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 For Immediate Release
Jan 12, 2000 Contact: Press Office
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JUDICIAL WATCH VERSUS HOLLYWOOD

NBC'S "WEST WING" ROASTS LARRY KLAYMAN AND JUDICIAL WATCH

Show Airs At 9:00 P.M. Tonight

(Washington, D.C.) In last week's television episode of "West Wing" - the series which portrays life in The White House - liberal Hollywood roasted Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch in an episode which underscores the importance of the public interest, anti-government corruption watchdog's work, by creating a not so subtle fictional character named "Harry Klaypool" and a public interest, anti-government corruption group called "Freedom Watch." Last week's episode depicted fictionalized scenes from Judicial Watch's videotaped depositions revealing that "Freedom Watch" had sued The White House only seven times (sic) and that "Harry Klaypool" was on a "jihad" to uncover drug use in The White House. At the end of the show, the White House lawyer and the official being deposed get up and unilaterally walk out of the deposition, the White House lawyer slams Klaypool into the wall, and threatens to "pop him like a pinata."

Tonight's episode and subsequent episodes obviously do not bode well for the character "Klaypool," who the real "Klaypool," Larry Klayman, surmises will meet an unfortunate end - given Hollywood's allegiances and ties to the corrupt Clinton Administration.

"That Judicial Watch and Larry Klayman would be roasted by a prime time ‘pop culture' Hollywood show like ‘West Wing,' and that Klayman's character is openly threatened by a White House official before hundreds of millions of television viewers, underscores how potent Judicial Watch has been in uncovering corruption in the Clinton Administration and how much the ‘left' fears us," stated President Tom Fitton.

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