"I continue to have concerns about NBC Universal and its fit in the overall portfolio," said Mike Gandrud, senior analyst at Optique Capital Management.

To be sure, other units of GE, such as financial services, health care and industrial divisions, performed worse than NBC Universal in the first quarter.

While NBC's 3 percent profit growth was less than half of the fourth quarter's 10 percent rise, GE's overall profit fell 6 percent in the first quarter, rocking global markets in the latest sign that the U.S. economy may be in a recession.

Speculation over a sale of NBC Universal has dogged the company in recent months.

Three percent? In an election year with the political campaigns estimated to spend a billion dollars in advertising? In an alleged Democrat year?

Its OK with me with they want to left-wing themselves right out of a job.

Fox News is generally conceded to have a conservative editorial bias, and while that "upsets" the far-left, Fox News doesn't find itself embroiled in controversies like the Killian forgeries or editing the President's responses to fit an ideological and political agenda.

Bush had mentioned the president of Iran in the speech and said: "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, considered that an attack on him. The White House denied it.

Engel asked Bush if he had been referring to Obama.

As it appeared on “Nightly News” on Sunday and the “Today” show on Monday, Bush's response was:

"You know, my policies haven't changed, but evidently the political calendar has. . . . And when, you know, a leader of Iran says that they want to destroy Israel, you've got to take those words seriously."

NBC deleted the following passage between those sentences:

"People need to read the speech. You didn't get it exactly right, either. What I said was that we need to take the words of people seriously."

Bush counsel Ed Gillespie, in a letter to NBC, said that "this deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured story line is utterly misleading and irresponsible."

The unedited Bush interview is on the network's website, NBC noted, saying the reporting accurately reflected the interview.

Gillespie said: "It's simply absurd for people to have to log onto the Internet and stream video to get accurate information from NBC News."

Damn right.

Its seems that going left requires going liar too.