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December 3, 2008

"That's just not us"

tiger-woods-with-buick-resized While General Motors is making its case in Congress for an $18 billion bailout (didn't GM need "just" $12 billion last week?), it's trying to cut corners in other areas, such as its endorsement deal with Tiger Woods that paid Woods $7 million annually over the past nine years.

As one sage headline writer put it -- "GM lays off Tiger Woods."

But Conan O'Brien had an even better crack about GM's termination of its relationship with Woods during one of his monologues last week:

"General Motors announced that they are ending their endorsement deal with Tiger Woods. When asked why, a spokesperson for General Motors said: 'Tiger Woods is successful, competitive, and popular. And that’s just not us.'”

Posted by Tom at December 3, 2008 12:01 AM

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