What is Huffington's e-mail address? I may need to ask about what type of car I should purchase?
NBC's Dan Lothian and Huffington:
Lothian began: "On the crowded highway of giant SUVs,
columnist Arianna Huffington took an exit, trading in her
gas-guzzling Lincoln Navigator for a 50-mile-per-gallon Toyota
Prius hybrid."
Arianna Huffington: "Now I was after all driving that SUV
without connecting the dots, without being conscious of the impact
it was having."
Lothian: "Figuring no one else was connecting the dots either,
Huffington hooked up with some Hollywood heavyweights to produce
three TV spots with a high level of shock value. In this spot, the
evolution of George's gas purchase leads to the creation of
terrorists."
Clip of ad: "-get money from those countries every time George
fills up his SUV."
Huffington: "We need to be equating driving gas-guzzling SUVs
with supporting our oil addiction and our dependence on nations
that are supporting terrorism."
Clip of ad, person #1: "I helped our enemies develop weapons
of mass destruction."
Clip of ad, person #2: "I helped hijack an airplane."
Lothian: "The so-called Detroit Project is a parody of the
edgy government-supported anti-drug ads. The in-your-face
campaign, so far supported by small donations, is only partially
aimed at consumers. The real targets? Oil companies and their
dependence on foreign suppliers and automakers who build the SUVs
that guzzle gas. Washington, D.C., and Detroit are two of the four
markets where the spots will air, an attempt to influence
lawmakers and the auto industry. But is the premise from tank to
terrorist a stretch?
Huffington's Web page:
http://www.ariannaonline.com/suv
A key point overlooked by the media: The argument of the anti-
drug ads is that even casual drug users support terrorism, that it
isn't how much you support terrorism through drug use but that you
do. By that logic, driving a 50 mpg car using gas imported from
the Middle East is no less bad than driving a 15 mpg truck, to say
nothing of how an SUV owner who only drives 15 miles per day uses
less gas than a hybrid owner who drives 70 miles per day.
But on Wednesday's The View, the ABC daytime show, Joy Behar
had the best line. After former CBS News reporter Meredith Viera
ludicrously described Huffington as "the conservative author and
columnist," a perspective Huffingon long ago abandoned in her
successful quest for media approval, Behar quipped: "I'd like to
make a pledge today: If I see a terrorist in the Hamptons I'm
going to run him down with my SUV."
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030109.asp Thursday January 9, 2003 (Vol. Eight; No. 5)
I wonder if Little Miss Green Acres is following the McCain Strategy: call thyself a Republican, then bash the GOP, become a media darling, and perhaps get one's own show. Or maybe she is just the GOP version of celebrity Democrats: rich, shallow, and going to extremes to "make a difference".
Not reported in The New Marx Times or the Boston Glob. More than coincidence...?
You've all got it wrong; those are 21 cars that won't fall into the wrong hands. He's doing you ingrates a big favor. :)
I'm sure that everyone noticed that the bad guy in this commercial is named "George"
There is a VERY good reason for self-employed people to drive an SUV that weighs more than 6000 Lbs: these vehicles are not subject to the luxury auto limits as imposed by the IRS.
You know, the rules that say any car over $15,000 is a 'luxury' vehicle, which means your annual depreciation on the vehicle is limited.
So, go ahead and buy that $50,000 Escalade this year. You'll be able to depreciate it at 20% this year, 32% next year, etc. (as allowed by MACRS).
Check this out with your tax advisor: you'll be glad you did.
Yep. Very subtle, huh?
What should be done is, each and every person who takes part in this campaign should be photographed in all of their hypocritical actions. Then, a counter-campaign launched.
Does that have a 600hp Cat. in it?
