Thursday, January 06, 2011

BS GM Style

Mickey Kaus diagrams the sentences in GM's press release and finds out that they are 'half bull'.  When politics and business mix the lies flow fast and furious, don't they?
General Motors sold 2,211,699 vehicles in 2010, a 7% gain compared with sales in 2009. But  sales from all manufacturers combined grew 11 percent—meaning that because it failed to keep pace with its competitors GM lost market share. So how does the new, bailed-out and IPO'd GM portray the latest sales figures as a triumph? By focusing on the sales of the four"core brands" that are left after its 2009 bankruptcy— and ignoring lost sales at the four junked or sold-off brands (Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Hummer). 
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