Shareholders ‘Boo’ Immelt: GE & ‘NBCs’ in Bed with Obama
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WedNEWSday - May 6th, 2009
Recently on Keith Olbermann’s show on MSNBC, a one-time aspiring actress named Janeane Garofalo offered up the following incendiary comments to describe her view of the real meaning of the nation-wide tax day TEA Parties held on April 15th, 2009.
“This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of …rednecks,” Garofalo said.
At a recent meeting of GE shareholders, CEO Jeffrey Immelt was asked some tough follow-up questions. The questions came from GE shareholder and Bill O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters, as he asked Immelt about his thoughts on Janeane Garofalo’s recent hate speech.
“Last week on MSNBC Janeane Garofalo said that Americans who attended tea parties and were protesting high taxes and government spending were racist rednecks,” he said. “She was not challenged by the anchor on MSNBC. Are you OK with that and do you consider this a form of hate speech?”
Immelt couldn’t answer the question immediately as Watters (who didn’t identify himself) was applauded by stakeholders for the question.
“My own personal beliefs aside, I believe that MSNBC has some standards that they follow and that’s what you are seeing,” Immelt said.
But unlike Watters, Immelt was greeted with boos.
Watters kept going. “Withall due respect, this is the kind of hate that MSNBC traffics on a regular basis. Are you comfortable with this and do you think this hurts the GE brand?” he asked — again to applause.
“Again, we’re in the network business,” Immelt answered. “We compete with FOX News, MSNBC, and others. Again, 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.”
Was Immelt a bit flustered? Perhaps, as he didn’t remember that he doesn’t compete with MSNBC he is MSNBC. In addition to being NBC, and MSNBC, GE is also CNBC (the business news channel) which reportedly had been reigned in by Immelt as too many of the ‘capitalist pigs’ who appear on CNBC haven’t been big fans of Obama’s socialist economic policies. Rick Santelli was said to have been forced into a “re-education camp;” after his on-air rant opposing Obama administration policies.
Deneen Borelli, also had tough questions for Immelt directed specifically toward the censoring of those on CNBC and the suspect business practices of GE. Tom Borelli recounted the series of events on his blog at Free Enterprise Project:
The Hollywood Reporter described the events at yesterday’s GE shareholder meeting in its story “Drama at GE Shareholder Meeting.”
In addition, here is our first hand account from yesterday’s meeting. Deneen is my wife.
Censorship and limited government was a theme at the General Electric (GE) shareholder meeting in Orlando, FL.
Deneen had the opportunity to ask the first question, directed at GE CEO Jeff Immelt. She inquired whether he tried to silence anti-Obama criticism on CNBC as it was reported in the media. The New York Post reported that GE executives were concerned that CNBC was perceived as too critical of President Obama. Immelt responded that he does not interfere with the opinions of his networks even though he doesn’t necessarily agree with them.
Deneen’s concern is Immelt will do anything to preserve a favorable relationship with Obama in order to sell GE’s green technologies. At some point in Deneen’s dialogue with Immelt, Deneen’s microphone was shut off.
I told Immelt he was not only a threat to shareholders but also to liberty and limited government. I reminded Immelt that the company’s stock was underperforming the stock market before the economic crisis.
I advised Immelt that we have an online petition that encourages GE never to trade with enemies, to stop pursuing cap-and-trade legislation that would raise energy prices, and that he uses his media empire to advance his agenda.
I also told Immelt that “We surround you” and that it was time for a “GE Tea Party” to reign in this out of control corporation.
GE’s initial response was to simply cut off the microphones of Watters and Borelli - certainly not surprising and typical of propagandists. GE stands to rake in billions of dollars if cap and trade, the greatest scam in the history of the world, becomes a reality.
This from The Christian Science Monitor - April 24th, 2009
This from NewBusters - April 23rd, 2009
This from Politico - April 23rd, 2009
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0409/GE_execs_questioned_about_MSNBC_slant.html
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