GE panics that it might lose bailout $ and Immelt's "advisory" role with Obama.

http://tinyurl.com/d9bdjk

April 16, 2009 --
THE top suits and some of the on-air talent at CNBC ... top-secret meeting with General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker ...dinner at 30 Rock which Zucker himself was behind,"... whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much. There's great concern that CNBC is now the anti-Obama network. The whole meeting was really kind of creepy."One topic...was on-air CNBC editor Rick Santelli's rant two months ago about staging a "Chicago Tea Party" to protest the president's bailout programs --... infuriating the White House. Oddly, Santelli was not at the meeting... no edict was ultimately handed down by the network chieftains...

***Santelli is one of the best things about CNBC. Go ahead, GE, shoot yourselves in the foot. CNBC already lost Eric Bolling to FoxBusiness, lost Dylan Ratigan ( where to we yet know not ) and Fox already has Neil Cavuto, Liz Klaman et al. Political Correctness doesn't play well in the capitalist world. Hell, even Jay Leno doesn't like the suits at NBC. Wait 'til Jack Welch becomes exclusive to Fox!***