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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Bill who wrote (3756)9/3/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: Doughboy  Read Replies (2) of 13994
 
Bill, face it, you didn't know who Jennifer Fitzgerald was until I educated you. I can cite you chapter and verse how I know about the Fitzgerald story. I have family friend who is a leading media professor at an east coast university; NBC News, during the Dukakis campaign in 1988, informally consulted him on whether he thought it was ethical and proper to reveal the Bush affair. They said they had off-the-record sources and documentation of trips. This professor advised them that unless NBC could make the case that Fitzgerald was improperly on the trips, he thought it was not a public matter. He heard later that NBC decided that they could make the case the she was not on the trips to serve any public function, but Michael Gartner or someone above him vetoed the story. As for the Dukakis stuff, I worked on the Dukakis campaign, and I was present to see the fury that some of the head honchos in the campaign had for this spokesperson's taking it upon herself to blow the top off the Jennifer Fitzgerald affair. As for whether Clinton's people ever tried to dig it up again, I don't know. But I never heard anything about it again. All I know is that if there was a Drudge Report back then, Bush would never have been able to keep the lid on this.

Doughboy.
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