GM Withdraws CBS' 'Survivor' Sponsorship

Breitbart.com/AP ^ | 8/30/06 | Tom Krishner

[Huntress]

"By putting people in tribes, they clearly have to get rid of people of their own ethnicity," he told The Associated Press during a conference call. "So it's not racial at all."

Yeah, right.

[Radix]

"How could anybody be so desperate for ratings?" City Councilman John Liu asked last week. "

How could any company be so desperate to appear to be politically correct?

I have bought I believe FIVE General Motor's vehicles over the last 20 years or so.

I will NEVER EVER buy a GM product again.

This latest one is a lemon, and the GM service departments are even worse than the machine in my particular area.

GM ought to concentrate on building decent vehicles rather than sucking up to the mindless.

Toyota, here I come!

[blam]

Oops!

This will probably turn out to be a smart move by GM.

[don-o]

I guess people care about this junk. I sure don't

[ChadGore]

I applaud GM for walking away from the most racists show on TV.

[the anti-liberal]

"How could any company be so desperate to appear to be politically correct?"

GM spokeswoman Ryndee S. Carney said the company made the decision in the normal course of making its media buys months ago, before the show made its recent announcement.

[Mr_Moonlight]

A group of New York City officials have criticized the new format, saying it promotes divisiveness.

Yeah, sure, right .... this 'group' is called "Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus (BLAC)", and the New York Post today opines the irony of their nonesense:
WHAT, NO WHITE CAUCUS?

[gotribe]

"GM" and "survivor." That's funny.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I heard a GM car commercial on the radio this a.m. One part of the commercial was an attempt to sell passenger cars. Said something to the effect of buy the card and follow a band around the country. I don't know who is doing their marketing, but the whole commercial was silly.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I guess people care about this junk. I sure don't

GM or CBS?

[GretchenM]

In the Way Back days, God sorted people out by family, tribe, and nation. If God isn't afraid to do this, and if people work to get along in life, what's the problem here?

[John Will]

So this is Survivor:prison.

[rockabyebaby]

Hellllllllllllllllo Ryndee, why not just tell it like it is, GM does not want to be assciated with a racist program, simple truth is the best policy........stop this PC crap..........

[ErnBatavia]

Toyota, here I come!

Better late than never...you won't be disappointed.

[Cobra64]

And Ford is going afte the queer market.

I'll stay with the German hardware.

[sinkspur]

How could any company be so desperate to appear to be politically correct?

Not wishing to associate with a series that is scraping the bottom of the barrel by consciously pitting whites against blacks is a pretty smart move, it seems to me.

[don-o]

Reality shows

[sinkspur]

In the Way Back days, God sorted people out by family, tribe, and nation. If God isn't afraid to do this, and if people work to get along in life, what's the problem here?

That you don't see the difference between a friggin' television show pimping for ratings and natural demographic similarities is bizarre.

[Spktyr]

Exactly - the idiots at GM (in general) are apparently just figuring out that sponsoring a show isn't going to help them sell cars. That approach only helps when *nobody* knows who you are and you're trying to increase your mindshare from zero. GM is well past that critical number.