Chris Matthews [in a story that NB was first to report], saying that he saw as his "job" making the Obama presidency a success.
JIM PINKERTON: Well, Matthews is entitled to his opinion, although if he wants to run for the Senate in Pennsylvania in 2010 as has been widely reportedhe should resign and not have a platform on the air.
But I think that the overall culture of MSNBC was established when they changed their slogan, post-election, to "The Power of Change" [another story NB was first to report]. Now, that sounds a little bit familiar to the Obama campaign "Change We Can Believe In." Maybe that's not an accident.
But of course, I think the big story here, I think it goes right to what MSNBC's up to as a strategy, is the news that the FDIC, which is now following election returns, is guaranteeing $139 billion of General Electric Capital debt. That's General Electric Capital, as in General Electric, which is the parent company of MSNBC, CNBC, NBC. Now, for a $139 billion guarantee, I'd consider, I'd probably go more, I'd probably go all the way over to the Olbermann/Maddow territory. $139 billion.
The panel got off a good chuckle. But if Pinkerton is right, and news networks are being rewarded for favorable coverage of the incoming administration, we've entered a very bad new era indeed. Note: Some might ask why the FDIC, still a part of the Bush administration, would reward an Obama-backing network. But Pinkerton suggested that the FDIC has its eyes on the prospects of who will next be in power. Note Deux: Interviewed by this NewsBuster after the show aired, Pinkerton observed:
I think that MSNBC made a fundamental strategic decision to go left, to let Keith Olbermann re-brand the network. And it worked, big time.
The Wall Street meltdown could not have been foreseen.
But sometimes, one just gets lucky. MSNBC and its sister, GE Capital, and its parent, GE, must be thanking their lucky stars, thinking that "Olbermann-ization" worked out a lot better than they could have managed.
Although I am sure that they also think that they have earned it!
Smells like poltical corruption & payoffs.Much like many stinking things done lately.
( bet more then a few billion in $$$/contracts to green up the goverments buildings etc went to them also - a part of that first stink/ stickit to us stimulus program to_)
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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
- Horace Greeley
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
If they are going to paint Barry Golden, they are going to need a lot of primer and many, many coats of paint because his stupidity will keep bleeding through!
How do you like your tax dollars going to reward MSNBC for painting Obama golden?
