Did Jack Welch Call the Election for George Bush?

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Did General Electric CEO Jack Welch, who signs the checks for the folks at NBC News, ask NBC chief Andrew Lack to call the presidential election in favor of George W. Bush well before the election was actually over? According to Representative Henry Waxman, Welch did pay a visit to the NBC control room that night last November, cheering whenever Bush was ahead and griping whenever Gore took the lead. At one point he asked a staffer, "What would I have to give you to call the race for Bush?" And he was ultimately the one who gave the order to actually do so.