Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Politics / Presidential Politics / The Economy The Left Wing Chrysler Dealership Conspiracy
Posted by Pete Kotz on Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM
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A fresh new conspiracy theory for those who believe all things are fixed: The White House is closing an inordinate number of Chrysler dealerships owned by Republican contributors. 
Statistically speaking, there's merit to the argument. And there's also enough suspicious ties to get the victim crowd up in arms. Writes Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi:
Zero Hedge put out an analysis of the closures and found a very strong correlation between dealerships that were saved, and dealerships that donated heavily to Hillary Clinton last year. Why should that matter? Because Obama's guy in the Auto Task Force is Steven Rattner, hedge fund star, big pal to Times owner Pinch Sulzberger, former bigwig at Lazard Freres, and former journalist himself. And Rattner is married to Maureen White, who was once Hillary's National Finance Chairman. So the theory here is that White and Rattner got together and made a Santa-Claus style list of "good" dealers and "bad" dealers.
But Taibbi goes on to say he doesn't buy the assertion. After all, he notes, "If you want to punish a Chrysler dealer, it seems to me that the best thing to do is force him to keep trying to sell Chryslers."
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The math may be bad, but these maps do make the Clinton connection look obviuous,
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/05/dealergate-why-zero-hedges-analysis.html
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