Original subtitles

I'd like to advise you that you're

now interfering with an arrest. CROWD: (CHANTING) No business!

No business in South Africa! [chanting continues]

I cannot allow you to arrest this man.

He is a presidential candidate.

MOLLY HARK: Congressman! - All right?

Now, I can't allow you to arrest this man.

As I said before, sir, I'm sorry.

You're interfering with--

You're not able to arrest this man.

Congressman?

You're interfering with an arrest.

Did you have any idea that you would be this involved?

CROWD: (CHANTING) No business!

No business in South Africa!

I had no idea.

No business!

No business!

No business in South Africa!

What do we want?

Free South Africa!

When do we want it?

Now!

I'm not going nowhere.

You can't do this to me!

I'm not going nowhere!

I'm not [inaudible]

CROWD: (CHANTING) What do we want?

Freedom! PROTESTER: No!

You're not gonna put me in no truck!

CROWD: When do we want it?

Now!

JACK TANNER: What do we want?

CROWD: Free South Africa!

When do we want it?

CROWD: Now!

What do we want?

MOLLY HARK: How do you feel about this arrest?

JACK TANNER: When do we want it? CROWD: Now!

MOLLY HARK: Do you think that it's going to make any impact

on your election [inaudible].

[crowd chanting]

Come on, I have to ask the questions.

JACK TANNER: What do we want?

CROWD: Free South Africa! JACK TANNER: When do we want it?

CROWD: Now!

Free South Africa!

[piano playing]

JOAN CUSHING: (SINGING) Exercise your right to vote.

Keep democracy afloat.

Oh, all the candidates sound the same.

Close your eyes and pick a name and vote.

Exercise your right to choose.

From all the turkeys on the news.

And if nobody turns you on, pick the least

offensive one and vote.

Jesse Jay, I'm overdosed.

Gephardt's K-Car, I've been grossed out.

Though Gore I've had an earful of,

it's Tipper who I'm fearful of the most.

Imagine Tipper Gore in the White House?

It's goodbye, Smothers Brothers.

And the bad news is every one of these guys is going

to be famous for 15 minutes.

But the good news is Richard Gephardt's 15 minutes are over.

[glasses clink, cheering]

Woo!

[laughs]

See Jack Tanner on the air.

Realize there's nothing there.

Though saying he's for real's his pitch,

there's nothing in his spiel for which to vote.

You know, Jack Tanner is about as real as Ronald

Reagan has been unreal.

Dukakis bad, but Gephardt, Gore, Jackson,

Simon, Kemp, Hart, or Robertson, Tanner, Dole, or Georgie Bush.

[cheering]

Let's kick--

[laughs]

Let's kick some tush.

I quote-- "Put on your coat, get off the boat,

open your throat and vote."

[applause]

TJ: This is-- OK, yeah, that'll be fine.

Those campaign ideas, can I--

Oh, hey.

Hi, Hayes.

TAGGERTY: Haven't you heard?

Heard what?

How's he doing in there?

He never showed.

He was arrested.

Get out of here, Taggerty.

TAGGERTY: I just called my office.

They said that he was trespassing

at the South African Embassy.

Trespassing?

Where's my pen?

Alex, too.

There were at some demonstration.

I don't know.

I'm off to police headquarters now.

Stevie, right? STEVIE: [inaudible].

Oh my god, when is this candidate

ever going to grow up?

Is he kidding?

No, no, there must be some mistake.

I mean, Congressman Tanner, he would never trespass.

We got to get over there right now.

Yeah, come on.

Yeah, come on.

All right, I'll go get the car.

Hayes.

What?

Oh my god.

My parents, they were going to watch the hearings on TV.

[sirens wailing]

To Rooster.

[camera shutters clicking]

Hi.

That's it.

All right.

All right then.

[chatter]

PRIEST: Actually, we're very pleased with the way things

turned out this afternoon.

Got the police out here and-- wait a minute.

Here comes Tanner.

PRIEST: I'd like to thank our supporters

here and around the country and around the world.

MOLLY HARK: What are you doing?

I'd like to thank DC Police Department.

I'd like to thank Mr. Tanner.

MOLLY HARK: Well, you're supposed to know your job.

This is no good.

This is no good.

[laughs]

[chatter]

How does it feel?

JACK TANNER: Fantastic.

Have you ever been arrested before?

Did you hear Dukakis's remark about your arrest today?

I'm sure many of you are wondering if I

have taken leave of my senses.

And I'd like to report that being arrested today

was a matter of conviction.

But the fact of the matter was, it was an accident.

But what's happening in South Africa today

is not to an accident.

It's deliberate oppression on the part of

the tiny privileged minority.

And-- and what my father and I, and the other people who

got arrested here today are trying to say,

is that it's time to stand up.

It's time to put our bodies where our mouths are.

Or words to that effect.

When my father gets elected president,

he will withdraw USA that now permits South Africa to finance

UNITA, and the Mozambique National Resistance

in their surrogate wars.

How much is the bail?

Oh, don't worry, Andrew.

He's working on your legal defense fund.

We need to get our work on Amy Carter here.

Yeah.

Congressman, congressman, I just want you to know,

I really believe in your innocence.

And I believe in yours as well.

[laughs]

Except for my father, there is a conspiracy

of silence against the apartheid issue

from all the other candidates.

I mean, where is Jesse Jackson today?

Why is he not out here with us?

We ask you to join with us today.

No business. No business.

Get her.

ALEX TANNER: No business in South Africa.

Get the hook.

ALEX TANNER: No business.

No business. (CROWD JOINS) No business in South Africa.

No business.

No business.

No business in South Africa.

No business.

No business.

No business in South Africa.

Jack, we're going to the car.

JACK TANNER: We're Staying right here.

Oh, OK.

We're not going to the car. JACK TANNER: Hayes, listen.

I'm going to need to see you--

Hurry up.

TJ: I want you to know how much I love that.

Wow, I love that.

Love it.

How I worry you.

Ha ha. CROWD: Freedom yes.

Apartheid, no.

REPORTER: Did you do any reading while you were in jail?

I beg your pardon?

REPORTER: [inaudible] while you were in jail?

Um-- so it hasn't much.

I didn't go through.

What'd you say, Molly?

MOLLY HARK: How do you feel about your daughter's speech?

[inaudible]?

Well, oh yeah, what a kid.

CROWD: Freedom yes!

Apartheid, no!

On November 8th, 1987, Jack Tanner wrote in his journal,

"Last night, TJ and I watched Ginsburg

withdraw his nomination for the Supreme Court.

I'm obviously going to have to give some thought

to the whole question of past drug use

in light of what seems to be--" [feedback]

[knock on door]

Ooh, thank you.

STRINGER: Deke, you got a minute?

Thank you very much.

Oh, sorry.

You've ruined my soundtrack.

I thought you'd be done by now.

Well, I have about 25 words of voice left.

What do you want? - Nothing.

It can wait.

I just wanted to get your advice on a clip I'm sending out.

My advice?

Someone around here wants my advice on something?

I know the feeling.

Oh, what are you talking about, man?

You're the media director.

You're the man, right?

Yeah, right.

What are you saying here, you're not?

I'm saying anything, Deke.

Forget it.

DEKE: Hey, hey, hey, come on, talk to me, man.

You brought me on board, remember?

Yeah, well, if your ass is history, so is mine.

And I'm telling you, I'm in no position to lose this gig.

I owe six grand to NYU.

I owe $2,700 on my handy cam.

I'm paying $300 a month on a marriage

that lasted about five minutes.

And now you're telling me that the guy

who talked me into this train wreck's about to take a fall?

That sucks man.

That sucks in a big way.

No, really, don't worry about me.

I'm fine.

Go ahead.

Well sure, go ahead.

This is great.

For I have come here today not to bury Ronald Reagen,

but to praise him for leaving us nowhere to go but onward

and upward.

Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do!

But unfortunately, I'm afraid they know all too well.

CROWD: No guns.

No arms.

No trade.

No aid.

No guns.

No trade.

[knock on door]

Who is it?

- The latest Bonnie and Clyde. - Hi.

ANDREA: You're on the news.

We are?

ANDREA: Yes.

Ah!

Great!

Oh my god!

You should have been there.

It was incredible.

There were about 20 of us.

And we all handcuffed ourselves to one another.

And the pigs had to cut us apart with these huge wire clippers.

And then they shoved us in these v-- they took us headquarters

and they had us fingerprinted.

Great.

You're not getting that stuff on my blouse, are you?

Oh no, I washed my hands.

What'd you do all day?

I made some calls.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

I wasted my one call trying to get through to you.

[laughs] ALEX TANNER: I called the dorm.

I talked to about 10 people in my hall.

None of them would believe where I was calling from.

Where are you going? ANDREA: The office.

I have an appointment. - Oh, come on.

I just got out of the joint.

So order a steak.

I'll see you later.

OK.

ALEX TANNER: Dad, you're missing me

speech. --other people say it would compromise his integrity.

But what is integrity?

STRINGER: Did you ever believe in something, Deke?

I mean, really believe in something?

I used to believe in commercials.

Yeah, they were so real to me as a kid.

You remember that one, that Rolaids commercial, where

the tablet would digest all the blue stomach acid,

turn it clear?

God, I thought that.

I went out, got about 20 packs of Rolaids.

Poured them in this can of blue paint.

I figured, you know, it would turn the paint clear.

Then I'd paint myself with it, become invisible,

and go beat the shit out of this guy

who'd been hassling me school.

So?

So the paint didn't turn clear.

Next day I got pounded, as usual.

And uh, that's the last time I believed in a commercial.

Is that what you meant?

[laughs]

[phone ringing]

REPORTER (ON TV): Tanner's daughter

went on to note this was the second arrest for demonstrating

against apartheid. - Hello?

ALEX'S MOM (ON PHONE): Hi, honey.

Hi, mom.

ALEX'S MOM (ON PHONE): Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm OK.

ALEX'S MOM (ON PHONE): I'm watching you right now.

ALEX TANNER: You're watching it now?

On which network?

ALEX'S MOM (ON PHONE): NBC.

ALEX TANNER: Hold on. It's mom.

She's watching it now on TV.

he left with no further comment.

MOLLY HARK: (ON TV) As with Tanner himself,

ALEX'S MOM (ON PHONE): You have a real police

record now, honey.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

My FBI file is growing daily.

This is Molly Hark, NBC News, Washington.

[news theme music playing]

Uh-huh. KGB.

The [inaudible]

Oh, that's OK.

Now listen, we understand each other here, don't we?

Yeah, yeah, we're on background.

So do you have these negative spots in production yet?

Let's be clear, no direct quotes.

This is simply the view of the campaign as you "perceive" it.

All right?

Now, I don't have anything against Dukakis

or any of his people. - Of course you don't.

I just want our position put into play.

Now, I don't envision the use of attack videos.

It's not really Jack's style.

But Estrich has to know that she's got to rein Dukakis in.

Warning shot duly noted.

Now what do I get, a bullet in the ass for you?

Well, how about the advanced text of Jack's testimony

before the committee on Tuesday?

Oh, please.

Do I look like I'm in need of general anesthesia?

No, give me your internals.

What are your polling reports on Ohio?

No way, no way.

We are very happy with our standing in the expectations

That bad, huh?

game, thank you.

That good.

Oh, you're showing better than expected?

[laughs]

You're welcome.

DAVID: I don't believe you.

You've got no momentum.

Your funding's drying up.

STEVIE: Drying up?

Are you kidding?

We're spending the limit in both Ohio and Indiana.

TJ: That's right.

STEVIE: And since the last debate,

contributions have been up since, by a factor of four.

TJ: That's exactly right.

Why do you think we're putting in 10 new telephone lines?

STEVIE: Yeah. - Uh, ma'am?

STEVIE: You're buying into the Dukakis

inevitability scenario, David.

Listen, there are four candidates

and they all have playable leverage.

This convention is going to be wide open.

Ma'am, excuse me, but I think there's a--

Now look, the thing that you have got to concentrate on,

David, the main issue here is--

VOLUNTEER: TJ? TJ?

Yeah?

Congressman Kennedy on 72.

TJ: OK.

I have to take this.

OK, I got to go anyway.

OK?

Thank you.

Stevie?

TJ: Hi, Joe, listen, I'm really sorry I

couldn't get back to you--

OK, what's the deal with Kennedy?

TJ: Just a minute, all right?

Well, TJ's an impressive lady, David.

Eventually every candidate she works for

becomes hopelessly dependent on her.

I mean, even Jack.

Listen, could you wait just a minute?

It's just that my work end order says--

Listen to me, OK?

You know you're taking out 10 telephone lines.

I know you're taking 10 telephone lines.

So take out the goddamn telephone lines.

OK?

Do it.

The thing about TJ is, she doesn't

really care about making it work once her guy is in.

I mean, now, I'm not telling you anything that TJ

wouldn't tell you herself.

She just gets off on the action of the campaign.

Yeah, well, we never can count on him.

He's so goddamn inconsistent.

Yeah.

I know.

This is for you.

Hi, how you doing?

Mr. Seidelman, what a surprise.

David, Andrea, remember? David?

I'm sorry.

What is Reagan's problem?

Doesn't he like children? - Andrea.

David. JACK TANNER: Oh, no, it's OK.

God knows his children don't like him.

ANDREA: I think it's my upbringing, you know?

Respecting your elders and all that.

[laughs]

DAVID: Your what?

TJ: Well, that's a tasty morsel.

Andrea, don't ever change.

Oh yeah.

Well, make up your mind.

Well, you can count on her.

Anyway, do you guys want copies of Jack's testimony

Tuesday?

When do you think you can get back to me on that?

Uh-huh.

Did I mention that we're having a clearance sale on that item?

What is this?

ANDREA: Jack's testimony Tuesday.

You know, it's really eerie seeing

what he's actually going to say before he says it, isn't it?

- What testimony? - OK.

OK.

Hey, come on, you know. you're the media director.

Does anybody want to look at this stuff?

- Hmm. - Or look--

- Listen, David-- - TJ.

--it was really nice talking to you,

but I'm kind of busy right now. - Maybe I'll shoot myself.

How's it going down there?

What--

[sighs]

Wow.

Stringer's out of the loop, huh?

[phone rings]

Excuse me, I think that's my phone.

Good to know.

[piano playing]

What?

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the Omni Shoreham Marquee Cabaret.

My name is Joan Cushing.

And I'm going to sing some hopefully

funny songs about politicians.

So I should say, how many here-- how many people in this room

are for Jack Tanner for president?

[throat clears]

Ah, nobody wants to admit it, huh?

Sorry.

How many people have heard of Jack Tanner for president?

[laughs]

Well, I'm going to do a song that I

wrote for him, since I see one of his campaign members here.

KITTMAN: Hey, Stringer!

Over here. Over here.

JOAN CUSHING: (SINGING) Jack Tanner for president--

Come on. Come on.

Good to see you.

- Hi, how you doing? - I'm fine.

Is that what you're drinking? - Yeah.

Take a seat.

Be with you in a second. - Thanks.

I'm not about to [inaudible]. I know, I know.

I'm busy. I'm a busy man.

Do me a favor, darling.

Come by here and see him, OK?

Play a hand and sit.

You're going places.

[sighs]

Lots of women, huh?

Ooh, you betcha.

DC is the land o' opportunity.

Yeah, it's 4:1 here.

You won't have any problems.

A guy like you, you want to have freedom of choice.

JOAN CUSHING: (SINGING) Jack Tanner for president.

That's our campaign song.

Jack Tanner for president, won't you come along?

The future's now.

He'll show us how to set this country straight.

Jack Tanner for president of 1988.

That is, if Jesse Jackson doesn't close the gate on him.

Which I think he already did.

[applause]

Or Dukakis!

[cheering]

[piano playing]

This song is a song I wrote about Ronald

Reagan and drug testing.

If you're visiting America from a foreign land--

[clears throat]

So what Rogan tells me tracks.

What's Rogan tell you?

Mm, you might be interested in a new venue.

Uh, I don't know yet, Barney.

What can you offer me?

Well, that depends on what you can do for us.

And now that Mikey's leading the field,

he has no shortage of new best friends.

I am beating back boarding parties every day.

You know what I can do.

Mhm, you betcha.

That Tanner operation was all band-aid and strings.

And then you parlayed those ants into a shitload of free media

and put it back in the money.

Man, you got to be golden.

So why you so hot to jump to the caucus?

I haven't said I am.

I've had a little fall from grace.

[laughter]

Another double for my friend here.

[phone ringing]

[music - joan cushing] - Hello?

GOVERNOR BABBIT (ON PHONE): What's

happening in this campaign? - Oh hi, Governor.

It's Alex.

GOVERNOR BABBIT (ON PHONE): Is your father in?

Yeah, he's here.

JOAN CUSHING: And vote, vote.

Governor Babbitt.

Who is it, honey?

Oh.

Hi, Bruce?

Bruce Babbitt, brave, bold, bland Bruce Babbitt,

who actually believes he can balance a badly-botched budget.

Yeah, I know.

I'm sorry.

I got hung up.

But-- oh yeah, well, how did the hearing go?

Uh-huh?

Well, um-- you know, we could go get a bagel or something.

Yeah, where are you?

Well, good.

I'll meet you downstairs in a few minutes.

How's that?

Yeah, great.

OK. OK.

Good. Bye.

I'll be back in an hour or so.

ALEX TANNER: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dukakis?

You know, every time I hear the word Dukakis,

I want to conjugate it.

Hi.

Do you know-- excuse me?

I feel right at home.

you'd think he was elected already.

Excuse me.

Can I help you?

Yeah, I'm looking for Mr. Kittman, please.

You're looking for Mr. Kittman?

STRINGER: Yeah.

May I ask who's here to see him?

It's Stringer Kincaid.

Sure.

Stringer Kincaid? (YELLING) Stringer Kincaid

here to see Mr. Kittman!

Not so loud.

Nothing.

What?

Oh, down the hall.

On the left.

Thanks.

WOMAN: You're welcome.

No!

It's the other door, Mr. Kincaid!

KITTMAN: I don't know about that,

but the Red Sox have won six of their first eight games.

Excuse me.

Hey, Stringer.

Susan, go [inaudible].

Come on in.

I was just thinking of you.

Hi.

Have a seat.

STRINGER: What's this?

KITTMAN: What, you don't recognize this?

This is your greatest hits tape.

It's an Easter Seal benefit when the governor of Tennessee

came out and backed Tanner.

[laughs]

Man, that must have given Gore shit fits.

STRINGER: Where'd you get that?

KITTMAN: Got it from CNN.

Don't you guys monitor?

Oh, sure.

Yeah, sure you do.

You mean, like, you compile coverage

of the other candidates?

Yeah, well, how else are you going to counter

the other guy's media position?

I mean, you got to know what he's

up to, where he's placing his emphasis,

what he's trying to avoid.

Video clip files track the evolution of his message

he's trying to put across.

Even more important, how it's playing with the media.

Yeah, but my god, the resources.

You guys monitor all this stuff in house?

Yeah, Stringer, now, ask yourself,

what does your average 19-year-old volunteer

do better than anything else?

Well, besides that, he watches television.

Man, these kids are trained at birth.

They don't think anything of 12 consecutive hours of the tube.

Anyway, you ought to be glad we do.

I would have known how good you were if I wasn't

checking Tanner's media hits.

Lots of strong stuff there.

I mean, lots of nights he shouldn't have been on network

but he was.

Because you figured the angle or a picture, or that sound bite

that just pushed you on.

I was real impressed.

I think you ought to meet Joanna.

Joanna?

Yeah, Joanna Buckley, Deputy Campaign Manager.

Someone else knows I'm here?

It won't get back to TJ.

You have my word.

You know, it's a truism.

You don't see the disparities and the hurt

and the pain and the injustice in your own neighborhood.

Right.

Until you go where you see it in somebody

else's neighborhood, where you've

got these vast inequities.

Yeah.

And then all of a sudden, you come home and you look around

and you say my god, you know?

Yeah.

It's all around here too.

Right.

Just like today, you know, Alexi grabs the microphone.

She starts this big harangue with the press

about what I'm going to do about South Africa once I'm elected.

Of course, we haven't-- we haven't discussed any of this.

You know, what am I going to do?

Wrestle the microphone away from her

and tell her she's grounded? I don't know.

You said--

So I stand there with this stupid grin on my face,

you know, while she commits me to a nine-point policy.

You know?

Yeah, but Jack, I'll tell you something.

I heard some of that stuff on the car coming over here.

It's not bad. - Yeah.

[laughs]

You know, maybe you ought to listen to your daughter

a little more than a lot of those

advisors you got out there.

Because, you know, she's in touch with something.

You know what I'm saying? - She is.

She has it straightened out there.

But-- but, I mean, I feel like I'm becoming an innocent

bystander in my own campaign.

You know?

I mean, every day I give up a little dignity.

I give up a little of my soul.

I make a deal with some guy that, you know,

I would have walked away from a few months ago.

I mean, I approve of an ad campaign that I think stinks,

that I think is humiliating.

You know?

So you just give it up.

You give up a little bit of your--

they got me-- they got me where I'm wearing

pancake makeup half the time.

You know what I mean?

I come out of jail today.

And my campaign manager's slipping me her compact

so I'll look good in front of the camera.

My guys tell me you got to use hypoallergenic translucent

shine-free blotting powder.

[laughs]

Well, I use moisture wear.

[laughs]

What's become of us?

You know?

Yeah.

See, pretty soon you'll be just like the rest of 'em.

And see, you got a chance now.

People know you.

Mhm.

And you got a chance now to take the next step,

to say, OK, I'm going to take some risks.

I'll talk honestly, try to make it work.

Now, it may not.

Yeah.

I mean, God knows I'm living testament to that.

I mean, you can walk out there, look people in the eye

and say, OK, I'm going to talk to you straight

about our future, and how it is Americans have to get together

and start solving problems rather

than living in this kind of, you know,

silver screen stage of unreality.

[humming]

She got anybody in there with here?

No.

But she's on the phone.

OK.

Hey, you got to get to know Ashley.

She is terrific.

Yeah, we've met. ASHLEY: Mhm.

Oh yeah?

ASHLEY: Mhm.

JOANNA: Jackie, all I know is what was in the post.

Well, someone's trying to rattle Susan's cage,

and I want to know how seriously to take it.

And well, check it out.

I don't think having Mike go negative before California

is remotely productive.

Do you?

No. OK, good.

Get back to me.

Right.

Bye bye.

KITTMAN: Joanna, I would like you to meet Stringer Kincaid.

Hi.

Um--

KITTMAN: Oh, hey, hey, now, come on now,

let's go by first impressions, huh?

Barney, do you--

Want to be alone?

Yeah, sure.

JOANNA: Do-- do you mind?

No, no, no, not at all.

So how's tricks?

I was always waiting for somebody

in one of those interviews to ask one of the candidates,

you know how much quart of milk costs?

Because I would honestly bet that 2/3 of them couldn't give

you the price of a quart of milk within $0.50,

or of a loaf of bread or a pound of hamburger.

Because they lead lives in which there is no longer--

they don't do those things.

I mean, that's how bad it gets.

Yeah.

Ah.

You're running for President of the United states.

But purpose is what it's all about.

You got to touch people out there.

You got to capture a sense of what it's

all about, what you're doing.

The reason you're listening to all those other guys

is because you're taking the safe course.

And look, you'll never win that way.

And if you win, you won't be prepared to govern.

So why don't you take a chance?

See, I'm on here saying, look, I took a chance,

got blown out of the water.

Now I'm telling you to take a chance.

Because I think you got-- you can do it.

I could get awfully enthusiastic about it, about you.

If you go out to those people out there and say,

OK, I'm not going to pander to you anymore.

I'm going to talk to you honestly

about what you got to do for the future of our country.

Talk-- talk about, you know, a little bit of sacrifice

for the common good.

Talk about a foreign policy that involves taking some risks.

Tell them if you're elected president you'll invite Daniel

Ortega to the White House and say, OK, we're

strong enough and confident enough to start

acting like the winners we are.

Your daughter is right.

See, what she's saying out there by her actions

is, I care passionately about something.

What's she going to read about you in 20 years?

I, Jack Tanner, ran for president,

went through all this crap, listened

to all of these people, humiliated myself.

And at the end of it, I lost, and I didn't say

a damn thing in the process.

Uh, you risk being a footnote in a history book.

You say, I lost and I didn't make a difference.

What you want to do in a campaign is say,

I ran, I made a difference.

I'll risk losing, but I just might win.

And in any event, I'll make a difference.

JOANNA: Look, Joe, I'm sorry if it embarrassed you.

If it embarrassed you, imagine how embarrassed Jack is.

Well, I can iss-- well, who should he go

to on the hill to make amends?

Here he is.

Solid gold, babe.

[snorts]

Oh my god.

Ew.

Jack, why don't you sit here?

Because-- because you're not on that committee.

I know.

I know, I know you worked very hard to get him invited.

Ready when you are, big guy.

I appreciate every effort that you have made.

OK, listen, I got to go.

We're going to watch the Rocky Horror show.

Yeah, I'll call you later.

Bye.

OK, all right, let me lay out the concept for you here.

This is like the second stage of the for real campaign.

I've taken it up a notch, heightened

the neo reality, invited the voters into Jack's world.

Le them roam around a bit.

Let them check out what makes the man tick.

And then ask them, I hope?

It's kind of a guided tour of your psyche, if you will.

They can't really get close.

But well, I mean, the velvet ropes are still there.

Velvet ropes?

But the illusion of intimacy is

sustained throughout the piece.

Or at least it will be.

It's-- oh, the first time just let it flow over you.

It's rough.

It's real.

It's unexpected.

Oh, God.

Here we go.

DEKE (ON TV): On November 8, 1987,

Jack Tanner wrote in his journal, "Last night TJ

and I watched Dough Ginsburg withdraw his nomination

for the Supreme Court.

I'm obviously--" [inaudible] It's from your journal.

Hope you don't mind.

(ON TV) --past drug use.

As I told TJ, half the electorate

grew up experimenting.

Many of them might even be reassured to learn

I was part of the times.

Admitting to past drug use might even actually--

See, this was about drugs.

There's lots of other good stuff in the journal we could

use, you know, in the future.

[sighs]

(ON TV) The way I see it, it's time to get real.

Either we legalize drugs, regulate and tax them

like liquor, or we treat them like the threat

to national security they really are, and send the Marines

into producing countries."

Is that strong, huh?

Are those balls that clank? (ON TV) "--it's time

to start saving lives.

I'll discuss this with Lexi tonight.

I know she's had strong feelings ever since her mother's

rehabilitation."

(WHISPERS) Oh my god.

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