Media Omission

[annyokie]

This is an interesting bit of information that you don't hear much about in the media --- Certainly there is a political dimension here:

a.. Enron's chairman did meet with the president and the vice president in the Oval Office.

b.. Enron gave $420,000 to the president's party over three years.

c.. It donated $100,000 to the president's inauguration festivities.

d.. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.

e.. The corporation had access to the administration at its highest levels and even enlisted the Commerce and State Departments to grease deals for it.

f.. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction. Scandalous!!

g.. BUT...the president under whom all this happened WASN'T George W. Bush.

h.. SURP RISE ......... It was Bill Clinton!

[Cicero]

I'm feeling too lazy to dig up sources now, but it was widely reported EXCEPT in the mainstream media that Enron donated as much or more to Democrats as to Republicans.

Moreover, when Enron called for help, they did it through Robert Rubin. And the Bush Administration turned them down.