A Tale of Two Ads: Farewell to Bob Corker, America's Most Inert Senator
Corker, who retired from the Senate on Thursday, will now return to the private sector, where he will presumably look concerned while doing nothing.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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