Another for the Freepers - Enron video

[pdx_prog]

This is one of my ALL TIME favorites. Hopefully our 2004 candidate can get his/her hands on this video!


Dec. 19, 2002, 6:07PM
Skits for Enron ex-executive funny then, but full of irony now
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Video: Enron executive Rich Kinder's "goodbye" videotape

TIMING IS EVERYTHING in humor, but the jokes told by a few former Enron executives on a recently surfaced videotape border on bad taste in light of the events of the past year.
The tape, made for the January 1997 going-away party for former Enron President Rich Kinder, features nearly 30 minutes of absurd skits, songs and testimonials by company executives and prominent Houstonians. The collection is all meant in good fun, but some of the comments are ironic in the current climate of corporate scandal.
In one skit, former administrative executive Peggy Menchaca plays the part of Kinder as he receives a budget report from then-President Jeff Skilling, who plays himself, and financial planning executive Tod Lindholm. When the pretend Kinder expresses doubt that Skilling can pull off 600 percent revenue growth for the coming year, Skilling reveals how it will be done.
"We're going to move from mark-to-market accounting to something I call HFV, or hypothetical future value accounting," Skilling jokes as he reads from a script. "If we do that, we can add a kazillion dollars to the bottom line."
Richard Causey, the former chief accounting officer who was embroiled in many of the business deals named in the indictments of other Enron executives, makes an unfortunate joke later on the tape.

Handout photo Joe Sutton and Rebecca Mark, two executives credited with leading Enron on an international buying spree, do a painfully awkward rap on a videotape of skits and jokes made for former Enron President Rich Kinder's 1997 going-away party.

"I've been on the job for a week managing earnings, and it's easier than I thought it would be," Causey says, referring to a practice that is frowned upon by securities regulators. "I can't even count fast enough with the earnings rolling in."
Texas' political elite also take part in the tribute, with then-Gov. George W. Bush pleading with Kinder: "Don't leave Texas. You're too good a man."
Former President George Bush also offers a send-off to Kinder, thanking him for helping his son reach the Governor's Mansion.
"You have been fantastic to the Bush family," he says. "I don't think anybody did more than you did to support George."
Tom Fowler

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. and look how that disappeard off the media radar

geez.. and to think if it were clinton on that tape.... :shrug:

[pdx_prog]

2. I know....

And where the heck is Kenny boy these days?...:)

[mistertrickster]

3. In that same bunker with Cheney--it was part of the secret energy

deal--the one "classified" for your protection . . .