ComcastSucks Got Suckier So FCC Commish Could Get a Swank New Job
Our entire country’s mediascape will no doubt get suckier as Comcast returns to its typical bad behavior after having eaten NBC. We will become less well-informed. We will fall further behind the rest of the world for broadband access. And we will continue to wait for ComcastSucks repairmen.
And all so Meredith Attwell Baker could get a swank new job at ComcastSucksNBC.
Meredith Attwell Baker, one of the two Republican Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, plans to step down—and right into a top lobbying job at Comcast-NBC.
The news, reported this afternoon by the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and Politico, comes after the hugely controversial merger of Comcast and NBC earlier this year. At the time, Baker objected to FCC attempts to impose conditions on the deal and argued that the “complex and significant transaction” could “bring exciting benefits to consumers that outweigh potential harms.”
Four months after approving the massive transaction, Attwell Baker will take a top DC lobbying job for the new Comcast-NBC entity, according to reports.
In ComcastSucksNBC’s announcement, Baker boasted about how excited she is to start her new job.
I’ve been privileged to serve in government for the past seven years under President Obama at the FCC and President Bush at NTIA, I’m excited to embark on a new phase of my career with Comcast and NBCUniversal,
Somehow, she forgot to mention how proud she is about personally contributing to the decline of her country to serve her own greed.
EW, it’s not a problem, it’s a challenge, as a former boss of mine used to repeatedly caution me.
How does fdl compete with NBC to obsolete these characters? Not by continually attacking people, in my opinion.
People crave truth about issues, and you more than most provide it. That’s the future.
Time to rescind that approval.
Hunter Thompson said it best… “generation of swine”… pigs at the trough.
And Democrats no better than Republicans. Warmongers, torturers, liars, all!
Is there a manual, somewhere, for how to make a citizen’s arrest. People like this belong in jail, as do the people who hired her.
Gomer Pyle, citizen’s arrest, youtube is your friend. I mean I can still hear Gomer saying it even though it’s been a lifetime since then… Barney made an illegal U-turn…
Or wikihow: How to Make a Citizen’s Arrest
Is it What You Know or Who You Know? Maybe both:
Ms. Baker and her family reside in McLean, Virginia. She is the daughter-in-law of former Secretary of State James Baker. Meredith’s husband is James A. Baker IV (Jamie), the managing partner of the Washington office of Baker Botts.
Her father, Kirby Attwell, a well-known Houston businessman, was at one time the president of Lincoln Liberty Life Insurance working for the late former Texas Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=218405
Democrats – the left wing of the National Conservative Party.
Incest obviates nepotism.
Just part of the revolving door. The effects it has on rulemaking, governance and the interests of those who aren’t offering future jobs at mega-salaries – the public – are unspoken and pernicious.
Maybe it’s time to start speaking of them.
o/t but gotta tell someone:
A good day in court!
Update on my Jesse Trentadue vs FBI, DOJ and CIA case comment of a week ago, where Jesse is arguing “that is precisely why the FOIA became law: to protect the right of American citizens to know their own history and, more importantly, their government.”
I just saw this:
I can haz heroes! It’s not the end zone but I am dancing!