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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-13-09 12:26 PM
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Dealership's Ads Hammer Senator (Shelby)
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Source: Detroit Free Press

At Les Stanford Chevrolet Cadillac in Dearborn, they're fed up with criticism of Detroit automakers and the UAW by Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby.

So they've put the Republican to work -- selling their cars.

The dealership is running TV and radio ads that feature clips of Shelby making anti-Detroit Three comments.

"We're wasting our time trying to keep them alive," he is shown saying in one ad.

Co-owner Paul Stanford strikes back, asking: "I wonder if the good senator would tell us how much Japanese car companies who make cars in his state gave to his campaign?"

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20090413/COL27/904130340/?...
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  -Dealership's Ads Hammer Senator (Shelby) Purveyor  Apr-13-09 12:26 PM   #0 
  - This makes me smile.  tosh   Apr-13-09 12:29 PM   #1 
  - Did you see this article from last week? 'Look Who Wants To Protect A GM Plant'  Purveyor   Apr-13-09 12:46 PM   #2 
     - Corker thinks everything will be decided politically because  louis-t   Apr-13-09 01:21 PM   #5 
        - Elected Officials That Shill for Foreign Companies are Traitors (NT)  louis c   Apr-13-09 05:07 PM   #34 
  - Dayum. And it's not as if the people of Detroit....  DCKit   Apr-13-09 12:47 PM   #3 
  - I support this dealership's right  No More Bushbots   Apr-13-09 12:57 PM   #4 
  - Exactly! Why does Shelby hate America? I hope the TV ad gets  felinetta   Apr-13-09 02:07 PM   #13 
  - Found it.  No More Bushbots   Apr-13-09 02:33 PM   #20 
     - Thanks for finding and posting this. I'm on dialup and it is a timely effort to do 'youtube'... eom  Purveyor   Apr-13-09 02:40 PM   #22 
     - Thanks for the link!  MelissaB   Apr-14-09 07:13 AM   #61 
  - I agree  Third Doctor   Apr-13-09 05:28 PM   #37 
  - if Detroit and dealers were smart  tooeyeten   Apr-13-09 01:22 PM   #6 
  - I've purchased GM products to help U.S. labor but if I hear more trashing Alabama I'm going to stop.  jody   Apr-13-09 01:30 PM   #7 
  - People are criticizing your clueless Senator...  blue_onyx   Apr-13-09 01:50 PM   #10 
  - I also criticize Shelby but some DUers criticize our state. n/t  jody   Apr-13-09 01:57 PM   #12 
     - They criticize ALL Southern states.....  SacredCow   Apr-13-09 02:14 PM   #15 
     - They criticize all states, including their own.  Downwinder   Apr-13-09 02:27 PM   #18 
     - Yeah, but Southern states tend to get the worst end of it....  SacredCow   Apr-13-09 02:35 PM   #21 
        - Howard Dean (God bless his soul) Was Right  SlingBlade   Apr-14-09 05:51 AM   #56 
     - Well you have to admit, the South is the only place left that keeps electing Republicans  DuaneBidoux   Apr-13-09 05:10 PM   #36 
        - Some folks down here are trying to break that cycle  Alcibiades   Apr-13-09 10:05 PM   #47 
        - It's weird, today is the first day I feel like I can't join in on the South bashing  tavalon   Apr-14-09 06:05 AM   #57 
        - I hope my statement is not considered "South Bashing" by you.  DuaneBidoux   Apr-14-09 08:18 AM   #62 
           - Now, don't forget Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah  kentauros   Apr-14-09 08:40 AM   #63 
              - well, you notice i did say "more or less."  DuaneBidoux   Apr-14-09 10:13 AM   #65 
                 - Nonetheless, your original post states  kentauros   Apr-14-09 10:26 AM   #66 
        - So Michelle Bachmann (for instance) is a Southerner?  Nevernose   Apr-14-09 10:40 AM   #67 
        - But what about the gay marriage guns abortions tax?  high density   Apr-14-09 11:02 AM   #68 
     - Alabama is great! Senator Shelby is a Dick!  tclambert   Apr-13-09 04:37 PM   #31 
     - Well, there's plenty to criticize. Or do you think Alabama is perfect?  AlbertCat   Apr-13-09 04:46 PM   #32 
        - Shitty  classysassy   Apr-13-09 10:47 PM   #48 
  - we will trash that piece of garbage Shelby all we please  Skittles   Apr-13-09 11:44 PM   #49 
  - Ugh, give me a break.  a la izquierda   Apr-14-09 06:37 AM   #59 
  - also for the manufacturing might the companies could provide in case of another national emergencies  Wizard777   Apr-13-09 01:37 PM   #8 
  - K&R!  Omaha Steve   Apr-13-09 01:39 PM   #9 
  - I can't wait to see these ads here in Detroit!!  shaniqua6392   Apr-13-09 01:50 PM   #11 
  - That;'ll convince all those Alabama voters...in Michigan.  tomreedtoon   Apr-13-09 02:47 PM   #23 
     - These are ads run by a car dealership. Not the UAW. Just FYI. nt  Romulox   Apr-13-09 04:57 PM   #33 
        - Then it's simply a waste of advertising money. Okay...  tomreedtoon   Apr-13-09 11:44 PM   #50 
           - The purpose of the ads is to sell cars. Again, jut fyi. nt  Romulox   Apr-14-09 06:42 AM   #60 
              - I ask what we all asked about Nixon.  tomreedtoon   Apr-15-09 02:51 AM   #74 
                 - Ok. Buy your Hyundai from whom you like. Your posts to this thread STILL will not make any sense.  Romulox   Apr-15-09 10:14 AM   #75 
                    - I'm saying this AD and this CAR SELLER make no sense.  tomreedtoon   Apr-15-09 10:41 AM   #76 
                       - Are you simple? These are ads for a CAR DEALERSHIP. Their purpose is to SELL CARS.  Romulox   Apr-15-09 10:47 AM   #77 
  - Kick and nominated  pberq   Apr-13-09 02:12 PM   #14 
  - We need more of this coming together...or America will become a mud hole with no jobs. n/t  antimatter98   Apr-13-09 02:17 PM   #16 
  - recommend  xchrom   Apr-13-09 02:19 PM   #17 
  - Very true, we have the Mercedes plant here in Tuscaloosa, Shelbs home town.  bamacrat   Apr-13-09 02:29 PM   #19 
  - If the UAW union is broken, watch wages drop at the foreign auto makers. They only pay  SharonAnn   Apr-13-09 03:37 PM   #25 
  - People who think unions are meaningless today never figure this out.  aquart   Apr-13-09 04:21 PM   #29 
  - "Good paying jobs"??  brentspeak   Apr-14-09 09:44 PM   #73 
  - Anything that helps keep Michigan a blue state makes me happy.  Dawgs   Apr-13-09 03:36 PM   #24 
  - Richard Shelby is the worst of the worst...  Hubert Flottz   Apr-13-09 03:39 PM   #26 
  - That's probably the only thing that would get them to do a repeat of Pearl Harbor  DFW   Apr-14-09 04:29 AM   #52 
  - Well, because the car makers in Japan pay for his campaigns...  Hubert Flottz   Apr-14-09 05:31 AM   #54 
  - I wouldn't even want Richard Shelby washing my car.  Optical.Catalyst   Apr-14-09 05:10 AM   #53 
     - I wouldn't mind if he was wearing those prison striped clothes.  Hubert Flottz   Apr-14-09 05:33 AM   #55 
  - Keeeek!  valerief   Apr-13-09 03:58 PM   #27 
  - Oh dear....  Turbineguy   Apr-13-09 04:09 PM   #28 
  - Oh Shit! I'll bet Shelby's shitting  Gman   Apr-13-09 04:31 PM   #30 
  - I hope the fine people of Michigan will give generously to Shelby's opponent next time.  DuaneBidoux   Apr-13-09 05:09 PM   #35 
  - It would fail.  Third Doctor   Apr-13-09 05:49 PM   #38 
     - Never hurts to try. How far away is his election?  DuaneBidoux   Apr-13-09 05:51 PM   #39 
     - We'll see about that! What public restroom does he use?  imdjh   Apr-13-09 05:54 PM   #40 
        - ...  tosh   Apr-13-09 08:01 PM   #44 
  - Couldn't  loyalkydem   Apr-13-09 06:22 PM   #41 
  - "What's wrong with an autoworker making $100,000?" Sussman asked. "This is America."  AllyCat   Apr-13-09 06:34 PM   #42 
  - ¡Muerte al Sur!  sasquatch   Apr-13-09 07:40 PM   #43 
  - I sticking with GM they got some new stuff coming down the pike..  Historic NY   Apr-13-09 09:55 PM   #45 
  - We hate him just as much here in Alabama, but  celloise   Apr-13-09 10:02 PM   #46 
  - Yes, as it goes, the people of Michigan can't vote Shelby out.  Quantess   Apr-14-09 02:03 AM   #51 
  - And some of us worked most of a decade to get out of the south  tavalon   Apr-14-09 06:10 AM   #58 
  - I find it to be much more rewarding  celloise   Apr-14-09 05:40 PM   #69 
     - I didn't want to be alone anymore  tavalon   Apr-14-09 09:35 PM   #71 
  - what if it was a Confederate penny?  Enrique   Apr-14-09 10:08 AM   #64 
     - Maybe  celloise   Apr-14-09 05:41 PM   #70 
  - If GM didn't spend the last two decades building shit cars...  solinvictus   Apr-14-09 09:38 PM   #72 
  - What we need now  GrpCaptMandrake   Apr-15-09 11:06 AM   #78 
 

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