Our Brand Is Crisis Page #5

We are gonna do something to Rivera

that no politician wants

to have done to them.

We are going to define him.

The attack line is that he's a crook,

he's corrupt, he's inexperienced,

and he lies.

Every day, we are

going to ring the big feet,

El Diario, La Razn, La Prensa,

and we are going to spoon-feed

them their Rivera story.

We're gonna go through

every quote he's ever given,

every person he's ever met,

every vote he's ever made,

and we are gonna look for

ways of using it against him.

Eddie! Where's Eddie? Eddie!

Where are you? There you are.

You're my tracker. Okay?

Every event that Rivera attends,

every speech, you tape it.

If security beats you up,

you are doing your job right.

And get that beating on tape.

And if anyone has any qualms about this,

thinks it's wrong in some way,

you come and talk to me, okay?

I will rent you a nice set of balls.

Because there's only one wrong in this.

Only one, and that is losing.

There's only one wrong, losing.

Maybe check

and see if anyone understood that.

Raise your hand if you speak English.

Now tell them to tell the people

that didn't understand what I just said.

Explain it to the others, please.

Gracias. Gracias.

My God, his hair. It is amazing.

Look, it doesn't move.

- Close-up.

- Yeah.

No, no, no, no, that's great.

Keep diggin'.

It's in there. All these guys

have something to hide.

I'm sure he's had an affair.

I don't know about him,

but Castillo did.

Well, then let's use that, okay?

But don't make it from us.

It can't be connected to us.

Make it a grassroots something or other.

Castillo affair?

Rivera! Rivera!

Two years ago, Rivera's office

purchased 27 Ford Explorers

for official use by the district.

Sales price was 35K each.

These are photocopies of

the actual receipts.

They claimed 40,000 each.

That is $135,000 of taxpayers' money

going into someone's pocket.

Bad, bad boy. You actually are a crook.

- Mmm-hmm.

It'd be great if we got shots

of his people driving these things,

picking up their groceries

or pickin' up hookers or something.

Wait. Where did you get these receipts?

It's a black box op, Buckley.

Scooch. Scooch, scooch.

Page after page after page.

Yeah.

All the documentation is there.

Did you see it? Here, look at these.

So about now,

I imagine you've decided

that your horse can't win.

You brought in that little waif

of a high school valedictorian

to do all your work for ya.

And now you're getting ready

to smear sh*t all over us.

Switch your TV on, sweetheart.

Hey! Someone turn on the TV.

What's wrong

with you? What happened?

Oh, God.

Twin boys.

I've seen 'em. Just adorable.

I mean, if you're into

little pink bags of sh*t.

But you know what I always say,

children are a blessing from God,

and Rivera has been doubly blessed.

Children are a blessing from God,

and I have been doubly blessed.

So full of sh*t.

A father wants his children

to be proud of him.

That's why I promise the Bolivian people

that I will run a positive campaign.

Of course.

What's the urgency?

It's the oldest trick

in the book, sir.

It's Candy's work again. They know

we have a shot if we go negative.

They're just trying to block us.

You are not the one out here, Ms. Bodine.

If we go negative now,

we're going to get the Senator lynched.

"He who is not courageous enough

"to take risks will accomplish

nothing in life."

Oh, look. Come on,

we don't wanna hear any more Sun Tzu.

It is not Sun Tzu. It's Muhammad Ali.

Sir, if you wanna win,

we're gonna have to take risks.

We're gonna have to slash and burn.

If you do not go negative, you do not win.

Hugo is right.

We don't go negative.

I've made my decision.

- Hey, Jane, one more thing.

- What?

I think I might have something.

Rivera was in the army when he was young.

There's a newspaper article that

references a photograph of him in uniform.

I could try and track it down if you think

there might be something there.

Never mind Rivera.

Give me everything you have

on Castillo, okay?

Give me something else that's weird.

Hey, hey, hey,

I think he found it.

- Jane.

- Act normal.

We got a problem. Kind of a major problem.

Leaflet says Castillo had an affair

with this woman for three years.

- What?

- Yeah.

Louisa in accounting said

they were distributing these

all over her neighborhood in Miraflores.

Then, at the bottom, it says,

"Is this the behavior

- "of a honorable man?"

- "Honorable."

"Is this the behavior

- "of an honorable man?"

- There ya go.

"Is this the behavior of a president?"

What does that say?

"It's time for a change."

What does that even mean?

It's Rivera's campaign slogan.

It must be Rivera.

How're we gonna fix this?

Gotta go talk to Castillo.

What're you gonna say?

I don't know yet.

- Do we have a plan?

- I said I don't know yet.

This is the last thing I need.

Unbelievable. Really?

I'm sorry to bother your breakfast, sir,

but I have to ask you.

Is this real?

Does your wife know about this affair?

My wife lives in America, and she knows.

- Well, that's not good enough, sir.

- This is all part of the past.

- That's not good enough, sir.

- This does not make sense.

Why would they go negative now?

They're 20 points ahead.

Pat Candy can't help himself.

He doesn't care about winning.

He cares about destroying the enemy.

He is not his enemy. You can't...

Yes, it is, Ben! Wake up! This is war!

- Enough!

- Okay?

Sir, I need you to understand this.

This flyer makes it real.

Okay? With this stamp and these people,

you have to understand

that the perception of this

is that you are an adulterer.

It's all about the perception, sir.

Your call, Jane.

Sir, I think if you...

Are you sure it's from them?

"La Paz Grassroots Organization"?

I seriously doubt that exists.

And if you look at the...

If you look at the bottom, it says,

"Es hora de un cambio."

"It's time for change."

It's their slogan, sir.

They are denying it.

But as far as the public is concerned,

sir, they threw the first punch.

All right.

Do it.

Okay.

As deputy of Potos,

Victor Rivera used taxpayers' money

to buy twenty-seven SUVs.

But he took enough of your money

to buy thirty and a half.

Where did the rest of your money go?

Is Victor Rivera helping you?

Or is he helping himself?

So I'm lookin' for a club

with the girls that put on

a good ping-pong show, you know?

You know, somethin' fun to do.

I don't know if it's 'cause

of the altitude here or what,

but I guess it affects the, uh...

I don't know what...

I guess the twat muscles.

Pelvic floor?

Right. I guess it puts

your p*ssy in a pickle.

So, uh, in my travels,

I found this great little club.

They got a Bolivian Elvis.

What do you say you come dancing with me?

I mean, come on, honey.

We can hate each other tomorrow.

It seems your candidate has lost $135,000

of taxpayers' money.

Any idea where that might've gone?

It's hard to say, sweetheart.

Mmm.

- Are you taking a leak?

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