Posted on 06/10/2009 7:11:32 AM PDT by Rufus2007
Many have claimed the federal government was playing fast and loose with the rules surrounding its takeover of General Motors and the circumstances surrounding the selection of which dealerships would remain open and those that wouldn't. Fox News' Gretchen Carlson came forward with evidence of this through a personal account of dealership closings.
Carlson, a co-host on the Fox News Channel's morning show "Fox & Friends," appeared on Glenn Beck's June 9 program and questioned the logic behind the decision reached by the government and General Motors (GM) to close down a dealership that has been in her family for 90 years.
"I'd like to get a hold of the car czar too," Carlson said. "Never did I think personally that I would need to get a hold of him, but now I do because my parents have owned a General Motors dealership in Anoka, Minn., for 90 years and they were terminated last week and they would like to know why. They would like to know why from the car czar."
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” Goes to show that without a script/telepromter our media commentators come up short.
No offense, but did you read the rest of this thread?
She said “her folks” had owned the dealership for 90 years, and it was, indeed, founded in 1919. “
Valid point.
Bigger picture is how her family is an example of a local small business owner being destroyed with no criteria to determine who has been competitive and should stay in business.
Obamas admin is taking advantage of the situation and unfortunately the MSM , unlike Fox, is letting it go by unnoticed.
“Airhead? And how many degrees do you have from Stanford? Hmmm?”
And that matters because...?
But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Does that count?
unaccountable government, you cannot question them because they do not work for the taxpayers they work for the Supreme Ruler of America directly
welcome to Obamanation
Do you have any information to back up your belief?
and if proven, so what?
the media won’t care, the courts won’t care, the Congress won’t care..
If a dealerhips is already fully staffed, they won’t be able to take on very many more employees.
It is amazing to me, with all the dealership closings, that Mac McClarty (Clinton cronie from Little Rock, Ark) didn’t have even ONE dealership close. /s
“You sound just like the Freeperes who complain that the Seinfield show is about a bunch of immature self centered egotists,”
Well, they are aren’t they?
It stinks to high heaven but don’t bet anyone will run a page 1 story in the Star Tribune about it.
It may be a partisan thing but I have known auto dealers from NJ, PA, DE, GA, OK, TX and CA. I cannot recall one of them being a democrat.
First I've heard of this. I don't watch Fox and Friends, but I can't find any discussion of this anywhere by doing a quick google search. It seems out of character for her from what little I've seen of her.
I don’t care about you in the least, you’re just another moron on the board. Your posts indicate you have the IQ of a democrap.
“I don’t care about you in the least, you’re just another moron on the board. Your posts indicate you have the IQ of a democrap.”
I spent 30 seconds reading some of your past posts and thought I landed in Dummies Underground or the Huffington Compost. You’d fit right in with your worthless foul mouth, sarcastic, judgmental, asinine comments. Goodbye you puny little thing you.
Well I’m not making it up. I heard it with my own ears a few weeks ago.
She says that it’s been in the family for 90 years. She just mispoke the second time. Read the whole thing.
Re read the article.
I know that, I was answering another poster in the question about ‘what about her parents owning a dealership for 90 years’ and clarifying the question another poster had on how that was possible.
if NO dealers that support democraps are being closed, and only dealers that support republicans are being closed, this is a HUGE DEAL
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