Posted on 01/11/2002 7:46:13 AM PST by Jean S
It didn't take very long for reporters to get over the scandal fatigue they claimed they were all suffering after covering the most ethical administration is history for eight years.
But now that there's a Republican in the White House, the investigative juices are flowing once again.
During a radio interview Friday morning ABC newsman Sam Donaldson explained that he was ready to go after the Enron scandal hammer and tong.
How does the energy giant's financial collapse stack up against Bill and Hillary Clinton's Whitewater and Sexgate imbroglios?
"I think this scandal is going to dwarf the the two of them," Donaldson told WABC Radio morning hosts Curtis & Kuby.
"Nobody could understand Whitewater," the newsman explained. And while Americans could understand the Clinton-Lewinsky White House sexcapades, nobody cared, Donaldson insisted.
Ironically, the former White House correspondent was the only reporter who managed to rise above the feigned ennui of his colleagues long enough to ask President Clinton about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation, to which Clinton replied, see my lawyer.
Still, the senior ABC newsman sounded on Friday as if he really believed the Enron bankruptcy would be far more intruiging to the public than presidential rape charges and Whitewater lawyers found shot to death in out-of-the-way parks.
Meanwhile on ABC's "Good Morning America," Donaldson's colleague, former Clinton scandal spinmeister George Stephanopoulos, confirmed that their Sunday show "This Week" would be devoted entirely to Enron.
Only because you didn't cover it, until forced to. Then you did your best to make it seem trivial.
No bias here, nothing to see...move along.
Wouldn't it be great if the only stock footage of Lay Fox News had to use was of him with clintoon on the 'links'.;-)
I know, I'm dreaming.
ABC's Donaldson: My Toupee Dwarfs Lewinsky and Whitewater
Read 'Inventing Money' by Nick Dunbar or 'When Genius Failed' by Roger Lowenstein, and you'll soon come to the same conclusion.
If Enron would have made too much money there would have been an investigation on windfall profits. Since they went bankrupt there is a Independent/DemonRat Counsel. What happened is that they got caught in the same energy crisis that California got caught in but did not have taxpayers to bail them out. For all the Stalinist DemonRats, it's called the capitalistic system; get over it!
Pray for GW and the Truth
Ferengi.
Hmmmmm...just asl old Sam any question regarding his farming/ranching federal subsidies on his 'spread' in New Mexico...then watch the toupee fly.
I agree LTC was an incredibly complex company but when one takes a look at all the off-balance sheet financial shenanigans that were going on at Enron I wouldn't be so quick to say LTC was a lot more complex when looking at all of Enron's liabilities as a whole.
Who in the heck does ABC think they are fooling with all this blatent propaganda.
On 9/11, God turned on the lights ...and it ain't pretty.
Somebody send Sham Donaldson some clothes.
A GI Joe outfit should do it.
Eddie01
It'll involve both Clintons and Gore, too! Watch for this to sink off the radar once those links are brought forward.
Ha Ha! Good point. Though I don't watch him too much. At least, not when I can avoid it. The times I've seen him he just looks pastey-faced.
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