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Number of times Ken Lay’s name was mentioned during today’s White House press gaggle with Tony Snow, which began 30 minutes after the guilty verdict was announced.
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Ken Lay.
Talk about having a prison bitch name custom-made for you.
Btw, in case you missed it earlier, I have Bob Herbert’s newest up, in which he discusses the “Disposable American” in the workplace.
May 25th, 2006 at 4:29 pmSnow: Kenny who?
May 25th, 2006 at 4:32 pmOff topic, Judd, any one else having trouble with TP site this afternoon. Got to diffrent formats, one old and a new bigger version, diffrent format altogether. When I posted everything has been bouncing and deleted my post…What’s up are you or I being tapped.? LOL
May 25th, 2006 at 4:33 pmA mythical White House reporter: Would you care to comment on the guilty verdicts rendered today in the Enron fraud and conspiracy case against the president’s long time political supporter Mr. Kenneth Lay?
Snow: Kenny who?
May 25th, 2006 at 4:36 pmSharon: as you can see I have. My comments posted twice, one partially.
May 25th, 2006 at 4:38 pmThey convicted Kenny! Those magnificent bastards!
May 25th, 2006 at 4:44 pmSee, what’d I tell ya about all them liberals in the White House press corpse.
May 25th, 2006 at 4:50 pmBush should pardon him now, that way he will have someone to bankroll him after he gets impeached.
May 25th, 2006 at 4:55 pmBush Admin maxim,
If you act like it didn’t happen and refuse to acknowledge it, then it doesn’t exist.
May 25th, 2006 at 5:09 pmAs devestating as 9-11 was to our country, I will always regard the Enron rapeage as a bigger story for this era. It speaks volumes about this Kountrie$ character, or lack thereof. Very fitting to sentence Ken Lay on 9-11, who qualifies for a life sentence, but likely will strut with a one finger salute in the form of pardon. Possibly a wrist slap. Hey this is the New Amerika—wha’d ya expect justice?
May 25th, 2006 at 5:19 pmCheney/Bush/Lay Destroyed California’s Economy
May 25th, 2006 at 5:33 pmGood discussion on Franken’s show today: Tom Oliphant suggests that the >$45 billion whack job done by Cheney/Lay on Californians (utility bills quadrupled overnight, and have never receded) is what really propelled the economic recession of the following years, NOT 9-11. Remember the secret Energy Task Force? Lay also secretly met with Schwarzenegger .
Oliphant sums it: Cheney’s flabby arms embraced the Enron business model and California was doomed.
Good summary, with great historical links to the Cheney/Lay/Bush best-buddy days:
http://www.wnymedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1352&Itemid=35
We’ve fixed the double posting. The stie is running slow because of a link from the Drudge Report. When he removes the link, things should return to normal. In the meantime, it’s hard for us to post (and easy to make mistakes like double post).
Comment by Judd — May 25, 2006 @ 4:01 pm
May 25th, 2006 at 5:35 pmThey’re waiting for the movie to come out.
May 25th, 2006 at 6:03 pmKenny Boy goes down!
May 25th, 2006 at 6:32 pmKenny Lay is NO longer important to Bush so he does not care what happens to him now!
May 25th, 2006 at 7:01 pmWhy ask Tony Snow about Ken Lay? Snow is a smooth-talking propagandist and would glibly deny that Bush and Lay ever were close friends at all.
May 25th, 2006 at 7:09 pmTony Snow was given a 20 minute interview yesterday — is he the White House herald – or is he a policy maker? Apparently our illustrious news media think he’s the greatest thing since bottled beer.
It will be interesting to see what President Bush has to say today, given his past denials regarding his long friendship with Lay. After all, when the Enron scandal first exploded, President Bush on January 10, 2002 offered one of the biggest whoppers of his presidency:
“I got to know Ken Lay when he was the head of the-what they call the Governor’s Business Council in Texas. He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994. And she had named him the head of the Governor’s Business Council. And I decided to leave him in place, just for the sake of continuity. And that’s when I first got to know Ken.”
Sadly, a mountain of correspondence between the Bush and Lay suggests otherwise.
For the details, see:
May 25th, 2006 at 8:26 pm“Bush Lies About Ken Lay.”
Corporate Media does not deem the Lay and Skilling convictions newsworthy. The story is therefore not newsworthy. After all, it is old news. It was sooo pre 9/11. 9/11 changed everything. You’re either for us or against us. Ken who? Remember 9/11. Support our troops. WMD’s. Those poor people are so much better off now that Katrina forced them to move to Texas. You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want. Terrorists, enemy combatants! We do not torture people. Secret renditions. Waterboarding. Kenny who? Build a fence! Protect the unborn! Amend the Constitution to prevent gays from getting married! 9/11 changed everything.
9/11 changed everything.
Nine One One Changed Everything.
The conviction of a friend of the Commander-in-Chief for his role in the largest corporate failure in the history of the Country is not worth covering by Corporate Media’s White House Press Corps.
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May 25th, 2006 at 8:46 pmWhat did you expect?
This is official Bush Administration behavior as well as official White Whore-house behavior. They distance themselves from that kind of stuff and the braindead media lets them get away with it.
May 25th, 2006 at 10:08 pmWould you remove the link if you were Drudge?
May 25th, 2006 at 10:31 pmNo mention of Kenron’s good day.
May 25th, 2006 at 10:39 pmTony Snow is prohbited by contract at Faux News from uttering any disparaging words about Enron, Exxon, and energy policy. Cannot blame poor little Snowball for just doing job. Deceiving the public is hard work…
May 26th, 2006 at 8:48 amThe problem with all of you going after Snow, is that you want this Ken Lay story to mean way more than is should.
May 26th, 2006 at 10:11 am#23 This Ken Lay story?!!! What black hole have you got your head in?
May 26th, 2006 at 10:32 am#17 AvengingAngel,
You should at least read what you you use in support of your argument. You posted
“I got to know Ken Lay when he was the head of the-what they call the Governor’s Business Council in Texas. He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994. And she had named him the head of the Governor’s Business Council. And I decided to leave him in place, just for the sake of continuity. And that’s when I first got to know Ken.â€
Sadly, a mountain of correspondence between the Bush and Lay suggests otherwise.
Bush clearly says that he first got to know Ken Lay in 1994. The so-called mountain of correspondence suggesting otherwise comprises of only a handful of letters and mostly several quick-courteous notes to one another—31 correspondences in all—starting in 1995, and ending in 2000 that averages to five a year, or one every two months or so. That’s quite the mountain! And not of it disproves the quote from the president.
May 26th, 2006 at 10:47 amThere’s a demon in the penthouse.
He wears a suit and tie.
He slaps my back and tells me
Of a stock I need to buy.
~
He sells me with his savoir-faire.
It sounds somewhat sublime.
And all the time this bandit has
His broker on the line.
http://www.freesqueeze.com/kenlay.htm
May 26th, 2006 at 10:52 am#24
What black hole have you got your head in?
The one that doesn’t focus on the wrong part of a comment in order to avoid the point. I keep forgeting that I need to be extremely direct with most of you here.
Here’s the reporters question—Tony, the President often mentions corporate crime in his speeches, as recently as yesterday. We’ve had the Enron convictions now over the noon hour. Any comment from the White House?
Here’s Tony’s answer—Well, any comment is that the Justice Department — you know, we congratulate the Justice Department on successfully concluding a highly complex conviction, a set of legal proceedings that led to the convictions today in the Enron case. I mean, the administration has been pretty clear there is no tolerance for corporate corruption. And furthermore, the Justice Department has been going aggressively after those who are involved in corporate corruption.
Here’s ThinkProgress’ spin—0. Number of times Ken Lay’s name was mentioned during today’s White House press gaggle with Tony Snow, which began 30 minutes after the guilty verdict was announced.
Justice had been served, what more needs to said? Does failing to mention Ken Lay diminish Bush’s no tolerence for corporate corruption in any way?
The reporter who asked the question, and ThinkProgress are obviously trying to drag Bush into this when they know it has nothing to do with him.
I doubt that any answer would have sufficed. No matter how Tony Snow answered the question, it would have resulted in the trivial harping you see posted in the above comments.
May 26th, 2006 at 11:19 amHow are you so positive? Are you taking it on blind faith? Has there ever been the slightest investigation? No. This Administration met with Energy Corporations behind closed doors. Kenny Boy was a friend of the President and one of his biggest contributors. Do you know that there were no ethical and/or legal violations occuring in those closed door sessions? Was there some sort of deal cut where the Administration would look the other way while Enron manufactured energy shortages in California?
Or do you just prefer the bliss of ignorance?
If you know that this has nothing to do with Bush, please publish your information and sources. That would settle this debate.
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