In the panoply of Reagan tributes being issued in memory of Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday (next Wednesday), this one from GE stands out as being extremely well done. As the tribute notes, Reagan had a relationship with GE as a spokesman in the early days of his political and pre-political careers, and this video does a remarkably good job of chronicling the early days of Reagan as a major player in politics. Something for you all to enjoy on your Friday afternoon.
General Electric also has a site, which can be found here, where you can submit your own stories and remembrances about Ronald Reagan and the ways in which he inspired you.
In addition, the NFL will join in tribute with this video which is to be shown prior to the Super Bowl:
Moe Lane
PG DeFreese
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
GE Doesnt Care about Reagan
DF (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 3:25PM EST (link)GE doesn’t care about Reagan at all. If the CEO Immelt is working for the Obama Administration, GE received bail out funds from TARP, and also had the law changed to designate GE as a bank so they could be bailed out, they don’t care one bit about Reagan. All this is is a last ditch effort to save face and keep some Republican and Conservative supporters. GE has realized that by signing on with Obama in so many ways they have lost all influence in the Republican party. GE is trying to play both sides, just in case they don’t get their way in the 2012 election. GE does not want to be left out in the cold with no one in power willing to listen.
DF
www.notadriveby.com
what shocking insight
lexington_concord (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 3:44PM EST (link)Do you mean to suggest that large corporations whose bottom lines can be severely impacted by the whims of government tend to play both sides of the fence? Surely you are the first person to realize this stunning truth and we thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Did you have a comment on either of the videos? If not, get lost.
If you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
-Tuco
You're correct, Lexington
Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 4:38PM EST (link)You can never be too cynical about corporate cynicsm.
Michael Reagan wrote that someone from the government (Bobby Kennedy, I’ve heard) squeezed GE to fire Ronald Reagan and cancel GE Theater, or lose gov’t contracts.
I can’t confirm any of this, but I think I’ll get my remembrances of Mr Reagan from another source.
Great videos, though…I’m told.
GE sucks.
earlgrey (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 4:43PM EST (link)According to my refrigerator repairman. just a piece of advice.
really sorry
lexington_concord (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:10PM EST (link)That you both read this comment as an invitation to continue the bashing GE discussion. It was actually the opposite of that.
Hope that helps.
If you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
-Tuco
I thought bashing GE on a conservative site was sort of de rigueurr
Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:24PM EST (link)True they haven’t always deserved that, but of late…
I worked for GE for many years,,, brought in a lot of money for my division...
H (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 8:54PM EST (link)and I was personally awarded a handsome stock option award by Jack Welch himself. I believe I am qualified here to opine that the term “fas cist crony capitalists” suits those guys at GE HQin Fairfield – the ones who brought the Harvard Business School fat heads into the corporate boardrooms – to a t. They have imported the leftist thinking into the mainstream corporate culture that has brought abominations like the Tides Foundation – not the Heritage Foundation – into the decision making circles of American industry.
If you ever hear of Jeffrey Immelt or one of his lieutenants donating to or participating in a conservative cause on their own time, whatever it may be, then get back to us and lecture us on that “both sides of the fence” thing.
Yes lexington
DF (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:01PM EST (link)I do have a comment, my comment is ( and was as I said in my original post) that GE DOES NOT CARE A BIT ABOUT REAGAN. GE and Immelt are in bed with Obama and the administration and trying to cover it up. Nowhere in your post does it say we need to critique videography or editing of the videos in order to comment. I read some of your past comments and you always seem pretty confrontational. Are you sure your not really a big lefty in hiding?
Remember your leader says we must be civil.
DF
your call, sparky
lexington_concord (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:13PM EST (link)Have fun doing whatever the hell you want. Somewhere else.
If you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
-Tuco
Of course Corporations play both sides.
msctex (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:11PM EST (link)But if you had to pick one company which is the most up to its neck in the Global Warming fraud, would it not be GE? And are they not the company trying to profit off infesting our homes with light bulbs which, if broken, even the Government advises us to clear the room?
There’s more going on than the standard covering of corporate a–, in this instance.
Wipes tear. (nt)
azaeroprof (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 4:00PM EST (link)Ronald Reagan Super Bowl Contest
Charlie Davis (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:16PM EST (link)Sunday is a great chance to promote President Reagan’s values to your “non political” friends.
If you celebrate President Reagan at your party, upload a pic/video to the RonaldReagan.com Super Bowl Contest and you could win tickets to the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.
More info is http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=165932953456442
and
http://www.redstate.com/cdavis_lv/2011/02/04/ronald-reagan-centennial-super-bowl-party-contest/
Thanks.
Charlie Davis is the President/CEO of the Republican Leadership Conference, founder of Liquid Ventures, former Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Louisiana and the Treasurer of the Louisiana Family Forum.
Curious, cdavis_lv.
gekster (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:31PM EST (link)What do you get for promoting this.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
I see you changed your user name from....
gekster (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 8:42PM EST (link)cdavis_lv to Charlie Davis.
Still, could you tell me whats in it for you.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
Quite like Reagan the OLD GE was respected but unlike...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 5:50PM EST (link)Reagan they turned into liberal bastion of hell., They are the worst kind of company ,the kind that takes from America and gives nothing in return. Their 3.7 tax rate while Walmart pays 33.4 is just a tad bit disgusting and a real look into the way the federal government picks winners and losers. I like to think that President Reagan would be appalled at what GE has become.
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I'm sorry it's GE
itrytobenice (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 6:12PM EST (link)that was given this honor. I realize that the company had a relationship with Ronald Magnamus Reagan, but so did Ron Jr., so that carries little weight with me.
I hope other conservatives won’t be swayed by their tribute and believe that the company is anything but an enabler of our socialist Boy President. My personal boycott is still in full swing, hence my current ownership of approximately 300 boxes of Sylvania incandescent light bulbs.
But maybe a bit of a furor over these tributes will give even more information to the American public. And cockroaches do best in the dark. With GE CFC light bulbs manufactured in China. Heh.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Yea, lump in throat...
luvnthebigsites (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 6:26PM EST (link)The General Electric of the 50′s as displayed in the arguably “2011 GE propaganda piece” does created some what of a dilemma does it not? Thats what they wanted, FYI.
“Ask not what your candidate can do for you, but what you can do for your candidate”. Andrew Breitbart CPAC 2012.
I know one Reagan hater who won't be pleased
throwback59 Friday, February 4th at 7:53PM EST (link)with these tributes.
-But maybe I’m being too tough on Ron Jr.
Poof is as poof does
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 10:02PM EST (link)sorry, just couldn’t help myself. that guy is a stupid creep.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I hate that libs are using Ronald Reagan as a political fig leaf to hide their naked Marxism...
H (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 8:35PM EST (link)I’m not going to help them by linking to it.
It's Not About GE, It's About Ronald Reagan
Lori Ziganto (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 12:29AM EST (link)It’s a shame that y’all won’t watch a great tribute to a great man. Regardless of what you think of the company now, Ronald Reagan was a part of GE history.
They gave him a fine tribute in this video. I, for one, will respect and honor it for what it is: a tribute to a great man, whom I miss dearly. A man who inspires me to this very day.
Also known as SnarkandBoobs
Sorry Lex, I'm with most of the rest of the posters here.
The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 9:52PM EST (link)My immediate reaction when I see the GE commercials promoting the Gipper is that I want to puke. The first thing he would do if he were alive today is denounce the commercials from the fascists at GE. He’d probably mutter something along the lines of “I didn’t leave GE, GE left me.”
As a small boy in the early 1960's I saw GE Theater
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, February 4th at 10:07PM EST (link)and death valley days. My dad had head an early speech that Reagan had given to the Petroleum Club, I remember that he told me, “this guy is a good guy, he says the right things.”
Later I realized he was right. Reagan was not perfect, but he was certainly the best president in my lifetime. In fact, next to Reagan and Thatcher, the people who followed them look like moral and intellectual midgets.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I would exempt some of the leaders of Eastern Europe
aesthete (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 2:02AM EST (link)from that exceedingly long list of moral and intellectual midgets. That said, it is certainly a long list, and one with too many leaders of formerly great nations — it’s easy to lose the valiants who stand out in Eastern Europe.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
agreed
kyle8 (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 7:46AM EST (link)Walesa, Klaus, and Havel come to mind.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I work with a fellow who used to work for GE:
rickbull Friday, February 4th at 11:44PM EST (link)He said it was a great place to work until Satan (Jack Welch) took over as CEO.
WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).
that is odd, Welch was considered one of the great CEO's
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 1:02AM EST (link)and a conservative to boot. We are not supposed to say anything bad about GE here so I won’t discuss the place after Welch left. Your friend might just have a personal beef.
Molon Labe!
His contention is that Welch
rickbull Saturday, February 5th at 1:50PM EST (link)was the one that accelerated the outsourcing of GE jobs to other countries, and converted the company from primarily manufacturing to financial services and banking.
I personally don’t have a dog in this fight: I have never worked for them, and I do not hold any of their stock. Just reporting what I heard from a former insider.
WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).
FULL STOP
lexington_concord (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 12:28AM EST (link)Apparently you guys didn’t take the hint from the one guy I already banned in this thread so let me clue you in: this post is about two very good and moving tributes to a guy who meant a lot to me and if you continue to foul up this thread with the GE crap I am going to boot you. If you want to start a GE bashing fest start your own diary and do it. The end.
If you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
-Tuco
what is GE going to do with this tribute?
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 1:13AM EST (link)Narrated by Joe Scarborough. Is GE going to play this on national tv? Are they going to play it at the Super Bowl? Or is it just a ‘net video?
BTW, I view the “A Time For Choosing” speech a few times a year to when I need to recharge my batteries.
Molon Labe!
I watched "A Time For Choosing" just last month
aesthete (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 2:04AM EST (link)besides some cultural references and statistics, every single word is entirely true.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
yes, very little new under the sun -nt
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 9:49PM EST (link)Molon Labe!
Reagan's speech at Moscow University
pastisprolog Saturday, February 5th at 9:58PM EST (link)is also a marvel of greatness. Under the watchful glare of portraits of Communism’s greatest heroes, Reagan reminds dictators that people WILL ALWAYS strive to be free, and he gives hope to all oppressed people everywhere that America stands with all those who yearn for liberty.
I think it stands up to A Time for Choosing as one of his greatest speeches, but then there is The Boys of Point Du Hoc.
yeah, the latter is one of my faves too
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 5th at 10:26PM EST (link)I will watch the Moscow University speech soon, thanks for the reminder.
Molon Labe!
all those are great but the Evil Empire speech
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, February 6th at 6:24PM EST (link)is so great on so many levels, that I have ticklered myself to read it every month since 2005
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Aside from the feelings......
teaparty2012 (Diary) Sunday, February 6th at 2:46AM EST (link)that I have for GE, Immelt, and MSNBC (as I’m sure that’s who put the video together), I think the videos’ were put together well.
Something I would like to ask everybody, do any of you find the timing of Reagan’s 100th Birthday and the recent setback the Democrats experienced in November interesting? I personally believe that this event can only help strengthen the conservative movement in a way that we have been tediously searching for.