popular among pre-teens and teenagers could not reasonably be deemed to show even a slight degree of callousness about the risk of enticing minors into drinking and thereby contributing to thousands of youthful deaths per year in drunk-driving accidents.
Noble unwillingness to persecute executives of "Big Beer"
No need to call "big beer" executives to testify under oath before Congress about whether the alcohol in beer may be "addictive."  Surely, teen-use of alcoholic beverages is so much more benign than smoking cigarettes or, Heaven Forbid, eating fatty foods.
Gephardt's "Constituent Services"
On August 10, 1999, Gephardt's U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leadership Page* mocks a statement by Gingrich on April 21, 1998, challenging the Anti-Tobacco Democrats article of faith that "Joe Camel" is responsible for "teen smoking."   Assuming, for sake of argument, that this Gephardt's article-of-faith belief in such causative effect by "Joe Camel" were to be correct, where is Gephardt's moral outrage at a certain beer-brewer's use of animated lizzards and frogs to capture the attention of minors in its beer commercials.  Could it be that the brewing company has offices in Gephardt's district?  Is his silence about a beer company's use of animated lizzards and frogs an example of what he calls "constituency service"?  *Source on 08-10-99.