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Immelt's Stunning Question To Stahl: Why Don't You Root For Us Like Our Employees Do?
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/09/2011 5:47:56 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

It was literally a show stopper.

At the end of his "60 Minutes" interview with Lesley Stahl, GE CEO Jeff Immelt asked her: "I don't know why you don't" root for GE, and by extension for American business, the way company employees do? Did Immelt leave Stahl speechless? Rather than providing an answer, 60 Minutes could only cut to its tick-tick-tick stopwatch.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; ge; immelt; jeffreyimmelt; lesleystahl; msm
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To: hc87

Bingo!


21 posted on 10/09/2011 6:46:54 PM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Earth first! We can log the other planets later")
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To: Uncle Ike

He should have NBC hire here and THEN ask that question!

“Why Don’t You Root For Us Like Our OTHER Employees Do? “


22 posted on 10/09/2011 6:51:39 PM PDT by WOSG (“Legion of Acceptibility”)
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To: GreatRoad
I saw how truly disgusting Imelt is on this TV segment. He’s Obozos job czar, selling technology to China.

I didn't believe him when he answered the question about technology transfer. His face got really red.

23 posted on 10/09/2011 6:52:17 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

The segment ended on a “negative” note (Why DON’T you?). Did not help Immelt or GE.


24 posted on 10/09/2011 7:07:32 PM PDT by no dems (The HERMANator in 2012 !)
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To: nascarnation

Doesn’t matter, Comcast is now the senior, majority partner


25 posted on 10/09/2011 7:08:39 PM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Viking2002
That's one of those dogfights where you're not sure if you really care who wins or loses...

True, but in this case I'd prefer mutually assured destruction. No on left standing.

I guess they left his comment in so it would look like they are being tough with GE.

26 posted on 10/09/2011 7:09:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“60 Minutes” could have edited this interview and ended on a different note had they wanted to. Guess what? They ended the segment the way they wanted to end the segment.


27 posted on 10/09/2011 7:11:01 PM PDT by no dems (The HERMANator in 2012 !)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why did Leslie tell her plastic surgeon she wanted to look like Barbara Walters?


28 posted on 10/09/2011 7:13:35 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why should we root for a company that expects all of us peons to buy it’s flimsy, China made sh!t, but doesn’t want to hire
us to make it??

FCK them.


29 posted on 10/09/2011 7:16:00 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander -- ..........................NUTS !)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This Obamaite socialist CEO of Government Electric has employees in a bind here. Cheer for us in corporate proaganda sessions or lose your jobs! I am not all that excited about the CEO habit of self aggrandizement at the expense of employees these days.

I don’t expect my employees to cheer for me. I expect them to do their job professionally and they expect me to keep the work coming in, pay them, be fair, be cleae and keep the company afloat.

They are not cheering for me like I am an idol and I would never expect them to lower themselves to do that in order to stoke my ego. But then I am not a amoral socialist goon.


30 posted on 10/09/2011 7:17:48 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Because we don’t like you.


31 posted on 10/09/2011 7:19:03 PM PDT by quegley (Pitchforks and torches! Tar and feathers! Time to take the country back!)
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To: hc87

Perfect. Cass Sundstein= wesley Mouch. Obama = Mr Thompson. Rand is a prophet.


32 posted on 10/09/2011 7:24:45 PM PDT by malos (Call Me Inpressed)
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To: quegley

Shut the tv when they said Immelt was a Republican that Obama reached across the aisle to appoint


33 posted on 10/09/2011 7:27:15 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Later


34 posted on 10/09/2011 7:32:50 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Leslie, the question was supposed to be:

“Jeff, as a US based highly successful multinational corporation, why doesn’t GE pay any US taxes on it’s profits from all of it’s highly profitable US businesses”??

Hammana, hammana!


35 posted on 10/09/2011 7:40:30 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Leslie, the question was supposed to be:

“Jeff, as a US based highly successful multinational corporation, why doesn’t GE pay any taxes on it’s profits from all of it’s highly profitable US businesses”??

Hammana, hammana!


36 posted on 10/09/2011 7:41:45 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Why should we root for Jeff Immelt's GE, when it's doing everything possible to send Americans to the unemployment line and move their jobs to China or India?

Sell your junk to the Chinese and Indians, Immelt.

37 posted on 10/09/2011 7:45:43 PM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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To: nascarnation

“Jeffy is NBC via GE”

GE sold NBC to Comcast this year.


38 posted on 10/09/2011 7:46:58 PM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’ll bet Jack Welch wouldn’t say such a stupid thing.


39 posted on 10/09/2011 7:49:58 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Psalm 109:8)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

bump.


40 posted on 10/09/2011 7:55:17 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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