Endgame

It's headlines like this that erally make me wonder what dimension the "liberal media" people are in. A liberal news reporter definately would not frame the Enron verdict like this:

Lay turns to God and family after guilty verdict

Thu May 25, 2006
By Dan Whitcomb

HOUSTON (Reuters) - When the guilty verdicts came down, former Enron chief Ken Lay turned to God and family.

Lay, the son of a preacher who has long maintained his innocence to fraud and conspiracy charges in the energy giant's collapse, was convicted on Thursday along with former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling of concealing the energy' giant's crumbling finances as it spiraled toward bankruptcy in 2001.

Before the jury arrived in the courtroom, the man once hailed by Wall Street as a business visionary shook hands with Skilling when the former Enron executive came into the chamber.

Lay then bowed his head, eyes closed, and appeared to pray as the eight-woman, four-man jury entered the courtroom to deliver the verdicts that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Lay, 64, slumped and shook his head, his sobbing wife Linda clutching his arm tightly, as U.S. District Judge Sim Lake read off the jury's decision.

Family members of both men wept throughout the rest of the hearing as Lake set sentencing for the week of September 11.

Skilling left the courtroom quickly after the verdicts were read but Lay, told by the judge that he could not leave the building until he had surrendered his passport, remained in court, surrounded by members of his family.

"God's got another plan right now," Lay could be heard telling each of his five children and other family members.

Honestly, this spin is simply disgusting. So what if Kenny is a PK (Preacher's Kid)? That doesn't make him any better than the rest of us, but maybe I hung out with the wrong people. The guy got nailed for, at best, being incompetent and asleep at the switch and at worst, swindling shareholders out of millions of dollars. Could the media be brought out of their stupor long enough to understand that overt acts of piety (ie: loud praying and moaning) doesn't always equate to real piety. It looks good on TV, but that's not reality.