Alright... ABC Telemarketing Company? ABC...? ABC Telemarketing Company. A can opener! A...
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Lowell Bergman:
Alright... ABC Telemarketing Company?
Jeffrey Wigand:
ABC...?
Lowell Bergman:
ABC Telemarketing Company.
Jeffrey Wigand:
A can opener! A $39.95 can opener. I cancelled payment... it was junk. You ever bounce a check, Lowell? You ever look at another woman's tits? You ever cheat a little on your taxes? Whose life, if you look at it under a microscope, doesn't have any flaws...?
Lowell Bergman:
Well that's the whole point, Jeffrey. That's the whole point. Anyone's. Everyone's. They are gonna look under every rock, dig up every flaw, every mistake you've ever made. They are going to distort and exaggerate everything you've ever done, man. Don't you understand?
Jeffrey Wigand:
What does this have to do with my testimony?
Lowell Bergman:
That's not the point.
Jeffrey Wigand:
What does this have to do with my testimony? I told the truth! It's valid and true and provable...!
Lowell Bergman:
That's not the fucking point, whether you told the truth or not!... Hello?
Jeffrey Wigand:
I told the truth... I told the truth... I've got to teach class. I've got to go. I've got to teach class.
Lowell Bergman:
And I've got to refute every fucking accusation made in this report before The Wall Street Journal runs... I am trying to protect you, man.
Jeffrey Wigand:
Well, I hope you improve your batting average.
Transcript
What kind of shit is this?
I... I was...
I was not ON the team.
I SPARRED with the Olympic team.
- Okay?
- All right. ABC Telemarketing Company?
- ABC...
- ABC Telemarketing Company.
The can opener!
A 39.95 can opener!
I cancelled payment.
It was junk!
You ever bounce a check, Lowell?
You ever look at another woman's tits?
You ever cheat a little
on your taxes?
Whose life, if you look at it under
a microscope, doesn't have any flaws?
Well, that's the whole point, Jeffrey.
That's the whole point.
Anyone's, everyone's.
They are gonna look under every rock,
dig up every flaw,
every mistake you've ever made.
They are going to distort and exaggerate
everything you've ever done, man.
- Don't you understand?
- What does this have to do with my testimony?
- That's not the point...
- What does it have to do with my testimony?
- I told the truth! It's true and provable!
- It's not about...
That's not the fucking point,
whether you told the truth or not!
Hello?
I told the truth.
I told the truth.
I gotta teach class. I gotta go.
- I gotta teach class.
- And I gotta refute every fucking accusation made...
in this report before
the WalI Street Journal runs.
I am trying to protect you,
man.
I hope you improve
your batting average.
They're cutting the interestrate,
and l have that great feature...
- Hello?
- It's Lowell.
Are you guys planning to do a piece on
a former top executive in Big Tobacco?
- You caught me in a news meeting.
- Are you, are you not, Charlie?
You bet we are,
and I can't talk to you now.
- We gotta hook up.
- Sure. Where?
- P.J.'s.
- I'll be there.
Yeah, I got it.
Five hundred pages of it.
They looked in every corner of this
guy's life, from the spousal abuse charge,
to shoplifting, to a traffic ticket
he got once for running a red light.
It's Terry Lenzner's outfit, I.G.I.
Jack, listen to me.
Their strategy: discredit this guy, ruin
his reputation in the WalI Street Journal...
and then nobody will ever listen
to what he's got to say about tobacco.
He's dead unless I can
get this thing knocked down.
Make it even
a little more attractive.
I don't know if you're
ever gonna get paid.
- Is there any truth to any of it?
- That's a good question.
"ls there any truth to any of it?"
I doubt it.
- What's the deadline?
- Soon.
- Fax me the summary.
- That's great, Jack.
- Hey. How are you? Hey, listen.
- Hey.
Clip duration: 194 seconds
Views: 303
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: drama, thriller
Summary: Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
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00:11 I told the truth
00:25 What do I tell the my source for the next tough story
00:07 Or are you a newsman
00:35 This is my house
00:28 I'm not touching my film
07:59 Sandefur say before Congress that he believed nicotine was...
01:14 And 30 million people hear what you gotta say
00:07 Let's go to court
00:21 What do you think
00:13 You cut the guts out of what I said
00:21 I have to put my family's welfare on the line here
00:14 I'm just a commodity to you
00:11 'Tortious interference
00:19 It's on the record
00:09 I'm Lowell Bergman
00:17 And that's what cigarettes are for
00:27 Am I missing something
00:51 The unlimited checkbook
00:09 We've got a guy who wants to talk
00:15 Came up through sales