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SUV Foe Norman Lear Has 21-Car Garage
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| January 9, 2003
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 01/09/2003 10:33:59 AM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides
I wonder what the Drug Czar thinks of the HuffingandPuffington advert that makes a mockery of the WoD PSA.
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posted on
01/09/2003 10:48:27 AM PST
by
Fred Mertz
(DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG UNDER PENALTY OF LAW)
To: Paul Atreides
RUSH'S LINE about Huffington "She's not out to get SUV's, she's out to lunch".....LOL
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posted on
01/09/2003 10:49:14 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Paul Atreides
Yep, as I said on the
SUV=terrorism string, the whole idea is to get the peasants onto the buses, back in the fields, and into the shanties where they belong.
Hell, I don't even blame them, up to a point. It burns my cookies, too, when some yahoo in a crew-cab pickup cuts off my Benz on the street. The difference, of course, is that I lack the exquisitely refined creativity exhibited by media-crats like Lear, Huffington, Baldwin, and the usual cast of eco-wacky hypocrites. I therefore lack the capacity to delude myself into inventing a class-affiliation that would allow me to pretend that technology, wealth, and public roads exist for my benefit alone.
To: zeaal
Not to mention yachts, pickup trucks, busses, private jets, snowmobiles, Sea-Doos, etc. Are Arianna and Norman going to ask Hollywood to give up their favorite toys? I guarantee you that the average A-list actor blows more money on gas and oil in a year than the average SUV-owner family does in a lifetime.
To: Paul Atreides
Huffington was on television bitching about the amount of imported oil SUVs use. Sad that she was not reminded that her ex-husbands money came from HUFFCO which has huge holdings in Indonesia.
To: zeaal
"does this mean the eighteen wheelers transporting goods across the U.S. for consumers every where are also contributing to terrorism?" If buying gasoline supports terrorism, then anyone who buys it is supporting terrorism - just to different extents - even it's a small car. But only if you believe this crap.
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posted on
01/09/2003 10:53:06 AM PST
by
Badray
To: Paul Atreides
It might have been a better campaign for them if they were to just encourage Americans to purchase gasoline from oil companies based in the U.S. (And may have been better accepted.)
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posted on
01/09/2003 10:55:52 AM PST
by
zeaal
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
I read that she is doing this PRECISELY because her husband is in oil. A little payback.
To: Paul Atreides
While we're on the subject, how about somebody at Newsmax finds out how many Congress critters and Senators have taken a tax break on the purchase of luxury SUVs. Inquiring minds want to know...
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posted on
01/09/2003 10:58:25 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Paul Atreides
Arianna Huffington and every other Prius owner gets a $2000 tax credit for buying that bi-fuel car. Their do goodism is financed by the rest of us' taxes. That's how targeted tax breaks work when liberals propose them.
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posted on
01/09/2003 10:58:32 AM PST
by
RicocheT
To: Paul Atreides
Paul: Maybe the average A-list actor just blows. Why would anyone watch their stupid movies or give a rats-ass what they say or think?
To: Paul Atreides
People with flaccid body parts. And brains to match.
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posted on
01/09/2003 10:58:55 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Is this tag line cool?)
To: Paul Atreides
In 1999 President
Clinton bestowed the National Medal of the Arts on Mr. Lear, declaring,
"Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American Society and changed the way we look at it." Mr. Lear's non-profit activities include founding of People for the American Way, The Business Enterprise Trust, the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Southern California, and most recently, of The Lear Center, a multidisciplinary research and public policy center exploring implications of the convergence of entertainment, commerce, and society.
Mr. Lear is married to Lyn Davis Lear and has six children: Maggie, Ellen, Kate, Benjamin, Brianna, and Madeline. Aish.com interviewed him in his office in Beverly Hills.
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posted on
01/09/2003 11:01:23 AM PST
by
kcvl
To: Paul Atreides
45' tall : I'll bet she has one of these on order.
Another day .. another example of liberal-scumbag hypocrisy revealed. I think I'll go run over some bunnies in my 4X4 "exploring" the countryside.
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posted on
01/09/2003 11:02:14 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Islam and Arabs = uncivilized barbarians.)
To: Paul Atreides
All of this is great exposure of hypocracy, but I think it also unveils the bigger point, which, IMHO, is the fact that the ads were never really about SUVs and US energy dependency in the first place. The ads were really about taking a dig at Dubya and his war on terrorism/drugs. Somebody came up with what seemed like a great idea -- using the same buzz words, look and approach in an ad Dubya is behind but use them to attack what they think is a Bush/GOP sacred cow. The idea was to make him and his terrorism/drug policy look stupid. They got SO excited about the thing it never occurred to them that they might actually be herding themselves into the same corral.
This was all about making Bush look stupid and it's backfiring big time!!! Why didn't it work? Because they still think they have a monopoly on the media -- that's why!
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posted on
01/09/2003 11:03:52 AM PST
by
Lee'sGhost
(Edwards sucks.)
To: Paul Atreides
SUV Foe Norman Lear Has 21-Car GarageC'mon folks ... give the guy a break. He probably owns 20 or so electric cars.
/sarcasm
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posted on
01/09/2003 11:04:02 AM PST
by
al_c
To: RicocheT
Luxury SUV buyers are presently getting bigger tax breaks than that. How does that sit with you?
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posted on
01/09/2003 11:04:12 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Paul Atreides
Al "destroy the internal combustion engine" Gore out pressing the flesh at, of all things, a NASCAR eventIn June 2000 I freeped Gore at an appearance in Pittsburgh. I could tell he had arrived at the hotel (for a $1000 a plate lunch) when about 20 Chevy Suburbans pulled up, along with the limousine from which Mr. Earth in the Balance emerged. When Al Gore arrives anywhere in a Ford Focus, I'll take him - and the rest of the anti-internal combustion crowd - seriously.
To: zeaal
I wrote and asked Huffington how many homes she owned. She did not answer. I guess a 9,000 square foot mansion answers it all.
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posted on
01/09/2003 11:05:23 AM PST
by
paguch
To: Centurion2000
There are plenty of other reasons to avoids SUVs like the plague. Most of them can be summed up in two words: crash compatability. And when the legal weasels find a way to get in on that angle, the manufacturers and any owners involved in a crash better hold onto their wallets.
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posted on
01/09/2003 11:06:25 AM PST
by
mewzilla
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