Showing posts with label NBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NBC. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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.