Jeff Zucker, Top NBC Brass Concerned About CNBC's "Conservative," "Anti-Obama" Image

Huffington Post by Danny Shea | Apr. 16, 2009 (Special Report)

CNBC execs and some on-air talent were called to meet with GE CEO Jeff Immelt and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker for "an intensive, three-hour dinner at 30 Rock." According to Page Six's source, Zucker himself called the dinner, which featured "a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much."

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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 16, 2009

The article references a New York Post article that then is denied by somebody with an interest in denying it.

Never believe anything until it is officially denied. They are biased. They hired these right wing loud strong and wrong dittoheads, they are attacking democratically elected leaders, and they should be fired. Where is Trump?

Cramer, for instance, said President Obama was “taking cues from Lenin” and accused him of the “greatest wealth-destruction I’ve seen by a President.”

Idiot.

Santelli, of course, helped spawn the “tea party” movement with his February rant against President Obama’s foreclosure plan.

There are allusions that it was planned, not spontaneous.

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