{"id":10189,"date":"2009-12-04T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2009-12-04T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:12:20","slug":"open-mouth-insert-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10189","title":{"rendered":"OPEN MOUTH, INSERT FOOT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/12\/04\/autos\/gm_management_changes\/index.htm\">&#8220;reassigned&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; In a management shake-up Friday, General Motors acting chief executive Ed Whitacre pulled long-time auto executive Bob Lutz out of his role as head of marketing, putting him in a new role as an advisor on global design and product development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have absolutely no evidence that this move was related to Lutz&#8217; call for the federal gov&#8217;t to increase gasoline taxes, but if I were CEO I think I&#8217;d want my head of marketing to have some sense of the market.  Calling for the feds to raise gasoline taxes in a terrible economy just so GM can sell more cars is just plain stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be &#8220;reassigned&#8221; NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; In a management shake-up Friday, General Motors acting chief executive Ed Whitacre pulled long-time auto executive Bob Lutz out of his role as head of marketing, putting him in a new role as an advisor on global design and product development. I have absolutely no evidence that this move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10190,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}