Video: GM's annoying new TV commercial gives thanks to taxpayers for the $55 billion bailout
Video - Thanksgiving commercial from Government Motors
- "We all fall down, thanks for helping us get back up."
The Popeye, John Belushi in Animal House, and Evel Knievel comparisons are completely out of line and, honestly, offensive. GM is a manufacturing relic and still owes taxpayers approximately $50 billion, though you would never know that from the lies they've been telling. Also, former car-czar Steve Rattner revealed some rather unfavorable truths about the utter incompetence of GM's management which I covered here:
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Evel Knievel crashing spectacularly at Caesar's palace in 1968...
Evel knievel represents true capitalism. His moral hazard was death, which he faced every time he got on his bike.
Comment from Cheyenne - So GM is just like Evel Knievel, is it? That's funny, because the Caesar's Palace jump has been etched in my brain for decades, and the world's largest cushion (the backs of U.S. taxpayers) was nowhere in sight. No, if Evel fell short--and fall short he did, violently and spectacularly--it was his rag doll body against pavement. He got months in a hospital bed for the risk he took, not endless bailouts. There was no moral hazard then, only death.
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Text below from the youtube page.
While in Las Vegas, Nevada, to watch Dick Tiger fight a middleweight title fight, Knievel first saw the fountains at Caesar's Palace and decided to jump them. To get an audience with the casino's CEO Jay Sarno, Knievel created a fictitious corporation called Evel Knievel Enterprises and three fictitious lawyers to make phone calls to Sarno. Knievel also placed phone calls to Sarno claiming to be from ABC-TV and Sports Illustrated inquiring about the jump. Sarno finally agreed to meet Knievel and the deal was set for Knievel to jump the fountains on December 31, 1967. After the deal was set, Knievel tried to get ABC to air the event live on Wide World of Sports. ABC declined, but said that if Knievel had the jump filmed and it was as spectacular as he said it would be, they would consider using it later.
Knievel used his own money to have actor/director John Derek produce a film of the Caesar's jump. To keep costs low, Derek used his then-wife, Linda Evans, as one of the camera operators. It was Evans who filmed Knievel's famous landing. On the morning of the jump, Knievel stopped in the casino and placed a single $100 dollar bet on the blackjack table, which he lost, stopped by the bar and got a shot of Wild Turkey and then headed outside where he was joined by several members of the Caesar's staff, as well as two scantily clad showgirls. After doing his normal pre-jump show and a few warm up approaches, Knievel began his real approach. When he hit the takeoff ramp, he felt the motorcycle unexpectedly decelerate. The sudden loss of power on the takeoff caused Knievel to come up short and land on the safety ramp which was supported by a van. This caused the handlebars to be ripped out of his hands as he tumbled over them onto the pavement where he skidded into the Dunes parking lot. As a result of the crash, Knievel received a crushed pelvis and femur, fractures to his hip, wrist and both ankles and a concussion that kept him in a coma for 29 days.
Dec 22, 2011 at 2:42 PM
Reader Comments (38)
The public will continue to bail out GM with tax breaks and subsidies
General Motors' issuance of common stock this month was supposed to signal the end of the taxpayers' $80 billion bailout of GM. But things are not quite as simple they appear.
http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/Editorials/201011250421
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/business/02gret.html?_r=1
The company is setting the stage for another taxpayer shakedown
http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/27/gms-phony-bailout-payback
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/26/BUS91D55HR.DTL
Trett permanently etched his name in the drag racing record books when he became the first motorcycle drag racer to eclipse 200 mph after being clocked at 201.43 at the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis in 1983. The 200 mph barrier was the most coveted milestone in motorcycle drag racing during this era and Trett became an instant celebrity in the motorcycling community for making the hurdle. He became one of the best-known racers in motorcycling and was featured on the covers of nearly all the top motorcycling magazines.
At the time of his untimely death Trett held the 10 fastest speeds ever on a Top Fuel bike. He was the first to pass the 200, 210, 220 and 230 mph marks, and he held the record for three of the fastest elapsed times in Top Fuel.
Growing up, Evel and Elmer were both as large as living Gods to a young boy from the country. Both men lived their lives with panache and daring, Cavaliers of their time.
To both of these men, I say Gods speed.
General Motors, you are no Cavalier. My family used to work for you, and now they don’t. You have stolen from my grandchildren, and lie and say it is paid in full. Every vehicle I have ever owned has been yours.
I think I am done with you.
Fuck you, GM. Evel's the real deal. You're a bunch of pussies.
Elmer had made several record runs in the low sixes and most people believe he would have broken into the fives by the end of 1996. On September 1, 1996 motorcycle drag racing lost perhaps the greatest Top Fuel rider in the sport’s history when Elmer Trett came off his motorcycle at the top end of Indianapolis Raceway Park.
In addition to his induction into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame, Trett also became the first motorcycle racer to be inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Even though he left for greener pastures in Georgia after the money from Harley ran out, he will always be a son to Millville, Ohio.
http://www.ncdragracinghalloffame.com/ELMER_TRETT.html
And no insurance company would insure Evel, it was all on his dime.
It's telling that the fake gamblers in Wall Street and D.C. would try to liken their fattest and most visible pet, GM, to someone who put it all on the line in Las Vegas. How ridiculous. Real gamblers face--and accept--real risk. When they go tapioca, they go home. When the Wall Street fakers bust out, they go back the D.C. window to bluster and whine: if you don't give us a Brinks truck full of new chips--which are stolen from real gamblers--your whole casino will be eaten by alligators and collapse.
It's funny that Wall Street billionaires, who allocate a tiny fraction of their stolen money in D.C. to eliminate any real risk, launch a P.R. campaign to convince the rest of us that they actually represent the most daring of real gamblers.
I can't come up with a single word for it. Sacrilege, cowardice, delusion, grandiosity, criminality... wait a minute, we're not dealing with sociopaths here, are we?
I think GM's attempt to analogize itself to boxers is completely disingenous as well. If it were, Duk Koo Kim would still be alive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThQFPJpVtK8
The more I watch that ad, the more pissed off it is making me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp5zd0pEYKo&feature=related
The company is setting the stage for another taxpayer shakedown
GM's Repayment Lie .....Yea, Right Fucker............!
Only the Stuped'est of Stuped Sheep will suck this crap up. GM barowed more money from the American People, to pay back our money. This is how F***ed up our whole system is.
Everyone covers each others lye. Only way I see to get back to what the goverment has done to "All Of Us"............is to run the bank's on Monday before Christmas.
EVERYOne pull everything out of the banks and put it in a shoe-box.....( "Safe" ) till March 17th........"Green Beer Day"...........come-on, its the only way to show them were pissed off as hell, to what thAre doin to us...................
Come-On, DB, You are the only one I know that could pull this one off..........? Lets Fuck With Them.............What do we have to lose...............1/3 rd% on our money....?
ANY-ONE, tell me what else could we do to show them, were Piss'ed ? They have us over the barrel, Crap, were in the barrel...........!
I'll never buy a GM product or ride in a GM product. Your bailout went to open factories in other countries, to bail out the misappropriated pension funds and to payoff your execs and union bosses.
The billions spent could have been used to start a completely new and innovated industry. But instead, billions went to prop up a dead mindset and a corrupt capitalistic arm of the government.
Im on my 5th now........................but "WTF".........Mommy gets off at the "K" @ 11, Home by 11:30............Party starts @ 11:45.
Jay Leno, doin good tohight. Crap, got nothin 2 lose tonight. Been left alont since 10:00am, and on a roll, all by my self...........
New bag of " Super Hot Pork Rines" goin down tonight by 12:00...................................
Crap, she will get a strong ( "Stiff One Tonight" ).............drink @ 11:35 tonight. Dought Mommy will give-a-crap about pulling our $79.56 out of our check-book, but its a start........................
Shit, what the fuck do we have to lose, realy people............???????
Lets Fuck With Them. Its more fun than eatting shit, and thats what they have waiting for us.......?
It is beyond Crazy, in the show buisness town, today..................people are doing the same thing they did for the last 20 years, and the goverment just loves it.....?
Reamber, fuck-the-goverment..............."Pull It Out" on Dec. 20th................................or "Whip-It-Out", guy's.....! Show yr balls, or pull it out on Dec. 20th.....................................
Crap, mommy wants me to do a Pizza tonight............I gotta go guys...!
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Texas d...there is a Banque Stop in europe on dec. 7...our story on it gets a huge number of european hits...i wish we could organize something similar here but similar efforts haven't worked in the past...in order to make it successful, i believe that you would need someone to work full-time organizing the movement, coordinating with other websites, making media appearances, doing promotion, etc...
gomp..the reason tv link is excellent...i have it sitting with about 4 other GM clips for a new post later tonight or tomorrow...
Many jobs and lives were saved and affected by this bailout.
Are we our brothers keepers!? I say yes! God bless America!
I know. I was just feeling frisky that night. It would work if we could get that 80 % again. BUT................Only way we could do that is if, after withdrall, everyone got...............................
1. 12 Pack of Beer.
2. Large Pizza.
3. 1 Free Movie from Block Buster.
4. 2 #-4's @ Mc Donalds.
5. 40" Visio TV from the Ellen Show.
& You, Gomps, Jake, Dar, Bonnie, Cheyenne, | Sagebrush , John Patmos , Dr. Pitchfork , & a few more just cant cover that much in todays Dollars.
So, we'll just sit back and watch the country go into the "Shitter", and know why it did it. At least we have a "Crap Load" of money to wipe our Ass with......!
When we're in the barrel, WATCH OUT!! Some fool will pull the trap door.
Might enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSYbZTsY-00
The reader should be reminded that the 'generosity' of Soros' giving to subversive organizations is made possible due to your tax-exempt subsidies granted to him through his tax-free foundations. Is this what Lenin meant by "They'll sell the rope to hang themselves" ?
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/12/george-soros-godfather-of-left-gives.html
I GET SHAFTED WITH THREE YEARS OF ONGOING UNEMPLOYMENT IN A PRIVATE SECTOR IVE BEEN IN FOR FIFTEEN YEARS THANKS TO THIS EXACT SAME CORRUPT GOVERNMENT BULLSHIT CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMICS OF SOCIO-FASCISM,PONZI SCHEME BANKING,WALLSTREET CASINO MARKET MANIPULATION&WEALTH SIPHONING,WORTHLESS FIAT CURRENCY,TAX THEFT, AD NAUSEAM AD INFINITUM
FUCK YOU ALL
RON PAUL 2012
Gack - A lot of GD nerve!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Ain%27t_Heavy,_He%27s_My_Brother