Keith Oldbermaan

[Deo Vindice]

Now I will go ahead and say that for anyone who has actually seen his show, you already know what kind of bashing this guy always gives to Bush and the Right. According to him, its always Bush's fault for the bonuses paid out to execs and all the other waste that came with the TARP funds. Please watch this... Mr Olbermann (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_quvPUjzuM) (I know its long but its for a good reason) Now coming to light, General Electric, the parent-company of your MSNBC network, negotiated with a $126 billion taxpayer-funded bailout, Mr. Olbermann's new contract, raising his salary from $4 million to $7.5 million annually. He has used his show as a platform to call for the resignation of corporate executives accepting excessive bonuses on the backs of taxpayers who are picking up the tab for these atrocious bailouts, yet he has no problem engaging in the same “class economic rape” that he accuse them of.

Olbermann has a lot of nerve taking taxpayer money while he rails against others for doing the same. If he has any integrity, he’ll follow the lesson set by the executives he has attacked. When the AIG bonuses approved by the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress caused public outrage, those execs by and large returned the money. Olbermann has to do the same. He’ll still be a joke, but at least he won’t be a conspicuously hypocritical joke.

[Total_Blender]

Provide a source for Ge taking bailout money as your cut-and-paste from the E-mail forward has no source listed.

If GE took any money from TARP is was from the failing GE Financial division which issued mortgages and loans. I worked for GE financial and they were a pretty scummy company. But that has nothing to do with Olbermann or his show, as MSNBC is a profitable division of GE.

That'd be like saying that because GM is failing at making economy cars and recieving bailout money they should stop making trucks and corvettes. It makes absolutely no fucking sense.

[BanginJimmy]

But that has nothing to do with Olbermann or his show,

Olbermann's show does get lower ratings than re-runs of Hannity and O'Reilly though so wouldnt that make you think that his show is a failure?

http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/top-news/cable-news

as MSNBC is a profitable division of GE.[/quote]

I agree with you, but do you remember the "AIG exec" retreat from last year? The one right after AIG got the first bit of money? The left was all up in arms about that and claiming AIG should have the money taken away. That would be the same situation as this.

The division of AIG that was on the retreat of American Financial, which made a shit ton of money for the year and they brought out their top earners. The parent company of AIG had no say in that actual event.



According to the statement, the event was held by one of AIG’s insurance subsidiaries, not AIG employees. The attendees were independent life insurance agents who were "top business producers" for AIG. Only about 10% of the attendees were AIG American General employees, and no corporate executives from AIG headquarters attended the meeting, according to the statement.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/aig-executives-blow--getting-bailout/