’)Fox News, and their partner in crime, Tom DeLay
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) “filed a report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives indicating he received free travel valued at $13,998.55 from Fox News Sunday for ‘officially connected travel’ on October 1-2, 2005, from Sugarland, TX to Washington, D.C. and back to Sugarland, TX.
NOW he discloses what he does..Fox must have used the corporate Jumbo jet to rack up those fees for a 1500 mile flight.
How about a little context? Is this unusual or unethical? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was common…I don’t know, but “OOh, somebody paid for his plane ticket” is meaningless without a little background information about the process.
Obviously another secret plot to take over America…
I think the point is more like “somebody paid $14,000 for his plane ticket.”
It sounds like a lot, but I guess I can see it. DeLay and maybe his wife and an aide and a media advisor. First class, walk up price, plus hotel, plus top-notch meals. It can all add up quickly.
At the same time, imagine that CBS paid a similar amount to fly Harry Reid somewhere. No problem?
Quaker…
I think you nailed the costing. I’ve had to fly next-day for business, and was quoted crazy $1800 fares to fly coach from Baltimore to Cleveland.
Regarding Reid: yes, no problem. CBS and FOX are paying these guy’s expenses for their own business purposes. For them, it’s not an unreasonable cost to get a big name on the show. The only question for me is whether it’s proper for the two gentlemen to claim it as official travel. I for one wouldn’t mind because I assume they would talk policy on the air. I would expect that evening talk shows do that all the time for other types of personalities, so why not politicians?
If you are looking at Fox vs. CBS or Rep vs. Dem or something like that, I have no interest in that. For one thing, I can’t imagine why one network would turn down a chance to air either of these gentlemen.
I’m glad you see it that way. I do too.
On the other hand, if something like that happened, I don’t think we’d have much trouble finding blog posts denouncing it as a sign of “liberal bias” on the part of CBS or corruption on the part of Mr. Reid.
Quaker…
On the other hand…
Well, this thread was no fun.
Sorry. Maybe we’ll feel more stridently partisan some other day.
forgot the link. Motherfuckers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110300999.html?nav=hcmodule
I hope the Scrooge McDucks who aprove of this crap have their Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon allocations cut in half. Venal, swineherding, avaricious anti-Christs, every one.
The food stamp cuts in the House measure would knock nearly 300,000 people off nutritional assistance programs, including 70,000 legal immigrants, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [...]
About 40,000 children would lose eligibility for free or reduced-price school lunches, the CBO estimated. [...]
A separate House measure would scale back federal administrative aid to state child-support enforcement programs, saving the federal government nearly $5 billion over five years but potentially cutting child-support collections even more. [...]
Still another House provision would roll back a court-ordered expansion of foster care support, denying foster care payments to relatives who take in children removed from their parents’ homes by court order. That provision would reduce the coverage of foster care payments to about 4,000 children a month and cut $397 million from the program through 2010, the CBO said. [...]
So, the ReidMeister girds up his loins, picks up his sword and shield for battle, and while he’s trying to hold sessions in camera… Wham – O!
Those vile, nefarious, satanic Republicans sneak in a whopping $7 billion (average) annual cut in a nearly trillion dollar budget.