2:18:09
You're full of shit,
John.
2:18:17
[Phone Ringing]
2:18:21
Yeah.
2:18:23
[Debbie]
Front page. There's a picture of Wigand.
2:18:26
Article's entitled,
"Getting Personal. "
2:18:28
Byline to Sue in Hwang
and Milo Geyelin.
2:18:30
Wait. Hold on
a second, Lowell.
2:18:32
Yeah.
2:18:38
Yeah, I'll see
if l can find him.
2:18:41
Yeah, hold on.
Don's looking for you.
2:18:44
- Good.
- The subheading
is " Brown &Williamson...
2:18:47
has a 500-page dossier
attacking chief critic."
2:18:50
It quotes Richard Scruggs
calling it the worst kind...
2:18:53
of an organized smear campaign
against a whistle-blower.
2:18:56
"A close look at the file
and independent research
by this newspaper...
2:19:00
"into its key claim indicates
that many of the serious allegations...
2:19:03
against Mr. Wigand are backed by
scant or contradictory evidence."
2:19:26
[Bergman]
This news division has been wilified...
2:19:29
in The New York Times,
in print, on television...
2:19:32
for caving
to corporate interests!
2:19:34
The New York Times ran a
blow-by-blow of what we talked
about behind closed doors.
2:19:38
- You fucked us!
- No! You fucked you!
2:19:40
Don't invert stuff.
2:19:42
Big Tobacco tried to smear Wigand.
You bought it.
2:19:45
The WalI Street Journal--
here-- not exactly...
2:19:48
a bastion of
anti-capitalist sentiment,
2:19:51
refutes Big Tobacco's
smear campaign...
2:19:53
as the lowest form
of character assassination.
2:19:57
And now, even now,
when every word...
2:19:59
of what Wigand has said
on our show is printed,