“GM PAID BACK LOANS FIVE YEARS EARLY!”
I heard an ad last night saying that and telling me why I should now buy one of GM’s “fine vehicles”. The spokesman acknowledged that the bailout had angered many people but that was all in the past.
It made me mad as hell and determined to NEVER purchase a GM vehicle. It was pure pandering and suggested that they recognize that they have a big PR problem. I haven’t seen sales figures for GM for the last couple of quarters, but they must really suck.
The whole ad had a kind of “we know we raped your daughter and burned down your house but we’ve turned over a new leaf so please forgive us” tone that was just sickening.
See post 18..
Just my gut feel, why would they be doing a big PR campaign, that is full of prevarications (for those of you in Rio Linda that is a lie :-)) all week? Unless the free-market solution (Ford) makes them look bad, and path that was taken by them ( GM ) will bring them added scrutiny and make even more people pissed that their experiment maybe be based on a failed model and may ultimately fail....