Smirk gives GE (MSN/NBC) $444.9 mil contract (yes indeedy)

[donsu]

http://www.democrats.com/

No Coincidence Here! MSNBC/NBC Pro-White House Spin Escalates Same Week GE Lands $444.9 MILLION Contract from Bush DOD

We were stunned by the blatancy of NBC News' (TV and online) pro-Bush spin this week. For example, having Lisa Myers run a dubious story claiming a former Guantanamo inmate is now suddenly a Taliban kingpin the SAME DAY the Bush administration lost a court case on the Guantanamo issue. Or running a slam of outspoken pro-Kerry actor Ben Affleck as headling story: "Is Ben Affleck's Career Beyond help?" We did a little poking and discovered that this week, the Bush administration handed GE a huge defense contract - $444.9 million to be exact. This is very good for GE - and very good for NBC, which is 80% owned by GE. But it's very bad for America, which deserves an honest media that places public welfare over corporate greed.

http://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/login/login.psp?siteId=aolnewsprod&authLev=0&mcState=initialized&triedAimAuth=y

(you have to be reg. for this site)

[Lucille]

1. They will also save around 8 Billion/decade on new tax law

Bush Signs $145 Bln Corporate Tax Cut, Tobacco Buyout (Update1)


Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law a bill replacing an export tax subsidy that violated international trade rules with a $145 billion package of new corporate tax cuts and a buyout for tobacco farmers.

Bush signed the bill aboard Air Force One as he began a campaign swing through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said. Unlike the four other tax bills the president has signed into law during his first term, he held no public ceremony for this one, the biggest rewrite of the corporate tax code since 1986

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General Electric, which runs its world operations from Fairfield, Connecticut, may save more than $8 billion over the next decade from these changes by avoiding U.S. taxes on the foreign profits of its financing businesses, according to an analysis by Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee.

[donsu]

3. that sucking sound coming from the bushgang has turned into a roar

sucking up the US economy

[dave123williams]

2. 449 million reasons to sell your soul...geeez.

Lisa Myers is clearly a hell-hound with rouge and saddlebags.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. kick

[onecitizen]

5. They make me sick

glad I don't watch them anymore.

[Q]

6. This has been going on for some time...but never so blatantly...

...after all...the media is not going to investigate why the media is slanting the positive news towards Bush* in exchange for millions of dollars.

- Democracy has always depended on a free press that wasn't beholden to either government or corporations. Democracy doesn't have much of a chance now that all three are sleeping in the same bed (along with the Church).

[goforit]

7. Never forget this!!!!!

[The Minus World]

8. Hear that?

The Mighty Wurlitzer just got a little bit louder.

[freeminder]

9. The answer to a million Whys

Both on Randi and Mike Malloy, enraged people will scream "why isn't this all over the media".

the answer is invariably the same.

I am very grateful to live in a land where the public TV network is on par with the commercial one.

And this public TV network is said to be mostly Socialist :-)
They have a news-in-depth program with an anchor that actually scares politicians with her hard questions...

Couldn't JK increase spending for such a public channel significantly?

We, as a country of 10 million people, spend about 10 billion dollar per year on it.

one of the results may be this poll :
belgians 85 % for Kerry, 15 % for Bush.
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Polls/Index.aspx?pageName=report&surveyid=298