Posted on 09/28/2011 1:45:06 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
What was designed as a “man-on-the-street” style commercial for Ford Motor Co. turned into a potent political statement when F-150 owner Chris McDaniel, asked about the importance of buying American, explained why Ford was the company for him: “I wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government,” McDaniel explained. “I was going to buy from a manufacturer that’s standing on their own, win, lose or draw.”
The TV spot was so popular, the video went viral on YouTube. But it was not until the ad was pulled off the air that people really started talking about it, and about McDaniel’s populist message. You see, The Detroit News reported that Ford pulled the ad after the White House voiced concerns over its anti-bailout message. It has since returned to YouTube, and you can watch the ad above.
We reached out to McDaniel in this week’s Scribecast, and he reiterated and elaborated on the message from the Ford commercial – which he says was completely spontaneous and unscripted on his end. That message: “Government, whether it’s big-D [or] big-R government, is too big.”
Listen to our interview with Chris McDaniel on Scribecast
McDaniel humanized the issue in a very powerful way. He and his wife lost their home early in the recession, he said, after his wife lost her job. “I am not immune to what’s going on,” McDaniel said. The two had to learn financial responsibility the hard way, and wonder why the federal government and the companies it props up have not done the same.
No one came and bailed me out. We just had to cut back our expenses, reduce our cost of living, and do without a lot of things that we could no longer afford. I couldn’t eat out at lunch every day. I carried around my lunchbox for a year and a half to reduce the amount of money it costs for me to get by on a daily basis.
The issue is: at what point in time does the government pack a lunch and go to work?
But while his message is a frustrated one, McDaniel seems a happy warrior. “if I’m the messenger at this point in time, I’ll carry the water,” he said. As for Ford, “the message that they put out there, I graciously appreciate,” McDaniel said, “because it has stirred a debate in America that we need to have.”
https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/mp3/Scribecast-9-28-11.mp3
This guy sounds like he has more common sense than all of congress and 0dumbo’s cabinet combined.
he does our country proud, contrast that to the idiot who was happy 0dumbo won so she couldn’t have to pay for her house any longer or her car
OR contrast that to the members of the CBC who called Herman Cain and Allen West oreos
Great interview
thank you for taking the time to post
This guy sounds like he has more common sense than all of congress and 0dumbo’s cabinet combined.
he does our country proud, contrast that to the idiot who was happy 0dumbo won so she couldn’t have to pay for her house any longer or her car
OR contrast that to the members of the CBC who called Herman Cain and Allen West oreos
Great interview
thank you for taking the time to post
Of course not, you're a working middle class drone who is supposed to support the system. Get it straight, white boy!
https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/mp3/Scribecast-9-28-11.mp3
The interview is great. I hope McDaniel is prepared to be treated by the Left the way they treated Joe the Plumber.
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