Granholm: Limbaugh’s Attack On American-Made Electric Vehicles Are ‘Un-American’

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Granholm: Limbaugh’s Attack On American-Made Electric Vehicles Are ‘Un-American’
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/06/granholm-limbaugh/

Last Friday, President Obama visited General Motors and Chrysler plants in Detroit, MI to resoundingly reaffirm the administration’s decision last year “to rescue the ailing auto industry.” While visiting the GM plant, the President test drove Chevrolet’s highly touted electric car, the Volt. In anticipation of Obama’s visit to Detroit, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh launched a campaign to deride Chevrolet’s electric vehicle, attacking “everything from the federal bailout of Chevy’s parent General Motors Corp. to the supposed superiority complex of people who would buy electric or hybrid cars.”

At a Center for American Progress event yesterday entitled “Securing Michigan’s Clean Energy Future,” Think Progress spoke with Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) about Limbaugh’s high-handed criticisms of the Chevy Volt. Granholm — a passionate advocate of clean energy as an avenue of job growth and economic revitalization — said Limbaugh’s claims are “just un-American.” She also pointed out that the Volt is a “‘good’ new story” and GM has successfully paid back its loans to the public:

Q: And we know you’ve had the disaster in the Gulf, you’ve had an oil spill in your own state. You know, you guys are doing a lot in making these investments in batteries and in new care. And here you have people like Rush Limbaugh, come out and say that the Volt is an “overpriced lemon.” What do you say to critics?

GRANHOLM: It’s just un-American. I can’t believe that somebody would this about this American product. He hasn’t even driven it. He hasn’t sat in it. You know, why wouldn’t you be supportive of American manufacturers building American vehicles with American workers, who now have jobs as a result of this. Why wouldn’t you be supportive of that? It’s mind-blowing to me. And of course, the public is getting paid back. You know, GM has paid back the loan — the bottom line is, is this is a “good” news story, and somebody who would twist it to be something negative obviously has another agenda. Which we all know he does.

Watch it:http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/06/granholm-limbaugh/

During his vitriolic attack on the Volt last week, Limbaugh announced “with no small amount of pride that he turned down General Motors’ lucrative offer to continue advertising for the company because his strong principles would not allow him to recommend to people the Chevy Volt.” Last year, however, the hate radio host was singing quite a different tune. As Media Matter notes, when GM’s advertising dollars began flowing to his network in April 2009, Limbaugh eagerly endorsed the auto company’s payment protection plan despite lambasting GM only weeks earlier.

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1. Oh for Gods sakes cant we put together a better argument than he is Unamerican?

[NoNothing]

2. Of course

He's fat too! Well, used to be fat!

[Andy823]

3. How about

He is the SCUM of the earth, the lowest life form, if he really is alive, that exists! We should take him, Beck, Palin, the faux news team, Cheney, and all the republican morons that have been lying their ass off and send them all to the South pole for the rest of their lives! :evilgrin:

[dkf]

4. Lol. That actually works better for me than that unamerican bunk.

[gratuitous]

5. Perhaps

But it is an argument that will penetrate the ultra-thick crania of the devoted Limbaugh listener. Notice that Granholm follows up immediately with "American manufacturers building American vehicles with American workers, who now have jobs as a result" of Chevy manufacturing the Volt.

I think it was an effective locution, and might actually engage a brain that has become accustomed to listening to Limbaugh without qualm or criticism. That's just my opinion, but if you see Limbaugh becoming unhinged over Granholm's remarks, you can probably conclude that Limbaugh thinks her comments were effective, too.

[abbeyco]

6. Sure! He's pissed because

he can't fit his ass or gut into the Volt (or likely any other GM car) at the same time. His ego needs its own trailer, it can't fit in any vehicle by itself.

As much as I can't him, I'd really like to confirm - via listening - that's he no longer has GM as an advertiser. Maybe while I'm all doped up for a few days, I'll try to listen.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Actually, in this case I think the argument is spot on.

He is actively, blatantly, unashamedly sabotaging an American company for political reasons. He wants his country to fail. "Un-American" is right.

I am not American, not even a resident, and even I was appalled by that.

Partly because I see things like that here too -- Brazilian right-wingers want Brazil to fail because a leftist is President. Pisses me off something fierce.

[DrDan]

8. I think it is a pretty effective criticism of him

[damntexdem]

9. But how ironic.

And coming from a guv born in Canada, yet.

[Kalyke]

10. But that's what it is.

I find it highly anti-American (maybe we should use that instead of unAmerican?) to argue against American manufacturing and the jobs it provides. It has nothing to do with those so-called "elites" he screams about (you know, pot... kettle... black?) and everything to do with putting people back to work.

However, Rush wants Obama to fail - he wants anything Obama touches to turn to crap, so, naturally, he'd make such an anti-American statement about American manufacturing because it might start bringing the jobless numbers back down, which would be bad news for his Republican cronies at the polls.