{"id":242,"date":"2006-09-30T01:05:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T08:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-09-30T01:06:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T08:06:45","slug":"general-motors-great-american-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"General Motors’ Great American Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a stunning display of marketing ineptidude<\/a>, General Motors has tagged Sean Hannity as its spokesman for a campaign\/contest to give away 5 new cars. The “You’re A Great American Car Give-Away”<\/em>, was conceived as a means to promote GM’s American-made vehicles. But the “great”<\/em> American they chose as the public face of the promotion is a controversial and contentious figure who routinely disparages the patriotism of other Americans. He is a divisive and hostile partisan that recently declared<\/a> that control of the Congress in the next election is a life and death struggle:<\/p>\n

“there are things in life worth fighting and dying for and one of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem is making sure Nancy Pelosi doesn’t become the speaker.”<\/span><\/p>\n

GM, like other automakers, has fallen on hard times. So has Hannity, whose program’s ratings have declined 21% year-over-year. So the selection of Hannity as their spokesman may just be a case of two withering dinosaurs huddling together waiting for extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a stunning display of marketing ineptidude, General Motors has tagged Sean Hannity as its spokesman for a campaign\/contest to give away 5 new cars. The “You’re A Great American Car Give-Away”, was conceived as a means to promote GM’s American-made vehicles. But the “great” American they chose as the public face of the promotion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-3U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1410,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1410","url_meta":{"origin":242,"position":0},"title":"Sean Hannity Pimps Convicted Ex-Governor","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Providence Journal caught an interesting news bite while watching Sean Hannity's program recently. 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