Right-Wingers To Boycott GM? (RUSH isn't angry with GM workers, just Obama)

[Omaha Steve]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/right-wingers-to-boycott-gm.php?ref=fpa

By Eric Kleefeld - June 8, 2009, 2:27PM

The Detroit Bureau reports that an idea seems to be picking up some cachet on the right-wing blogs and in talk radio: Fighting the "Government Motors" bailout by boycotting the company. Most of it so far is limited to relatively little-known writers, but two big names have picked up on it: Hugh Hewitt, who wants to save free enterprise -- and Rush Limbaugh, who wants anything President Obama does to fail, and is urging his listeners to help push towards that goal.

"In the effort to reverse this lurch beyond the farthest left fringe of previous Democratic statist urges, individual Americans have a role to play. They have to say no to GM products and services until such time as the denationalization occurs," says Hugh Hewitt. He acknowledges that this is a serious step that could hurt people currently working for GM: "But there isn't any alternative, every dollar spent with GM is a dollar spent against free enterprise. Every car or truck purchased from Government Motors is one not purchased from a private car company that competes fairly against all other car companies."

Where Hewitt makes his point as a seemingly reluctant and composed agitator, Rush Limbaugh makes no bones about what he wants in his own praise of the idea. The most amazing thing here is that Limbaugh appears to be openly admitting that the purpose of this is economic and political sabotage -- to prevent President Obama from succeeding at something.

Limbaugh reassures any GM workers who might be listening that the boycotters aren't angry at them. "They don't want to patronize Obama. They don't want to do anything to make Obama's policies work!" he explains. "This is an untold story, by the way. Of course, the government-controlled media is not gonna report anything like this but there are a lot of people who are not going to buy from Chrysler or General Motors as long as it is perceived Barack Obama is running it, because people do not want his policy to work here because this is antithetical to the American economic way of life."

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Send this to everybody you know in MI and any union workers. They will surely appreciate it.

[tridim]

2. So Limbaugh is pro-union worker?

Excuse me while I :rofl: for an hour or two.

I just got back from lunch where I heard Limbaugh claim there are NO problems with our current healthcare system. None!

[unpossibles]

3. well, he makes so much money

that I'm sure to him there are no problems.

What I don't understand is how his audience can rail at liberal "elitists" and not see their propaganda master as one as well.

[damntexdem]

4. Hey, if I cause you to lose your job, don't worry -- I was mad at another and just affected you.

And the RWs pushing this likely don't buy GM cars, anyway.