Episode 3: Scientology's War on The Media

Fair Game

Leah Remini & Mike Rinder

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Award-winning investigative journalist Richard Behar -- author of Time magazine’s shocking cover story, "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power," which ignited scientology’s 10 year Fair Game assault on him, -- talks about Fair Game and the recent controversy over VP hopeful Karen Bass' statements about scientology.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Scientology Fair Game. Hello Mike.
0:09.0	Hi Leah.
0:10.0	Well we're very excited. Mike do you want to introduce Richard who has a very lengthy and impressive resume?
0:18.0	Yes I do Richard. It is wonderful to have you with us and I just want to let everybody know a little bit about who you are.
0:27.0	You have been a contributing editor of investigations for Forbes magazine since 2012. You've written for Time magazine for Fortune for Forbes.
0:38.0	You are famous. Have the right guy. I do. We have the right guy.
0:44.0	Okay. Richard has received many prestigious awards, the Gerald Blober Award, Conscience and Media Award,
0:52.0	worth Bingham Prize, George Polka Award, Overseas Press Club Award, the Jack Anderson Award, twice.
1:00.0	And on August 5th, Pinden article in Forbes magazine about Representative Karen Bass and her statements about Scientology.
1:10.0	We're going to address that a little bit later because I want to go into a bit more of the background about Rich and he is the author of perhaps the most comprehensive and far reaching article in the history of Scientology,
1:30.0	which was published in Time magazine in May of 1991. Cover story entitled The Thriving Cult of Green and Power,
1:42.0	ruined lives, lost fortunes, federal crimes, Scientology poses as a religion but really is a ruthless global scam and aiming for the mainstream.
1:55.0	That's quite a title Rich.
1:57.0	And not to mention guys, the importance of Time magazine at the time was astronomical being that there was no internet. So it was the most influential magazine at the time and Scientologists like me, of course, were forbidden from even looking at it.
2:18.0	And you Mike.
2:20.0	Well, no, I looked at it. Yes, you're right. So I should clarify. Mike was the head at the time. Mike was the head of Scientology's department of, I don't know how to describe yourselves, the the hitmen of Scientology.
2:35.0	I'm going to get a picture of you guys.
2:37.0	Yes, please.
2:38.0	Confessing everything.
2:39.0	Yeah.
2:40.0	Yeah.
2:41.0	Is the, you were the part, you were part of the department of Scientology that goes after people telling the truth about Scientology. So of course, you would have been told you needed to read it. And then I'm sure the fair gaming began. But anyway, go ahead.
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