Note to Auto Company CEOs: At Least Try To Show You're Making Changes

[image courtesy NYTimes]

Robert Nardelli of Chrysler, Alan Mulally of Ford and Rick Wagoner of General Motors (pictured above) have created quite a PR firestorm after arriving in Washington to plead for a $25B bailout package for their companies…in separate private jets.

While Mulally, “arrived on Capitol Hill driving a new Ford Fusion Hybrid,” according to The Atlantic, “The press knew this was going to happen because Ford’s PR machine sent word to daybook editors yesterday.”

It didn’t do anything to quell outrage on the Hill.

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