How about a little applause sent Ford's way for not caving in to an American Family Association boycott. The AFA started a boycott of Ford because - gasp! - Ford takes out ads in gay magazines and provides funding for events sponsored by gay organizations. According to Donald Wildmon, not only is being gay an abomination, but so is selling a car to a gay person. Because ya know, maybe if they had to walk everywhere they'd reconsider their deviant lifestyle. Or something. Nice to see the bigots get told to get bent. Bravo, Ford.
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adds to my respect for Gerald Ford.
A Ford dealership is taking a novel approach to advertising: by telling a small subset of their potential customer base to shut up.
The recent decisions of G.M. and Ford will soon be taught in business school as an example of how not to run a business. Despite gas hovering at $3 a gallon, both companies seem determined to sell the public precisely what it doesn't want: big trucks, bigger SUV's and lumbering V8 engines.