Jim Cramer Fearmongers About Employee Free Choice on Morning Joe. As Media Matters said they must not have heard of GE. You know the people who write their checks.

The Morning Joe crew was on an anti-union tear this morning, claiming the union label on a company means "sell." Mika Brzezinski went so far as to say of unions: "They cripple the system that makes a company work." Collectively, the journalists on Morning Joe couldn't name a single "successful" unionized company.

This says more about their qualifications to discuss public policy and labor relations than it says about unions. To pick just one obvious example, UPS is unionized -- and the company made more than $3 billion last year. That's "billion" with a "b," and those are profits, not revenues.

Oh, what the heck, let's take one more example. GE is one of the world's largest companies; in 2006, its revenues were greater than the gross domestic products of 80 percent of UN nations. The company made more than $18 billion in 2008 -- again, billion with a b, and again, those are profits, not revenue. All that despite (or, perhaps, because of) the fact that 13 different unions represent GE workers.

Oh, and GE owns NBC-Universal, which owns MSNBC, which pays Joe Scarborough a handsome salary (and the unionized workers who help get his show on the air considerably less.)

Does Joe Scarborough think NBC and GE are not "successful" companies? Does Mika Brzezinski think the unionized workers she no doubt interacts with every day are crippling her ability to do her job, or her employer's ability to be successful?

Full article here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906030009

Jim Cramer: Bain Capital "fired a lot of people and that's how they got ...

Morning Joe turns to the guy who missed the whole 2008 economic melt down to tell us about today's economic conditions: go ahead Jim Cramer

Hopefully he's got a bell or some wacky sound effect. There is nothing that says serious economic insight than loud noises.

Meet The GE/Comcast/Press

David Gregory knows there’s three things driving the debt up: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It’s funny GE has nothing to do with any of them. Gregory goes on to emphatically state “we” all agree on that. That’s nice of him to declare that I am so categorically in agreement with him. As a matter of fact Social Security makes money and the politicians keep stealing it so of course it has to be killed but why would Gregory let the truth get in the way of a good story. As just an average American, who Gregory claims to be channeling, for a second I felt that the debt could be related to the fifty-nine wars America is currently involved in and the unnecessary crap that we keep buying from GE to fight these wars. Nobody on the roundtable of “experts” bothered asked Gregory about that though. They just let him babble on about it. According to Gregory and his “experts”, it is “Code Red.”

Probably the closest anyone came to telling the truth was a tea party representative from Idaho, whose viewpoints were brought on the show to show how fair and balanced NBC was as well as to show how nutty anyone who disagreed with the standard corporate line, they were peddling, were. In other words don’t disagree with the people who created this mess, when they’re busy trying to steal some of the last public money in captivity. It’s all the powerless far left and far right’s fault, which was said over and over again to make sure you got the point. It certainly isn’t the fault of the people who have been running the country for the last thirty years.

Follow the money, they’re putting out triggers on these bills so that no one will be responsible when they kill these last few public benefits. Instead, something will happen, everyone will just blame the other side and everyone can keep their jobs. Follow their actions now and if anyone touches these programs that have been paid with money money coming out of your paychecks then throw the bums out. Make them get a job in the thriving economy that they‘ve created.

The last thing Meet The Press did was put Jim Cramer from “Mad Money” - a show that exploits America’s low attention span with its desire to get rich quickly - on the roundtable of “experts.” Cramer has been right about almost nothing since he’s been on television but he’s even more connected to greater “experts” and it impossible to be so wrong that you can’t be on NBC/GE/Comcast’s Meet The Press‘s roundtable.

You wonder why America is in the mess it is just look at its news sources: GE, Viacom, Disney, and Time Warner. There’s also factually challenged “Fox” which doesn‘t even bother start with facts as a jumping off point.