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Let us compare two commercials: GM’s, and its parody.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 8th, 2009 at 09:42 PM  | 

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This is the original:

…annnnnd (via Ace of Spades) this is the parody.

The parody’s better. Not to mention, considerably more honest.

Moe Lane

PS: I don’t know whether this site is Left-oriented or Right-oriented, but I’ll say this: whoever made it is not happy. And he or she is right to be not happy.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • mbecker908

    And it should win an award,

  • NeoKong

    The first one was ridiculous.

  • DONTREADONME

    I have only owned GM cars in my life, I always loved them until now. Secondly, the whole garbage of the inability to compete in utter BS, it was only two or three years ago and GM was raking in profits. My guess would be look back three years ago and ask what was different then and now? My guess is GM, more of your union members are receiving pensions, BTW do you not remember what you had to pay to buyout those union members that you were no longer able to support? Maybe that had a little something to do with your inefficiency. Anyway, no more Obama GM vehicles for me, heck I even canceled their stupid credit card.

  • mbecker908

    too kind.

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    I hadn’t scrolled down all the way down when I hit the play button (so didn’t see the note re the Ace of Spades.)

    I was laughing in the first middle of the first commercial thinking “this must be a spoof.” Well, you know the rest.

  • JoeG

    He’s still under contract with GM.

    He’ll blast them during commentary, then turn right around and run a commercial talking about the wonderful new GM.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    He’s not letting advertsing get in the way of what he really thinks.

  • Flagstaff

    is Chapter Eleven.

  • JoeG

    and yanks the advertising. It’s just painful to listen to the commercials.

  • Flagstaff

    to find some good stuff like this:

    FEATURE STORY

    GM kills electric car, five others in shooting spree.

    CEO Says electric car tried to “f**k my s**t up” and totally “had it coming”. Electric car is survived by electric scooter, and electric bus.

    Follow the links there to read about the ’90s “EV-1″ and its “thousands of customers lined up to buy it,” and also Michael Moore’s rant on HuffPo.

  • Flagstaff

    I listen to most of the show, most days. I haven’t heard a GM ad recently, and I wondered if he’d stopped advertising for them.

    I agree with Neil. No conflict if he isn’t pulling his punches, and he isn’t as far as I’ve heard. He needs to keep all his advertisers–here in Flagstaff (Ann Arbor SW), local advertisers seem to be boycotting his show. The local station dropped him when DST started across the country. It took them about two weeks to change their minds. I guess that enough of us let them know we weren’t interested in listening to Dolly and Waylon and Reba for three hours each morning.

  • OccamsRazor

    in this thread. But I haven’t ever listened to Rush-only in passing.

    However, I’d imagine that he knows GM is being galvanize under socialism where the risk is paid by the people and the profits are taken by the “oligarchy”-where he has no control of the bigger picture.

    Rush knows where his bread is buttered, and it’s based and marinated in principle.

    GM is not a long term play, but character is.

  • JoeG

    I clearly remember hearing the ad yesterday. I listen online to several stations, I think it was WOND in NJ.

  • mbecker908

    it’s new owners. If anything, they’ll double the buy.

  • http://www.fredsnews.com Fred Maidment

    “…and more committed to the oil companies.”

    The parody was created by someone who thinks the auto companies actually buy patents that improve fuel efficiency in order to bury them and keep oil companies happy. I don’t know why that makes sense to people, but it doesn’t to somebody in business.

    It’s not like Shell can just say, “We won’t sell gas to people who drive GM cars.” They’d have to tell their franchisees, “Look, we want to increase our profits, so we’re going to eliminate roughly 30% of your sales. Can’t have people driving those fuel efficient cars.” To prevent this scenario, GM makes vehicles that get low gas mileage that people are less inclined to buy now that gas is $2.50/gallon.

    Yeah, right. That makes sense.

    Maybe it’s just more likely that these patents didn’t work… Or in a lot of cases, never existed in the first place… ‘Cause let’s face it, when gas was $4 a gallon, just about every car company in America would have loved to have had that 100mpg carburetor.

    I am just as angry as anyone else that GM got this bailout, but there is honest criticism and there is paranoia. The parody maker is paranoid.

  • dmartin

    He’ll be the first sponsor dropped under Obama controlled adverrtising

  • dmartin

    The first one was utter propaganda, and the second one completely missed the point. The big three have two problems, union contracts and CAFE, government control does nothing to solve either problem. Unions are now on both sides of the bargaining table with the taxpayer picking up the tab for the contracts. Dont waste your breath talking of boycoting GM, you are going to pay for their cars whether you buy them or not. Recent changes in CAFE standards will force Ford to phase out the F150, which has been their perenial bread and buttter, and will force them either under uncle Obama’s wing, producing envirotrash like GM, or out of business.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Not for any particular reason; I just prefer music on when I’m in the car, and that’s about the only time that I have the radio on. Besides, I figure that I’ll hear about anything especially good about as quickly as it happens.

  • mustango

    The line about being more focused on profits was a bit of a misfire too. GM under government control is going to be profitable the way the post office is profitable. Meaning, not at all.

    “In other words, more Japanese.” The implication being that this would be a BAD thing?

  • molybdanthan

    It has to plug in at night. Where I live, our power comes from burning coal, so here it would really be a coal car.

  • molybdanthan
  • JoeG

    Coal power is domestic power.

    Nuclear isn’t totally domestic, but only a very tiny sliver of the total expense goes towards foreign bought uranium, and that uranium comes from friendly democracies.

    Either way, they are a whole lot better than buying middle east oil.

  • JoeG

    I’m an old fart and I remember listening when Rush was a lonely voice in the wilderness. It makes me rather loyal….

  • JHancock

    Cause it’s true!! GM will now be a Democratic political tool to advance green and socialist agenda!

  • molybdanthan

    However, the energy grid needs to be modernized. Talk about your vital infrastructure.

    I wouldn’t mind the Dems relaxing their opposition to Nuclear plants. There hasn’t been a new one built in the US in more than 20 years. They’re going up all over the world. Just not here.

  • Flagstaff

    could deliver infinite miles-per-gallon.

    No consideration has been given to how much additional commercial electrical generating capacity would be needed if all the cars and trucks in the US were powered by electricity. Nor to how much it will cost to safely dispose of all the batteries and battery materials those cars will need–lead, exotic metals, etc.

  • Flagstaff

    There’s no shame in not being a fan, though. It just proves that he isn’t leading an army of mindless followers, he’s just in the front of the parade.

    My opinion is that Rush is listened to because of what he says and the perspective he applies to his topics. The rest of them (Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.) get listeners and viewers who want to hear what their guests have to say.