GE, CNBC, MSNBC Curruption

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If this is true then America has truly hit rock bottom in terms of our Media. Again Congress has setup nothing in terms of oversight and money is flowing freely. Congress has failed America again. The liberals in Congress have given your money to those that caused this financial collapse and in return you are getting nothing. The first half of the money has already been handed out and there is no return on it, lending freezes are still in place and the people are suffering for it.

More Change You Can Believe In!

Is MSNBC being rewarded for having backed 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.

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!

The NYTimes explains the GE scam…

General Electric said Wednesday that the federal government had agreed to insure as much as $139 billion in debt for its lending subsidiary, GE Capital. This is the second time in a month that G.E. has turned to a federal program aimed at helping companies during the global credit crisis.

GE Capital is not a bank, but granting it access to a new program from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation may reassure investors and help the lender compete with banks that already have government-protected debt, a G.E. spokesman, Russell Wilkerson, told Bloomberg News.

“Inclusion in this program will allow us to source our debt competitively with other participating financial institutions,” Mr. Wilkerson said.

The F.D.I.C. program covers about $139 billion of G.E.’s debt, or 125 percent of total senior unsecured debt outstanding as of Sept. 30 and maturing by June 30.

G.E. sent investors an e-mail letter about the program on Wednesday and posted the letter on its Web site. “Our participation is a positive development for our investors,” it said.

G.E.’s finance businesses are able to seek F.D.I.C. debt coverage because its GE Capital subsidiary also owns a federal savings bank and an industrial loan company, both of which already qualify.

Last month, G.E. started using a new Federal Reserve program aimed at reviving demand for the commercial paper for a wide variety of companies.

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GE Wins FDIC Insurance for Up to $139 Billion in Debt

GE Wins FDIC Insurance for Up to $139 Billion in Debt (Update3) - Bloomberg.com