You said something earlier about, whether or not Jack Abramoff was a rotten apple or if it...
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Thomas Frank - Author, The Wrecking Crew:
You said something earlier about, whether or not Jack Abramoff was a rotten apple or if it was the whole barrel. And the obvious answer to me is that it's the whole barrel. Abramoff is fascinating to me because he is the idealism mixed with the corruption - in one guy. The layers of irony in that whole paranoid world view, where everybody is a pawn of somebody else or some big power. And, of course he is a pawn of big power - of money. He is not the evil. It's what's behind him.
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A while ago you mentioned ...
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... If Jack is a rotten apple or
not or whether all the barrel.
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And the obvious answer for me
is that the whole barrel.
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Abramoff is fascinating
to me because he is ...
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... Idealism mixed with the
corruption of a man ...
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ironay layers of the spectacle
of it all ...
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... And all that paranoid
vision of the world ...
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... Where everyone is a pen of
another person, a great power.
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And, of course, he is a pen
of the great powers ...
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money.
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You know, he's not the devil ...
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... What is behind them.
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The great American pastime has
never been the baseball ...
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... Has always been
to make money.
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And Jack Abramoff is a
wonderful exponent ...
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a defender of the great American
pastime in its own way unique.
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It's part of American culture,
and we all hope ...
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... That we who become rich
the next few months.
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And I think it gives,
interestingly ...
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... A great advantage to the moneyed
interests in our society ...
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... Because every time
a politician says
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"One moment, the rich getting
away with it estn;
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we will control "...
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... A lot of common people
say, "No, no, no do ...
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Next year ...
because being rich ...
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... And I want that everything
is there when I arrive. "
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In January 2010, the Supreme Court ...
eliminates all the restrictions
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... The campaign spending announcements
made by companies.
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Jack Abramoff was sentenced to 4
years in prisin for fraud ...
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... Evasin tax and conspiracy
to bribe officials public.
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Bob Ney prisin pas 17 months for
conspiracy to commit fraud ...
Clip duration: 103 seconds
Views: 131
Timestamp in movie: 01h 53m 43s
Uploaded: 27 October, 2021
Genres: documentary
Summary: A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.
