Oh, Joy! Jack Welch coming up on Morning Bloe!

[blogslut]

We get to watch Joe fawn over that hateful old fascist! Wheee!

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Do they still have Pete Hamill on occasionally?

He's really their only worthwhile semi-regular guest. Welch's legacy is making NBC News a propaganda arm of GE.

[blogslut]

2. Can't say

I haven't seen him on the show but I only watch Morning Bloe when Blinko is streaming MSNBC.

[underpants]

3. They've clearly been prepping for Jack all morning

The SEC bowing to the Wall Street set??? What?? Who's... Just impossible to believe!!!

:eyes:

Jack is clearly coming on to talk about keeping the "top people" and "talent" in the CEO positions

[blogslut]

4. Oh, I can't wait!

The last time I saw him on Morning Bloe, it was nothing but hate for Democrats, hate for Obama, hate for pretty much everything I believe in.

What a hollow husk of a human.

[blogslut]

5. Oh god

So Welch is justifying corporate greed with business meeting analogies:

"I got two banks that want my business. One wants to take me to lunch at McDonalds. Theother wants to take me on an all-expenses paid trip to the Bahamas. Which bank am I going to give my business to, Mika? Huh?"

[underpants]

11. Banks are in the business of business!! and their business is taking trips with other executives

aside from the obvious skewed reality (especially in the current environment) that THAT is business not doing regular operations says tons.

Yes I realize that wooing clients is important and the normal course of business but the normal course of business is how we got here. They are clearly more worried about perks and slobbery kisses than with signing on with people who will protect their assets or -dare I say- be good bankers.

Jack also wants you to think that executives pay for these trips, perks for clients (no hookers of course), and Super Bowl tents out of THEIR pockets. Limiting pay is limiting pay I don't know that anyone is talking about restricting marketing expenses.

Wow Jack you are really some kind of genius-you managed GE :eyes: which means that you made a ton of money off government contracts DoD and otherwise.

[Skidmore]

21. It was a stunning endorsement of corruption, wasn't it?

[underpants]

24. Corruption and entitlement

yes it was

How are we going to live like kings????? he basically was saying

[Skidmore]

26. I hope some savvy person puts that exchange on YouTube and it goes viral.

I don't know how to do that or I would. At the very least, it would make great material for an ad.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. Meanwhile the repo man is hooking up to your car and the

for sale sign is going up in your yard, because you worked and paid your taxes and played by the rules.

[underpants]

27. the repo business is probably really good right now

and those empty houses can be bought up for cheap
which a GOOD banker knows :-)

well they would know if they weren't so busy "wooing clients" on trips to the Bahamas -not McDonald's because those clearly are the only two options....according to Jack Welch.

[Subdivisions]

6. I was channel surfing a few minutes ago and heard them all

comparing the current stimulus bill to the hold-the-gun-to-our-head IWR. They have no idea that this stimulus bill is about creating jobs. They hate America and Americans.

[blogslut]

7. The stimulus bill is revenge

According to Jack Welch


aaarrgggh!

[deminks]

9. The desperation is showing.

[underpants]

12. "Oooh HE is here" said Mika as she jumped up to run over and greet the mighty Jack

the guy from the Washington Post (forgot his name) tried to make two points
-these are banks that have taken government money
-maybe they should be allowed to fail since they aren't good at.... CUT OFF my Mika with (I am not kidding) "No let him finish" pointing to Joe who WASN'T TALKING. She interrupted the reporter to let Joe finish talking when he wasn't actually talking.

WOW

[deminks]

14. Vodka must be flowing this morning.

[underpants]

31. Starbucks cups have caps for a reason

:beer:

[ShortnFiery]

8. Do you realize that if you just don't listen to Mourning Ho-Jo, they just might take

their worthless asses off of the air? I'm watching C-SPAN. :-)

[blogslut]

10. I stream MSNBC on Blinko

Don't get me wrong, the show pisses me off but I have a bit of an addiction to teevee news networks. :)

[blogslut]

13. Hahahahaha!

Joe is wondering why the NYT won't charge for access to their online content and Mark Halperin totally agrees.

Idiots.

The NYT did charge for their online content and stopped charging because nobody visited their damned site.

Fucking liars claiming that online media must charge for content. THE ADS PAY FOR EVERYTHING YOU GREEDY FUCKS!

[underpants]

15. Halperin is an ass

I loved Tucker Carlson boiling down capitalism for us earlier

Has Tucker ever had an actual job?

[blogslut]

16. You mean one that he got because of his talents or merits?

Nope. Don't think so.

[underpants]

29. Damn it is worse than I thought- Tucker's bio...tell me what *this* sounds like

Family and education

Tucker Carlson is the son of Richard Warner Carlson, who has been a member of the Project for a New American Century and the PNAC offshoot Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a former banker, a Los Angeles local news anchor, U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles, director of the U.S. Information Agency, and president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He also established Lewis Scooter Libby's defense fund. Tucker Carlson's mother is the former Patricia Caroline Swanson. She is an heir to the Swanson's food fortune. He has one sibling, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson. Carlson's maternal grandmother, Roberta Fulbright Swanson, was the sister of U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright.<2>

Carlson attended St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. After graduation, he majored in history at the private liberal arts Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is married to Susan Andrews, with whom he has four children: Lillie, Hope, Dorothy, and Buckley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson

Journalism career---*****LEGACY*****

Carlson began his journalism career as a member of the editorial staff of Policy Review, a national conservative journal then published by the Heritage Foundation (and since acquired by the Hoover Institution). He later worked as a reporter at the regionally influential Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Carlson most recently served as host of the MSNBC program Tucker, which was canceled on March 10, 2008. Carlson joined MSNBC in February 2005 from CNN, where he was the youngest anchor in the history of the network. While with CNN, he hosted a number of shows and specials, including the network’s political debate program, Crossfire. During the same period, Carlson also hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. As a magazine and newspaper journalist, Carlson has reported from around the world, most recently from Iraq and Lebanon. He has been a columnist for New York and Reader's Digest. He currently writes for Esquire, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine and The Daily Beast.

[Skidmore]

32. Buckley?

Probably had the nickname of Biff in the family and at school.

[underpants]

33. Named after his sister

I think that name is for a sister

with that level of inbreeding it can be hard to tell

[Skidmore]

19. Didn't you just love those two idiots argument that a free democracy

depends on monetizing the internet so people can pay pennies here and there to get information. All I could think of was how unwieldy a system it would become.

[blogslut]

20. Greed mongering fools

The Internet is already monetized. It's called Advertising.

[Skidmore]

23. It's never enough for these raging free marketeers.

[underpants]

25. I had to cut it off and turn on Curious George (PBS) for my daughter

privatize the internet...yeah that ALWAYS works

:eyes:

Lots of money savings on your cell phone, cable, and water bill...right?

[HughBeaumont]

17. Fuck Neutron Joke Welch and the horse he rode in on.

Anyone with a business strategy of "fire the lessers and give to the betters" needs kicked in the ass until he can't sit, not put on every damned cable news station there is.

[HughBeaumont]

18. dupe

[blogslut]

28. A brilliant statement by Mika

"I wonder if Bernie Madoff meant to hurt anyone."

Zbigniew, it's time to smack your child up the side of her head.

[underpants]

30. You know one of the cruelest ironies here...

is that MAdoff was one of the few people actually making money on Wall Street

but of course HIS was an illegal and immoral scam....not like the other guys :eyes:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. lol. she is a moron

[TheUnspeakable]

36. LOVE the new name!!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. Who does that baby belong to? what a doll