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Fellow lefties: while I'm not going to defend a situation in which a giant conglomerate controls a major media company, it should be pointed out that General Electric is not the military behemoth it was when we all learned to scream about it back in the 1980s. GE sold off most of its aerospace business in the early 1990s. It's now the 35th largest defense contractor, in between Rockwell Collins and ARINC, Inc. (and just a few million bucks ahead of Motorola and Hewlett Packard). Here's the list, which is quite interesting:
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/top-100/2007/defense_revenue.html
I'm not saying GE doesn't benefit from war. I'm just saying to update your talking points.
Secondly, as other letter writers have pointed out, this would be a great story for MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to take on. Have you given her a call yet, Glenn?
