Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck took swipes at Detroit on Monday, comparing the city to Hiroshima and bashing unions and the automotive bailout.
"Bad policies and union deals helped rot this city from the core," he said during a segment called "Hiroshima vs. Detroit: Which City Embraced the American Dream?" on his Fox News program.
Showing pictures of Hiroshima destroyed by an atomic bomb and decay in Detroit, Beck pointed out that Hiroshima today is a thriving metropolis and much of Detroit is in ruin.
"One city embraced the free market system and the entrepreneurial spirit," Beck said. "The other embraced progressive policies and corrupt government and unions and companies that weren't allowed to fail. And they should have failed because they stunk on ice."
Beck didn't mention that Ford did not take money from President George W. Bush's automotive bailout package.
"Oh you can blame Ford and GM, their bad corporate polices," Beck said. "And those policies because of the progressives weren't allowed to reset. Nobody allowed them to fail."
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Glenn Beck Compares Detroit to Hiroshima
March 1, 2011
Tammy Stables Battaglia
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