Sudden Acceleration of Washington Falsehoods (National Review, 03.05.10)

Posted by hpayne on March 5, 2010

Detroit — Overwrought, tort-fed accusations of automakers designing “killing machines” have historically been based on half-baked, even fraudulent, manipulations of data. When Audi was accused of making runaway cars in the 1980s, 60 Minutes doctored accelerator pedals. In 1993 NBC used hidden rockets strapped to the bottom of GM trucks to make them explode to “prove” GM’s side-saddle gas tank design was unsafe.

Now the other shoe is dropping in the Toyota “sudden acceleration” case.

Turns out that House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D., NY) falsely represented “smoking gun” legal documents alleging Toyota deliberately withheld documents that proved it was guilty. . . .

Read full article here.

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