Posts tagged with 'abramoff'

TPMtv: A Chat with Alex Gibney

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, AUGUST 14 2008 06:38 PM | PERMALINK

A Chat with Alex Gibney

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) has a new film in the works on Jack Abramoff. It's not expected to be released until 2009, but when we caught up with Gibney last month in Austin, where he was previewing the film at Netroots Nation, he was already well-versed in the arcana of the Abramoff scandal. We got a chance to talk with Gibney about Jack and the other colorful characters in that circle: Ralph Reed,...
TPMtv: Marianas: Let's Go to the Videotape

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 15 2008 11:20 AM | PERMALINK

Marianas: Let's Go to the Videotape

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Still more news coming out about Colorado Sen. candidate Bob Schaffer (R) and his efforts to bring the Marianas island sweatshop system to the mainland. In today's episode we bring you the latest on Schaffer and video from the Marianas sweatshops themselves.
TPMtv: Marianas: I'm Loving It!

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 10 2008 01:38 PM | PERMALINK

Marianas: I'm Loving It!

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: As we've been reporting, Colorado senate candidate Bob Schaffer (R) says we should remodel our national immigration policy on that of the Mariana Islands -- a program notorious for child prostitution, forced abortions, beatings, slavery, twelve hour days and sex trafficking. Now it turns out he went on a Jack Abramoff junket to the islands and came back saying it was A-OK! We look at the latest in today's episode of TPMtv.
White House Press Briefing

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, OCTOBER 31 2007 07:04 PM | PERMALINK

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