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Saying i've never met eric massa. >> jon: nor been in the gym with him, i hope. >> what's interesting to me, once the mainstream media kind of figured on the story line that he was a -- an obama bashing democrat, then they went to work on him. and then, so the atlantic monthly and the new york daily news started saying hey, he was a bad guy in the navy and stuff. you never saw that kind of opposition research against say kevin jennings, the gay safe schools are, or barney frank, the gay member of congress. only if there's somebody they don't like say by the way there's dirt on him from 20 year...

Whitney casey now joins us. good morning. we got some messy clips. these revolve around eric massa. the first one is him making congressman patrick kennedy mad at the media? >> everybody was very focused on eric massa and a lot of the information that was coming out of that. it really was very gripping and groping information. however, it was, you know, if you listen to what happened, the short fallout, i call it the massa morasse. the first one was patrick kennedy. pay attention to what he's talking about because i don't think many people did listen to this. >> we will. >> anyone who wants to...

I don't know what it says about our congress. >> jon: well, dana, in these interesting times it's not all that farfetched that the white house would lean on a member of congress to vote for this health care bill. >> of course, they're leaning on anybody that they possibly can, but this appears to me that this behavior is totally separate, but i do think it's interesting though that speaker pelosi knew more about it than she said she did immediately and the media kind of let that be swept under the rug, but i think she should be held to the same standards that the republicans were held to when ...

This down the throats of the american people and anyone who stands in the way of doing that is going to be smeared and they're going to be kicked out of congress. >> jon: the voice of former democratic congressman eric massa there, suggesting he was being forced out of congress as part after setup involving the white house. the drama played out in salacious headlines and television interviews. allegations that mr. massa sexually harassed male aides. the house ethics committee investigation began and the congressman tried to explain it all to glen beck. >> i am at fault. i own it, nobody forced...

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