Did Tom Kean LIE To Media About Not Being A Paid Consultant To 9/11 Film?

[kpete]

Disney/ABC consultant Tom Kean lie to the media about not being a paid consultant to 9/11 film?
by John in DC - 9/08/2006 04:37:00 PM

In today's New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/washington/08film.html we learn that there is a possibility Kean will be receiving a fee for his work on the film:

Mr. Kean, who called Mr. Clinton a good friend, said it was outrageous to suggest he was being swayed by money or politics, and added that any fee he received would be donated to charity.

Clearly some possibility of Kean receiving payment for his consulting still existed, or Kean wouldn't have had to offer to give the money to charity.

Yet just yesterday afternoon, on a radio interview with Sirius satellite radio, Kean told Michelangelo Signorile categorically that he was not a paid consultant to the film.

SIGNORILE: People are very confused then as to why you had signed your name to this ABC docu-drama as a paid consultant...

KEAN: Well, first of all, I'm not paid consultant.

So, is Kean or isn't Kean a paid consultant to this project? Did he or didn't he plan to make money off of September 11 and his role in the Commission? Did Kean lie to the NYT when he implied he might be paid for the work, or did he lie to Michelangelo Signorile when he stated categorically that he wasn't being paid a dime for the work? If Kean "wasn't a paid consultant" then there would be no reason for him to tell the NYT only a few hours later than any consulting fees he received would go to charity - since there wouldn't be any. Or was Kean trying to mislead Signorile by claiming he wasn't a paid consultant because he was going to give the money to charity - which then begs the question of when Kean decided to give the proceeds to charity.

more at:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/disneyabc-consultant-tom-kean-lie-to.html

[AX10]

1. Kean is trying to help his son win a Senate seat in NJ.

[madison]

3. Kean: "No, he was out campaigning against my son"

Until today, although he KNEW some scenes were outright lies and in contradiction to the 9/11 Commission's own report,Tom Kean (former New Jersey governor and ex co-chair of the 9/11 Commission) claimed the movie was fine.

He defended it.

Now, caught red-handed covering up for the lies and fabrications, Kean gives us the REAL REASON he is participating in this hogwash:

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** Asked if he had apologized to Clinton for inaccuracies in the movie, Kean quipped, "No, he was out campaigning against my son yesterday, so I didn't reach out to him at all!"

Kean's son is a GOP Senate candidate in New Jersey.**
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http://www.nydailynews.com/09-08-2006/news/story/450443p-379111c.html


I see ... if Clinton campaigns FOR Robert Menendez (a Democrat, who is the current New Jersey senator and Tom Kean Junior's rival for the senate seat, Tom 'The Father' Kean feels FREE to be a part of a movie intended to destroy Clinton.

So much for Tom Kean's reputation as a "decent" guy.

He is a sleaze bag just like all the other Republicans.

BTW, Bush was in New Jersey campaigning for Kean Junior, but that of course is okay by Republican standards ... but if Clinton campaigns for the Democrat, he is FAIR GAME and Kean should feel free to participate in smearing Clinton <sneer>.

No, there will be no apology forthcoming from Tom Kean or his little boy Tom Kean Junior, because they are Republicans and Republicans have NO SHAME.

[Hugin]

6. Oh, so there is a RW connection to this "Path" crapola!

Amazing... Simply Amazing!

[NewInNewJ.]

2. Don't have a link, but MSNBC had on the crawl line that he was paid.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Is "consultant" too specific a job title on a film?

Don't they give out "producer" credits like Halloween candy?

[Jacobin]

5. He's probably too embarrassed to say who paid him.

Probably a fundie front group

[Pathwalker]

7. He is a CO-Executive producer of this filth.

Did he give his payment for THAT to charity???