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.
View video here.
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Comcast owns 51% of NBC. I guess Imelt couldn’t get permission to sell it to the Chinese.
“Stahl: Because GE pays zero US tax and exports business such as xray machine manufacturing to China. Next question Omullah butt boy?”
“It’s not my fault. I couldn’t help it. What was I to do? I had to go along?
Or something close to that...
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