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November 13, 2009

The Ed Watch — #1: Cool Equipment

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Who’s Ed Montgomery, you ask?

He’s Obama Ambassador to Detroit, otherwise known as the Executive Director of the White House Council on Auto Communities and Workers … and a one-man spin machine.

In this first installment of the Ed Watch, we see Ed listening to a question from a reporter after a press conference at Detroit Edison on October 29th. Ed was there to highlight an $83 million government award to Detroit Edison’s smart energy grid program.

We’re bringing you the picture because the economy is in trouble, we’ve got some serious problems with global warming and the economy in the Great Lakes region, Ed looks great, and that’s some cool-looking equipment behind him.

(photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images. October 29, 2009 in Detroit, MIchigan)

  • http://blogs.salon.com/0003935/theRanticore Julia Grey

    Many older men’s hair turns gray while their eyebrows do not (think Sam Waterston and Sean Connery). On this guy, it’s the other way around, hair stays black and eyebrows go gray. To me it looks…odd.
    The equipment we see in the background looks like the stuff that hangs off the extremely tall high tension wires around here.
    That’s all I got.

  • bernini

    I love the “Lost In Space” robot in the background!

  • Aurora

    That’s what I thought.

  • tinwoman

    Hair dye in the name of vanity. But for some reason he doesn’t do the brows. Weird.
    I too thought of Robbie from “Lost in Space”.