Posted on 11/15/2008 6:33:15 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Is MSNBC being rewarded for having supported Obama? That's what Jim Pinkerton suggests. On this evening's Fox News Watch, the columnist and New America Foundation fellow cited the news that GE Capital, a subsidiary of MSNBC's parent company GE, has received a $139 billion government loan guarantee.
Host Jon Scott opened this evening's show opened with a clip of Chris Matthews [in a story that NB was first to report], saying that he saw as his "job" making the Obama presidency a success. Pinkerton unloaded.
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Quid pro quo...
Bus and Obama working together for a Communist America. Redistribution of wealth, the formation of the slave state.
Actually, that’s more of the fascist model, than the communist one.
The Soviets owned all the means of production, lock stock and barrel.
The Fascists, both Italian and German National Socialist varieties, controlled businesses via gov’t regulation. They maintained the illusion of private ownership.
I guess I must have missed Obama’s inauguration.....
I would love to see a law passed that any recipient of gov’t bailout money must limit the salary and compensation of ALL employees (including subsidiaries) to $500,000. Since the President only gets $400,000 - why should some idiot talking head make more than the President, if gov’t money is keeping the guy’s company from going down the drain?
Imagine if Keith Olberjerk and Chrissy Matthews were told that their pay was being cut WAY back, as part of Obama’s plan to heal America!!!
“You bail us out, we facilitate your election as President.”
We’re well on our way to being a “banana republic”.
Or even worse...France.
More hanky panky from the demonRATS!
“Quid pro quo...”
I hadn’t considered that angle. Makes complete sense to me and explains a lot.
Regardless of ideological bias on the part of its reporters, mainstream media was bought, pure and simple.
Why the inflammatory, condescending “search much?” link to the previous post of same article? All you have to do is say this article is previously posted and thus avoid being a jerk about it..
That would have the Feds interfere with the ability of companies to sell stock, and interfere with the ability of consumers to buy stocks. Bad idea!!
What I was proposing is a requirement that to receive federal dollars - salaries are capped - perhaps 1.25 times the President’s salary. If a company doesn’t like the limitation - don’t accept government money.
Heck - think of applying that concept to sports teams. Players who play in publicly financed stadiums should have their salary capped (or 100% taxation on salaries above the maximum) ....and if they don’t like the limits on their earnings, maybe there would be pressure on team management to not push for new stadiums built with taxpayer dollars!!
The msnbc business case is still pretty weak!
How do 14 primetime viewer justify the expense?
Corporation were created by government., therefore the government can set the rules and it would have no interference with the ability to sell stock. Actually it would have the opposite effect, and improve return on investment. I should also add that corporations were invented to spread risk and to make money for the investor. They were not invented for day gambling on the stock market.
People vote with their money whether are not the team are individual makes money, same with actors. Nealy a true democracy. Therefore the comparison is stupid.
GE, has received a $139 billion government loan guarantee/from?
This is disgusting.
Time for a house cleaning...
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