newsbusters.org - 11/16/2008
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Is MSNBC being rewarded for having supported Obama? That's what Jim Pinkerton suggests. On this evening's Fox News Watch, the columnist and New America Foundation fellow indicated that after MSNBC adopted a pro-Obama stance, its parent company received a $139 billion government loan ...
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Pinkerton: MSNBC Backs Obama, Gets $139 Billion Government Guarantee
The Jawa Report —
November 16, 2008 Pinkerton: MSNBC Backs Obama, Gets $139 Billion Government Guarantee Via Newsbusters. Is MSNBC being rewarded for backing Obama? That's what Pinkerton is implying. GE Capital is a subsidiary of MSNBC's parent company GE. The NYTimes has the article regarding the backing of GE Capital ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/18/2008
Gates of Vienna —
... MSNBC Backs Barack, Gets $139 Billion Government Loan Guarantee JIM PINKERTON: Well, Matthews is entitled to his opinion, although if he wants to run for the Senate in Pennsylvania in 2010 as has been widely reported he should resign and not have a platform on the air. But I think that the overall culture of MSNBC was established when they changed their slogan, post-election, to “The Power of Change” [another story NB was first to report]. Now, that sounds a little bit familiar to the Obama campaign ...
The Bailout, the Media, and the War Party
Antiwar.com Original —
... , also owns GE Capital, which was declared "too big to fail" and given its bailout infusion the day after the election. The timing of this announcement was fairly interesting, as noted by conservative-libertarian columnist Jim Pinkerton. Pinkerton was rightly outraged when, in response to MSNBC's Chris Matthews' comment that his job is to " ...
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