Reply #13: He removed his Bush campaign button every evening and snickered

[candice]

...whenever he spread the urban legend in which Gore is said to have claimed he invented the internet. Check snopes.com for details.

Whomever Tweety is against--other than just keeping a horse race going for viewer (commercial) eyes, General Electric is against. This is from 2003, but the media just gets more consolidated, not less.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

Other Holdings:
* GE Consumer Electronics.
* GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants.
* GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.