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but when it comes to the bathtub, barry levinson and i have trouble seeing the metaphor. is the metaphor? he said he wants to kill the government in a bathtub, the only substitute is overturn the government. he is a revolutionary like len on or mao. he doesn't believe in the system but doesn't want to say it with as much clarity as they did. if you just want to lower taxes, is it necessary to drown the government in a bathtub? simply say you want a lower tax code, period, drown the tax code. but he wants to droin the government of the united states. kill what the founding fathers fought for. it is not only about taxes, he is opposed to this government, the u.s. government. he is a new kind of revolutionary, a 21st century revolutionary. he is the kind of revolutionary that sarah palin would like to pal around with. sarah palin thought she could crush presidential candidate barack obama by talking about him palling around with terrorists. virtually every republican elected official in washington has palled around with grover norquist, with a revolutionary, with someone whos

shame on barry levinson for making a quick buck on it and shame most of all on the hbo executives who. it has nothing to do with the truth. but it also brings an insult to our dear friend lana clarkson and that is why i'm here. the friends are lana clarkson made up of 50 people in the entertainment business who knew her, loved her and worked with her. this film is -- starts out with a screen misnomer that says this is actually not really based on truth it is fiction and a myth logical sort of a thing. they were forced to do that because of two years we have been fighting this film and what it is about. you can't say it as fiction when you are using real people's names. >> geraldo: what is your biggest beef edward? what is the biggest beef about it? >> the biggest beef is that it portrays lana clarkson as being responsible for are her own death. this trial was two years. two different trials. a jury convict #-d him. this movie takes away any kind of faith in the american jury system. all of the evidence that dr. baden and his wife which is still we don't understand the conflict of inte

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at least we have a good director with barry levinson, quite accomplished. and finally come here we are tonight on whitey, the third installment on this long story. dick sort of recapped pretty much everything. but i would like to stress that its comprehensive and a full-blown biography. and it goes back two centuries, retracing back to their roots and newfoundland. i had done some research on the emigration department from the family in the mid-19th century, and i was surprised and fascinated to learn the most enjoyable and lasting immigration was from the harbor in southern ireland to st. john's newfoundland. so we had a lot of new information to bring to bear on that. dick and i have an investigative reporters or whole career and ask a lot of people tough questions. so we are now trying to turn the tables and fire away on one of the questions about the writing and the research and the history [applause] >> in your research did you find it remarkable that the congressman who lived through all of this came away with a clean slate, he must know what is going

at least medicaid director in barry levinson, quite accomplished. and, finally, here we are tonight, soup to nuts on whitey. third installment on this long story. dick sort of recap pretty much everything, but i would like to discuss the comprehensive in a full-blown biography. and it goes back tw to century. we traced them back to the roots, and newfoundland. and i had done some research on the immigration to boston from the famine in the mid-19th century, and i was surprised and fascinated to learn that the most durable and lasting immigration from ireland was from the harbor and southern islands -- ireland to st. john's newfoundland. soviet a lot of new information to bring to bear on that. dick and i've been investigative reporters powerful cover. we asked a lot of people a lot of tough questions. so it's now our turn to turn the tables and fire away. we want questions about the writing, the research. [applause] >> in your research, did you find it remarkable that congressman -- long-term congressman joe was in office and came away with a clean