Billmon my google fu failed me, but it your interested it can be bought here: Quiz show movie Script for sale

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 29 2005 8:42 utc | 3

some of brown’s answers sounded scripted to me. especially the drivel about’ let me assure you , i know what suffering is i lost my sunday school teacher, don’t lecture me bla bla bla.’
it’s a pony show alright. with one of the architects waltzing away w/the dough. fema was transformed to function exactly as it did and my guess is that brown knew that all along.Allbaugh goes from chief of staff and part of the ‘iron triange’ in texas, to head of fema, to a lobbyiest for disaster relief. an advancement at every level.
How Allbaugh turned his FEMA stint into lucrative jobs for him and his wife

This year, the Allbaugh Co. registered to lobby for Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, Northrop Grumman Corp., and Shaw Group, according to lobbying registration forms. In all three cases, the Allbaughs said they would “educate Congress” on either homeland security or disaster relief issues on the companies’ behalf.
The Washington Post reported last week that Allbaugh was in Baton Rouge, La., helping his clients get business in the wake of Katrina. Allbaugh told the Post that he guides his clients toward “entities” that might need their services but, he said, “I don’t do government contracts.”
Press reports show that Kellogg Brown & Root received a $30 million contract to rebuild Navy bases in Louisiana and Mississippi, and Shaw got a $100 million FEMA contract for housing construction and management. Giglio says Allbaugh had nothing to do with those contracts at all. “He is not in the government contracting business,” she says. “Everybody is trying to connect the dots. They just don’t connect. He did not secure these contracts for either of these companies.”
Watchdog Amey says Allbaugh clearly got the job at FEMA because he was a political operative and he appears to be cashing in on his FEMA post now. “Bush may have stacked the [FEMA] administration with people who may not have been the most qualified, and who then steer business their way afterward. Cronyism gets them into the White House. The revolving door gets them business.”

Posted by: annie | Sep 29 2005 14:15 utc | 5

Re: the scene from Quiz Show. I don’t remember all of the dialog, but one of the key lines has always stuck with me:
“You see, the public has a very short memory; but corporations never forget.”

Posted by: d-sol-d | Sep 29 2005 17:38 utc | 7

this bogus investigation is ignoring the real story, which is the breaking of the levee. this is hardly a wild speculation.
what was a huge barge doing hanging out near the levee during the aftermath of katrina. it would be one thing if there had been a break during the hurricane, i mean who could fathom anyone orchestrating that in the course of the storm, but the fact that it happened more than 24 hrs later on a calm and beautiful morning, at the very opportune location of the 17th levee, this is what the dog and pony show is obscuring. it just so happens the only people who think it was intentional are not poor,oppressed and black. the only reason to avoid a real inquiry is to hide the truth. from the newyorker
HIGH WATER The link between conspiracy theories and oppression is as old as racial conflict

“Remember,” he said, “this was a premeditated disaster. They flooded the city. It happened on a pretty, sunshiny day, two days of rising water. You tell me: where the rich people at?”
And Chester Pye said, “How come the Seventeenth Street levee broke? It’s a totally poor area. And once the water started coming to St. Bernard Parish it was Oops, maybe we should start doing something?”
The best-known writer to come from the Ninth Ward is Kalamu ya Salaam. A poet, playwright, and civil-rights activist, Salaam used to go by the name of Val Ferdinand. When I told Salaam what I was hearing in New Iberia and Houston, he laughed, but not dismissively. He said, “The real question is why not?” He recalled that in 1927, in the midst of the worst flooding of the Mississippi River in recorded history, the white city fathers of New Orleans—the men of the Louisiana Club, the Boston Club, and the Pickwick Club—won permission from the federal government to dynamite the Caernarvon levee, downriver from the city, to keep their interests dry. But destroying the levee also insured that the surrounding poorer St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes would flood. Thousands of the trappers who lived there lost their homes and their livelihoods. The promise of compensation was never fulfilled. That, plus the persistent rumors of what may or may not have happened during Hurricane Betsy, Salaam said, has had a lingering effect. “So when I heard on TV that there was a breach at the Seventeenth Street levee, I figured they’d done it again,” he said. “Or, let’s just say, I didn’t automatically assume that it was accidental.

Posted by: annie | Sep 30 2005 18:41 utc | 9