Rush attacks 'Car of the Year' Chevy Volt and Moter Trend responds - MUST READ!!

[Dawgs]

http://blogs.motortrend.com/rush-judgment-5957.html

So, Mr. Limbaugh; you didn’t enjoy your drive of our 2011 Car of the Year, the Chevrolet Volt? Assuming you’ve been anywhere near the biggest automotive technological breakthrough since … I don’t know, maybe the self-starter, could you even find your way to the front seat? Or are you happy attacking a car that you’ve never even seen in person?
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Back to us for a moment, our credibility, Mr. Limbaugh, comes from actually driving and testing the car, and understanding its advanced technology. It comes from driving and testing virtually every new car sold, and from doing this once a year with all the all-new or significantly improved models all at the same time. We test, make judgments and write about things we understand.
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But, harrumph. In its attempt to force cars that don’t use much gas on us — how un-American/un-ExxonMobil/un-Halliburton is that? — the Obama administration is offering a $7,500 tax credit on the Chevy Volt, grabbing tax breaks and credits right out of the deserving, job-creating pockets of America’s richest individuals. How dare he?
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If you can stop shilling for your favorite political party long enough to go for a drive, you might really enjoy the Chevy Volt. I’m sure GM would be happy to lend you one for the weekend. Just remember: driving and Oxycontin don’t mix.

Read more at link...
http://blogs.motortrend.com/rush-judgment-5957.html

[hobbit709]

1. Perfect!

[Barack_America]

2. Oh SNAP!

Dayum, Motor Trend, I didn't know you had it in you.

[grahamhgreen]

3. Bam! He stepped on the wrong gear heads!

[Jim__]

4. Limbaugh has a compulsion to read every news article that mentions him on the air.

I wonder if he'll read this to his ditto-heads. If he does, I'm betting he leaves out all the information that documents he's an ass.

[Ian David]

5. I love you, Motor Trend! n/t

[Poboy]

6. motOr...motor. -nt

[TommyO]

7. There was a thread on this yesterday as well

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9610024

My hearty congratulations to Motor Trend for skewering the gasbag.

[liberal N proud]

8. Motor Trend is about new technology - Limbaugh about OIL Companies

It is revealed time over that the GOP and their pundits and assholes are all controlled by the oil companies and will pander to other companies who are willing to bankroll them.

[pnorman]

9. "driving and Oxycontin don’t mix."

I'll save that for future use!

[Dawgs]

10. I like "We...make judgments...about things we understand"

:hi:

[DirkGently]

11. There's been an interesting shift at the car mags.

I'm more of a Car & Driver person, but back in the days of Brock Yates, they spent a lot of time and energy bashing EVs, clucking about how hopeless and idealistic they were, and joining in the general mythology that they could never work.

I don't know what changed, other than Yates' departure, but driving a Tesla seemed to be a turning point. It posted the fastest (50-70mph)? acceleration they'd ever recorded and C & D obviously had a great time driving it, even though they just had to frame it as "The electric car we'd own if we wanted one, which we don't" or something like that.

Glad to see Motor Trend stick up for facts over ideology. Gearheads are another group who ought to take issue with the rightwing's fact-free bubble universe.

[donquijoterocket]

54. never

been quite sure why,but the general attitude at most car mags and I've subscribed to or read a great many of them is snark. I think it's the only way the writers can think of to reassure readers they're maintaining their objectivity especially when they're truly excited about some development which I believe they are about this automobile. real gearheads know it's about the quality of the technology and of the automobile and the driving experience, apparently this car rates in all categories. To be sure it's not the Ferrari 458 but what Detroit creation is and even Ferrari is developing its version of hybrid technology.Limpballs I believe drives a Maybach one of those cars, which like so many other things in our consumer society, says more about the owner's self-perceived shortcomings than about anything else.The automotive industry in general is just looking to keep people driving and knows they have to adapt.

[SpiralHawk]

12. Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh gets paid millions to tell his Republicon lies

So his views carry absolutely no honor, integrity, or truth.

End of discussion about this typical Republicon draft dodger.

[emulatorloo]

13. Good one, thanks for posting. I am forwarding this link around! N/T

[Dawgs]

15. There's a facebook like button if you want to be bad.

:evilgrin:

[cheneyschernobyl]

33. Found it...used it...added my own 2 cents...

felt like I help correct a terrible wrong on limp-balls' part. He gives balls a bad name!

[Dappleganger]

14. Oh, snap!

Gotta love it!

[frylock]

16. knr

:applause:

[Parker CA]

17. BOOM!! That was perfect.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. The ironic thing is, Rush is always bashing environmentalists....

...for desiring to be technologically backwards. He says we think (i.e. strawman fallacy) everyone should give up on driving cars and only ride bikes or walk.

The irony is that environmentalists are the ones on the cutting edge of new technology, and it's the old conservative dinosaurs like Rush who think we can't do better than fossil fuel technology.

But then again, are we surprised at this man and his hypocricy?

[Radical Activist]

19. It's nice to see the auto-industry attack the right instead of environmentalists for a change.

The American auto industry is being saved by embracing the very things they claimed would destroy it.

[flvegan]

20. Green technology really should be above politics.

I don't understand how anyone can be against positive achievements such as the Volt, as well as the future of non-petrol propulsion.

[FrancisTreptoe]

24. Absolutely agreed

Progress in technology, infrastructure and energy should never be a partisan issue or even a political issue for that matter. Such as the high speed rails that are being shot down by incredibly incompetent governors like in Ohio and Wisconsin. Simply ridiculous as to how anyone outside of big oil could be against these advances.

[flvegan]

27. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Bennyboy]

43. Well BIG OIL bought up rail years ago.

In Sacramento we had great street car system but Standard Oil bought it, dismantled it, sold it. They did that all over the country.

Thank God New Orleans didn't fall for that. I freaking love the street cars there.

[Roy Rolling]

47. we DID fall for it

Just to update, New Orleans tore out miles and miles of streetcar tracks on the 1960s because GM gave us a ton of money and bus discounts. Only one streetcar line remained---the St. Charles Ave line. Then, a few years back, we reversed ourselves and replaced the busses with streetcar lines again. So, we did fall for it but we corrected ourselves. As for Rush, he falls for it and is stupid forever. He is not a victim of stupidity, he is a carrier.

[Bennyboy]

48. Edited,COMPLETELY fall for it...

And now you are bringing them back. Love it. I was pretty happy with the way they work there. I stayed in Mid City at Carrollton and Canal and went to Fest, the quarter, and to Frenchman Street mostly, so they served me very well..

I love it, I met tons of people,even a date, on the train. People seem more open to conversations. The whole thing is very convivial. On busses people shut up or talk on the cell phone. But street cars just invite a traveling party vibe. The whole no schedule thing is so crazy. Wait for a car, see one going to the Cemeteries and think, the next one is going to City Park. BUT NO! The next one, and maybe two after that, are going to the Cemeteries. They run all night too, but sometimes you have to wait for them all night.

One guy I met on the car, an oil company executive for BP, I had dinner with at Venezia, and we talked about the oil spill. Really good guy, who's whole world was going to explode in the next day or so. This was a couple of days since the rig exploded. And remembering our conversations I told him what was going to happen and he did not think that.

[tilsammans]

62. Agree. Environmental issues should have never been politicized

I guess we can thank St. Ronnie Raygun for making it uneasy to be green.

[NuclearDem]

21. OHHHHH SNAP!

This is why I LOVE Motor Trend! :applause:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

22. He must of forgot when the Hummer got tax breaks in 2007.

Buy a Hummer, Get a $25,000 Tax Break

June 28, 2007 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3326593&page=1

[Fuzz]

23. Wow, that's a smackdown.

[IDemo]

25. This comment ->

“I wonder, do you ever ride in anything that’s not German or Anglo-Saxon?”

To which the proper answer is,

Oh yes, ask around the Dominican Republic.

:rofl:

[Myrina]

28. ROFL +100

:blush:

[malaise]

26. Freaking perfect

Rec

[orbitalman]

29. This jackass needs to be put down, just really tired of his crap. n/t

[AllyCat]

30. Rich! Love this :)

[txlibdem]

31. If Limbo hates it, it must be the greatest thing since sliced bread

Gotta get one now.

[Lorien]

32. Hilarious! Read the comment section. Dittoheads are exploding, lol!

NOBODY comes back at Herr OxyRush with FACTS, dammit! The whole idea of it has turned their world upside down! It would be worth it to register with Motor trend just to poke fact loaded sticks into that hill of ant-brained inbreds.

[Bolo Boffin]

34. That was epic. n/t

[Anakin Skywalker]

35. What Does Rush Limpball Know About Cars Anyway?

Sumbitch probably has a chauffeur that comes with a Bentley or Rolls Royce or some other non-driver's cars.

[WinkyDink]

36. YO! That is AWESOME!

[iamjoy]

37. WOW

:wow:

that's the kind of response Keith Olbermann would be proud to give.

[Mad_Dem_X]

38. BURN!

Way to go, Motor Trend! :rofl: :patriot:

[Locrian]

39. heh

>>to lend you one for the weekend. Just remember: driving and Oxycontin don’t mix.

Damn! Seems like Motor Trend found their balls they lost a few decades ago.

[pleah]

40. Boil butt boy just got spanked!

:rofl:

[AnArmyVeteran]

41. When gas was over $4 gallon Limblah bragged about buying 4 huge gas guzzlers.

While the rest of the American people were getting robbed at the pump Limblah said in air he went to a local car dealership and asked for the four least efficient cars. Of course the buffoonish Limblah could do that with all his hate money, but it was a slap in the face to every American who has to work for a living. It was also irresponsible and even traitorous because he was telling people to buy the least efficient cars, and by doing so it would make our country even more dependent on foreign oil.

What kind of people listen to and believe this cowardly thug?

[Moostache]

49. RE: What kind of people listen to and believe this cowardly thug?

The kind that live in a fact-free bubble of non-reality.
The kind that believe our milquetoast, barely left of center-right President is a raging socialist.
The kind that nod in silent assent to every racist dollop of bilge that he spews forth daily.
The kind that do not care about health care for people, but are used daily to ensure profit care for corporations.
The kind that agree with Sarah Palin. About anything.
The kind that say things like "the folks" or "one of us" or "REAL Americans" or "traditional values" or "gay agenda".
The kind that cannot form cogent thoughts of their own without having talking points driven into their malleable minds for hours a day.
The kind that watch Glenn Beck as education and Bill O'Reilly as "spin-free" and 100% believe it to the core of their being.
The kind that in short I cannot abide, the kind I cannot reason with nor respect.
The kind that a portion of me wishes gets the suffering they so richly deserve.

Limbaugh is a piece of shit, but he has been the same one-trick pony for decades already.

What I find incomprehensible is the fact that for 8 years from the stolen election of 2000 to the inaugural of Jan. 2009, Rush and his cronies and cohorts all got EXACTLY what they wanted. They had a right-wing, know-nothing government of lax to non-existent regulations, massive unfunded tax cuts and massive concentration of wealth with the concurrent destruction of the middle class.

They got a pair of foreign wars to use as credit cards on the backs of the American people to further enhance their theft of the nation's wealth and the placing of that wealth into fewer and fewer hands - all without managing to create enough new jobs to keep pace with the population, let alone actually improve the fate of the country's workers.

They got their friends in Wall Street, Oil and Pharma record profits and enough cash to make even the Pharohs of Egypt blush. The results of this were the Great Recession / Great Depression II. And yet, Rush STILL has the same base of bloodless zealots and true believers/truly exploited sheeple.

It boggles the mind that, in a nation where the corporations are raking in RECORD PROFITS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, there still exists a large portion of the population which would have you believe the Obama administration is Simon B. Sinister plotting ways to destroy businesses. Because, you know, Rush said so....

[AnArmyVeteran]

56. Brilliantly stated and all 100% true.

I know a few of these characters and they are all identical. My older siblings believe everything they are told by faux & right wing radio. All of them are racists and are repulsed at the thought of anyone in need getting help.

I've lost three friends very soon after they began worshipping right wing media lunatics. But I guess I didn't really lose anything if they are so empty inside and have no heart.

Great post.

[ChiciB1]

42. I've Come To Realize That THERE IS NOTHING Positive That LIMPBALLS

has to say! EVERYTHING, almost every single word he utters is either BS or totally negative! WHY stupid people still listen to his maniacal crap is beyond my comprehension!

And I say this knowing that I have ONE sister who listens to him all the time and I simply WILL NOT comment on any subject matter with her about the foulness he spouts! EVEN A CAR?????

This is ONE deranged person who should have his MEDS taken away and go COLD TURKEY, not only for this Thanksgiving, but completely! His brain seems permanently ADDLED!

And yet, he gets away with it ALL THE TIME! To those Americans who can't see his true colors, and there are millions, we will continue to be STUCK ON STUPID!

He'd probably attack a LOST puppy dog for getting lost simply because he got lost! I wish things about him that I won't say aloud... it would only make him happy to know what I feel about him!

Instead I'll THINK KHARMA! AND, I really shouldn't have replied to this post because it just kicks it, when HE shouldn't even be given the time of day! No offense to the poster... it's just that giving him more coverage only grows his ego! I too am guilty!

[manny70]

44. Aw snap

Why does anyone take this drug-addled professional bigot seriously? The dude spouts absolute crap on a daily basis. The only people dumber than Limbaugh are his ditto heads.

[Mosaic]

45. The only rush thread I'll read

Is the one where he dies from a drug overdose or such, otherwise as a dedicated liberal I ignore all rush threads.

[Zambero]

46. Rush says there's no way he can recommend this car

What better recommendation could one ask for?!?

[Chorophyll]

50. Enjoyable takedown!

Thanks for posting!

[DFW]

51. If Limbaugh said the sky was green

The sad fact is that 10% of the population of our country would immediately assume they were color blind.

[Initech]

52. The comments section was even funnier.

The wingnuts were attracted to it like moths to a lightbulb though. :eyes:

[sonias]

53. USA! USA! USA!

Excellent rebuttal Motor Trend!

:applause::applause::applause:

[GreenTea]

55. The pigman was laughing at Greens/Progressives when Limbaugh pushed Bush for write-offs for Hummers

Bush & Limbaugh had great laughs when Bush and his administration gave big write-offs, purposely, for all gas-guzzling vehicles like the Hummer....

I could just see it now, Pigman Limbaugh telling Bush...."You really want to piss off these god-damn tree-hugging, planet loving environmentalist, liberals & progressives"? Then give a huge tax write-offs instead of to fuel efficient vehicles, give the huge tax write-offs instead to all vehicles that have excess weight and low MPG (like the Hummer).

And Bush did!

The filthy rich Limbaugh and his rich Reich republican asshole cronies are so vindictive & arrogant, so selfish, hateful and non-caring about anything or anyone but their own disgusting lying insatiable greedy pig selves!

We're ALL praying that the pigman Limbaugh will die very soon - Just as pigman Falwell did! And we'll all be laughing, dancing & partying!!

[Old and In the Way]

57. For Rush and the financeers who pay his $60MM/year salary,

it's important to keep the middle-class split and maintain the status quo. Can't have common ground on issues like energy. jobs, and the environment - that might actually be good for this country...but not so good for those vested in selling this country short. Rush is clueless about the technology...but he knows how to read his talking points that are supplied by those who pay his salary.

[NICO9000]

58. Good ol' Rush - always wrong, but never in doubt!

Like a lot of Americans unfortunately...

[TheCowsCameHome]

59. How could he drive it anyway? His arms wouldn't reach the steering wheel

Fat Oxycontin-bloated fuck.

[yurbud]

60. why would Rush slam the Volt? does he want GM to fail? It's the first American car I've EVER

thought of buying.

[CubicleGuy]

67. It is never enought that Rush must merely succeed...

... everyone else must fail.

[Plucketeer]

61. Rush to judgement - again

pumping the throttle with his brain in neutral. All noise and no go. :puke:

[The Wielding Truth]

63. Remember when Oprah was sued by the beef industry. Well...?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

64. He probably couldn't fit his fat as in the car.

Much less drive while drug addled.

[de novo]

65. Oh Snap! Love it.

[BrklynLiberal]

66. Kudos to Motor Trend for making sure Limpballs was pwned..but good!!

[Zax2me]

68. Usually shun anything with his name attached....

But forced myself to read this - thanks!

[dontcallmebob]

69. encourge this behavior

the more these nuts swing this way the better it is for all to see.