Osama Drives a Toyota?

Art_Monk · Post by **Art_Monk** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:54 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00587.html

Anyone read this article in the post this morning? What do you make of the the following excerpt. Toyota and Hyundai are sponsoring terrorism?

Punctured Tire

The ad submitted to the Detroit News was not exactly subtle.

Toyota and Hyundai operate "in countries that sponsor terrorism," it said, while General Motors does not.

Jim Doyle of the Level Field Institute, funded by retirees and suppliers of the Big Three automakers, says the News questioned the assertion, which he explained was based on State Department findings about Sudan and Iran. Then a News advertising executive told him the ad was being rejected because her bosses had decided it was "inflammatory to our advertisers." Says Doyle: "I didn't expect to get censored in Detroit."

The same ad, by the way, has run in Roll Call and been accepted by The Washington Post for this week.

So was the News protecting its automobile advertisers? Henry Ford, the paper's vice president for marketing, says he has "no comment other than it was a simple business decision."

Redskins1974 · Post by **Redskins1974** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:33 pm

Hmmmmmmmm, I'd say GM and Ford are hurting for cash and trying to get us good 'ole American's to believe that Toyota, et al, are sponsoring terrorism.

SkinsChic · Post by **SkinsChic** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:48 pm

I drive a Toyota and it's the best car I've ever had. Does this mean I support Terrorism? I think not.

Redskins1974 · Post by **Redskins1974** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:12 am

SkinsChic wrote:I drive a Toyota and it's the best car I've ever had. Does this mean I support Terrorism? I think not.

Exactly!

Art_Monk · Post by **Art_Monk** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:06 am

I have owned toyotas in the past, but I just don't think it is right that we allow these companies to open car plants on US soil if they are still going to trade with terrorist-abiding nations. I think it is our responsibility to send a message to these companies. Don't you? Seems like we are working against ourselves.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:22 pm

SkinsChic wrote:I drive a Toyota and it's the best car I've ever had. Does this mean I support Terrorism? I think not.

If they money you use to pay for the car goes towards terroists.

Oh my God. My mom's a terrorist! :shock:

JansenFan · Post by **JansenFan** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:40 pm

Shall we call her Yomama Bin Laden?

Art_Monk · Post by **Art_Monk** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:22 pm

I am not saying that people that drive toyotas are giving their money to terrorists. I just have a hard time understanding why we allow their plants to be built in the US while they are still trading with these countries that may be a threat. Ford and GM certainly are not.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:27 pm

JansenFan wrote:Shall we call her Yomama Bin Laden?

No-Sama!

joebagadonuts · Post by **joebagadonuts** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:37 pm

Art_Monk wrote:I am not saying that people that drive toyotas are giving their money to terrorists. I just have a hard time understanding why we allow their plants to be built in the US while they are still trading with these countries that may be a threat. Ford and GM certainly are not.

i agree. let's kick haliburton out of the country.

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:13 pm

joebagadonuts wrote:let's kick haliburton out of the country.

Why kick out an Ocar Award winner? :hmm:

Oh, wait, wrong Halle.. :oops:

Art_Monk · Post by **Art_Monk** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:54 am

So does anyone agree? What can we do to make ensure that plants on Amercian soil are producing a product that put american dollars into out economy and not shipped straight overseas.

SkinsChic · Post by **SkinsChic** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:21 am

JansenFan wrote:Shall we call her Yomama Bin Laden?

I just saw this....good one JF... ROTFALMAO