"Crack Dealer" Is Generally Not A Pet Name

The New York Times’ Tom Friedman created quite a stir in Motor City when he called GM America’s most “dangerous” company after it offered $1.99 a gallon gas to buyers of its gas guzzling models in Florida and California for a year. In his 5/31 column, Friedman equated GM to “a crack dealer looking to keep his addicts on a tight leash.”

GM and the Detroit News did not take it lying down. A Detroit News editorial said Friedman “and his fellow effete elites in New York City” fail to understand that “if the domestic manufacturers go down, they’ll take a big chunk of the American economy with them.”

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