Old Time DUers: Remember Lee Bass and Harken Energy?

[Junkdrawer]

Well, it seems the Bass family now owns WHNT-TV in Huntsville, Alabama...

The very same station that just "accidentally" blacked out the 60 Minutes story on Karl Rove's political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Small World, huh?

Tip of the hat to DUer Syrinx
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2918171&mesg_id=2918413

Here's a link to the Harken Energy story from 2002....
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0210/S00178.htm

[AX10]

1. K & R!

I know who Lee Bass is.
And I have been at DU only since 2005.

[Junkdrawer]

2. We filled up pages and pages of stuff during the Enron scandal....

That was during the days when we actually thought that if we could prove Dubya was guilty of insider trading, we could get him impeached.

How naive we were...

[FogerRox]

3. Meet another member of the Bush Crime Family

[Solly Mack]

4. K/R

[samplegirl]

5. 2006 Forbes Magazine.. . Lee Bass

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/NUU5.html

[Hissyspit]

6. Ooh, it was so effin' deliberate. No question now.

[Forkboy]

7. Nice catch by Syrinx.

Now, excuse me while I :puke:

[salin]

8. Excellent catch...

interesting... the message on their website, apparently, blames the feed out of New York and claims that they are working both on the problem, and on a way to "rebroadcast" the segment. Er - they must think Alabamans are stupid - because if it were a feed from NYC problem - the problem would have happened across the country. I don't doubt that they will rebroadcast (probably at 2 am so no one sees it) so that they have the cover to give the appearance that they were acting in good faith (ala: we showed it as soon as we were able to, but we did show it, which means that we weren't trying to prevent people from seeing it...)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

9. K & R.

:kick:

[KoKo]

10. Now...if we had a REAL FCC.. ..something might be done about this...

but any FOB like Bass always gets a pass. This is really disgusting, though. And..that they thought they'd get away with it!

[frog92969]

11. K&R

[wiggs]

12. Everyone should read the Harken Energy link. nt