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Now that Obama and the UAW have taken over The Bankrupt Health Insurance Company Formerly Known As General Motors, some things are starting to happen that you might call strange, weird or bizarre, and as I thumb through my pocket thesaurus, the next synonym is queer:
For a local movie promotion a week ago aimed at gay buyers, General Motors' Chevrolet sponsored an online video on YouTube featuring the "Bumble Bee Boys in Briefs" -- a couple of buff "go-go boys" wearing only Speedo-type swimsuits with the letters CAMARO stitched across the behind. In the video, they are washing a Camaro. . . .
The video was produced to promote Chevrolet Gay Days at the Movies in Los Angeles, part of an ongoing outreach program to minority groups and the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. The movie was a screening of the new Transformers movie, chock full of GM vehicles including Bumblebee, a Camaro. . . .
"Chevrolet Gay Days"? So as not to be accused of despicable bigotry against LGBT/GM, I've decided to celebrate Chevrolet Gay Days 365 days a year -- starting today:
"We're here! We're queer! We're driving Chevy!"
Don't call it a "lifestyle choice" -- Chevy drivers were born that way.
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Bill Pearce| 7.16.09 @ 1:28PM
Thank God there are “Japanese” cars on sale so I can channel my inner samurai.
Jay Heathman| 7.16.09 @ 1:39PM
Actually - since the unelected Kenyan, Obongo, took over GM and Chrysler, then even without their blatant gay pandering, I would not buy anything from those companies because I would not want to put my money in the pockets of these communist leeches in DC. So - Ford, Japan and Germany are my family's sources for automotive purchasing.
les grossman| 7.16.09 @ 1:50PM
You'd have to be nuts to buy a Government Motors Obombermobile, even without the goofy ads.
louis tully| 7.16.09 @ 1:52PM
Guess its the trendy thing to do. Speaking of which, TAS is running ads for Gay Cruises on this very webpage. "Atlantis: the Way We Play."
hmm_contrib| 7.16.09 @ 2:59PM
Watching jittery and coded homophobia in action on right-wing blogs is always a joy. Time to pop some (gay) popcorn.
Tim| 7.16.09 @ 3:42PM
The gay menace. Good grief.
They're out there now...undressing you with their eyes...plotting.
Patriot| 7.16.09 @ 4:01PM
C'mon, now, hmm--you know there's nothin' 'coded' about our rightwing homophobia. You bein' a storm trooper in the liberal thought police force and all.
Barry| 7.16.09 @ 4:39PM
The irony is that this post is causing ads for gay cruises to pop up in the side bars of this web page.
Sheldon Mann| 7.16.09 @ 4:46PM
Frankly, its "Car Wars." Ford was on the gay bandwagon last year and now Chevy is following suit. Just another big business pandering to a group that is immoral. I guess I am just Old School, being gay is not like having freckles, it is an aberration.
Peter McGrath| 7.16.09 @ 4:51PM
Only a complete, total LOSER would but a POS Government Motors car. Someone ought to stage a promotion - like Disco Demolition Night in 1979 - where these crap cars are blown to bits, maybe with Car Czar in one of them.
Aaron| 7.16.09 @ 5:00PM
Huh... I thought their people drove Jettas and an occasional Prius? I guess the fags are going domestic. I say we tax them for being gay, they are easy to spot. Amongst other things, they put coded stickers on their Chevys and emit a hissing sound when they talk.
Big Jim| 7.16.09 @ 5:02PM
Let's not forget S. Korea, they make damn good cars there now. Who really cares how GM markets their cars, it's still Disney gay days that should turn every parents stomach.
Mike| 7.16.09 @ 10:25PM
McCain,
Let me break this to you gently. You're an idiot.
Dolly| 7.17.09 @ 12:03AM
Mike, you drive a pink Camaro in your speedos with rainbow decals on your bumper?
Don L| 7.17.09 @ 9:09AM
Wasn't it Ford that was boycotted successfully by some pro-family group for it's affiliation with gay agendas?
Brendan| 7.17.09 @ 11:14AM
All I know is that this homo won't be purchasing any GMs (or Chryslers, for that matter). Don't assume that all of the gays are on the left, or follow the dictates of the leftist gay agenda. And cheers to Ford for remaining bailout-free.
Liberal Reader| 7.17.09 @ 11:23AM
What are you, McCain, in the seventh grade?
Patriot| 7.17.09 @ 2:03PM
Liberal Reader/Jeremiah--stop your liberal whining and get a life, okay?
Mark Zamen| 7.21.09 @ 8:22PM
Targeting a particular potential group of buyers is certainly nothing new on Madison Avenue. It is undeniably transparent, tacky, and purely commercial in that Chevy doesn't care about gays; it, like every other corporate entity, cares about making money. That, in short, is capitalism. However, Chevy's stance is better - at least on the surface - than the one taken by the large segment of society that still regards gay men and women as second-class citizens - or worse. We as a nation have a long way to go in this regard. That is the salient point of my recently released biographical novel, Broken Saint. It is based on my forty-year friendship with a gay man, and chronicles his internal and external struggles as he battles for acceptance (of himself and by others). Such is the contemporary reality for so many minorities, despite pandering and insincere commercial videos such as Chevy's. More information on the book is available at www.eloquentbooks.com/BrokenSaint.html.
Mark Zamen, author