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Mitsubishi boss labels French minister a "retard" for "ruining the lives of motorists"
"Frustrated by Montebourg's attempts to encourage the purchase of lower emitting vehicles and discourage use of high-emission vehicles – by way of tax breaks and tax hikes, respectively – Debard reportedly used the occasion of a new product launch to call the minister "stupid," a "mental case" and a "retard" before members of the media. Here's the full quote, as reported by the French newspaper La Provence by way of The Telegraph:"
This mental case, this retard, increases ecological taxes, reduces the speed motorists can go on Paris' ring road and ruins the life of motorists from all social origins all suffer as a result of him. He is stupid and understands nothing, you can quote me on that.
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/25/mitsubishi-boss-labels-french-minister-a-retard-for-ruining-t/
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Like a lot of the other wtf-moments from our election season here in the US: The whole pitch of Conservatism is that they're the Serious Rational Ones. The Captains Of Industry. The Smartest People In The Room.
But when you scratch the surface of any one of them it's all just a barely-concealed seething ball of anger and bullying.
Lately, I feel like the entire conservative movement is having their Colonel Jessup moment.
