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User Rating:
7.2/10   210 votes
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Writer:
Greg Palast (book)
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Release Date:
28 September 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
Greg Palast has been following the Bush family around for years as an investigative reporter for the BBC. This is some of the information he has found, as recorded in his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". | add synopsis
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what a tangled web they weave more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Osama Bin Laden ... Himself (archive footage)
Pete Brewton ... Himself
Bill Burkett ... Himself
Barbara Bush ... Herself (archive footage)
George Bush ... Himself (archive footage)

George W. Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Jeb Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Laura Bush ... Herself (archive footage)
Marvin Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Neil Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Prescott Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cheney ... Himself (archive footage)

Bill Clinton ... Himself (archive footage)
Robert Dieter ... Himself
Ari Fleischer ... Himself (archive footage)
General Jay Garner ... Himself
Al Gore ... Himself (archive footage)
Katherine Harris ... Herself (archive footage)
Jim Hightower ... Himself

Bob Hope ... Himself (archive footage)
Karen Hughes ... Herself (archive footage)
Pam Iorio ... Herself
Terry Johnson ... Himself
Ayatollah Khomeini ... Himself (archive footage)
Nick Kralj ... Himself
Kenneth Lay ... Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Lieberman ... Himself (archive footage)
Wayne Madsen ... Himself
Craig McDonald ... Himself
Andrea McWilliams ... Herself
Dean McWilliams ... Himself
Ron Motley ... Himself
Grover Norquist ... Himself
Paul O'Neal ... Himself (archive footage)
Greg Palast ... Himself
Stephen Push ... Himself
Clayton Roberts ... Himself
David Rosen ... Himself
Willie Steen ... Himself
Bill White ... Himself
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bush Family Fortunes (USA) (short title)
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Runtime:
USA:62 min | USA:61 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Certification:
USA:Not Rated

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26 out of 32 people found the following comment useful:-
what a tangled web they weave, 21 June 2005
10/10
Author: messiercat from Oregon

One thing this production exposes, and it does it very well, is the intricate process of government corruption. Corporate bribery, fixed elections, government policy making, wars of conquest all overlap to benefit the big players. A great way to deflect criticism is to inextricably wrap all this corruption up in a warm and fuzzy flag. Palast says right in the beginning that this isn't new, it's just that the Bushes and their cronies have taken it to a new level. Simply amazing that we as a people let them get away with it. Palast stays on topic as the viewer is guided through one machination after another, sort of an album of mob snapshots. The outside world seems only a backdrop, things and people and policies exist only to help the family agenda along. America equals Bushco©, we all live there, we just don't know it.

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