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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (222740)	1/28/2002 10:35:58 AM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 769670

I checked into this. Krugman wasn't working for ENE when he wrote about ENE, and told the Times of his previous associations beforehand--unlike William Kristol of the Weekly Standard,who wrote glowingly of ENE while on their payroll. And even if Krugman was being paid by ENE while working for the Times, since when is bashing a company while on their payroll a conflict of interest. If he was being hypocritical, ENE sure wasn't getting much for their money. The issue with Ralph Reed is a bit different because it appears that Bush was complicit in ENE hiring Reed to silence him and keep him off Bush's tail while he was campaigning. I can't help wondering what the reaction might have been to a situation like this if it had been Clinton, since the mere suggestion of possible conflict was treated by the Right as actual corruption on his part. Isn't the mere appearance of impropriety one of the things Bush wanted to avoid right from the beginning?