Frugal Café Blog Zone

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 24, 2010

Army National Guard Lt. Col. Scott Brown campaigning, as seen from the front seat of Brown's pickup truck

The truck of Scott Brown’s that Pres. Barack Obama inelegantly, arrogantly dissed during his “Help Martha” speech in Massachusetts has become an iconic celebrity of sorts these days. “The Little Old Truck That Could” owned by Senate-elect Scott Brown is pushing up truck sales during this never-ending economic recession, a blessing for the Massachusetts auto industry.

Priceless. Thanks, Barack.

Massachusetts Senate-elect Scott Brown and his old truck

Reported by Politico, Brown boosts truck sales:

Another unintentional outcome of Republican Scott Brown’s Massachusetts win—an uptick in GMC truck sales.

The Boston Globe reports that Bay State auto dealers are seeing an increased interest in pickup trucks like the one belonging to the newly-elected senator.

Brown’s truck became an iconic image of his campaign, first used as the centerpiece of one of his first ads. During President Obama’s visit in the waning days of the race, both he and Democrat Martha Coakley took shots at the everyman image Brown honed using his pickup.

“We’ve gotten eight to 12 phone calls from people asking, ‘Do you sell trucks like that?” Attleboro GMC dealer Al Cerrone told the Globe. “It prompted inquiries, and when you’ve got inquiries, you’ve always got sales.”

The Globe notes the newfound interest in pickup trucks could be a boon to the state’s auto industry. Like dealers across the country, GM dealerships in the state were already struggling, with nearly half of Massachusetts’s 98 GM dealerships slated to close last year.

'I love my old truck'... Scott Brown in his beloved, now-famous truck that Pres. Obama dissed during the MA Senate race

Scott Brown’s Truck Going to Washington

Excellent observations on Brown’s truck and Obama’s comment from Mark Steyn, OC Register: Brown’s truckin’, Obama shifts into reverse:

The defining moment of his doomed attempt to prop up Martha Coakley was his peculiar obsession with Scott Brown’s five-year-old pickup:

“Forget the ads. Everybody can run slick ads,” the president told an audience of out-of-state students at a private school. “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”

How they laughed! But what was striking was the thinking behind Obama’s line: that anyone can buy a truck for a slick ad, that Brown’s pickup was a prop – like the herd of cows Al Gore rented for a pastoral backdrop when he launched his first presidential campaign. Or the “Iron Chef” TV episode featuring delicious healthy recipes made with produce direct from Michelle Obama’s “kitchen garden”: The cameras filmed the various chefs meeting the first lady and then picking choice organic delicacies from the White House crop, and then, for the actual cooking, the show sent out for stunt-double vegetables from a grocery back in New York. Viewed from Obama’s perspective, why wouldn’t you assume the truck’s just part of the set? “In his world,” wrote The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes, “everything is political, and everything is about appearances.”

Howard Fineman, the increasingly loopy editor of the increasingly doomed Newsweek, took it a step further. The truck wasn’t just any old prop but a very particular kind: “In some places, there are codes, there are images,” he told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. “You know, there are pickup trucks, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.”

Ah, yes. Scott Brown has over 200,000 miles on his odometer. Man, he’s racked up a lot of coded racism on that rig. But that’s easy to do in notorious cross-burning KKK swamps like suburban Massachusetts.

Whenever aspiring writers ask me for advice, I usually tell ‘em this:

Don’t just write there, do something. Learn how to shingle a roof, or tap-dance, or raise sled dogs. Because if you don’t do anything, you wind up like Obama and Fineman – men for whom words are props and codes and metaphors but no longer expressive of anything real.

America is becoming a bilingual society, divided between those who think a pickup is a rugged vehicle useful for transporting heavy-duty items from A to B, and those who think a pickup is coded racism.

Unfortunately, the latter group forms most of the Democratic-media one-party state currently running the country. Can you imagine Bill Clinton being so stupid as to put down pickup trucks while standing next to John Kerry? And what’s even more extraordinary is that those lines were written for Obama by paid professionals.

Related reading:
Jim Hoft, Big Government: Barack Obama Slams Scott Brown and His Truck… It’s a GM Truck
Nice Deb: BDS Meets PDS: John Kerry Combines Bush Derangement With Pick-Up Truck Derangement and Ann Coulter On The Dem Smackdown In MA
Wake Up Black America: Gas up that truck Scott Brown, you’re going to Washington!
Gateway Pundit: With Scott Brown America Chose the Pickup Truck Over the Prius and Sarah Palin on Mass Senate Race: Here’s Hoping Mr. Brown Goes to Washington… In a Pick-Up Truck, No Less! and Like Obama, James Carville Blames Bush For Coakley Loss and Obama on Scott Brown’s Win: “I Have to Admit, We Ran Into a Buzz Saw This Week” (Video) and Robert Gibbs on Scott Brown’s Win: “More People Voted to Express Support for Barack Obama Than to Oppose Him” (Video) and Scott Brown, a Protestant, Holds Special Relationship With Local Cistercian Nuns and He’s Got That Midas Touch… Obama Makes It 0 and 3 With Coakley (Video) and Pathetic. Coakley Says She Was Joking About Curt Schilling Being a Yankee Fan
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Priceless: Scott Brown’s Truck Ownership Dissed by Obama, Brown Hits Back… Brown Rules on Twitter & YouTube (video) and Crazzzy Merry-Go-Round: Op-Ed Cartoons on Scott Brown, Martha Coakley, Democrats, & Massachusetts Senate Race and Limbaugh on Scott Brown & Massachusetts Election, on Doomed ObamaCare, on Democrat Politicians Running Scared
Dancing Czars: Obama falls short and behind the guy in his pick-up and Dems Assemble Circular Firing Squad Over Coakley Loss; Freedom Left Intact
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Massachusetts Is The Mob and Bloggers In Pajamas Scooped Again By Big Media:
Tarheel Pundit: My Prius Is Voting for Scott Brown!
Kevin Mooney, The American Spectator: Steve Forbes Sees Parallel Between 1930s Depression and Obama Union Favortism
Mcnorman’s Weblog: The Perils of Poor Judgment: A Rude Awakening
Michelle Malkin: The Left’s Palinization of the Brown family and The Democrats’ Massachusetts meltdown and Pre-Jan. 19 Obama: Scott Brown is an ogre. Post-Jan. 19 Obama: Hey, Scott Brown’s just like me!

Categories: Business & Economy, Government, Media & Communication, Social and Political Climate
Tags: Democrat, economic recession, election, GM truck, GMC, GMC truck, MA attorney general, MA election, MA special election, Marcia Coakley, Martha Coakley, Mass election, Massachusetts, Massachusetts election, Obama Brown truck, pickup truck, political, political ad, politics, POTUS, Republican, Scott Brown, Scott Brown polls, Scott Brown truck, Scott Brown win, Scott Brown wins, Scott Brown's truck, Senate race, special election, truck, truck ownership, truck sales, video, Washington DC, White House, YouTube