Posted on 12/20/2013 8:56:22 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
"American Hustle" filmmaker David O. Russell said the bribe-taking politicians in his film – based very loosely on the 1978 Abscam operation — are "small potatoes" in the context of today's political climate, where recent campaign finance laws have made money's influence in politics far more opaque.
In a Q&A with Chris Matthews after a Washington, D.C. screening of the film Tuesday, Russell explained, "$75,000 in a briefcase is very innocent by today's standards, where the Supreme Court has made legal hundreds of millions and billions of dollars – I don't even know where they come from or where they go or what people are getting for that. It's beyond all of us."
"The Koch brothers...that's the idea – they fight any time there's a transparency law," Matthews added, to which Russell replied, "So these guys are small potatoes to that."
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