Fox News Paid Tom DeLay $14,000

[Rose Siding]

Fox News Pays For DeLay Air Time
11/3/2005 3:07:42 PM
Rep. Tom DeLay 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. Rep. DeLay appeared on Fox News Sunday on October 2, 2005, the weekend after his indictment on September 28, 2005.

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[Zen Democrat]

1. He could have flown on Southwest Airlines for $175.

[rosesaylavee]

2. That's why he is smiling in his mug shot

He's going to make a lot of money from this noteriety. I get it now.

:banghead:

[hopeisaplace]

32. "confirm file delete" lol

very funny, :rofl:

[rosesaylavee]

38. Found it yesterday on DU and it made me laugh...

Welcome to the DU community!

:hi:

[merwin]

3. How does a plane ride cost $14,000?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. Private Jet?

I'm sure Tom wouldn't want to travel with we common folk.

[Jacobin]

11. A Gulfstream V costs $5,100 per hour to charter

You wouldn't want DeLay to be flying around on some old commercial airliner, now would you?

[NJCher]

4. Sam talking about this on AA now

He's interviewing Atrios.




Cher

[Rose Siding]

28. Atrios found out a little more about this- some others do it

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Travel

Glancing through Political Money Line it seems that certain shows - Meet the Press seems to be a big offender - regularly covers travel expenses, though I haven't yet found anything close to Hot Tub Tom's 14 grand of fun. I also haven't found anyone else getting money from Fox News, though that doesn't mean it isn't there.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_10_30_atrios_archive.html#113107318410778962

[MADem]

42. OLBERMANN just reported it; FAUX is worst person in the world! nt

[FreedomAngel82]

5. So did they give any money to Nancy or Harry?

Fair and balanced my ass.

[goclark]

6. Is that legal? nt

[Rose Siding]

19. He declared it on a form- there's a PDF at the link

I tried to copy it, but got all jammed up. (PDF's and I don't get along well)

The form looks to be one he submitted to some congressional office declaring the income. If it were illegal, I doubt even he'd be so brazen.

But it LOOKS horrible! Would Reid take that kind of money from Air America? Boxer was on The Daily Show- I bet she didn't get greased.

[DemoTex]

7. Still whoring, even at the last minute.

Amazing, really!

[Pachamama]

37. Who? Delay or Fox News?

Whose the bigger whore? :eyes:

[Lex]

8. Wow, what other Repukes do Faux News pay THOUSANDS of dollars

to?

The situation with DeLay kind of begs that question.

[Kagemusha]

10. Just understand it's not PAYING DeLay in actual cash.

It's providing a trip with the cash value of $14,000 minus a buck and change.

I can see how people could mistake this for a handover of money, but that's not what happened. It's also not much of a mitigating factor.

I mean uh, what is the news value in this? Or rather is it making the news through making sure DeLay is in a position to do something newsworthy through Fox News' budget?

[Sanity Claws]

13. But how could a trip be valued at the amount?

Yes, I do consider it news worthy.

[Jacobin]

15. A Gulfstream V costs $5,100 per hour to charter

[Sanity Claws]

17. So that's like 2.7 hours on a gulfstream

Why isn't First Class on a commercial liner good enough for him? Seriously. Is he that afraid of coming in touch with the masses that first class is not even good enough for him?

[Kagemusha]

22. Well, I'd love to know.

Why was it so important to get him back to Washington? (And fly him back?)

I bet you some capitol hill staffer is finding out as I type this.

[spooky3]

23. how do you know he didn't spend a night or 2 at the Four

Seasons, and charge several meals (with friends) over the course of a few days to Faux?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Maybe it's just as well. Would you want to be stuck sitting next to DeLay

on an airplane for 3 hours? Especially when you have to assume he'd be the sort of guy who'd hog the arm rest the whole time? And he'd hassle the flight attendants and bitch about the flight being late and blame the airline for the weather. If he took a private jet, at least some other poor, unsuspecting passenger didn't have to sit next to him.

[oxbow]

26. But if Fox news doesn't report it, neither will CNN or MSNBC.

and I'm not holding my breath for that...

[Skink]

14. Hey that's my yearly take home.

[prescole]

16. What are the chances Delay pocketed some of that $14K?

Or more likely, funneled it to one of his launderers.
At the very least, the amount is clearly excessive.

[Rose Siding]

20. I'd be very interested to know if this is standard procedure

Does Russert fly his guest in? I really don't know, but news orgs do make a big deal about not compensating for stories.

[sandnsea]

21. Let me pay you to defend yourself

Gee, wouldn't it be great if everybody who was indicted got a corporate jet to plead their case to the American people. Over and over and over. This is just bullshit. I truly had no idea the media paid for politicians to appear on their shows.

[alittlelark]

31. Well, uh, the fact that a "'Fair and Balanced" news service did this.

Did they do this for any of the 50 or so liberals they interviewed over the last few years?

[bonito]

12. Watching fox is like watching the WWF or what ever it is

Anyhow, eXcuse me! got to get back to my national enquire.

[AlCzervik]

18. Hilarious!! Well now it's out in the open, it's not like we didn't know

Faux Harts Tom Delay.

[Ksec]

24. So government officials are now on Foxs payroll

That should be a crime.

[Ksec]

25. Oh BTW I heard Fox employees are paid peanut wages

compared to legit news services. Im sure the low paid whacko commentators wont mind that Delay was given all that money for a 200 dollar trip. I mean, its an honor to work in this great country after all. They should be happy to work for peanuts. hehe

[CatholicEdHead]

33. Let me guess, "Free Market"?

For their wages? I would also expect unions to be outlawed.

[bunny planet]

27. What the hell cost 14K. Did he stay overnight at the Pierre and order

room service for 10? This guy can't do anything that isn't crooked.

[depakid]

30. If the dems ever retake the whitehouse

and the Congress, their first agenda item needs to be to re-regulate the media. Outfits like Fox news need to be held accountable- or have their licenses yanked.

[unblock]

34. $14,000?? that's a damned liberal lie!!

it was only $13,998.55!

[usregimechange]

35. Kick! Two peas in a pod!

[johnnydrama]

36. darn

If there were only some kind of big metal thing you could put in the sky that would allow somebody in a different part of the world to appear on TV, and talk to a host.

Oh well.

[KharmaTrain]

39. Sorry Kids...No Fire Here...Happens All The Time

Flying for 14Gs? They better have had first class with a lap dance and other "ammenities"...and blame the viewers and advertisers of Faux who paid that money.

News shows and the cable channels generally make special transportation arrangements to make sure their guests are not only on the show, but in the studio at the right time. Most times this means getting them to a local studio and satellite the video...but surely Mike Wallace's kid wanted to gaze into the Bugman's eyes and Roger Ailes wrote the check.

Congressional rules would have been violated if Faux paid this fukstick to appear or had made a payment to his defense fund without disclosing it.

This means nothing...now if you want DeLay trips that DO mean something, let's discuss his trips to Scotland with Mr. Abramoff, Scanlon and others...

[dancingme]

40. Fair & Balanced

would mean that they paid Barbara Boxer $14,000 to fly to DC from TX. Or they paid Ted Kennedy $14,000 to fly to DC from TX.

[RobertSeattle]

41. I love that we can see the ACTUAL documentation - very cool

http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/docs/betterfoxtrip.pdf