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• Opinion | How George Santos Became Stranger Than Fiction

  By Marty Kaplan| POLITICO Verified Opinion | I wrote a movie about a con man elected to Congress. I never imagined anyone could actually pull it off. The George Santos saga bears an uncanny resemblance to the Eddie Murphy film, “The Distinguished Gentleman”"If only he’d had Eddie Murphy to show him the ropes, George Santos’ grift could have been perfectly legal," writes Marty Kaplan.

  By Marty Kaplan · POLITICO

  Nov. 28, 2023

• CBS vs. Time Warner Cable vs. You

  By Marty Kaplan| HuffPost Verified Here's progress: Big media companies now think Americans are as gullible as politicians do. It's not just candidates who assume we're nincompoops. The cable operators and networks take us for pigeons, too. Exhibit A is the current battle between behemoths Time Warner Cable and CBS. If you've been watching TV recently in New York, Dallas-Ft. Worth or Los Angeles, unless you have a gold medal in zapping, CBS's campaign against TWC has had you by the eyeballs.

  By Marty Kaplan · HuffPost

  Dec. 04, 2020

• Opinion | How George Santos Became Stranger Than Fiction

  By Marty Kaplan| POLITICO Verified Opinion | I wrote a movie about a con man elected to Congress. I never imagined anyone could actually pull it off. The George Santos saga bears an uncanny resemblance to the Eddie Murphy film, “The Distinguished Gentleman”"If only he’d had Eddie Murphy to show him the ropes, George Santos’ grift could have been perfectly legal," writes Marty Kaplan.

  By Marty Kaplan · POLITICO

  Nov. 28, 2023

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