The Right Wing’s Outlaws – Captured as Art

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Pictures make ideas real. And portraits make people real. Artist and photographer Dan Fleuette joins the Drill Down to describe how he creates art through personalities on the political right. A self-described “art school lunatic,” Fleuette was the artist that turned Peter Schweizer’s bestselling investigative book Clinton Cash into both a documentary and even a graphic novel.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done,
0:18.0	chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington.
0:22.8	Be very prescient, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:31.9	We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:34.2	and we're going to try to go further.
0:36.3	Great investigative reporting, Peter.
0:38.3	You're the only one doing it. Thank God. Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled
0:43.8	Down with Peter Schweitzer. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer
0:51.0	and welcome to The Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C., the co-host of this program, Eric Eggers, Eric, we are on the verge of the holiday season. And today we're going to have a little bit of a different podcast because we're going to get maybe a little bit more of our artistic side, which is, which terrifies me because I've seen your artistic instincts and let's just say they are avant-garde. No, it's, it's a holiday season. We're going to talk a little art because we're going to talk to an artist that we have known for some time. 20 years, more than 20 years. More than 20 years. If you are familiar with Peter's book and Peter's work and the work that we do at the
1:27.9	Government Accountability Institute, you may be familiar with the Clinton Cash book,
1:31.8	but there's a Clinton Cash documentary.
1:33.2	There's a Creeplein' Documentary.
1:34.3	There's a Clinton Cash graphic novel.
1:36.6	The person that was instrumental in the creation of all those things and others,
1:40.2	Mr. Dan Flewett, aka Riz.
1:43.7	Yeah, Dan, how you doing?
1:45.0	I'm doing great, guys.
1:47.0	So glad to be here.
1:48.0	And, you know, Eric, it goes back a little further than that.
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