{"id":26701,"date":"2011-09-28T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26701"},"modified":"2011-09-28T07:22:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T11:22:15","slug":"detroit-news-ford-pulls-ad-under-white-house-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26701","title":{"rendered":"Detroit News: Ford pulls ad under White House pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qg5eSM5cJdU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The above ad was run briefly by Ford to highlight the fact that they didn&#8217;t take the offered bailout money from the Obama Treasury Department, but according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20110927\/OPINION03\/109270322\/1148\/rss25\">Detroit News<\/a>, Ford succumbed to White House pressure to remove the ad from circulation;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ad, pulled in response to White House questions (and, presumably, carping from rival GM), threatened to rekindle the negative (if accurate) association just when the president wants credit for their positive results (GM and Chrysler are moving forward, making money and selling vehicles) and to distance himself from any public downside of his decision.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, where presidential politics and automotive marketing collide \u2014 clean, green, politically correct vehicles not included \u2014 the president wins and the automaker loses because the benefit of the battle isn&#8217;t worth the cost of waging it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ford and the White House both deny that the White House influenced Ford&#8217;s decision to pull the ad, but that hardly seems right. Why would Ford go to the expense of making the ad and then pull it, especially since it&#8217;s so effective and resonates to certain customers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above ad was run briefly by Ford to highlight the fact that they didn&#8217;t take &hellip; <a title=\"Detroit News: Ford pulls ad under White House pressure\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26701\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Detroit News: Ford pulls ad under White House pressure<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}