{"id":1506,"date":"2012-03-28T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2012-03-28T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:49:58","slug":"fox-news-debunks-right-wing-lies-about-chevy-volt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/fox-news-debunks-right-wing-lies-about-chevy-volt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Debunks Right-Wing Lies About Chevy Volt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives, led by Fox News, have been pushing a variety of lies about the Chevy Volt. They\u2019ve falsely asserted that it is unsafe and a creation of the Obama administration, using absurd terms\u00a0to discourage sales like, \u201cexploding Obamamobiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0relentless partisan campaign against American products and American jobs has been so successful that GM CEO Dan Akerson\u00a0suggested it contributed to lower than expected demand, \u201cWe did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that\u2019s what it\u2019s become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in an astonishing burst of candor, Fox &amp; Friends has set the record straight with its story, \u201cCan the Chevy Volt help win the War on Terror?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their conservative\u00a0guest, Lee Spieckerman, CEO of Spieckerman Media,\u00a0a self-described \u201cdrill, baby, drill guy,\u201d debunks every single right-wing myth about the Volt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/03\/27\/451932\/fox-news-debunks-right-wing-lies-about-chevy-volt-anti-terrorist-weapon-safest-car-on-the-road\/\">Fox News Debunks Right-Wing Lies About Chevy Volt: It&#8217;s &#8216;An Anti-Terrorist Weapon&#8217; And &#8216;The Safest Car On The Road&#8217; | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives, led by Fox News, have been pushing a variety of lies about the Chevy Volt. They\u2019ve falsely asserted that it is unsafe and a creation of the Obama administration, using absurd terms\u00a0to discourage sales like, \u201cexploding Obamamobiles.\u201d This\u00a0relentless partisan campaign against American products and American jobs has been so successful that GM CEO Dan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[986,985,365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}