NBC finally mentions safe schools czar

Thanks to Newsbusters, we now know that NBC has finally mentioned safe schools czar Kevin Jennings. The progressive news network ignored him when it surfaced that he advised a young student who had a sexual encounter with an older man in a bus station to use a condom. And when it was revealed that his group GLSEN was teaching young students sexual acts during special seminars. And when GLSEN posted a reading list that included gay pornographic material. But with the recent spate of bullying at a Massachusetts school that led to a student's suicide, NBC Nightly News finally found face time for Jennings.

ROSSEN: In Springfield, Massachusetts, a young boy hanged himself last year after being teased about his size. In Ohio, Jessie Logan hanged herself after a nude photo was spread around her school. Experts say warning signs are often there.

BARBARA COLOROSO: They hang up from their phone and they're sad or sullen, they get off the Internet and they look a little frightened, these are all clues that you and I as parents need to be clued in to.

ROSSEN: And education officials are worried, too, worried bullying is causing a drop in the graduation rate. Now the federal government is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a new anti-bullying campaign.

KEVIN JENNINGS (United States Department of Education): What keeps me up at night, and everyone in the US Department of Education, is the idea that out there there are children who'd rather die than go to school.

No comment was afforded to parents kept up at night from having their children taught "fisting" at one of Jennings' seminars. The report also promoted Jennings' $410 million anti-bullying campaigns without mentioning their real intent. The initiative is aimed at grading schools based on "climate" -- specifically how gay-friendly the schools are. Schools that fully incorporate LGBT themes into the curriculum would be rated as "inclusive" while schools that didn't would fail. All this is at the exclusion of Catholic schools, which are expressly forbidden from promoting gay lifestyles.

NBC is owned by General Electric. GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, is an ardent Obama backer and sits on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve. His closeness to the administration has helped GE win lucrative health care and green energy contracts with the government. NBC's sister station, MSNBC, is a bastion of Obama adoration and regularly attacks the administration's critics.

The radio socialism in our future

MSNBC host and progressive radio talker Ed Schultz took to the airwaves earlier this week to call for radio socialism.

The fact is, look, it's not a level playing field when it comes to the audio culture of the country. Ownership has its privileges. When you own, I will be honest, if I owned 500 stations, the drugster wouldn't be on any of 'em. And that's just where it's at right now. But maybe we have reached the point where the Congress needs to equal it out. Equal out the audience.

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And so, I think that, you know, hell, if we're going to be socialist, let's be socialist all across the board.

Schultz works for the Obama-obsessed MSNBC, which is owned by General Electric. GE's president, Jeffrey Immelt, sits on the Federal Reserve and has secured several special deals for GE from the Obama Administration at the expense of competitors. Both MSNBC and Schultz are lagging behind conservative competitors in the ratings. How long until Immelt leans on Obama to right that wrong? Obama's diversity czar at the FCC is already trying to make Schultz's dream a reality by supporting an initiative to tax large radio companies and redistribute the wealth to smaller, minority-owned stations.

Radio socialism has support in Congress. Rep. Louise Slaughter, of recent health care fame, introduced a bill in 2004 that would reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Under Obama, the Democrats in Congress just nationalized the student loan industry and the health care industry in a single weekend. Does anyone doubt that they would do the same for the country's airwaves?

Truth comes out about reconciliation on Obama's news network

Lawrence O'Donnell went on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning and shone some much needed light on Obama's reconciliation strategy. The occasionally unhinged O'Donnell served as a Democratic Senate aide during the health care fight in 1994 and knows his way around legislative process. Newsbusters caught this moment of frank honesty.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Will Democrats get health care passed?

LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: I'm going to say what I've said all along in my humble approach to this subject. I, having worked on this kind of legislation on the Senate floor, trying to get it passed, and in committee. I do not see how they can do this. Now, and part of that is because it's never been done before. And they have moved into a legislative territory that has never previously existed. The Republicans have not been very smart about trying to describe this. It's difficult to describe. But this is unprecedented, using reconciliation this way. Because what they've done, is that they've abandoned a bill in mid-conference. The Senate passed a bill, the House passed a bill. They were in mid-conference negotiating this bill, in conference, and they said it's going to be impossible for us to pass it now because of Scott Brown, so we're going to abandon conferencing this bill and move over to another legislative vehicle, called reconciliation. To handle something you've already been legislating another way, now, that's never occurred before.

SCARBOROUGH: That's never happened?

O'DONNELL: Never, never, never.

Reconciliation is indeed unprecedented in this way. As O'Donnell pointed out, never before has a Congress tried to insert the reconciliation process into a bill mid-conference. Most bills that go through reconciliation are designed with the procedure in mind. The last use of reconciliation on a health care initiative, for example, was COBRA -- the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. In contrast, Obama's Democrats designed ObamaCare as a standard bill, then suddenly decided to switch to reconciliation after Scott Brown's upset.

This might not sit well with O'Donnell's MSNBC colleagues like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. Both have been perpetuating the lie, lifted from Obama's talking points, that Republicans have used reconciliation before and this is no different. Thanks to O'Donnell, the truth has been exposed on MSNBC.

Respected news analyst leaves MSNBC

Craig Crawford is a bright political writer for CQ Politics. He was also an analyst for Obama's favorite news network until today. This morning, media reporter Howard Kurtz tweeted this message.

Craig Crawford leaves MSNBC, saying "I simply could not any longer endure being a cartoon player for lefty games"

One can hardly blame him. Crawford was a frequent guest of the despicable progressive demagogue Keith Olbermann, forced to entertain Olbermann's delusions. Memo to GE president and Obama suck-up Jeffrey Immelt: How many more respected newsmen will leave MSNBC before you admit you're running a propaganda channel for the president?

MSNBC covers up Van Jones video

The fine folks at Newsbusters uncovered that transcript we posted earlier where Van Jones called Iraq human shields "heroes". But as they pointed out, and as we confirmed, MSNBC has doggedly refused to post the video. We e-mailed MSNBC as well to no avail. The video would give real life to Jones' comments, much more than a print transcript can do.

So why is MSNBC covering it up? It could be because they're a progressive network. It could be because Jones' interviewer, Dan Abrams, left MSNBC and now runs a media critic website. Or it could be because MSNBC is owned by General Electric, whose CEO Jeffrey Immelt is a huge Obama supporter and sits on Obama's Federal Reserve. Video footage of one of Obama's hires praising traitors would certainly be damaging to the president. And Immelt wouldn't want that, would he?

Van Jones thinks treasonous Iraq war traitors are "heroes"

Van Jones is on a roll. He's already started a group hell-bent on overthrowing the United States government, declared himself to be a communist, befriended a former Weatherman terrorist, called Republicans ass****s, and accused the Bush administration of perpetrating 9/11. Now we've learned he cast his lot in with traitors during the Iraq war.

In 2003, a band of left-wing nuts headed to Iraq to be "human shields" -- place themselves in front of Iraqi schools and hospitals so the United States would think twice about bombing. They introduced themselves to Saddam Hussein's government which took them in. Van Jones went on MSNBC (where else?) to discuss the problem with Dan Abrams.

DAN ABRAMS: If Saddam Hussein uses human shields and he’s captured alive, he’s going to be tried as a war criminal, as will anyone who works with him in that effort. The question we’re asking here is, what about these Americans, these Europeans who are sending over these American and European human shields?

VAN JONES: They’re heroes.

DAN ABRAMS: Could that — well, all right.

VAN JONES: They’re not criminals, they’re heroes.

DAN ABRAMS: All right, Van, before I even get to the intro, Van Jones is jumping in, describing them as heroes.

VAN JONES: They’re not criminals, they’re heroes.

DAN ABRAMS: All right, Van, before I even get to the intro, Van Jones is jumping in, describing them as heroes.

No they were traitors, quite literally giving "aid and comfort to the enemy." This is the man Barack Obama hired as his green jobs czar, the Center for American Progress hired after that didn't work out, and the NAACP called "an American treasure."

In the end, even the human shield losers were smarter than Van Jones. After meeting with the Iraqi government, the group bolted for the border, complaining that Iraqi officials wanted to post them at strategic targets, such as power plans and oil refineries, instead of more humanitarian locations. What a surprise. These are Obama's and Jones' true heroes: those who talk big about humanitarianism and then cut and run.

GE: We bring evil to life!

Remember those commercials from the 1980s that showed average Americans using General Electric products while a singer crooned in the background, "GE: We bring good things to life"? They've come a long, long way.

Yesterday we reported on Obama's incestuous relationship with GE which gets kickbacks from BHO by supporting his agenda. Today brings news that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and crazed Climate Change Czar Carol Browner are hunkered down in a meeting with lobbyists. The subject is how to bring the president's failing cap-and-tax bill back to life. Only two CEOs attended the meeting, and one was GE's Jeffrey Immelt.

Yes, the most transparent administration in American history is holding closed-door meetings with powerful CEOs to discuss how to screw over the rest of it. Immelt has good reason to support the cap-and-tax nonsense. GE's so-called "green business" made the company $17 billion in 2008, a 21% increase over the previous year. (Numbers for 2009 are not yet available.) Most recently, GE secured a $1.4 billion contract to build a 30 square mile wind farm in Oregon, the largest on the planet.

Meanwhile GE continues stroking Obama's back. Last night, MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann nearly lost his cookies attacking conservatives who disagree with Obama on global warming.

It's all about money. Follow it, and you'll usually find Barack Hussein Obama lurking somewhere in the shadows. Now, thanks to his administration, GE has gone from being a company as American as apple pie to a rotten apple carrying out the will of the state.

NBC jumps in bed with Obama

As Barack Obama's fortunes and poll numbers fall, the commentators over at cable network MSNBC have been hitting the roof. Over the past month, Chris Matthews has compared the GOP to the Khmer Rouge, Ed Schultz has encouraged Massachusetts Democrats to try to vote more than once, and Keith Olbermann has called Scott Brown "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees."

MSNBC has been a ratings loser for Barack Obama's entire presidency, yet its hosts keep sucking up to the president and attacking his critics. Even the supposed "hard news" reporters on NBC, like Andrea Mitchell and David Gregory, spout left-wing garbage. It's no coincidence. NBC has become a propaganda shop for Obama because Obama is offering kickbacks to NBC.

MSNBC is part of NBC which is owned by General Electric. GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, is a long-time Obama supporter who has expressed support for the president's cap-and-tax baloney. His lip service has paid off. Since Obama was elected, Immelt has been appointed to the president's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve.

Before his promotion to CEO of GE in 2000, Immelt was head of GE Medical Services, more commonly known as GE Healthcare. As an economic advisor to the president during the health care debate, CEO of a company with a health care division, and the former head of that very health care division, Immelt represents a flaming conflict of interest. Additionally, the president's stimulus set aside billions of dollars to fund the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. HITECH requires medical providers to hand over patient information to the federal government. Shortly after the stimulus was passed, GE Healthcare sent out a press release announcing a new program called Stimulus Simplicity that would help hospitals adopt electronic medical records. GE stood to make heaps of money from this initiative.

Then there was the behind-the-scenes lobbying by GE to apply for a government program that "sought to unfreeze credit markets by guaranteeing debt sold by banking firms," according to the Washington Post. GE initially didn't qualify because, as you may have noticed, GE is not a bank. But thanks to a little strings-pulling by Jeffrey Immelt, the Obama administration loosened the rules. "As a result, GE has joined major banks collectively saving billions of dollars by raising money for their operations at lower interest rates," the Post reported. Even though, again, GE is not even a damn bank.

This is classic Obama cronyism on a massive scale. Jeffrey Immelt and his commentators on MSNBC praise Barack Obama every night, and in return Immelt gets appointed to prestigious positions and his company gets crooked financial deals. Remember this next time you turn on one of MSNBC's political programs. The entire network has been bought off by Barack Obama.