General Motors: A New Sponsor of the Rush Limbaugh Show

[maxrandb]

Caught a little of the Pigman while at lunch. He was bragging that they have a new sponsor, General Motors. Don't know why a company like GM would want to be associated with this ass-pickle and his racist, divisive show, but...I'm glad I caught it. I'm in the market for a new car, and even though it's doubtful I'd buy one of their POS cars, this seals it.

I'm writing a letter to their corporate headquarters, and to all the local GM dealerships to ask if they are going to begin playing "Barrack the Magic Negro" in their showrooms. I also want to make sure they know that I'm going to encourage everyone that I know to pick another auto-maker when searching for a vehicle.

On a side note. I wonder if Roger Waters was thinking of Rush when he penned these lyrics?

Big man. Pig man. Ha, ha charade you are.
You well-heeled big wheel, ha ha, charade you are.
And when your hand is on your heart,
You're nearly a good laugh. Almost a joker,
With your head down in the pig bin,
Saying, "Keep on diggin'."
What do you hope to find when you're down in the pig mine?
You're nearly a laugh. You're nearly a laugh,
But you're really a cry.

Bus stop rat bag, ha ha, charade you are.
You f***ed up old hag, ha had, charade you are.
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass.
You're nearly a good laugh. Almost a quick grin.
You like the feel of steel.
You're hot stuff with a hatpin, and good fun with a handgun.
You're nearly a laugh. You're nearly a laugh,
But you're really a cry.

[onehandle]

1. Here's their contact page.

And even better, a postal address.

GM listens closely to the letter writing crowd. Trust me. But an email is good too.

http://www.gm.com/gmcomjsp/contactus/

General Motors Corporation
P.O. Box 33170
Detroit, MI 48232-5170

[sandnsea]

3. Media Line

888-436-6687

I particularly like the idea of asking them if they're going to play Barack the Magic Negro in their showrooms.

[onehandle]

8. African-Americans play big into their new business plans.

Reverend Sharpton? You listening?

[Maine-ah]

25. just called

woman said "I don't like him either" she almost said he's an ass but caught herself.

[Oilwellian]

5. I just fired off a letter to my local GM dealership

Just put in your zip code and find a dealership near you. Most have a website and email contact address.

[Oilwellian]

7. Oh, and, I told them...

I was in the market for a new car and was considering a Buick. Hahahaha.

[Ms. Clio]

2. good to know, although you couldn't pay me to buy a GM automobile, anyway

no surprise they would sponsor such a POS.

[NMDemDist2]

4. K&N and hubby and I are lifetime loyal GM customers

I sent them a email stating as much too

[Purveyor]

6. K&R - Thanks for bringing this to the forums attention. eom

[maxrandb]

19. This is a test

How many letters, e-mails, faxes and phone-calls can we generate. There are over 100,000 DU members. It would be disappointing if GM only gets a half-dozen calls.

Anyway I can send this to Olberman? Maybe he'd like to mention Rush' new sponsor in a Worst Person in the World segment.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. Message Sent

Thanks for posting the information.

[DrDan]

10. they have been a sponsor for InSanity for quite a while

even let him run their car give-away contest

at that point - no more GM autos in this household

[Rosemary2205]

22. You know what

IMHO there is a huge difference between Hannity and Rush when it comes to the race card. Hannity is a hate monger sure, but he keeps it against "democrats/liberals are evil". I've heard him say some really hair raising things and including "kill all the liberals" Coulter is a real problem. But it's all generalizations except for when he gets a hardon for Hillary, Pelosi, Boxer (notice it's always women). I'd love to see Hannity loose the ability to use the public airwaves to promote hatred and distrust - mainly to improve the political discourse in this country.

Rush on the other hand goes over a whole other line. He's advocated death for individuals more than once, he routinely spouts the most vile racist hate, he goes personal, very personal. Rush goes out of his way to encourage the psychos to take deadly action against the target of the day. Rush's goal is to get someone killed and bring back the "good ol' days" of lynching anyone who isn't a white "christian".

GM choosing Hannity is unfortunate but that's a line I'll live with. Choosing Rush is way over a whole other nasty line that I won't. For me it has nothing to do with Rush being a freep. It has to do with him being a racist.

[DrDan]

23. I am not sure why we would have to live with either

as a veteran, hannity gives me goose bumps every time he gives a Marine caller a "semper fi" - like he ever had the guts to wear a uniform . . .

I understand your point - but GM seems to be siding with the reich-wing . . . and I do not see any reason to give them another dollar for any of their vehicles. I will buy from a car maker that can keep politics out of their marketing strategies.

[maxrandb]

29. I've noticed a lot of people calling Hannity

just to ask for a Ruth's Chris gift certificate.

Another place I will never go. Not only because they sponsor the Hannity hate-fest, but also because I refuse to pay $50 tp $100 for a steak I could cook on the grill myself.

[Rosemary2205]

35. For the record

GM does place ads in gay publications and I've seen GM Tv ads on Logo. They also place ads in magazines targeted to black Americans. I've also seen GM ads on Bravo, WE and Current TV. These are hardly RW TV stations.

I really have no problem with GM marketing itself to the RW. I'm all for more people buying American cars. Rush is a unique situation to me because of the racism and death talk factor.

[DrDan]

44. sounds like I am not the only one upset with GM for their choice in advertising

In what it calls the “You’re a Great American Car Giveaway,” G.M. is awarding a free car every week through Nov. 6. But it has hired as the star of the promotion someone many Americans do not consider great: Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News radio and television host.

Mr. Hannity, known for incendiary comments like comparing a vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton to support for Hamas or Hezbollah, is announcing the winners of the contest on his radio show — only people who are listening for their name can win.

G.M. officials made some attempts to distance themselves from Mr. Hannity, saying that the company did not endorse his political views and that he did not speak on behalf of G.M. They said the promotion merely used Mr. Hannity’s daily radio program as a platform to reach a broad range of listeners as the show is broadcast on more than 500 stations and heard by 13 million people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/business/media/02hannity.html?ei=5070&en=f5d8bb8b4ed7b4a4&ex=1178251200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1178137481-R7Brx/76U6TRHcgAfpFA4Q

[maxrandb]

55. Having GM as a sponsor

lends credibility to these treasonous bastards.

Kruschev could only dream of doing the damage to this country that Rush and his ilk have.

GM needs to pay a price for their stupidity.

[DemGa]

11. Does GM think they'll fly under the radar

sponsoring this garbage?

I mean we do have the internets!

[maxrandb]

12. Maybe they think the

internets tubes are stuffed.

[Initech]

13. Um.... shit!

I own a GM vehicle. But thank god I don't have any payments left on it! Otherwise I'd be pissed knowing that I was funding that fat oxycontin peddling gas bag.

[lpbk2713]

14. And it was comedian OxyRush Limbaugh's voice doing the promo.

DUers should keep this in mind if they are in the market for new wheels.

Also, it was GMC that teamed up with Hannity for his recent contest.





I think GMC is really going all out to tell us how they lean ideologically, so fuggem.

[Blue_Tires]

15. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is a RWer

does not surprise me

[loudsue]

16. And rightwingers are, by nature, REALLY STUPID. This was a MAJOR dumb move.

I'll be writing to them as well. They think their sales have been bad lately? Just wait.

:kick::kick::kick:

[maxrandb]

18. Well

They'll surely have the "drug-addicted, doctor-shopping, chickenhawk, viagra-popping, Dominican Republic male-prostitute shopping, bigot, fat-old-white-guy" demographic nailed down.

Can't wait to hear the new jingle: "Baseball, hot-dogs, apple-pie, Oxycontin and Chevrolet"

[Carolina]

17. Toyota, here I come

eom

[Clark2008]

34. Why?

Are you looking for a recall?

If you've merely done a moderate amount of Internet surfing or cracked open a newspaper lately - just about any newspaper - you've undoubtedly seen the news that Toyota has once again passed Ford in worldwide auto sales and may pass GM sometime this year.

But what you may not have seen is that Toyota has already passed both Ford and GM in a differ end category - automotive recalls.

Although we've barely passed mid-February, Toyota has already recalled! 533,417 vehicles this year in a mix that, according to www.AutoRecalls.us, includes Tundras Sequoias and Camry’s. That puts Toyota on track to recall more than the over 1.76 million autos they recalled in the U.S. and Japan in 2006, and the 2.2 million they recalled in 2005 when they recalled more cars than they built.

What's more, the current recall related to the Turdra trucks and Sequioa SUVs is similar to the same defect in 800,000 of the same vehicles in 2005.
Maybe somebody at Toyota isn't paying attention?

http://forums.trucktrend.com/70/6285978/toyota-lexus/toyota-trucks-ahead-in-2007-recalls/index.html

[Carolina]

46. No, I'm not looking for a recall

and I'm not buying a new car either. It was just a quick outburst of rage against GM since it fires workers and welcomes Rush.

BTW, I like Wes Clark and supported him from the draft Clark movement through his aborted 2004 campaign. My secret (I guess not so secret now) hope is that he'll rescue us yet.

[Liberal In Texas]

20. Recommend. Time to let GM know what we think about their sponsorship. n/t

[mtnester]

21. Roger Waters - sigh

Radio KAOS..here is his prophetic verse from Home:

When the cowboys and Arabs draw down
On each other at noon
In the cool dusty air of the city boardroom
Will you stand by a passive spectator
Of the market dictators
Will you discreetly withdraw
With your ear pressed to the boardroom door
Will you hear when the lion within you roars
Will you take to the hills


Also a side note from myself - if the shareholders of GM do not remove the brain dead morons running its company into the dirt with some of the STUPIDEST decisions AND non decisions I have ever witnessed a company perform, then bah...bye bye...and THAT from the mouth of a person who has exclusively bought GM product her entire life.

What a bunch of dumb fucks...they are letting the equivalent of a moth as far as intelligence goes run the company into the ground, and paying GOOD DOLLAR to the idiots to do it.

Sheesh.

[walldude]

43. Might as well use the rest of the revelant parts of the song

When they overrun the defences
A minor invasion put down to expenses
Will you go down to the airport lounge
Will you accept your second class status
A nation of waitresses and waiters
Will you mix their martinis
Will you stand still for it
Or will you take to the hills...

KAOS had some great shit on it, it's nice to see Rog getting his due lately..

[Rosemary2205]

24. ACTION ALERT - Lots of contact numbers and emails in here!!

GM's media contact (thanks sandnsea) - 888-436-6687

Sharpton's National Action Network.
[e-mail] or 212-690-3070

Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition
national headquarters - 773-373-3366
Detroit Office - 313-963-9005
More here - http://www.rainbowpush.org/about/satellites/index.html

SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
404-522-1420 or http://sclcnational.org/net/write.aspx?s=2607.0.12.2607

NAACP
National Headquarters - 877-NAACP98 (877-622-8798)

Micheal J Fox Foundation
1-800-708-7644

UAW -
International office 313-926-5000
GM division office - 313-324-5000

Also, look up your local GM dealers and call them.

[sandnsea]

39. John Mellencamp

I wonder if he wants to be associated with the bloviator.

John Mellencamp
P.O. Box 6777
Bloomington, IN 47407-6777

feedback @ mellencamp.com

If anyone has Randy Hoffman's email, that would be helpful.

[Cha]

41. I don't think so..I just read a article

on John Melloncamp in Rolling Stone about his "Our Country" being played on Chevy commercials and I don't think he sounds like the kind guy who would wanna help out the oxyed one.

I wouldn't think freepers would want to have their precious lying, brainwash show be sponsored by a car company who has John Melloncamp's song playing all the time.

[Clark2008]

26. Make sure it wasn't a local commerical or station mistake

before you go off half-cocked.

Another DUer posted that he was about ready to stop using Auto Zone for advertising on Rush's show and got word back from Auto Zone that they did NOT authorize their commercials on Rush's show. In fact, they specifically have told local radio stations NOT to run their commercials during his show.

They asked the DUer for the time, date and radio station so they could put a stop to it.

When companies make ad purchases, sometimes they're in blocks and they don't really know when they'll run. They trust the stations not to run them during certain shows, but sometimes that falls through.

[maxrandb]

32. Nope. Rush announced it himself

and even said that GM sent him a car to test out for a week.

This was no mistake. This was no "hey, we just buy add time on the radio, we don't know when our adds will run". This was a deliberate move by GM to seak out Rush and sponsor his show.

Sing along with me the new Chevy jingle: "Baseball, hot-dogs, apple-pie, Oxycontin and Chevrolet".

[Clark2008]

38. In that case, I'm glad I drive a Ford.

[Little Wing]

27. No problem to boycott, their cars are all crap save for the Vette

and if I was spending that much on a car, it wouldn't be that one anyway.

[KansDem]

28. KansDem: A Former Customer of the General Motors Show...(eom)

[goclark]

30. Call ~ I did

someone posted the number.

The not nice lady that answered said,"yes, we sponsor that program."

Sounded kinda proud IMO.

Goclark expressed herself clearly about my opinions.
She started to stutter and suggested that I speak to someone in the marketing department and gave me a number that was not toll free to call.

I got her straight right away!
She put me through to the voice mail and I made myself very clear about sending the Rush information to my email list and would send an OP ED in the African American paperers in the area.

Call, call, call.

[myrna minx]

31. Good for you!

I grew up in a GM town, so this is so disappointing. Could GM make any *more* stupid business decisions that they already have? :grr:

[goclark]

48. They are either Cheney's Buddies or I'll eat my hat

There is no company that reaches such a wide area as they do that should have to bend down for such trash at Rush.

[symbolman]

42. What's the Marketing Number

if you would please?

We, Takebackthemedia.com BOYCOTTED Limbaugh a few years ago, to great effect - many of his advertisers FLED from him the same afternoon we started, and BIG ONES too.

I'd like to make sure that this gets as much play as possible, and calling the Marketing DEPT is a GOOD way to go. If you REALLY want to mess with them, find out WHO the stockholders are and contact THEM. THEY get SCARED quick.

I'm going to call in and tell them Takebackthemedia.com might be on the warpath again, thanks for posting. As an owner of a 1968 Chevy Impala, this makes me SICK. :)

The poster who said, "I particularly like the idea of asking them if they're going to play Barack the Magic Negro in their showrooms." has hit the nail on the head - they will FREAK over that statement.

This is the issue to take on. RACISM, pure and simple, no other excuse.

[goclark]

47. The first shill connected me to the Marketing Department

and I didn't write the number down. :(

I'd say just call the first 800 number and after giving that person a piece of your mind, ask for the Marketing Department.

I'm going to call back on my other line and give them the Barack line.

[maxrandb]

54. Here's the number they gave me in their e-mail response

If you should need to contact us in the future, simply reply to this message or call our Chevrolet Customer Assistance Center at 1-800-222-1020. Customer Relationship Specialists are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., Eastern Time.

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You can see their entire response in a later post.

I wrote back and told them "that's not good enough", and while I appreciate that they take my complaint seriously, nothing short of dropping their sponsorship of Rush' show, and a public apology for sponsoring him in the first place would be enough.

The only thing that gets through to wing-nuts is if you hit them in the pocket-book.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

33. Are these the same people...

that put Rosa Parks in their car commercials?

[Rosemary2205]

37. Which is why

IMHO it is so awful for them to choose to advertise via Rush.

[BlooInBloo]

36. Good thing I don't buy cars from American car companies.

[Cha]

40. That's all American auto companies

need..to sponsor a hate-filled divisive rageradioshow like the limp one.

Sayonara GM.

[JCMach1]

45. Giving me yet another reason to buy Hyundai...

[pstokely]

49. Another reason to buy a Prius

[farmboxer]

50. I will never by a GM product evey again!

Rush is a disgrace to the human race! Actually, is he human?

[maxrandb]

51. GM Responded to me

"Dear XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX

Thank you for contacting us recently regarding the Rush Limbaugh Show. We appreciate you advising General Motors of your concerns and providing us the opportunity for review as we recognize individuals have many different views.

Feedback from customers, such as you, is very helpful to us. We have documented your concerns and will be forwarding your comments to the appropriate department for their consideration. Thank you again for taking the time to let us know how you feel.

Chevrolet supports Buckle Up America. We encourage you, your family and your friends to always Buckle Up.

If you should need to contact us in the future, simply reply to this message or call our Chevrolet Customer Assistance Center at 1-800-222-1020. Customer Relationship Specialists are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., Eastern Time.

Again, thank you for contacting Chevrolet.

Sincerely,


The Chevrolet Consumer Support Team"

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Here's what I wrote


I'm an active duty military member with over 24 years in the Navy. I recently was shocked to find that GM is buying advertising on and is a sponsor of the Rush Limbaugh Show.

I ask you to consider whether or not you want to have your company associated with one of the most divisive individuals in our country.

Please know that I am in the market for a new car, but will take my business elsewhere. A company can be defined by the "company they keep". Does GM consider being defined by Rush Limbaugh a wise choice?

Please know that I will take my business elsewhere, and will encourage my friends, relatives and shipmates to do the same.

[Jonathan50]

52. I called the media line..

And asked if they were going to play "Barack the magic negro" in their showrooms.

The guy who answered was polite but sounded not entirely awake and seemed to be taking notes in longhand rather than on a computer. I gave my email addy and asked for a reply to my question.

I've also asked my wife and daughter to call and put the same question to them. I'm about to ask my brother in law the same thing.

[KharmaTrain]

53. This Thread Needs A Visual...

or maybe this one:



and of course how could we forget...

http://aerosault.com/gallery/d/7891-1/rush+dance+pills+edit.gif

:rofl: