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Michael Moore: I couldn't believe that virtually no member of Congress had read the Patriot Act before voting on it. So I decided that the only patriotic thing to do, was for me to read it to them.
[scene switches to Moore driving around Washington D.C in an ice cream truck]
Michael Moore: [ice cream truck music plays] Members of Congress, this is Michael Moore. I would like to read to you the USA Patriot Act.
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Michael Moore: Meet John Ashcroft. In 2000, he was running for re-election as Senator from Missouri against a man who died the month before the election. The voters preferred the dead guy, so George W. Bush made him his Attorney General. He was sworn in on a stack of Bibles, 'cause when you can't beat a dead guy, you need all the help you can get.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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