General Motors: We all fall down

[Pirate Smile]

Run time: 01:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr94zStsk8E   Posted on YouTube: November 25, 2010 By YouTube Member: AAJNOWTV Views on YouTube: 700   Posted on DU: November 26, 2010 By DU Member: Pirate Smile Views on DU: 1843

 

[dkf]

1. It feels good to have saved an American icon.

Yay us and yay GM.

[Pirate Smile]

2. I like how they went with the universal theme that we all fall down. Then we root for the comeback.

[dkf]

6. Yeah it was well thought out and executed.

[TwentyFive]

21. Typical GM. Long on emotion..but devoid of facts.

GM cars, trucks and SUVs are seldom, if ever rated "best in category" in reliability or road test comparisons.

GM cars still suck. If you want to buy a big three domestic, look at a Ford. They feel down...but picked THEMSELVES up.

[dkf]

23. Ford was more savvy in preparing for the credit crunch and that is what really saved them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/business/09ford.html

Basically they borrowed billions in 2006 to restructure the firm when funds were plentiful. It's the financial guys at Ford who saved their butts.

[Snotcicles]

3. GM, class act. nt

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

4. I like that commercial alot, but notice how in the video that the icons they referenced

(aside from evil Knievel) picked THEMSELVES up.

[tabatha]

9. GM picked themselves up.

They did all the work. All they needed was a loan.

[nradisic]

5. Great Ad!

Saw that today for the first time. It is about the best ad I have seen in a long time. Extremely well done and conveys the message extremely well.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. I think it's about the best ad ever.

[ooglymoogly]

7. GM, showing its class. Humbly thanking those who helped

it when all hope was gone; giving it the breath of life and most of us were solidly behind them.

The criminals of Wall st; Not so much; they've got no class; like vampires, just vicious and unscrupulous greed, never satiated. They never should have gotten a penny from us.

GM and the auto industry however, had to be saved and I am proud many of us cheered that bailout on while condemning the other. The auto industry is part of our corpus; our arteries and vital organs; Wall st is not.

Wall st is an enemy who has been and is, carelessly sucking the blood from this country while giving nothing in return but more lies and theft. The architects of their bail out should be hung by the toes in the town sq. and spat upon by all those they have injured and whose lives they have stolen by striping them of their last cent and leaving them in the street; then spend the rest of their lives in prisons other than the ones they hold major interests in. Brave new world, New World Order, The Third Way fuk'n be damned. These bastards can go to hell.

[Lugnut]

10. That was a very good ad. n/t

[suzanner]

11. I made a point to buy American-made cars

with the exception of a used Audi and lemon Mitsubishi- both more expensive to fix and insure.

[1monster]

12. Nice. Have any of the banksters who have robbed us blind, thanked us for the bail out?

I didn't think so.

[Ezlivin]

13. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

"No!"

I wonder how many people started reciting lines from "Animal House" after seeing that clip?

[Auggie]

14. Nice ad, but GM is still guilty of fucking their retirees

[54anickel]

15. Very true, and the 2 tier wage system assures much lower wages and benefits for the

next generation of workers. Not to mention a much less united workforce willing to protect the "legacy" benefits (won through concessions) of near future retirees.
Divide and conquer!

[sheldon]

16. I wonder what the responses would look like

On a site like freerepublic.... :D

Can you imagine the outrage, the gnashing of teeth?

[alfredo]

17. Remember, they are a multinational corporation that would drop us in

A second if it meant an extra dollar per unit. Remember what they did to the workers in Flint, Michigan.

I appreciate their thanks, but I still don't trust them.

[Subdivisions]

18. +1000 n/t

[wordpix]

19. yeah, yeah---now where are the affordable, safe cars with high mpg?

:shrug:

Hate to rain on anyone's parade and I appreciate the thank you, but...

[MrScorpio]

20. I saw it for the first time last night

True class.

[Kennah]

22. Wow! Pretty amazing! Very heart felt.