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Screen Shot a fascinating new book by historian and media critic Eric Alterman that traces the decline of truthfulness in public life that has led to our present predicament. In his chapter on Bill Clinton, Alterman bluntly discusses the sex lie that led to Clinton's impeachment, but then dissects the deeper layers of hypocrisy that surrounded him in Washington, both on Capitol Hill and among the national press corps. More than one of Clinton's pursuers has since been found guilty of worse sexual misconduct. In certain ways, we are still living with the toxic legacy of the Clinton imp...

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Disturbing and obsessively weird. and it's an experience that has informed me about him all these years. i never could understand why the people of minnesota elected him as a united states senator. and, yes, i did talk about it in live on the road on my talk show in san francisco lee rogers and melanie morgan show after it happened. i didn't stay silent about it. it's funny, laura, people didn't really seem to care about that sort of behavior until just recently. >> laura: well, melanie, i'm really glad you told the story. i have had some run-ins with al franken over the years. he is so insign...

Disturbing and obsessively weird. and it's an experience that has informed me about him all these years. i never could understand why the people of minnesota elected him as a united states senator. and, yes, i did talk about it in live on the road on my talk show in san francisco lee rogers and melanie morgan show after it happened. i didn't stay silent about it. it's funny, laura, people didn't really seem to care about that sort of behavior until just recently. >> laura: well, melanie, i'm really glad you told the story. i have had some run-ins with al franken over the years. he is so insign...