This Story About Keith Olberman Was Just Emailed to me. Thoughts?

[romantico]

Never even heard of the site.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2009/04/24/ge-bailout-piles-rocks-outside-keith-olbermanns-glass-house.html

Sounds like BS to me

[truebrit71]

1. Yeah..MSNBC got Govt money...

..:eyes:

The writer of the article appears to be a douchebag...

[dem629]

2. Any rich people who work for these giant corporations and get raises should give it back.

Why should we be giving ANY of these people raises?

[romantico]

4. Just noticed

Just noticed A source to the story was Newsmax. I rest my case.

[dem629]

7. They suck, but GE did get bailout money.

I don't want the CEO or anyone getting raises from our money.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. They seem to be saying he is a GE executive

That, or they are reaching for a reason to pick a fight.

--d!

[gkhouston]

8. KO is a GE executive? Damn, I'm glad I swallowed just before reading that. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. It was KO's decision for GE to invest in high risk sub prime mortgages?

I didn't know that.

:eyes:

[Stellabella]

6. Why assume that MSNBC isn't making money?

Because your parent company got a bailout (DID they??), that doesn't mean that you are being paid with that money. That article sounds like a bunch of bs to me. It dismisses Keith's genuine concern and twists what he says.

[NYCGirl]

9. Did you read the author's bio? He worked for Gingrich.

Peter Roff, a senior fellow with the Institute for Liberty, is a veteran Washington political operative and journalist. A former political director for Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC he was, for five years, the senior political writer for United Press International, the venerable wire service in operation for more than 100 years.


The site is US News and World Report. It's been around for a long time.

[ailsagirl]

12. He worked for Gingrinch?? 'Nuff said

:puke:

[theblasmo]

10. Ha ha ha

I love it when someone who's obviously biased complains about and then writes a biased article about someone else who's supposed to be biased. The irony train just left the station. The lefty comments on the page are smart and factual, and the righty ones are hilariously over-the-top. Let 'em scream.

[bullwinkle428]

35. "ZOMG...Olbermann should be thrown in teh gulag for hate speech!!1!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

*Yes...that was an actual quote from the comments section. Isn't that right, Mr. "Daryl DeHuff of FL"?

[lob1]

11. More right wing horseshit.

Too bad these jerks can't spend their time coming up with solutions instead of creating more crap.

[Sydnie]

13. This is the moran writing that blog

Peter Roff, a senior fellow with the Institute for Liberty, is a veteran Washington political operative and journalist. A former political director for Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC he was, for five years, the senior political writer for United Press International, the venerable wire service in operation for more than 100 years.

Need we say more?

[Creena]

18. He also worked for the Free Enterprise Fund.

They forgot to add that little tidbit.

[Hugabear]

14. I got an email saying that Obama still won't produce his birth certificate. Thoughts?

n/t

[Sydnie]

15. Duzy! ROFL!!!!! nt

[Extend a Hand]

21. muahahahahaha

:spank: :rofl:

[H2O Man]

37. Oh, to be able

to nominate a response to an OP!

[sui generis]

16. when you hear an attribution like this:

"according to the Internet site Op-Ed news"

He didn't even see / hear the footage himself. He's quoting opinions of perceptions of observations of hearsay.

What a putz.

[MADem]

17. It's not BS. The facts of his pay raise are correct. At the end of the day, so what?

US NEWS and WORLD REPORT is a magazine that's been around for decades. They're business oriented, and generally more conservative than not.

Last time I checked, Olbermann was a TV pundit, a "worker bee," not a CEO of a bailout company. There's a distinct difference. I'd also like to see how much of the bailout money trickles down from the GE industrial arms (to include the defense contracts) to MSNBC. I'm guessing that amount will hover around zero.

I think people at MSNBC should contribute to the treasury when the people at Fox do the same. I don't watch any of that crap, it's tiresome.

[JDPriestly]

19. All the employees at CNBC should give their salaries back at the same time.

[baldguy]

20. Peter Roff

"...a senior fellow with the Institute for Liberty, is a veteran Washington political operative and journalist. A former political director for Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC he was, for five years, the senior political writer for United Press International, the venerable wire service in operation for more than 100 years."


'nuff said.

[romantico]

23. his rebuttal

http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/msnbc-olbermann-renew-contract/

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2008/11/ge-gm-bailout-news.html

I do not know where to begin

[NYCGirl]

28. Tell him that Olbermann does not work for GE Capital, for starters.

Olbermann is not CEO, CFO, COO, etc. He is just a worker, who gets paid well because he gets good ratings.

[MinM]

22. Peter Roff is also the former Political Director of GOPAC

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Roff

Peter Roff and the GOPAC Memo
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/2001/12/123001_Peter_Roff_GOPAC_Memo.html

[MinM]

24. U S N E W S L I N K © 2001 PETER ROFF: Ace 'Moonie-Tunes' Propagandist

http://www.usnewslink.com/roff.htm

[aquart]

25. You know it's bs but you post it here?

Do you know what a delete key is for?

[romantico]

29. I did not know

it was BS til I posted it. Now I do. I like the person I am debating and he is not debating the issue to be a jerk. There is a difference.

[Progressive dog]

26. More Faux Crap

The FDIC allowed GE Capital to insure 139 billion. Unless they default there is no risk to taxpayers, so while the story has an element of truth, it exaggerates it past the point of truth.

[niyad]

27. he signed a four-year contract in feb of 2007--LONG before any economic bailout news.

but the, facts never bother these people.

[question everything]

30. The difference is - and I did not bother to read the whole piece -

is that his compensation was increased because he increased the views of the network - and ad revenue - while those executives continues to get more and more money while the value of their companies tanked.

[The Magistrate]

31. A Major Distortion Of facts, Sir

G.E. Financial was taken under the wing of the F.D.I.C. insurance structure in November of 2008, with a 'credit limit' of one hundred thirty-nine billions, involving various short-term commercial papers that had to be rolled over by June of this year. This is not a loan or provision of capital to G.E. Financial from the government, and it is not apparent that any money actually changed hands at all.

[handmade34]

32. hummmm

anyone who makes over a mil a year should pay 90% on it, even KO

[OnyxCollie]

33. General Electric

was also one of the companies that met with Cheney's National Energy Development Program Group.

Does that mean Tina Fey "went rogue" with her parody of the neocons' star, Sarah Palin?

It must hurt to be that stupid.

[bullwinkle428]

34. "former political director for Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC"...

...should tell you all you need to know!

[bullwinkle428]

36. Does this Roff asshole not realize that a great deal more of KO's

salary will now be coming back to the government in the form of INCOME TAX???

[KamaAina]

38. Um, doesn't Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough work for the same company?

Nary a mention of him. Or even Tweety, for that matter. :eyes:

[Coyote_Bandit]

39. KO?

Who cares? I quit listening to the overwhelmingly biased bastard during the primaries last year. He may have a different agenda but his journalistic skills suck as much as those of FOX. I've no interest in listening to such crap. He's a gun for hire. Why would I be surprised that his own financial conduct is lacking in integrity? Why would I be surprised that he would do something while complaining about someone else doing the very same thing? I'm not. He's complained about the lack of journalistic integrity at FOX for years while showing the same lack. Pot meet kettle. Fuck him.

[Berry Cool]

42. Thank you for your PUMA opinion. n/t

[Coyote_Bandit]

43. Party unity?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[asjr]

40. Sour grapes.

[dembotoz]

41. we attack them, they attack us--this is new??????????????

the difference is -I would like to think we tell the truth....