This is an example of when a corporation backs a political agenda. GE is pro Obama and pro leftist. Even before the 2008 election GE, via NBC/MSNBC, was undermining the Iraq war effort to help democrats. In 2006 they declared that Iraq was in a civil war. They never changed it even when the situation stabilized. From 2005 on at MSNBC, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews were supporting the Iranian regime. Anyone who suggested military action on Iran was smeared and attacked. It turned out GE has business with Iran. The blood of Americans are on GE’s hands.
It’s a very dangerous situation when any huge multinational corporation wages war against media companies. Especially when that huge multinational corporation is General Electric, which itself owns a media company, NBC Universal, and it’s using all its power and influence and money to try to harm another media company, Nielsen, and Nielsen Business Media, and its trade publication The Hollywood Reporter. This certainly sounds like a situation which the FCC, and the FTC, and the U.S. Justice Department should be investigating. Just one problem: the controversy stems from GE/NBCU’s coverage of President Obama. Here’s what happened:
According to my sources inside and outside Nielsen Business Media, The Hollywood Reporter trade publication ran a storyTHR’s West Coast Business Editor Paul Bond wasn’t sent to the meeting, but he interviewed about half a dozen people who’d been inside the shareholders meeting and told him what transpired (see below). Bond’s THR story focused on the attempts by stockholders and Fox News Channel and other media to find out whether or not GE Chairman/CEO Jeffrey Immelt ordered his news operations to be less critical of President Obama and his policies. dated April 22nd and updated on April 24th covering the “drama” at the most recent GE shareholders meeting in Orlando.
When the democrats are voted out of office, conservatives and libertarians should investigate GE for ties to Islamic terror. GE is an enemy of this nation and should be treated as such. Is this a company that deserves a tax break? I say no. This company needs to be broken up and sold off. They are traitors and its time to call them out.
Tags: Corporatism, GE, Iranian regime
Downright treasonous, though no surprise.
Federal strong-arm tactics. The Chicago Way. Thank you soooo much, you 52%ers. I hope at least 10% of you enjoy the shit sandwich you voted for. (A 10% swing will make in easier in 2010/2012.)
rodan,
ge clearly has been a cheerleader for zero and clearly has a conflict of interest re: green power, etc. these are legitimate griveances that should have the public loudly calling for a state a.g. and/or the feds to investigate. however, to assert “GE [for] ties to Islamic terror” is unfounded and undercuts your argument. ge sells arms to ISRAEL for cryin’ out loud. please keep the focus on the crap that’s clearly and openly out there, not what may or may not exist in some hypothetical …
/jmo
re: #3 by Buckaroo
O’Reilly exposed GE’s Iran ties. This explains why NBC/MSNBC was attacking anyone who discussed attacking Iran. Even though they sell arms to Israel doesn’t give them a pass.
yet another lie of the left: conservatives are owned by big business.
looks like liberals are.
small business is crushed by business tax hikes. giant corps aren’t, especially if they offshore assets
Investigate G-fucking-E for ties to terrorism?
General Electric is the 14th largest defense contractor in the US and reported 4.5 billion dollars in defense revenue in 2007. [Source]
This is a company that was convicted of fraud for conspiring with Israel to aide the Israeli’s in obtaining military jet engines.
How you get from a subsidiary playing politics with the news to the parent corporation being an “an enemy of this nation” is beyond me.
Good thing NBC and MSNBC are losing the ratings war to other networks. Even Leno said that he did not expect NBC to be around much longer.
The MSM is a fifth column
re: #5 by LanceKates
Wasn’t Glenn Beck on the radio the other day talking about Corporatism it’s funny how often Glenn is correct.
Sorry bumped this post here as it belonged more here…
Are any of you bothered by Miller beer commercials with the arrogant blimp beer truck driver pushing the rich vs everyone else mantra? God knows there are some whose characters are correctly portrayed in these commercials as “floppy-hat”,hoity-toity, elites who have never done an oz. of real work in their life, but give me a break. Does their drinking Miller (they wouldn’t be) really constitute the rest of us not being able to find a cold one for ourselves at a good price?
Is “the rich need to be bullied” theme here really good marketing? I assume it is selling as the theme with the blimp turned judge, jury, and executioner has been around for at least a couple years now. Anyone want to bet you could just as easily caricature the producer behind these commercials as some sniveling liberal?
Miller also figured prominently, if you remember, in the Pro-illegal alien rallys.
In any case, maybe one commercial with this theme is funny…but a couple years? Sorry…part of me wants to play the part of Polo grounds security where I have blimp boy cuffed, face down, next to his beer truck, in some recently dropped pile of horse apples with my knee on his back, and blimpy yelling in a high pitched voice, “Don’t taze me bro…Don’t taze me bro”…but thats just me.
Bottom line, using political propaganda to sell product does not sit well with me unless that product is political. (Funny, this is the same reason I do not watch the network news)
Wait…maybe thats not the bottom line…Hey Miller! How about a commercial having Blimp-Boy crash through the back door of some crack house where there is a bunch of people hangin who also have never done an oz. of real work in their lives unless stealing, selling drugs, or leeching off their mommys, constitutes work. I can see it now, Blimp-Boy first walking through a kitchen and pointing his uniformed cronies to a couple cases in their brown bags still on the counter amongst dirty dishes and mice feces and below cupboards whose doors are all open because it was too much work to close them. He then bursts into the living room where a knee bumps a table full of mostly empty miller bottles, overfilled ashtrays, various baggies, a 9MM, a wad of cash, and a stack or recently stolen CDs. A head lurches up from a bong, two 15yo girls sit on a couch with whoreish makeup and dark lines beneath their eyes, and 7 or so others are lying around in various states of consciousness with most holding a Miller or a cigarette, or both. There is a cooler next to the table with 5 bottles floating in cold water… Blimp-boy grabs one bottle from the hand of one miscreant just as he is about to open it and plops it in cooler. Almost in the same motion, he scoops the cooler up saying “No no no…ya’ll just don’t deserve the High Life…No no no”. How about that? Wonder what their security guard will do?
re: #9 by BBEV
Discussing Rollerball, in fact.
In the future, there will be no wars. Only Rollerball.
re: #11 by bp_sf
I missed that one, I’m sorry I did
re: #10 by whatfur
Sorry, but that’s a stretch. I love those commercials, the guy is perfect for the role. It’s not about class warfare, it’s about expensive box seats filled with naifs and the tools who pay 10 bucks for a bottled water. He’s messing with them not because they’re ‘rich” but because they’re stupid.
re: #13 by Herndon
A good role for one or maybe 2 commercials but 2 years. Give me an effing break.
Actually the “naifs and tools” could care less what the bottled water costs.
And if it was just the “stupid” part then why the same type of stupid people? You know, the rich kind. I think you have been effectively bamboozled. Some things are more subtle than subliminal. In other words, Miller has effectively “messed” with you too. What made that possible? You rich?
Well someone has it right, The big “0″ is doing his best to kill the one and only friend in the neighborhood.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/05/its-beginning-again
re: #14 by whatfur
I have never bought bottled water, stupid is as stupid does.
Thank God I do not have GE stock. Years ago to own GE stock was akin to owning a big mutual fund.
re: #14 by whatfur
I think you’re looking for political motives where none exist. I think you’ve been bamboozled into believing that everyone is trying to politically manipulate you. You should chill and take some things (particularly TV commercials) a bit less seriously. You’ll be happier for it.
re: #18 by Herndon
I have to disagree with you on this remember the masses are asses
#18 Herndon
I actually hope you are right…but I certainly have my doubts. Hardly affects my happiness but thank you for your concern.
This is absurd… are you seriously calling G-fucking-E terrorist abettors and “traitors”?
General Electric is the 14th largest U.S. defense contractor and billed some 4.5 billion defense related dollars in 2007. The General Electric Corporation is privy to some of the most sensitive information that there is to be had anywhere on the planet. One would hope that the usual security precautions are in place and those in a position to harm us have been thoroughly vetted.
GE leadership has been convicted of fraud for illegally helping Israel obtain sophisticated military jet engines. As I recall, back in the 90’s, this was quite the little controversy with the most ardent of Israels supporters lining up squarely behind GE and the Israeli military. GE has never been accused of trading with our enemies or their agents — the exception to this would be when our enemies were our friends and in that case, every defense contractor is guilty of the same with the full collusion of the federal government.
There is a huge difference between a media subsidiary playing politics with the news and the parent corporation committing treason. It might make more sense to focus on bias in the media rather than trying to root out hypothetical terror cells in our boardrooms. If you are truly curious, I would suggest a bit of research about what “news” programming is produced by the entertainment divisions of these companies and who is buying time on these quasi-news programs.
re: #22 by fultonchain
I gotta kinda agree with you. I don’t view GE as Jihadi-light.
I do think that they are purposely moving America to the left via their news subsidiaries.
I do believe that dealing with Iran is a horrible move for GE, but I don’t put them in Terrorist range.
I think they’re trying to make a buck and they don’t care who that buck comes from.
Bonehead move…. but definitely not knowing terrorist supporter.
I leave that for the likes of folks like Kerry, Murtha and Durbin.
Unfortunately, GE goes away and we are pretty much left with Germany’s Siemens.