Jalopnik Creates What May Be The Most Offensive Blog Post In Automotive History

The breadth and diversity of TTAC’s readership is such that I really cannot manage to offend you all at once. If I talk about evading the police at night, some of you just shake your heads and say, “What a scamp!” If I admit to selling a female friend’s body to a wealthy industrialist for five thousand dollars, most of you assume I’m either fibbing or just, well, allowed to do that sort of thing. Even my use (while quoting someone else, admittedly) of an infamous term commonly used to refer to a bundle of loose branches resulted in as many pro-Baruth comments as anti-Baruth ones. I admit it: the commentariat can’t really be trolled. You win.

Some people aim higher than I do, however, and Jalopnik’s Ray Wert is one of those people.

In his post entitled I Would Go Gay For Bob Lutz, Ray brags that

I would absolutely “go gay” for former General Motors Vice-Chairman “Maximum” Bob Lutz… Yes, that’s right, I’m sitting next to Owen Thomas on a park bench in San Francisco, and yet somehow I manage to be the gayest thing in the entire clip.

Make no mistake: Ray Wert is an extremely intelligent fellow who has a reason for everything he does. It’s never a good idea to bet against him. The Jalopnik editors who laughed at him and demanded his removal now either lick his boots in staff meetings or rage at him impotently from dead-tree dead-ends. His decision to successfully (appear to) play king-maker at Car and Driver confirmed what most of us already believed: Ray is the most powerful individual in this business, as well as being one of the most influential.

With this “go gay” business, however, Ray may have committed a rare mis-step. His gay readers don’t appreciate the idea that being gay is a choice; his straight readers are alternately bemused and offended. Wert trivializes homosexuality even as he pretends to embrace it.

While there are many women in this business whom I have been lucky or deceptive enough to would love to sleep with, I can’t imagine liking a car dude enough to change teams. Even Maximum Bob doesn’t exert that kind of charm on me. But, for the record, as our respective times in the “CTS-V Challenge” using the same car demonstrate, if I did, I would totally be the “top”.*

* Oh, behave!