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March 30, 2009

Road Kill

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Of course, Gov. Granholm was referring to the company, not the CEO, in this demonstration at GM’s Detroit auto show press preview in January. Still, the irony is inescapable in this game show-like photo as the administration gives Wagoner the boot today.

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(image: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images. North American International Auto Show. Cobo Center January 11, 2009 in Detroit, Michigan)

  • http://ruinsofempire.blogspot.com/ Rafael

    Ouch!

  • DanM

    I don’t know if Wagoner has some sort of arthritic or muscular problem, but between the self-conscious way he’s holding his hands, the bit of a leftsided stoop toward the much shorter and more animated woman (literally trying to fit into the picture?) and what I can only see as a forced grin, he looks purely uncomfortable.