THE GREAT TOYOTA PILE-ON
-Dr Ray Stantz
Does the name Clarence Ditlow ring a bell? No? How about a Dateline NBC special about the terrible dangers of side-saddle gas tanks? Ditlow is the guy that rigged the pickup with fireworks so that it would burst into flames when a test car crashed into the side. When you can't get your advocacy to match reality, well its time to rig the demonstration.
Well Clarence Ditlow is back. This time he's helping pile on Toyota, with his Naderite Center for Auto Safety as he goes to congress to testify about the terrible, terrible company which has caused such suffering for so many people. In fact it seems that kicking Toyota over and over has become the new US national sport. Who needs the Olympics when you can run 11 straight minutes on the nightly news about this story?
Not only is the chairman of the US Toyota division called to congress to testify, there are FBI raids on Toyota suppliers. And the news is full of stories about Toyota, often recycling old stories of accelerator pedal failures from years ago as if they're new.
Why? What on earth has triggered this? No previous CEO had to testify before congress about their company's recall of cars before. Cars having accelerator pedal sticking isn't new, nor are recalls of automobiles. This one though, suddenly, has become a gigantic issue with government becoming heavily involved and the legacy media pushing it as hard as they can. What is going on?
Well one hint is that the Toyota America plants are non union. They pay just as well (or better) than union shops, but they aren't union. In fact when the auto companies were begging for money from congress, people kept pointing out how Toyota didn't need this money and that the Unions were costing these US companies billions. That is not very appreciated by the politically powerful UAW machine, which coincidentally has donated tens of thousands of dollars to the very congressmen making up the committee grilling Toyota over these recalls.
And lets not forget, Toyota is a major competitor with GM, now owned by the Federal Government (and the UAW). That fact alone gives the US government strong motivation to make them look as bad as possible - and the legacy media to go along.
And finally, if you spend 11 minutes reporting on Toyota, you don't have to spend that time reporting on the economy, the loss of jobs, the foreclosures, the record lows in new home ownership, and overall how badly congress is doing, how little the American people trust their government, how the global warming alarmists are coming undone and their "science" was so fraudulent, and how much they want the health care bill dropped.
Suddenly it all makes sense. Suddenly we know why all the grievance mongering ambulance chasers are showing up like maggots on a corpse.
Well Clarence Ditlow is back. This time he's helping pile on Toyota, with his Naderite Center for Auto Safety as he goes to congress to testify about the terrible, terrible company which has caused such suffering for so many people. In fact it seems that kicking Toyota over and over has become the new US national sport. Who needs the Olympics when you can run 11 straight minutes on the nightly news about this story?
Not only is the chairman of the US Toyota division called to congress to testify, there are FBI raids on Toyota suppliers. And the news is full of stories about Toyota, often recycling old stories of accelerator pedal failures from years ago as if they're new.
Why? What on earth has triggered this? No previous CEO had to testify before congress about their company's recall of cars before. Cars having accelerator pedal sticking isn't new, nor are recalls of automobiles. This one though, suddenly, has become a gigantic issue with government becoming heavily involved and the legacy media pushing it as hard as they can. What is going on?
Well one hint is that the Toyota America plants are non union. They pay just as well (or better) than union shops, but they aren't union. In fact when the auto companies were begging for money from congress, people kept pointing out how Toyota didn't need this money and that the Unions were costing these US companies billions. That is not very appreciated by the politically powerful UAW machine, which coincidentally has donated tens of thousands of dollars to the very congressmen making up the committee grilling Toyota over these recalls.
And lets not forget, Toyota is a major competitor with GM, now owned by the Federal Government (and the UAW). That fact alone gives the US government strong motivation to make them look as bad as possible - and the legacy media to go along.
And finally, if you spend 11 minutes reporting on Toyota, you don't have to spend that time reporting on the economy, the loss of jobs, the foreclosures, the record lows in new home ownership, and overall how badly congress is doing, how little the American people trust their government, how the global warming alarmists are coming undone and their "science" was so fraudulent, and how much they want the health care bill dropped.
Suddenly it all makes sense. Suddenly we know why all the grievance mongering ambulance chasers are showing up like maggots on a corpse.
posted by Christopher Taylor at 11:48 AM
2 Comments:
To be fair, I think that Toyota did receive bail-out money from the Japanese government.
That is true, and it ought to be said. Of course they didn't get taken over by the Japanese goverment like GM.
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