Buried Treasure: “The Front Runner”

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman sit down with award-winning director Jason Reitman, Yahoo News national political columnist Matt Bai and political strategist Jay Carson to discuss their new movie, “The Front Runner.” The movie is is based Matt Bai’s book, “All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid” and stars Hugh Jackman as the 1988 Democratic presidential front-runner Gary Hart.

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0:00.0	It was a story that upended a presidential campaign.
0:03.9	In May 1987, the Miami Herald gets a tip.
0:08.0	Gary Hart, a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, is carrying on an affair with
0:13.2	a young woman, not his wife.
0:15.6	He had met on a yacht called the Monkey Business.
0:19.0	The reporters follow up, stake out Hart at his Georgetown townhouse, and confront him in
0:24.0	an alley about the woman, a former model named Donna Rice, they had seen entering his
0:29.9	home.
0:30.9	Hart, who had insisted his campaign was about high-minded ideas in the future, ducks their
0:36.6	questions, suggesting he was under no obligation to share such personal information with journalists.
0:43.3	But the Herald story pops, and within a week, after a media frenzy, he drops out of the
0:48.6	race.
0:49.6	How a new movie, called The Frontrunner, explores the downfall of Gary Hart's presidential
0:55.0	campaign.
0:56.2	A turning point in the way the American media treats the private lives of public figures,
1:02.0	and a cultural moment, the week that politics went tabloid.
1:06.8	We'll discuss the frontrunner with its director, Jason Reitman, and its screenwriters, veteran
1:12.4	political operative Jay Carson, and our Yahoo News colleague, Matt Bye, on today's buried
1:18.5	treasure.
1:25.2	We are joined by renowned director, Jason Reitman, veteran political operative, Jay Carson,
1:32.6	and our colleague, Matt Bye.
1:35.9	About the movie they've just made, about to come out, The Frontrunner.
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