DesertFox
05-27-2006, 10:53 PM
Stephen Spruiell
NRO
26 May 06
Howard Fineman has written an op-ed asserting that the convictions of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling mark "the end of the Bush era in American life." A Media Blog reader looked for evidence to support this assertion and found that Fineman didn't really provide any: This is one of the most astonishing opinion pieces I've ever read. The title is "How Enron Tarnishes the Bush Era." I read it expecting (hoping?) to at least see some evidence and argument supporting the title. Fineman starts out well with caveats about how President Bush was not close to Enron's executives; how the Bush administration didn't bail out Enron before it collapsed, and how Enron started cooking the books during the "go-go Clinton years." Caveats out of the way, what do we get as evidence supporting the piece's title? The following:
More (http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjU2ZTMzODQzMGFlOTkwZDk2Yzk5M2I0MGU1YTcyNDQ=)
NRO
26 May 06
Howard Fineman has written an op-ed asserting that the convictions of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling mark "the end of the Bush era in American life." A Media Blog reader looked for evidence to support this assertion and found that Fineman didn't really provide any: This is one of the most astonishing opinion pieces I've ever read. The title is "How Enron Tarnishes the Bush Era." I read it expecting (hoping?) to at least see some evidence and argument supporting the title. Fineman starts out well with caveats about how President Bush was not close to Enron's executives; how the Bush administration didn't bail out Enron before it collapsed, and how Enron started cooking the books during the "go-go Clinton years." Caveats out of the way, what do we get as evidence supporting the piece's title? The following:
More (http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjU2ZTMzODQzMGFlOTkwZDk2Yzk5M2I0MGU1YTcyNDQ=)