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01/21/2002 The Bush administration was called on for favors and didn't provide them. "At issue, whether the President was informed about Enron's request for help and whether the White House knew something investors and employees didn't, that Enron was in deep trouble." - Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News, 01/13/2001 "When you knew, no matter how long the phone calls were, that this big company was in deep, deep trouble, didn't you feel an obligation to tell the public?" - ABC's Sam Donaldson to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, 01/13/2002Get a clue, Sam! By the time Enron called O'Neill for help in October, their stock prices had been falling steadily all year and reached a shocking low of $10/share. That seems like a warning to me! As for those still stuck with the stock, a warning could have caused even more trouble. Democrats linked to Enron? What Democrats? Hardly surprising that Clinton Administration ties to Enron would be minimized. Before George Bush ran for president, Ken Lay, Enron's chairman, contributed to Bill Clinton's election, played golf with the President, and even received White House support for Enron's overseas projects. "The lion's share of the campaign cash has gone to Republicans, specifically George Bush. Since 1993, Enron and its employees funneled two and a quarter million into Mr. Bush's political career and party coffers." - John Roberts, CBS News, 01/11/2002 Despite the fact that Bush administration officials proved they were not bought and paid for, the liberal media continues to sound the Democrat's battle cry: "This is the best government money can buy!" (How many times have you heard that in the last week? Get ready to hear a lot of it from Democrat party operatives.) Cold-blooded Capitalism ABC's Linda Douglass ended her Enron story on Sunday, 01/13/2002, by highlighting Senator Lieberman's socialist slip: "Some Democrats say the administration should have done something to protect Enron's workers. The Treasury Secretary said today though there was no reason for the government to get involved in saving Enron. He called Enron's collapse an example of the 'genius of capitalism' because it shows how companies can rise and fall based on their own merits rather than because of the control from the government. Senator Lieberman called those statements today 'outrageous' and 'cold-blooded'" Now we see both sides of the liberal's bear trap: Enron hoped to be in a position to expect favors from the Bush Administration. BUT although it would have been unethical for them to intervene and they did not, it is 'outrageous and cold-blooded' that the Bush administration did not intervene. As usual, the left wants it both ways. Time for the Campaign Finance Reform Cure-all: It didn't take the media long to come back around to their favorite cause. Watch out for more 'reform-minded' news commentary. "Outlaw the big corporate contributions. That way it won't look like the companies are calling in a chip every time they call the White House. Democrats who took some of those Enron contributions seem a little uncomfortable, too. Maybe they can help in the project." - CBS's Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation, 01/13/2002 Common Sense from Surprising Sources: Despite the determination of the bias reeking from the dimly lit corners of the media, common sense is arising from some surprising sources. Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC political analyst and a former aid to Democratic Senators, astonished media bias observers with this commonsense statement on the McLaughlin Group 01/13/2002: "It is a business scandal story. There is absolutely not even a whiff of political scandal in this thing so far. And it's really funny to watch the Washington press corps try to manufacture it. "Let's get it straight. The big, big contributor to the Bush campaign goes to the Bush administration and says, 'please help us' and the Bush administration says 'no'. The scandal is going to have to be explained to me." No joke! And on the 01/13/2002 Today, this honest statement from Newsweek's Howard Fineman, chief political reporter. Host David Bloom: "Howard, first of all, no smoking gun right, there's nothing that we can tell from these phone calls that these White House and Bush administration officials did to actually help Enron." Fineman: "Not even a whiff of smoke at this point, David. There were lots of calls. Ken Lay, the head of Enron, made a number of them to the Secretary of the Treasury, he called Don Evans, the Commerce Secretary . . ." Hmmmm. A non-political scandal. No smoking gun. And yet all the liberal media can talk about is how embarrassed the Bush administration should be! Why is this stuff important? Would it be any surprise if the Democrats drug out the 10 Enron probes for the rest of the Bush's term? How about impeachment proceedings next year if the Democrats win back the House of Representatives this coming November? This is a matter that deserves our immediate attention! The coffee is on! Let's wake up! I have linked the individual names above with their e-mail contact pages. (CBS contacts: Follow the yellow "contact" link at the bottom the the left-hand menu.) Please take a moment to chastise the biased and thank the honest. Read more here: Holt & Donaldson comments When you feel your personal media bias tolerance gauge rising into the red zone, don't throw stuff at the TV screen! Send your suggestion to outrage@fairpress.org! Each week, one hideous example of media bias will be selected for closer examination. Hmmmmmm . . .
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