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Chrysler releases $9m ad while requesting more taxpayer dollars
Washington Examiner ^ | February 7, 2011 | J.P.Freire

Posted on 02/07/2011 3:40:33 AM PST by gusopol3

You may have noticed that Chrysler released the longest ad in Super Bowl history on Sunday night, featuring the new Chrysler 200 driven by Detroit native rap star Eminem, an ad that CEO Sergio Marchionne says cost less than $9 million. But given that the company's CEO also announced this past week that is seeking a "better deal" on government loans, it is likely that this ad had more to do with getting political support than selling cars. Besides, is spending millions on a Super Bowl ad appropriate for a company that received a taxpayer bailout to recover from a bankruptcy?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bailout; chrysler; commercial; detroit; mm; porkulus
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1 posted on 02/07/2011 3:40:38 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

Of course not. It was a payoff to union thug buddies of the DemonRats, the same blue-colloar rif-raf that keep these communists in power decade after decade! Detroit is Dreseden after the raid. I lived there and worked there. I think that entitles me to say so!


2 posted on 02/07/2011 3:43:24 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: gusopol3

Our tax dollars at work!


3 posted on 02/07/2011 3:43:32 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: gusopol3

Fox couldn’t care less. It’s just $9 million in their pockets.


4 posted on 02/07/2011 3:47:03 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Hey, lighten-up. M&M needed the money. All taxpayers support him in his pursuit of providing his type of “entertainment”.


5 posted on 02/07/2011 4:12:47 AM PST by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: gusopol3

Is Chrysler selling new vehicles? I have not seen a new Dodge truck in North Dakota in over a year.


6 posted on 02/07/2011 4:13:16 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: hal ogen

If I lighten up, Obama will trade away more of this country.


7 posted on 02/07/2011 4:15:12 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: gusopol3

This is the same Chrysler who’s employees were found smoking dope and drinking alcohol during they’re coffee break.

Its No wonder Chrysler sells such crappy cars.


8 posted on 02/07/2011 4:16:19 AM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Lion Den Dan

A few Dodge trucks on the new truck lot here in Rapid City.


9 posted on 02/07/2011 4:16:26 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: gusopol3

It is easy and painless to spend other people’s money.

LLS


10 posted on 02/07/2011 4:26:28 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: gusopol3
Chrysler, do us all a favor: shut your doors permanently, kkthx. =.=
11 posted on 02/07/2011 4:37:19 AM PST by cranked
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To: gusopol3

All the ad did was reinforce that Detroit is a $hithole.


12 posted on 02/07/2011 4:41:11 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: gusopol3

A wise woman once said, even with all the nice-sounding ideals of it, ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money’.


13 posted on 02/07/2011 4:44:59 AM PST by OldNewYork (social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
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To: gusopol3

I know what to replace the Obamacare Mandate with. All Government employees and Union Members must be mandated to buy Volts at full retail. In addition they all must be taken off the power grid and mandated to power their homes on Solar and windmill only. They must not ever have any salt and no meat. Each Government employee must take at least one minority or gay homeless person in to the family and fully support them. We could call it Commiecare.


14 posted on 02/07/2011 4:45:42 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: gusopol3

The subject of the ad, the model 200 sedan, is just a Sebring with a new grille. They should have saved the $2M to pay people to buy it. Other than rental fleets, that car isn’t going to sell.


15 posted on 02/07/2011 4:50:10 AM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: puppypusher
This is the same Chrysler who’s employees were found smoking dope and drinking alcohol during they’re coffee break.

You've pulled off the rare double-screwup. Seriously - this stuff isn't that difficult.

This is the same Chrysler whose employees were found smoking dope and drinking alcohol during their coffee break.

See how easy that was? Just remember that "who's" means "who is" and "they're" means "they are." If you read your sentence that way, it makes no sense at all.

16 posted on 02/07/2011 4:52:54 AM PST by RightFighter (Now back to my war station.)
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To: caver
All the ad did was reinforce that Detroit is a $hithole.

You can wrap a turd in the finest linens and smother it in perfume, but, in the end, it's still a turd.


17 posted on 02/07/2011 5:17:41 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Snowpalooza 2011)
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To: reagan_fanatic

The best thing that could happen to Detroit is to put a match to it.


18 posted on 02/07/2011 5:19:39 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: reagan_fanatic; caver

There’s a lot of good people here in the metro Detroit area trying make this $hithole a better place. I don’t agree with the bailouts for Chrylser or GM, don’t think bonuses should be paid out to workers from an unprofitable company and I question the amount spent on the ad.

But the “$hithole” comments don’t make it any easier for us here. It’s okay to have an opinion, but I live here and it’s not entirely the “Shithole” you and caver make it out to be.


19 posted on 02/07/2011 5:45:06 AM PST by TheRake
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To: caver

Not a comment Reagan would ever make.


20 posted on 02/07/2011 5:46:44 AM PST by TheRake
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