Chrysler did the right thing.”

Uhhh, no. If they had thanked W. specifically then at the very least they would have been accurate in who they should have been thanking.
When 70% of the country was against the bailout, was the ad thanking the other 30%?

If they’d have taken out radio advertising, you’d be arguing that no one listens to radio, and that it’s just a waste of your(what happened to my money paying for things I want? It’s my money too.) precious tax dollars. You know– because bloggers pay $4Bn in taxes per year whenever they’re paid $50 per entry.

If they’d have bought TV advertising, it would be open hostility on the American public’s most-precious sense, as well as their ever-so-dear pocketbooks. On a scale never-before-seen! As if their products aren’t assaulting enough! We have to look at this too?!?!?!

Cerberus is a very large business, and no one has questioned whether or not they’ve close contacts in print media. Were they close enough to the industry to have pulled strings to have had these thank-you notes published gratis?

In graphic design(as opposed to your familiar stolen Google-image-laden-web-design,) images like the one of the crowd are called stock images. Stock images are generic images that one purchases rights to before they’re used. Royalty-free, legally-reproduced images. Chrysler can not Google images and publish them like you do. They are playing in a different arena. They must follow rules– not break them– and in the next breath chastise others for doing the same.

When someone is as kind to you as the American people have been to Chrysler– it is only polite to thank them. If they’d have forgotten to thank us, what would we be talking about now? Yep– mannerless Chrysler gobbling up all your tax dollars without not so much a thank you.

If I didn’t know better– I’d think youall were mannerless heathens with no knowledge of publishing. You guys can’t have it both ways. Either it’s right to say thank you, or it’s not.

Chrysler did the right thing.

I felt the same way with the Jet-Gate thing; you either believe in the food-chains of business or you don’t. If you complain that private aircraft are being USED then pretty soon Lear will be asking for a bailout.

Giving them money to send back out into the economy is the idea isn’t it? If they don’t spend it on normal activities then USA Today needs a bailout, or maybe even TTAC needs a bailout.