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?

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.