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By Bill Moyers

BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.

“When television history is written,” one critic says, “Little else will rival ‘The Wire.’”And when historians come to tell the story of America in our time, I’ll wager they will not be able to ignore this remarkable and compelling portrayal of life in our cities.

Take a look at this scene:

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DETECTIVE JIMMY MCNULTY: Let me understand you, every Friday night you and your boys will shoot crap right? And every Friday night your pal Snot Boogie he’d wait ’till there was cash on the ground and then he’d grab the money and run away? You let him do that?

WITNESS: If we’d catch him we’d beat his ass but ain’t nobody let it go past that.

DETECTIVE JIMMY MCNULTY: I gotta ask you, if every time Snot Boogie would grab the money and run away why’d you even let him in the game?

WITNESS: What?

DETECTIVE JIMMY MCNULTY: Snot Boogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play?

WITNESS: Got to. This America, man.

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