It was literally a show stopper.
At the end of his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, the 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. Immelt apparently left Stahl speechless, because rather than providing an answer, 60 Minutes could only cut to its tick-tick-tick stopwatch.