http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwKbItOQNKc http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/09/howes-ford-yanks-bailout-ad-after-white-house-pressure/
I love how people always assume that the white house (regardless of who is in it) actually would do something like this. The backlash they would receive if it was REAL would be far worse then the backlash they'd receive if the advertisement was kept on the air. especially when you consider that the Ford CEO was in favor of the bailouts...and still is. Btw, Ford may not have taken a "bailout" in the same manner that GM and Chrysler did, but they didn't turn down the millions they received in low interest loans and tax breaks. I thinks more likely that the ad had run it's course (car ads don't last long...in fact, I saw a really really REALLY lame GM ad two weeks ago and haven't seen it since). I also don't put a whole lot of weight behind someone who is a regular on a radio talk show, where the host fills in for Rush Limbaugh. Think about it this way. Why would the White House not WANT to talk about the bailouts? So far, haven't GM and Chrysler has paid most of it back, and isn't GM back on it's feet now? Seems like the White House would want that information out.
This thread should have been started tomorrow morning. You know, to get maximum tread from the ROAD (Republicans' Outrage of the Day).
I'm not outraged. I'm just beginning to get the feeling that the Obama Administration, dare I say, meddles? (Solyndra, Gibson, et al)
wasn't the Solyndra deal first started by the Bush administration? btw, the evidence that the Obama administration "meddled" with the Ford ad isn't exactly on solid ground. http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/...-bush-administration-solyndra-loan-guarantee/ The Solyndra deal, which was a pretty lame one, typifies one of the bigger issues with partisanship. Not that it was "Bush's fault", but that it's crying over half a billion dollars when so much more was wasted by Bush and Obama. 500 million is not even 1/24th of what it cost a month to fund the Iraq war in 2008.
I think the ad was pulled also in part to the UAW. They received a huge bailout when none was needed and also got GM as a boobie prize. The UAW calls Obama, Obama has someone call Ford and the ad disappears. Let's face it, Mr. President needs all the good press and lack of negative press he can get these days.
I think the trilateral commission and the Rockefellers were involved also. I suspect that Ford was paid off with some of the ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF GOLD that was stolen from underneath WTC7. Also, I think it is usually a booby prize, rather than a boobie prize. Booby prize comes from the 'dolt' meaning of boob, rather than 'tit'. Apparently booby trap has the same meaning - a booby trap traps boobs (not boobies). Just in case you were wondering barfo
I don't quite understand. What does the $187B in Overseas Contingency that Democratically-controlled Congress funded in 2008 have to do with partisan leverage by the President today? I mean, I could say that "500 million is not even 1/120th of what it costs a month to fund the Medicare check-bouncing in 2011", but that doesn't deal with potential illegal dealings by someone in the administration over half a billion dollars of taxpayer money.
When playing the blame game I do indeed like to alternate between George W. and Dick Cheney. But since everybody else was already blaming George W. and I wanted to fit in with the group, I jumped on that bandwagon.
i blame the bush family for jfk and rfks assassinations, the vietnam war, and iran/contra as well as the savings and loan scandal, 9/11, the wall street bailouts and the iraq war, amongst other things like attempted coups and nazi backing good god it would be funny if it wasnt horrifying
