Olbermann Ouster: Immelt Helps Obama with his Left Flank

[pberq]

http://tarpley.net/2011/01/22/olbermann-ouster-helps-obama/

Olbermann Ouster: Immelt Helps Obama with his Left Flank on the Eve of a Monstrous State of the Union Address

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
January 22, 2011

Last night, Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC’s flagship and top-rated Countdown program, abruptly told his viewers that he had been fired by the network. On the same day, Jeffrey Immelt, the top honcho of General Electric, was hobnobbing with Obama at a GE plant in Schenectady, New York – a plant which has received subsidies from the Obama regime. Government financial help for GE has not gone mainly to the firm’s remaining industrial manufacturing divisions, but rather– and in boxcar numbers –to GE Capital, long notorious as a derivatives hedge fund in drag.

Immelt, a well-known asset-stripper and runaway shop devotee, has also just been appointed as the boss of Obama’s new White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which in turn is part of Obama’s sharp right turn towards austerity, tax cuts for the rich, and a new assault on the Social Security-Medicare-Medicaid-jobless insurance complex. In this regard, Wall Street puppet Obama is reputed to be preparing new historical crimes against the American people, and new stabs in the back for his own base. This goes together with Obama’s naming of JP Morgan banker William Daley, an advocate of free trade sellouts, as White House chief of staff, and the new prominence of Goldman Sachs associate and derivatives deregulator Gene Sperling as the successor to Larry Summers as economics czar.

During the 2007-2008 campaign, Olbermann had thoroughly degraded himself by acting the role of a media toady to the new Messiah, and the implacable defamer of Obama’s rivals. But, over the last few months, Olbermann had launched some critical sallies against the Anointed One. Olbermann was increasingly critical and disillusioned about the administration. He was especially indignant about Obama’s December sellout on the Bush tax cuts for the rich, pointing out Obama’s dangerous erosion of the integrity of Social Security, and the cynical betrayal of the 99ers, the long-term jobless.

So put two and two together: did Immelt fire Olbermann as a gesture to please Obama by silencing a possible critic of the White House’s stunning rightward lunge? This makes much more sense than the competing explanation, which is that Olbermann was driven out by Comcast, which is buying NBC Universal from GE. MSNBC is still under GE control, and will be for weeks or months.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. And here I thought we already reached the bottom of the barrel.

[27inCali]

2. stop reading the moment I saw "Obama regime"

[sasha031]

3. k/r

[southernyankeebelle]

4. I don't think Obama is that low to do something like that. Your pissing in the wind. Do you really

think Obama is or was worried about Keith when they are screwing him every moment of the day on Fox.

[KoKo]

5. Obama isn't...but is Immelt? That's the question that's raised in this article.

Why dismiss it?

[grasswire]

6. there is a story on mediabistro Thursday about the ...

...big "Town Hall" meeting at NBC where the bigwigs of both Comcast and NBC got together for Q&A moderated by Brian Williams and it was telecast to NBC employees. Brian Williams asked about Olbermann's firing, and was told by the PTB that the decision had been made by Phil Griffin and the new MSNBC CEO Steve Burke (former Bushie). Of course, this is a whole other new story than we have already heard.

What Williams didn't ask, apparently is "WHY" Olbermann was sent packing. Why? That's more important than "who" did it.

[pberq]

7. thanks for posting that, grasswire

I believe Tarpley is correct in his assessment, based on the history as shown in his book, "Barack Obama: The Unauthorized Biography"
http://www.amazon.com/Barack-H-Obama-Unauthorized-Biography/dp/0930852818/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237815454&sr=8-1