Meet Comcast/NBC Universal’s new Chief Executive Officer

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Now, back to my post already in progress:

Per my pal Hugh Kaufman (senior policy analyst with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response), “The Comcast Chief Operating Officer (COO) is a BIG Conservative Republican Financier. Olbermann was finished last year, if the Head of NBC wanted to keep his job.”

Hugh is right, as always:

Comcast Corp. Chief Operating Officer Stephen Burke will succeed Jeff Zucker as chief executive officer of NBC Universal, taking over the effort to revive the television company once Comcast has control. [...]

“Steve Burke is an experienced, talented and visionary leader with over 25 years in the media and entertainment industry,” Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in yesterday’s statement. “I am confident that he will lead NBCU forward to a new era of growth.”

And by growth, he meant the stifling of progressive voices on MSNBC and elsewhere.

Meet the “experienced, talented visionary”:

Stephen B. Burke

Born: c. 1958

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Business
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: COO of Comcast

Father: Daniel B. Burke (former President of Capital Cities)
Wife: Gretchen Hoadley (m. 1983, five children)

University: Colgate University (1980)
University: MBA, Harvard Business School (1982)

Comcast COO (2004-)
Comcast EVP (2002-04)
Comcast EVP Comcast Holdings (2000-02)
Comcast President of Comcast Cable (1998-2004)
ABC President of ABC Broadcasting (1996-98)
Disney President and COO of Euro Disney SA
Disney (1986-)
General Foods
Member of the Board of Bank One (2003-04)
Member of the Board of JP Morgan Chase (2004-)
Bush-Cheney ’04
Cantor for Congress
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Friends of George Allen
Friends of Giuliani Exploratory Committee
George W. Bush for President
Gore 2000
John McCain 2008
McCain-Palin Victory 2008
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Romney for President
Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee
Santorum 2006
Tom Delay Congressional Committee
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Bush Pioneer 2004 Ranger

Good night, and good luck… to us.

Note: Title corrected.