O’Reilly: “There is also emerging evidence that GE CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, and NBC News Chief Jeff Zucker, told CNBC personnel to stop criticizing Obama’s economic policies. Now, that would be a major breach of journalistic ethics. In fact, Obama critic Rick Santelli was reported to have said that he was sent to a “Re-education camp” by NBC. “
An O’Reilly Factor producer and GE stockholder, Jesse Watters, asked GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt the following question at a stockholders’ meeting in Florida: “Last week on MSNBC, Janeane Garofalo, said that Americans who attended tea parties and were protesting high taxes and government spending were racist rednecks. She was not challenged by the anchor on MSNBC. Are you okay with that? And do you consider this a form of hate speech sir?”
Immelt’s response: “Again, we have not censored MSNBC. Again, my own personal beliefs aside, I believe that MSNBC has some standards that they follow and that’s what you are seeing.
Watters: With all due respect, this is the kind of hate that MSNBC traffics in on a regular basis. Are you comfortable with this and do you think this hurts the GE brand?
Immelt: I don’t censor what they do or what they say despite the fact that I might disagree with some of it or much of it, some of the time.
O’Reilly: “Most CEOs would have stopped NBC’s corruption a long time ago. But Immelt may be looking for a major payout. When a powerful corporation which controls a major part of the American media may be using its power and the airwaves to influence politics in order to make money from government contracts - That kind of corruption would make Watergate look small.”
TDC asks: Why would GE CEO Immelt put his own beliefs aside when GE owns MSNBC? He wouldn’t. However, he would choose to do nothing about this hate speech if he is trying to get into Obama’s good graces.
...The USSA is being born.
It drove me crazy that T Bone Pickens was pushing for Obama during the campaign and pushing for his GE wind farm investments at the same time.
Nancy Pelosi is also an investor in GE Windfarms and should be prosecuted for insider trading.
Yeah, O’Reilly gets all animated on this issue because he lost his ass with the GE stock decline. So O’Reilly’s gonna stay after this guy. But he’ll softpedal other issues to make sure he remains in good stead with the hosts of The View, the Oprah show, and any other left-leaning weasel outfit. Sellout.
As far as GE goes think “Cap and Trade” AND GE Windmills. Get the picture?
With all due respect, media bias is not “staggering corruption.”
I think it has ALWAYS been clear that GE is USING MSNBC to push their own corporate interests.
They are using MSNBC to sell their “smart grid”.
They are using MSNBC to sell MAJOR industrial projects like windmill farms and building power line infrastructure.
MSNBC is just “in kind” bartering.
WHY ELSE would they have totally hamstrung CNBC?
They even had peopel this morning singing the “dear leader praise songs” regarding the faux stress tests. Passing the stress test means you took and KEPT tarp money, surprise surprise.
Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
Or "journalistic ethics"