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De Niro to Morph Into Madoff

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Posted on Nov 7, 2011
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De Niro, right, might study Madoff’s mug shot to prep for his part.

The spectacular flameout of Bernard Madoff after the big reveal of his fraudulent financial empire played out like Shakespeare for the 21st century, and master actor Robert De Niro was clearly paying attention.

Following the lead of other movie stars who’ve downsized from the big screen to television, De Niro is getting ready to set his jaw and take on Madoff’s stony, guilty gaze for an HBO movie about the busted Ponzi schemer that he’ll star in and produce. We can kind of see the resemblance, actually.  —KA

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Laurie Sandell’s book, “Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family,” will be used as source material, The Hollywood Reporter says.

Diane Henrique’s best seller, “The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust,” will also be used.

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By PatrickHenry, November 9, 2011 at 5:44 pm Link to this comment

Sebastian Lawhorne,

With all the conspiracy theories through the decades about how Jews influence Wall Street and influence the media, what other conclusion can I make from your remarks? You are an overt anti-Semite—plain and simple—and you shame progressivism.

Madoff was Jewish and bilked most of his Jewish and non Jewish investors because he identified with being Jewish and operated in the financial kinsmanship networks that exist, this was the only way he able to get away with as much as he did. 

Conspiracy theories? are you that ignorant of history and the Rothchild banking cartel? and its assistance in the creation of the state of Israel, Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and every other private manipulation which has led us to this greed manipulative society we are now in.  Some conspiracy there.

Hollywood Jewish? 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column

Smells like in your face discrimination much like the upper echelons of Wall Street.

Anti-Semite has become a word used by Zionist Jews and non-Jews s to those who they don’t agree with.

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By Sebastian Lawhorne, November 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm Link to this comment
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@PatrickHenry: This was you:

“Madoff was a zionist financial weapon of mass destruction which at Wall Street there are many.”

[...]

“I doubt Hollywood will portray a truthful version of events as they tend to be zionists themselves.”

With all the conspiracy theories through the decades about how Jews influence Wall Street and influence the media, what other conclusion can I make from your remarks? You are an overt anti-Semite—plain and simple—and you shame progressivism.

If the TruthDig screeners allow you to post this tripe…and the tripe of other commenters I’ve seen on this site…than I think I have a right to call them out on it. It’s not “censorship” to call hate speech “hate speech”.

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By PatrickHenry, November 8, 2011 at 1:56 pm Link to this comment

Sebastian Lawhorne,

Zionism and being Jewish are not the same thing as you and your ilk would broad brush them as being.  Many noteable non-Jews are zionists and many notable people who happen to be Jewish are anti-zionists.

Madoff, who happens to be Jewish screwed over many of his ‘tribe’ who believed in him and his being Jewish, that is a zionist.

BTW, you must be new here to question TD screeners, who are you to promote censorship when you’re most likely some JDF cubicle shill with your little OneTrue buddy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofScCiJT4c

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By OneTrue, November 7, 2011 at 9:59 pm Link to this comment
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PatrickHenry you are right on!  If only the nazi’s had
finished the job by 1945 and killed all the F’in jews, oh,
zionists as you oh so politically correctly call them, we
wouldn’t have hardly any of the problems we have today! 
Arbeit macht frei.

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By Sebastian Lawhorne, November 7, 2011 at 7:42 pm Link to this comment
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@PatrickHenry: Again with your anti-Semitism. Despite what you apparently think, some people are smart enough to realize that you’re substituting the word “Jewish” with the word “Zionist”. How did this remark get past the TruthDig screeners, I wonder?

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By PatrickHenry, November 7, 2011 at 1:43 pm Link to this comment

I hope the film portrays the role the Bank of Israel plays in it all.

http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/economy/58539-where-madoff-money-went-israel.html

Madoff was a zionist financial weapon of mass destruction which at Wall Street there are many.  Our Government knows this hence the mamby pamby treatment of a little terrorist nation.

I doubt Hollywood will portray a truthful version of events as they tend to be zionists themselves.

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By Scotty_Mack, November 7, 2011 at 1:25 pm Link to this comment

Bernie Madoff is OK with me; I hope the film portrays him in a positive light.  Anyone who can rip off that many rich assholes should get a parade in their honor rather than a jail sentence. If he had ripped off poor people like the banksters did he wouldn’t be in jail right now, he’d have some cushy job for Goldman Sachs or the treasury department.

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