Alex Gibney
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375 appearances
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3 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 27 Mar
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Matt Borges, that they're literally paying canvassers to leave the state so that or they buy up all the canvassing companies so that there's no ability to canvas. You know, there's one tape recording where the guy says, well, you've just given me I can't remember. It's like, you know, thirty five hundred dollars on a ticket home. What do you want me to do?
He said, that's the service you're providing. You're going home.
Yeah. No, I agree with you. And that's why people's hair better be on fire, because this is what happens. This is what money in politics means. It's like it's like crime families paying off the cops. That's what it's like. It's not just, you know. money in politics. It's graft. It's corruption. No, you're describing it.
Right. And the fact that they're the ones who are, you know, money's being taken right out of their pocket. So it's right. I think there's a tendency for people to think those politicians or the government as if the government is not us. But these folks are I mean, in the case of Ohio, they literally took a billion dollars out of the pockets of Ohioans to give it to a.
you know, a handful of executives or to give it to a company, but they wrote that message to each other. They put their heads on Mount Rushmore.
I don't know what the standards and practices are on this show, but basically screw anybody that ain't us is what they said. They didn't use the word.
They're afraid of it because they need to raise money. And and so what do you do? Like if you need to beat your opponent in a primary, you're going to need money and you don't get money by telling your big donors that you're trying to sideline them.
Everyone's figuring out how to cure polio. Right.
All of us have got to get, I mean, you know, if you're a billionaire, you made a lot of money through your business, you know, God bless. But that doesn't mean that you get to define the world for the rest of us. You know, we... Who was it told me? I believe this is the correct statistic. The three richest richest Americans, which would be, I believe, Bezos, Musk and I think Zuckerberg.
Yeah, they have a higher net worth in the bottom 50 percent of all Americans. Right. Really?
Yeah. And and and but you can see the rumble. People are getting angry. You know, I'm talking to you from Maine and Maine's got a pretty robust set of rules about, you know, against money and always has on state political level.
Right. And I think that, you know, your beginning, what happened in Wisconsin was a kind of emotional pushback. But I also think that it's interesting, this campaign that AOC and Bernie Sanders are running, sometimes in liberal districts, sometimes in red districts, they are turning out some pretty big crowds. And I think the anger that...
um that they're invoking or channeling is the anger toward a rigged system where whether you're democrat or republican it's the rich people who are calling the shots and we're getting policies that benefit them not the rest of us
Right. I think that's right. I mean, but, you know, one of the things I tried to point out in Ohio Confidential, though, is that as you talk about money and politics, it's also true that for most people, nobody likes a bribe. Right. Right.
feel it's unfair it's wrong you know you see it in crime films and and you know you you you wish them ill um i i we've done a lot on ohio confidential the second by the way how do you describe this series is this because it's not it's two films it started out as one film and then we just got too much material i mean we got into the ohio story it was so good
Also, we discovered this guy, the Reverend Bob Schenk, who had kind of infiltrated the Supreme Court. So suddenly the film that was going to be one just split into two. But they're not, you know, they're not episodic in the way that one leads to another. So there are two films that are related. There are two independent films that are related by a common theme.
Yeah, so that, I mean- You had evangelical Christians who were fiercely anti-abortion, but they weren't getting over. They needed money. You had people with money who wanted to deregulate the American political system because they didn't want things like laws that regulated the amount of pollution that they could dump into rivers and lakes and any regulations on cigarettes or anything like that.
But those causes weren't very popular. So the deal was basically, we'll put up the money, we the billionaires will put up the money and you'll give us the emotional fervor that we need for a political campaign. we'll help to fund the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and you'll help to turn the evangelical movement into a deregulatory movement so that we can destroy
all the laws that protect the citizens, you know, and enrich us.
We should be free. Right. Yeah, that's right.
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