Scott Brown's truck, GMC Canyon
Neil Cavuto blasts President Obama for attacking Scott Brown’s truck. Republican Scott Brown had been running ads in Massachusetts where he is out driving around in his 2005 GMC Canyon pickup truck while campaigning for US Senator.
Scott Brown’s Fair Game; His Truck Isn’t
By Neil Cavuto
OK, so two things.
One: President Obama doesn’t flip over Scott Brown. That I knew.
Two: He doesn’t flip over Scott Brown’s truck. That I didn’t know.
You’d think that the auto “rescue in chief” would be careful not to bad-mouth any truck.
Especially an American truck. Especially a General Motors truck. Especially an American-rescued General Motors truck. Especially a 2005 GMC Canyon truck — that’s a pretty hardcore American truck — made by a company with problems to its core American truck-maker GM.
Brown’s fair game; his truck isn’t. And for this president with an incredible tin ear, this very line of attack tells you all you need to know about a leader who can’t even distinguish between the two.
I frankly think it’s his arugula thing all over again. Remember that one during the campaign? He’s talking to a bunch of union folks about the soaring price of everything, says he feels their pain at what’s been happening at the grocery store. And just when I think he’s going to start bemoaning paying more cash for corn flakes, he goes on about forking over more green for arugula — off the charts. And I’m thinking to myself: “Self, this guy’s off his rocker.”
Never mind I’ve since come to discover that arugula is an important veggie staple. It stapled an image in my mind: This guy’s mind is somewhere else.
Arugula matters. GM trucks do not. Bad form, big guy.
It doesn’t prove Scott’s out of touch. It only confirmed you are.
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In the video ad above, Scott Brown smacks Obama’s snide comment about Brown’s political ads and his truck ownership, that “everybody can buy a truck.”