Whats the big deal about Halliburton anyways?
Its quite simple, actually.
Halliburton is the parent company of KBR Engineering and Construction (Kellogg, Brown and Root), a subsidiary of Halliburton; just as General Motors is the parent company of Saturn Corporation, a subsidiary of General Motors.
Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton for several years, just like Dick Wagoner is the CEO of General Motors. Dick Cheney was not the CEO of KBR, and just as well, Wagoner is not the CEO of Saturn Corporation. Saturn has its own corporate officers who run the company, as does KBR. They are independent business units, with one owning a controlling interest in the other (usually stock); wholly or in part.
If one wanted to report on allegations of wrong-doing by the Saturn Corporation, not a single professional journalist in the country would make the sophomoric and amateur mistake of
incorrectly dropping the name of Dick Wagoner into the report, since Wagoner is
not head of the Saturn Corporation,
Annette Clayton is, while never mentioning Clayton's name. Nor would the press habitually refuse to call the company accused of wrong-doing by its name - Saturn Corporation - but instead refer to it exclusively as the subsidiary "owned by Dick Wagoner's company".
Apparently, however, this would pass for journalism if Dick Wagoner were a Republican, became Vice President of the United States, and the majority of journalists who report their own political persuasions as Democratic or liberal were just
itching to associate Wagoner with the slightest impropriety of the Saturn Corporation.
Now you understand what the big deal is about Halliburton?
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