Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask What Your Country Can Do For General Electric and MSNBC
Are you wondering why President Obama decided to trash a plan for a missile defense program in Poland?
Politico is wondering but they’re asking the wrong question. They’re asking:
What Does US Get For Missile Move?
“Republicans talked of President Obama “appeasing” Russia,” “betraying” Poland, and bringing back the Carter administration. They didn’t like his decision Thursday to scrap plans for a missle defense system in Poland and in the Czech Republic, and they dusted off some vintage Cold War anti-communist rhetoric and endorsements of missile defense to express it.”
The real question is:
What Do GE and MSNBC Get for Missile Move?
“Reuters reports an interesting nugget in the wake of President Barack Obama’s decision to grant Vladimir Putin his wish and kill the Eastern European missile shield:”
“Shortly after the pullback on the shield programme was announced, Russia’s government said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would meet several U.S. executives on Friday from firms including General Electric, Morgan Stanley as well as TPG, one of the world’s largest private equity firms.”
“General Electric may be the company with the closest ties to the Obama administration (if not, GE is second only to Goldman Sachs), and here we see the company benefiting from an abrupt foreign policy change made by President Obama. But GE isn’t the only company benefiting. Reuters paints the broader picture:”
“U.S. companies have arguably lost out to some European companies in joint ventures, and better diplomacy will likely improve the chances for investors in the strategic sectors of the Russian economy,” said Carlo Gallo, senior Russia analyst at London-based consultancy Control Risks.”
“GE CEO Jeff Immelt sits on Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and GE owns MSNBC, the network famously friendly to Obama.”
To his credit, Bill O’Reilly was on the scent of this trail months ago. Watch this clip of the O’Reilly Factor from April of 2009. Be sure to watch the whole thing with the above news in mind.
Hopefully, O’Reilly will pick up this ball again and run with it.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark America.
UPDATE: Should we be nervous when the Prime Minister of Poland starts refusing to take phone calls from the White House?
UPDATE II: Where are all the Obama cheering Berliners now? Thanks alot. How do you say “moron” in German?
