Hugh Hewitt Suffers Crisis Over Chrysler

My message to syndicated radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt:

You've added a new chapter to your repugnant commentary about U.S. car manufacturers with your foolish remarks about the Chrysler Super Bowl TV commercial. But I suppose it was only a matter of time. I vividly recall your odious remarks back when GM got a government bailout. "Don't buy GM cars!" you wailed on your program. "Don't buy GM, anything but GM!" or words to that effect. Your recurring rabid partisanship, which had seemed somewhat in remission, reared its ugly head over GM, and now again with Chrysler.
 
The formulation is clear, but you really should spell it out: "I want all those despised union workers and their leaders to lose their jobs and go away. I don't care about them, their families, their communities, or the myriad suppliers and their families who will lose their jobs or businesses when GM folds or Chrysler folds. I don't care that a vital and strategic element of American infrastructure and manufacturing will vanish. All I care about is seeing those damn union workers and their leaders get fired and disappear."

Incredibly, I continued to listen to your program intermittently even after your GM tirade. But I count that commentary as the single most irresponsible and despicable thing I've ever heard any broadcast talk host say about anything. Now you've shown your colors again by bashing Chrysler.

It's ironic: in past years, Republicans embraced an America First attitude. Now it's International Capitalists first and American union workers last--a point President Obama hinted at--politely--in his speech yesterday to the Chamber of Commerce.

No doubt, you're discomfited that the movie "The Company Men" focuses on the plight of the upper corporate echelon instead allowing you to revel in the loss of thousands of union jobs at the shipbuilding works. I marvel at your ability to simultaneously extol American Exceptionalism while eagerly encouraging the toilet flush that will send hundreds of thousands of American union workers down the drain along with their employers and businesses. Such cavalier, elitist and shortsighted callousness boggles the mind.