DeLay appearance cost Fox $14,000

[SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman 1/27, AUTHOR: Chuck Lindell]
Four days after former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's stunning indictment last September in Travis County (TX), the political talk show "Fox News Sunday" trumpeted an exclusive interview with the combative Texas Republican. Unsaid, but revealed in documents Rep DeLay later filed in the U.S. House, was that the Oct. 2 appearance cost Fox News $14,000. The money rented a private jet to ferry DeLay from a small airport near his Sugar Land home to Fox studios in Washington. The next day, after engaging in a give and take with host Chris Wallace, DeLay and his Capitol Police security detail were flown back to suburban Houston. Amid mounting interest in when and why corporations pay for congressional travel, one small slice of Washington's ways has escaped notice -- media companies themselves sometimes foot the bill. The Sunday morning news shows routinely pay travel costs, from car fare to airfare, to get politicians into their studios, a review of congressional disclosure forms shows. But chartering expensive jets to amuse a few million political junkies is rare.
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