This is pretty bizarre.
Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm gets excited.
First mistake, the media focused on a delegate holding a Ford sign during the speech. Ford was not bailed out by taxpayers, and doesn't owe the treasury $27 billion, as GM does.
Ford is not using taxpayer funds to pay $600 million to sponsor the Manchester United Football Club as GM is doing.
Furthermore, Ford did not invoke the image of Evel Knievel in a truly disgusting, nationally-placed Thanksgiving TV commercial that reeked of sacrilege and corporate despair.
And here's a timely rebuttal to Granholm: