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GM veers right when it should drive straight (Sean Hannity car giveaway)
Automotive editorial - Orlando Sentinel ^ | Thursday October 12th, 2006 | Steven Cole Smith

Posted on 10/13/2006 3:25:21 AM PDT by ajolympian2004

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To: Vaquero

Given GM's sales, how exactly would a boycott by the left (or anyone) actually be noticed? Or have any effect whatsoever?


21 posted on 10/13/2006 3:52:12 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ajolympian2004

I'm no fan of Hannity, but what the heck? He has a huge listenership consisting of people with jobs and money, and who don't see cars as the vehicle of the devil. There's a reason why nobody wants to advertise on Air Amerika...


22 posted on 10/13/2006 3:52:14 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Keeper of the Turf
Yeah, Rush Limbaugh has so effectively used the 'drive-by media' moniker when referring the liberal media that even they are starting to use it.

You have to wonder what the rank and file union workers at GM think about the company teaming up with Sean Hannity. I suspect that many of those union members are Reagan Democrats.

23 posted on 10/13/2006 3:54:02 AM PDT by ajolympian2004
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To: ajolympian2004

If they are Reagan Democrats, they sure don't show it, because they keep electing Carterites to run their union and spend their money.


24 posted on 10/13/2006 3:55:28 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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The initial reaction of a substantial portion of readers will be this: "Of course you don't think it's a good idea, because you are a card-carrying member of the liberal drive-by media who want nothing more than to tear down all that is good and right with America!"

Rush coins a phrase and within a month or three it is common usage. Sweet!

25 posted on 10/13/2006 3:55:34 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: ajolympian2004

Yeah, stick to those unbiased news outlets like CBS, ABC, and the N.Y. Times. You know, the ones you have spent countless millions of advertising dollars on, who's main agenda is to see America become a moral, military, and cultural wasteland, ripe for our enemies to attack.


26 posted on 10/13/2006 4:03:05 AM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.)
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To: beyond the sea

Didn't Oprah give away GM cars recently too?


27 posted on 10/13/2006 4:13:03 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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Didn't Oprah give away GM cars recently too?

Oprah gives away 276 new Pontiacs
Talk show host opens 19th season by giving all her audience members a brand-new Pontiac G-6.
September 13, 2004: 5:05 PM EDT

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/13/news/newsmakers/oprah/

28 posted on 10/13/2006 4:16:08 AM PDT by ajolympian2004
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To: Vaquero

GM advertising where the listeners are. What a novel concept. The writer is bound by his biased view. Pathetic, isn't it.


29 posted on 10/13/2006 4:19:26 AM PDT by OldFriend (Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? President Karzai 9/26/06)
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To: ajolympian2004
This guy was a sponsor of the less popular "Che"_vrolet your a stinking Commie giveaway".
30 posted on 10/13/2006 4:20:06 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: ajolympian2004
Presumably GM is making a rational calculation about who it can reach through its promotions. If Hannity is popular, it's a good deal. Furthermore, the audience he reaches is inclined to buy American if it can help it.

Mr. Smith isn't playing with a full deck.

Regards, Ivan

31 posted on 10/13/2006 4:22:52 AM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: ajolympian2004
GM is stupid for partnering with Sean who many people disagree with but the Dixie Chicks and that wack job rapper are bastions of enlighten thought for trash talking Bush.

Just another example of the Leftist Cult of Hypocrisy
32 posted on 10/13/2006 4:23:29 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (EeevilCon, Snowflake, Conservative Fundamentalist Gun Owning Bush Bot Dittohead reporting for duty!)
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To: ajolympian2004

BULLSH!T!!! Anti-American POS dims drive volvos and hybrids, pedal bicycles, walk, or ride in CORPORATE JETS THAT ARE "GOING THERE ANYWAY"!

GM knows more about where America's head is than all of the fake manufactured polls of today. This author even admits that the msm is biased and that he is a card carrying member of same. Open your eyes naysayers!

LLS


33 posted on 10/13/2006 4:31:14 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: ajolympian2004

Oprah giving away cars - she's a goddess!! Hannity giving away cars - he's evil!!


34 posted on 10/13/2006 4:33:24 AM PDT by veronica
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To: Keeper of the Turf

Bingo! I posted the exact same thing!

LLS


35 posted on 10/13/2006 4:33:42 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: ajolympian2004

"For General Motors to align itself with one host, one political party, one point of view, is a bad decision."

Not if it's the right host, the right political party and the right point of view. You Libs think that there are two versions of truth. Uh-uh. Only one will do. The truth isn't relative.

Here's to GM who has the guts to do what's right. All you Ford boycotters - buy a Corvette or Impala or Tahoe.


36 posted on 10/13/2006 4:37:37 AM PDT by RoadTest (The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.)
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"Of course you don't think it's a good idea, because you are a card-carrying member of the liberal drive-by media who want nothing more than to tear down all that is good and right with America!"
Well, yes, of course, that's certainly true,

Well, OK. I mean why else would he think it's a bad idea to market to conservatives who I suspect make up well over half the buyers of domestic cars and trucks?

And because of this I intend to give GM a second look when it's time to buy a new truck. I was almost thinking of turning Japanese.

BTW, what did this guy think of Ford's campaign to go after the homosexual market?

37 posted on 10/13/2006 4:40:05 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: ajolympian2004

For your information, Steve, Michael Savage is not a Republican - he's a registered Independent. He thinks for himself. Can a Liberal grasp that concept?


38 posted on 10/13/2006 4:42:23 AM PDT by RoadTest (The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.)
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To: rogue yam
Rush coins a phrase and within a month or three it is common usage. Sweet!
Granted that it is a wonder that conservatives have a voice - I so well remember when the "Fairness Doctrine" completely stifled conservative broadcasting - I have some problems with the term "Drive By Media":
  1. "Media" refers not to the genre of publication but to the means of publication. The term thus includes fictional books, movies, and TV dramas as well as so-called "objective" journalism which is Rush's actual, legitimate, target.

  2. As Rush has correctly noted, if you miss ABC catch NBC, if you miss NBC read The New York Times, if you miss The New York Times read The Washington Post . . . and so forth. Those are different organs of "The Drive By Media," and they are all the same. "Media" is a plural noun. But if "Words mean things," grammar means things too. "Objective" journalism is a single entity - and if a word is to be coined to to denote it, that word should be a singular noun.

39 posted on 10/13/2006 4:50:19 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Paladin2
Yes I think so. She really gave them away.

;-)

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/22/news/newsmakers/oprah_car_tax/?cnn=yes

40 posted on 10/13/2006 4:57:00 AM PDT by beyond the sea ( Either hold your nose on Election Day ......... or grab your ankles for the next few years)
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