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Mr. 'Ethics', Joe Conason

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CONASON: It's not journalism unless they report everything that happened. It's propaganda. If you're a reporter and you're doing something this, then you would report, yes, we went to the four offices and one said, you know, fell for -- took the bait.

If you don't report that, if you act as if you went into one office and they did it, then that's dishonest. The other thing is, Bill mentioned that it's a two-party state. The filmmakers could be liable to civil or criminal action, in fact, for taping people without telling them in the state of Maryland. I have a reporter who works in the capital district that knows about this. It came up during the Linda Tripp affair whether Tripp could be prosecuted in Maryland for recording Monica Lewinsky unlawfully. So that could be an interesting sideline, and may be why the filmmaker did not show up to be on television to discuss this tonight.

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In 1992 Conason wrote an article for Spy magazine naming Jennifer Fitzgerald and Jane Morgan as women who allegedly were having affairs with George H. W. Bush, using Linda Tripp as a source.

Conason was a regular guest and a guest host on The Al Franken Show

In 2000, he co-authored the book The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton.

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CHRISTIE: I think it only underscores, Kitty, the reason why many conservatives, many Republicans think that there should be a federal investigation into ACORN. And it’s not just this specific case. There have been of a number of cases with ACORN over the years where there have been allegations of illegally registering people to vote.

This particular incidence of allegedly allowing prostitution or those funds to be used, I think that there should be an investigation. And Mark Levin, a conservative radio talk show host, has been on this for years. The silence has been deafening from the Democrats and the Justice Department.

CONASON: You should...

CHRISTIE: And, again, these people...

CONASON: You should present the evidence to the Justice Department if you have evidence of a federal crime.

CHRISTIE: It’s not me...

CONASON: And this is...

CHRISTIE: I didn’t cut you off.

CONASON: This is a lot of vague stuff.

CHRISTIE: Excuse me. I didn’t cut you off. It’s not me. It’s for those in the federal government who are looking at whether or not the federal elections have been tampered with. I think that’s a serious enough allegation that has been out there...

(CROSSTALK)

CONASON: Where’s the evidence?

CHRISTIE: ... but for years, that I think it would be warranted, rather than some of these frivolous cases that the Justice Department seems to be interested in pursuing on partisan lines.

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