Is Ford airing an ad targeted to the teabags?

[aquart]

Did I hallucinate a man insisting he wouldn't buy a car from a company that had been bailed out by the government? Did he use the word bootstraps?

[socialshockwave]

1. I'm picturing someone pulling a car up with boostraps. n/t

[SmileyRose]

2. Teabags?

WE on the DU want big corporate America to stay off the fucking dole. Ford is advertising they already did.

[aquart]

14. WE?

You do not speak for me. I completely approve of the automotive bailout. We SHOULD be supporting American industry and American jobs.

[SmileyRose]

15. But of course

I've never attempted to speak for anyone but me and I did not intend to do so this time either.

"We" being a general term in relation the OP itself --- as in why would Ford be speaking to only Teabags when the general mood of the DU (and quite frankly an awful lot of Americans (notice I did not say ALL)) is that corporations are doing so well they should not need taxpayer money.

I certainly had no intent to speak for ALL DUers but quite frankly I'm not good enough to words to qualify every single post I make in such a way to take away any chance of any sort that someone might misunderstand what I meant.

[Bobbie47]

3. Caught my attention too

you heard exactly what I heard...

[RB TexLa]

4. So you favor corporate welfare? And companies that don't take it should be ashamed and not proud of

not taking it?

WTF?????

[itsrobert]

7. Ford took government money

http://jalopnik.com/5704575/ford-bmw-toyota-took-secret-government-money

Facts are a silly thing.

[RB TexLa]

10. The finance company owned by Ford? Wow, you equate that to GM and Chrysler having to beg the feds

like dogs for money for their actual operations.


LOL funny

[ingac70]

12. The only reason Ford.....

didn't have to take a buyout for their operations was they luckily took out a shit ton of loans in the Spring of '06. I know this because I was working there. And make no mistake, bailing out GM and Chrysler was helping Ford, because they make parts for each other, as well as share suppliers.

[Recovered Repug]

5. No bootstraps mentioned.

If GM could make a commercial bragging about the fact that the repaid the government loans early, why can't Ford brag about not needing a loan in the first place? Plus there's some questions about the accuracy of GM's repayment claim.

[itsrobert]

8. Ford took money too

http://jalopnik.com/5704575/ford-bmw-toyota-took-secret-government-money

[Recovered Repug]

11. I stand corrected.

I should have stated that Ford's commercial bragged about not being part of the government bailout.

[Ineeda]

6. Here is a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mwjaEI_hM&feature=player_embedded

[BiggJawn]

9. Guess he wouldn't buy a Chrysler then.

They got bailed out in the 70's.
POS vehicles, anyway.

[RZM]

13. They aren't the exclusive owners of 'bailout' or 'bootstaps'

Though many of them respond to those terms, there are quite a few others that do too. This is basic market research in action, just like any commercial.