The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Bush Family Fortunes - Greg Palast / BBC (2004)

"Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" is a 2004 documentary film directed by Steven Grandison and Greg Palast. The film, which examines various aspects of the Presidency of George W. Bush, including the 2000 US Presidential election and the Iraq War, is adapted from the 2003 BBC production Bush Family Fortunes and based on the 2002 book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by investigative journalist Palast, who had spent years tracking the Bush family for the BBC and The Guardian newspaper. The research for the original BBC film, which claims to have exposed the George W. Bush military service controversy, was also drawn upon by Michael Moore for "Fahrenheit 9/11" (2004) and footage was used by Robert Greenwald in "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" (2002).

The film starts with a brief pre-title clip from presenter Greg Palast's aborted interview with Florida Director of Elections Clayton Roberts, who walks out.
Palast introduces George W. Bush with particular reference to his popular image as a war hero cemented in the public mind by his landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln for the 2003 Mission Accomplished Speech. However Palast alleges that Bush used his father's influence to gain a draft-dodging placement with the Texas Air National Guard which he subsequently failed to serve.
Palast picks up the story with Bush's 2000 US Presidential Election campaign where he claims Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris used their influence to purge and discount the ballots of predominantly Gore-supporting black voters through the "fake felons list" compiled by private company DBT/ChoicePoint for US$4 million.

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[kevinsteve1979]

just can't believe that so many millions americans let the bush family and others who helped them get away with that!!!!!!!

[perrymoorej]

oh so true.. and it continues with Obama. BUSHBAMA

12 yrs of Idiot oresidents

[whole2th]

Whatever David Duke did with the KKK, he is making up for it now in his most recent 30 minute YouTube video about criminal corruption networks which Greg Palast seems not to want to mention. The "Sopranos" should be thought of as the "Greenbergs". Look at the history:

watch?v=y3GMDcFOq0g The Coverup of ZIonist Organized Crime

[1717jbs]

the Gambinos or Bonannos, choose your poison.

[MrSeif816]

fuckin hell....

[iMhii504]

I think in order to be president you should fight with your soldiers front line and if you don't make it back that's what the VP for. Maybe then will they see the severity of their actions as men, humans, and Americans. Blessings to all the soldiers that 'adhere to all orders' and sacrifice for what matters to them, under the orders of the heinous and cruel. Oh, and of course the greedy.

God not Gov

[Healthport]

First 5 min are pretty slow.... does it get better?

[xadam2dudex]

@xadam2dudex if u were in college u got a deferment u didn't have to worry about the draft

[xadam2dudex]

Makes me sick to look at Bush and all the idiots at 6:00 that worship him...what propaganda..I bet it wasn't even him landing the plane.. when he was in the texas national guard he was drunk and drugged up most of the time and had to have his records doctored to cover it up..he is such a snake

[chrisfilms84]

Do You Believe This?

Afraid I Can. -

[inrrivas]

the liberal class is dead. now just watch as the right create a new fascist America, blame it on a class that is dead and weed out democracy. then we have ww2 all over again. Bush's family became rich by profiting arming Hitler before the war drew in US. so i don't like him or his past or his administration or anything he did. the democrats now too are the same useless lying SOBs as the rest, forsaking their liberal ideals to those who give money to them to stay in power. we need a revolution

[alohamaui100]

The democrats and the republicans:the left cheek and the right cheek with the same mouthpiece w/ the breathe of devils from the anus. A perfect democratic dictatorship