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Sen. Roland Burris was dragged back into the Blagojevich scandal this week when federal prosecutors released an embarrassing wiretapped phone conversation. But Burris is in good company—politicians have been saying incriminating things on tape for decades. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
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Really, you included Bush's comment about Adam Clymer in a retrospective about political scandals caught on tape?
What's wrong with that comparison?
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