right up front, immediately, a giant wall street bank and one of its top operatives is going to make quite a bit of money. and we urge our viewers on the ed show tonight to go to the huffington post and see the excellent post by zach carter and learn more about rick perry. we ll have you back no doubt. turn to jim moore, the huffington post contributor and author of the upcoming book adios mofo: why rick perry will make america miss george w. bush. i think we just pointed to a story that will be in your book. first example. unbelievable. what do you make of this story? and how did it fizzle out? what happened here from what you know, jim? well, it s very much like what happens down here all of the time is it gets a little bit of attention, and then everybody goes, well, this is just the way texas government runs. it s pay for play. plast night you had on your show a teacher talking about the tens of thousands of teachers who are going to lose their jobs. and if people w
hurricane irene is getting ready to pound the east coast and we will have the latest with live reports and then there is the latest with the republican front-runner for the presidential nomination. the more we find out about rick perry, the less there is to like. this is the ed show. let s get on work. i dislike washington. i think it s a shady place. tonight there, is more on rick perry s seed i record in texas. an expect report in the huffington post says rick perry s administration wanted to help wall street investors gamble on how long retired texas teachers would live. author of the report zach carter and our rick perry expert, jim moore are here. the dick cheney memoir keeps popping out dandies. guess which country he wanted to bomb in 2007? tonight, daily show co-creator lizz winstead and mike papantonio are here. and the party that couldn t be
well, that s remarkable. just about nobody involved with this scheme ends up taking a serious political hit. rick perry and phil gramm remain very close to this day. phil gramm s just endorsed perry for president. rick perry s son goes to work for ubs, shortly after this happens, and then ubs makes a big pitch led by phil gramm to privatize the texas state lottery just a few years later so it didn t seem to have much of a long-term impact on his political career at all but still a remarkably morbid scheme for taxpayers to be sort of playing bookie here for wall street gamblers going after you know dead teachers. zach, address the cronyism. if you given direct perry s campaign, are you going to get a deal in the end somewhere? well, it depends. but generally in politics, you re much more likely to get the ear of lawmakers and elected officials if you spend a lot of money on campaign contributions. now phil gramm certainly spent a lot of money on campaign contribution contributions
since this was all happening and since it went public. how did he handle this in the campaign, and why didn t it affect his campaign? because he won. well, that s remarkable. just about nobody involved with this scheme ends up taking a serious political hit. rick perry and phil gramm remain very close to this day. phil gramm s just endorsed perry for president. rick perry s son goes to work for ubs, shortly after this happens, and then ubs makes a big pitch led by phil gramm to privatize the texas state lottery just a few years later so it didn t seem to have much of a long-term impact on his political career at all but still a remarkably morbid scheme for taxpayers to be sort of playing bookie here for wall street gamblers going after you know dead teachers. zach, address the cronyism. if you given direct perry s campaign, are you going to get a deal in the end somewhere? well, it depends. but generally in politics, you re much more likely to get the ear of lawmakers and elected
to pound the east coast and we will have the latest with live reports and then there is the latest with the republican front-runner for the presidential nomination. the more we find out about rick perry, the less there is to like. this is the ed show. let s get on work. i dislike washington. i think it s a shady place. tonight there, is more on rick perry s seed i record in texas. an expect report in the huffington post says rick perry s administration wanted to help wall street investors gamble on how long retired texas teachers would live. author of the report zach carter and our rick perry expert, jim moore are here. the dick cheney memoir keeps popping out dandies. guess which country he wanted to bomb in 2007? tonight, daily show co-creator lizz winstead and mike papantonio are here. and the party that couldn t be bothered to pay for two wars is back at it again.