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* Ron Motley (played by Bruce [=McGill=])[[note]]he plays D-Day in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]] tearing the Brown & Williamson [[AmoralAttorney lawyer]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKmmA6_oTQ a new one]]: "You got rights... and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. So what? You don't get to ''instruct'' anything around here! This is not North Carolina, not South Carolina, nor Kentucky! This is the sovereign State of Mississippi's proceeding. ''[The lawyer smiles condescendingly]'' '''''WIPE THAT SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE!''''' Dr. Wigand's deposition will be part of this record! And I'm gonna take my witness' testimony whether the hell ''you'' like it or not!"
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* Ron Motley (played by Bruce [=McGill=])[[note]]he Creator/BruceMcGill)[[note]]he plays D-Day in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]] tearing the Brown & Williamson [[AmoralAttorney lawyer]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKmmA6_oTQ a new one]]: "You got rights... and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. So what? You don't get to ''instruct'' anything around here! This is not North Carolina, not South Carolina, nor Kentucky! This is the sovereign State of Mississippi's proceeding. ''[The lawyer smiles condescendingly]'' '''''WIPE THAT SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE!''''' Dr. Wigand's deposition will be part of this record! And I'm gonna take my witness' testimony whether the hell ''you'' like it or not!"
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--> '''Hewit:''' '''Hewitt:''' Did you tell them that we're lying?
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* Infuriated that ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' ran an edited version of his story over his protests out of fear of being sued by Big Tobacco, Lowell has his own investigators take all of Big Tobacco's allegations and fact-check them all and hands the results off to rivals at ''The Wall Street Journal'' and urges them to do the same before they run their own story on Wigand. Running out of time, he decides he can't wait and calls ''The New York Times'' and tells them about CBS caving to corporate interests, potentially burning every bridge he ever had. They run a front-page story about CBS' lack of journalistic integrity and provide a scathing editorial titled "[[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/opinion/self-censorship-at-cbs.html Self-Censorship at CBS]]", which points out that CBS censored Wigand's interview to save their asses and protect their bottom line from a lawsuit Brown & Williamson '''''had not even threatened to file'''''. They predictably scream for Lowell's head to roll... until ''The Wall Street Journal'''s [[http://www.jeffreywigand.com/wallstreetjournal.php story]] runs later that day. It confirms his assertion that Big Tobacco was running an unprecedented smear campaign against a reluctant whistleblower and prints [[https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/MoneyInvesting/reference/bw.htm the Mississippi deposition]] that Wigand was part of 2 months earlier in its entirety. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJfyFoZcetY tirade]] Lowell unleashes on CBS News and ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' when he gets back to the office is '''''made''''' of awesome:
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* Infuriated that ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' ran an edited version of his story over his protests out of fear of being sued by Big Tobacco, Lowell has his own investigators take all of Big Tobacco's allegations and fact-check them all and hands the results off to rivals at ''The Wall Street Journal'' and urges them to do the same before they run their own story on Wigand. Running out of time, he decides he can't wait and calls ''The New York Times'' and tells them about CBS caving to corporate interests, potentially burning every bridge he ever had. They run a front-page story about CBS' lack of journalistic integrity and provide a scathing editorial titled "[[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/opinion/self-censorship-at-cbs.html Self-Censorship at CBS]]", which points out that CBS censored Wigand's interview to save their asses and protect their bottom line from a lawsuit that Brown & Williamson '''''had not even threatened to file'''''. They predictably scream for Lowell's head to roll... until ''The Wall Street Journal'''s [[http://www.jeffreywigand.com/wallstreetjournal.php story]] runs later that day. It confirms his assertion that Big Tobacco was running an unprecedented smear campaign against a reluctant whistleblower and prints [[https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/MoneyInvesting/reference/bw.htm the Mississippi deposition]] that Wigand was part of 2 months earlier in its entirety. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJfyFoZcetY tirade]] Lowell unleashes on CBS News and ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' when he gets back to the office is '''''made''''' of awesome:
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* When Don Hewitt angrily confronts Lowell for tipping off another station about the censorship of Wigand's interview.
--> '''Hewit:''' Did you tell them that we're lying?
--> '''Lowell:''' [[ShutUpHannibal No. I should have.]]
--> '''Hewit:''' Did you tell them that we're lying?
--> '''Lowell:''' [[ShutUpHannibal No. I should have.]]
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** And the scene cuts off rather abruptly at that point, suggesting that Wallace ''kept going'' and Kluster and Caperelli had to just stand there and take it.
