Author Of Enron Book Says CBS REMOVED References To Clinton Administration In TV Movie

Media Research Center via E-Mail | Janurary 7, 2003 | Brent Baker

[PJ-Comix]

Update: The author on whose book CBS based its movie about Enron revealed that the movie's producers removed his references to the Clinton administration.

As reported in the January 6 CyberAlert, CBS's Sunday night movie, The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron, got in a few very straight shots at the company's ties to the Bush administration, but made no mention of links to the Clinton team or financial support of any Democrats. In addition to several references to Ken Lay meeting with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the TV movie superimposed images of left-wing actor Mike Farrell, who played Lay, into photos with the real George H.W. and George W. Bush, as well as Cheney.

Alert CyberAlert reader David Fite alerted me to how Brian Cruver, the Enron employee on whose book, Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth From an Enron Insider, the CBS movie was based, told the Houston Chronicle that by focusing solely on the company's ties to the Bush administration the movie distorted his first-hand recounting.

The January 2 Chronicle quoted Cruver: "In the book, as far as connections to the Bush administration, to me it was a bipartisan corruption, and I have as much information in the book about connections to (Bill) Clinton as (George W.) Bush. But the movie has taken a more one-sided view of that."

For the Houston Chronicle story in full with a picture of Cruver:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/tv/1721055

For the January 6 CyberAlert item, which also relates how the movie opened with a character played by Brian Dennehy basking in 1986 over how he could become "filthy, stinking rich" thanks to "Reagan in the White House, tax cuts, deregulation," go to:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030106.asp#1

[PJ-Comix]

This report should be on the MRC website later today.

[IncPen]

But, there's no bias in the media.

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

[JoeSixPack1]

All the news they intend for you to hear. And nothing else.

[WomanofStandard]

Thanks for posting this...so I can send the truth out in emails. I didn't watch the movie but I know many people did. I figured it would be skewed as soon as I saw Mike Farrell was staring in it. Figures.

[PGalt]

Just propagandists doing what they do best...fronting for the Democratic Crime Syndicate.

[aristeides]

Who runs Viacom?

[BluH2o]

No surprise here ... in fact when I saw the promos for the show last week I mentioned to my wife in spite of Enrons close ties to the Clinton WH this will be construed to put the Bush administration in the worst possible light. As it turned out CBS took it a step further going all the way back to Reagan ... they're liberal democrat bias is so predictable. CBS the home of Dan "Blather"!

[thinktwice]

Clinton?

Who's that?

[smiley]

There is no liberal bias in the media....really...
:)

[smiley]

Time-Warner...no suprises there either

[Let's Roll]

No problem, I'm sure the mainstream media will hasten to set the record straight, featuring extensive coverage of Cruver's remarks. </sarcasm

[roses of sharon]

There is no "corruption" with Enron and the Bush Admin.

[nygoose]

Sumner Redstone runs Viacom.

[Dante3]

This further supports what many have been saying about CBS.

[aristeides]

And Sumner Redstone is now being investigated for insider trading, something that would never have happened under the Clinton-Gore regime.

[Dante3]

BUMP

[Jabba the Nutt]

PJ, but the liberals don't have their own national radio talk show and a weak presence on the internet. It's unfair, I tell you.

Isn't it funny that just as this comes out, the liberals/Democrats are whining and complaining about the influence of conservative media?

[maica]

. In addition to several references to Ken Lay meeting with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the TV movie superimposed images of left-wing actor Mike Farrell, who played Lay, into photos with the real George H.W. and George W. Bush, as well as Cheney.
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ping!
These are the people who whine they do not have an alternative to conservative talk radio!
They just create their own reality!

[maica]

The January 2 Chronicle quoted Cruver: "In the book, as far as connections to the Bush administration, to me it was a bipartisan corruption, and I have as much information in the book about connections to (Bill) Clinton as (George W.) Bush. But the movie has taken a more one-sided view of that."

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This would make a good topic for our 'conservative' hosts. We have to play the game with the cards that are dealt, and CBS just gave us this egregious example of their bias. I hope this author is willing to be interviewed, as his spoken comments should be powerful.

[CounterCounterCulture]

This...is See-B.S. < /James Earl Jones voice >