Liberals Send Threatening E-Mails to Enron Journalists - 'Dig Harder' or else

Short Cuts Morning Update ^ | January 11, 2001 | L Dotter's Staff Reporters

[GOPJ]

This could happen:

I agree with the others who say that the lefties better be careful; this one may end up blowing up in their faces. Far too many Democrats have taken money from Enron and done favors for Enron. Bush hasn't been in office long enough to have really done anything for them.

[GOPJ]

I think you're right:

Yep...the RATS are gettin' all flustered and bothered thinkin' they've got Dubyuh on the ropes and this will turn out to be nothing. FReegards...MUD

[GOPJ]

Nice find:

In what seems to be eons ago, before Gov. Bill Clinton became president, the late, much loved and little lamented Ron Brown was Clinton's good friend and a power broker in the National Democratic Party. Ron Brown had a friend, a congressman from Houston, the late Mickey Leland, who died in 1989. Until his passing, Leland was a shining light in the Congressional Black Caucus and a dedicated socialist, who was one of the Institute for Policy Studies' delights.

From 1984, when Enron was conceived, Brown and Leland were there snapping up unconsidered trifles of money for use in their campaigns against the free market. Mickey was able to ease a lot of Enron's early problems through the Houston City Council by playing his "equal opportunity card." He had also become an African expert who initially took the Enron message to that continent, a chore that was taken on by Ron Brown, Clinton's secretary of commerce, before the latter met his untimely death in a highly controversial plane crash in Croatia. (Untimely, because had Secretary Brown lived, he would have faced multiple criminal indictments that could have precipitated an even earlier fall for Bill Clinton and his gang.)

Now we get to that old puzzle about chickens and eggs, and what came first! Ron Brown, Al Gore and Bill Clinton introduced Enron to market managers in Russia, China, Indonesia and India. In India, Enron quickly became involved in one of that country's most massive corruption investigations, contracts were canceled and Enron was out.

[okie01]

"The Enron story is THE next big political scandal and both sides of the aisle are desperately trying to make it look like it is the other side's fault."

It's a financial scandal, to be sure. As in fraud. But where is the political scandal?

Enron gave, liberally, to both sides of the aisle. They appear to have gotten lots of favors from the Clinton administration. The only thing they got from the Bush administration was a firm "No", when they hinted they needed a bail-out.

Enron flourished under the Clinton administration. They went bankrupt under Bush. Where's the "scandal"?

[Teacher317]

You're assuming that the Truth matters to the newspapers. I just meant that this would be the next headline splashed around for the next few weeks/months, and that both sides would be playing the 'blame-game'. I doubt that it matters to them that this isn't a political failure, but a business failure, once it becomes the 'top story'.

[okie01]

I doubt that it matters to them that this isn't a political failure, but a business failure, once it becomes the 'top story'.

I'll take it one step further:
I doubt whether the media are intellectually capable of discerning the difference.

[GOPJ]

One more truth bump...

[anymouse]

The Enron Scandal and Democrats website

[GOPJ]

bump

[anymouse]

And a bump back for good measure.