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Fox News Host Gretchen Carlson: Government Unfairly Shutdown My Parents' GM Dealership
NewsBusters ^ | June 10, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 06/10/2009 7:11:32 AM PDT by Rufus2007

Many have claimed the federal government was playing fast and loose with the rules surrounding its takeover of General Motors and the circumstances surrounding the selection of which dealerships would remain open and those that wouldn't. Fox News' Gretchen Carlson came forward with evidence of this through a personal account of dealership closings.

Carlson, a co-host on the Fox News Channel's morning show "Fox & Friends," appeared on Glenn Beck's June 9 program and questioned the logic behind the decision reached by the government and General Motors (GM) to close down a dealership that has been in her family for 90 years.

"I'd like to get a hold of the car czar too," Carlson said. "Never did I think personally that I would need to get a hold of him, but now I do because my parents have owned a General Motors dealership in Anoka, Minn., for 90 years and they were terminated last week and they would like to know why. They would like to know why from the car czar."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: amyklobuchar; automakers; dealerships; economy; foxandfriends; foxnews; generalmotors; glennbeck; governmentmotors; gretchencarlson; minnesota; nationalization; theft; tm
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Hmm... like the government didn't see an issue with a Fox News host raising a fuss about this over her parents' dealership?
1 posted on 06/10/2009 7:11:32 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Uh, she’s not so good at math either.

Her parents owned a dealership for 90 years........


2 posted on 06/10/2009 7:13:08 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Rufus2007

I read somewhere that the dealerships that were closed down were almost all Republican donors.

I hope that can be proved


3 posted on 06/10/2009 7:13:08 AM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: Rufus2007

She had her folks on Fox and Friends a couple of weeks ago. Lovely people. This just makes my blood boil at what they are doing to families and the communities.

These businesses not only employ folks.....they also donate to their local communities and many ways.


4 posted on 06/10/2009 7:14:04 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Mr. K

Just the modus operandi, throwing people under the bus, don’t you get it?


5 posted on 06/10/2009 7:14:13 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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Hey Gretchen, just wait - once the Government Motors gets back on it's feet, they will award dealerships to the sons of prominent Democrats in office....wait and see.

Hey, is the love child of JesseJ old enough yet to be given a dealership???

6 posted on 06/10/2009 7:14:33 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Rufus2007

83% of all dealer closings were donors to the republican party. What’s even worse is that there are at least two cases where, in an area of 6-7 dealerships, all the republican donors had their dealerships closed but the one democrat donor was allowed to stay open.


7 posted on 06/10/2009 7:14:52 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A GUTLESS SOCIALIST LOSER WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: Carley

“in business since 1919 ...”

http://www.mainmotors.com/MiscPage_7


8 posted on 06/10/2009 7:15:27 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: Carley

what’s wrong with the math?


9 posted on 06/10/2009 7:15:30 AM PDT by Pure Country
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To: Mr. K

Most dealers in our area are close buddies...The ones that shut down will just go work for/with a buddy. It’s been like that for years.


10 posted on 06/10/2009 7:15:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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11 posted on 06/10/2009 7:15:47 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Rufus2007

Is that who Glenn Beck is interviewing now (her parents, that is)?


12 posted on 06/10/2009 7:16:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Politics: Poli = Many; Tics = Blood Sucking Creatures)
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To: Pure Country

Her parents own something for ninety years????????


13 posted on 06/10/2009 7:16:31 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Rufus2007

On Glenn Beck radio NOW!


14 posted on 06/10/2009 7:17:02 AM PDT by vacuumbob (The world is, FUBAR!)
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To: Rufus2007

Car Dealerships = Political Patronage

You aint seen nothing yet.


15 posted on 06/10/2009 7:17:53 AM PDT by TUX
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To: Carley

She probably meant to say that her FAMILY owned the dealership for 90 years.


16 posted on 06/10/2009 7:18:42 AM PDT by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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If I remember correctly, during the fake Dan Rather Documents Gretchen, then a CBS employee, called him out, in the news room

Then she wound up at Fox, I would say this is retribution.

17 posted on 06/10/2009 7:18:44 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Carley

Originally her family dealership sold buggies and wagons. My husbands family had one of those too.
when the need for buggies, harnesses and saddles went away they had a gasoline station.


18 posted on 06/10/2009 7:18:55 AM PDT by Ditter
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“her family for 90 years”

Pretty sure she might have had grandparents.


19 posted on 06/10/2009 7:19:53 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Carley

in the family for 90 years


20 posted on 06/10/2009 7:19:54 AM PDT by RDTF ("I'm pretty sure this is a 2 man job once the shooting starts")
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