Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Dolt and the Volt

I have no earthly idea what cars like the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf (99 mpg) will mean in the real world. But when evaluating them, I'll leave it to people who know about things like cars, in detail.

But when has the knowledge of a subject ever stopped Rush Limbaugh? Never. No, it doesn't matter if things started under a Republican, if it involves a Democrat in some fashion (a $7,500 tax credit?! -- uh, Socialism?) it must be the same as Hitler and/or Stalin's Death Car:

“Folks, of all the cars, no offense, General Motors, please, but of all the cars in the world, the Chevrolet Volt is the Car of the Year? Motor Trend magazine, that’s the end of them."


Yeah, because folks like Motor Trend NEVER get to test drive cars early. But mostly, I enjoyed this pithy and quite accurate response:

You’ve made two king’s ransoms by convincing legions of dittoheads to tune into you every day. I wonder, do you ever ride in anything that’s not German or Anglo-Saxon? Do you have any idea how powerful IG Metal is, and of the size of Germany’s social safety net?


Of course he hasn't. That sort of thinking is for Kenyan Socialists or any sentient being with a particle of a conscience.

(h/t Charles Pierce)

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

5 comments:

StonyPillow said...

Rushbo is pissed GM didn't die, and is still employing blacks in union jobs.

Montag said...

"Driving and Oxycontin don't mix." *snort*

Good thing Limpballs can afford a limousine and a chauffeur, eh?

Ah, well, he's another rich moron who thinks the only things worthwhile in this country are other rich morons just like him. It continues to amaze me that so many working-class people think he's their friend, when he actually despises them and everything upon which they depend for survival....

DanF said...

Limbaugh rails against American innovation and manufacturing and dittoheads eat it up. There is no platter of shit too stinky for them, is there?

pansypoo said...

rush keeps hitting the elevator button and it never comes.

Anonymous said...

but his wheelbarrows full of $$$$$ just keep buoying his spirits, raising his mansions, buying his boys and paying off all the wimmen who have serviced his lust under the guise of matrimony
vox