Bowling for Columbine
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I don't think we show
black and Hispanic people

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as being criminals.
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I'd like to say not more often,
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but probably
they are more often.

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But I certainly don't think...
We're certainly not trying

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to demonize black
and Hispanic people.

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- We show them on the news,
we show them on TV,

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as pretty scary people.
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- Yeah.
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And I agree. I'd like
to see that reversed

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as much as possible. I...
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- Start tonight.
- Well, the thing is,

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I don't know how
to start tonight.

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I don't know how to tell
that story.

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If I was smart enough
to do that...

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- I'll pitch you one.
- Okay. All right.

1:09:41
- Um... um...
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Do a show called not Cops
but Corporate Cops.

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"Corporation man
Hey Corporate man

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"We're coming out to get you
better run while you can

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"We're coming out to get you
better run while you can"

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- Uh... I love the idea.
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I don't think it would make
very interesting reality TV.

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Unless we can get those people
to get in their SUVs

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and drive really fast down
the road away from the police.

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- But I'm telling you,
everyone in America

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who's got just your basic,
everyday job

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is gonna love watching the boss
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being chased down the street
with his shirt off,

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thrown to the ground
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and a knee to the neck. I tell
you, that is gonna get ratings.

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- Yeah, I'm with you. And if
I can find a police outfit

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that would prosecute corporate
criminals appropriately

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and would go after them
appropriately... In other words,

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what you do to a man who's
just stolen a lady's purse

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with $85 to it,
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than you need to do
an appropriate response

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to a man who has just stolen $85
million from indigent people,

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then, boy, we're gonna be
out there filming that.

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But as a matter of fact,
when police go after the guy

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who's just stolen $85 million,
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they treat him like he was
a member of the city council -

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as he may or may not be - and
it's not exciting television.

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If you could get that guy
to take his shirt off...

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- Right.

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