{"id":7134,"date":"2009-05-11T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2009-05-10T23:01:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T06:01:55","slug":"hey-tpm-what-no-feeney-in-the-abramoff-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7134","title":{"rendered":"Hey TPM! What? No Feeney in the Abramoff Biopic?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/time_for_some_levity.php\">TPM asked their readers<\/a> for casting suggestions for the upcoming biopic on Jack Abramoff, where Kevin Spacey is reportedly already booked to play the disgraced GOP uber-lobbyist:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/gallery\/2009\/05\/dream-team-abramoff.php?img=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Abramoff_Spacey_TPM.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They sought casting suggestions for 11 of the key players in the Abramoff scandals, sure to show up in the film. The resultant &#8220;Dream Team&#8221; of excellent choices for each were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/gallery\/2009\/05\/dream-team-abramoff.php?img=1\">revealed last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, amazingly, the TPM casting call overlooked one of the key players in the Abramoff scandal, our old friend, the disgraced now-former Republican Congressman from Florida, Tom Feeney, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4452\">&#8220;Representative #3&#8221;<\/a> in one of the key filings in the Abramoff affair. In 2003, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4457\">Feeney accompanied Jack<\/a> on the third lobbyist-funded junket to play golf in Scotland following trips with the disgraced now-former Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX) in 2000 and the disgraced now-former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The TPM oversight must be corrected immediately. And, of course, I can think of just one person who&#8217;d be <i>perfect<\/i> &#8212; for so many reasons &#8212; to play the role of Feeney in the upcoming Abramoff film&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TomFeeney_BradFriedman_Sunglasses.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S.<\/em> The guy was also an old acting school classmate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/gallery\/2009\/05\/dream-team-abramoff.php?img=2\">your Oscar-winning choice<\/a> to play Grover Norquist. So, really, who would be more perfect?!<\/p>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">For more info on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s <\/a> continuing investigative series on The Clint Curtis\/Tom Feeney\/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal series, please see:<br \/>\n&#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/ClintCurtisSummary.htm\">Quick Summary<\/a> of the story so far.<br \/>\n&#8211; An <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/ClintCurtis.htm\">Index of all the Key Articles &#038; Evidence<\/a> in the series so far.<br \/>\n&#8211; In late 2008 a documentary film, <i>Murder, Spies &#038; Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story<\/i> was released. More info on the remarkable film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VotingLies.com\">here<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Exclusive DVD versions of the film, as signed by Brad Friedman and filmmaker Patty Sharaf, are <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6662\">available here as BRAD BLOG premiums<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, TPM asked their readers for casting suggestions for the upcoming biopic on Jack Abramoff, where Kevin Spacey is reportedly already booked to play the disgraced GOP uber-lobbyist: They sought casting suggestions for 11 of the key players in the Abramoff scandals, sure to show up in the film. The resultant &#8220;Dream Team&#8221; of excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,405,41,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bush-legacy","category-jack-abramoff","category-tom-feeney","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}