Oh, Jack Baruth you naughty boy. Don't you know that if you don't say exactly what the auto PR people want and do EXACTLY as they say, you'll NEVER be invited on their trips?
You're never going to get anywhere in this business
Oh wait, you already know that and could give a shit because of your Joe Namath complex.
You were the first auto press guy to wear white shoes on the track and use lines like "I gotta be me", "I can't wait until tomorrow cause I get better looking everyday" and "I like my women blond and my Johnny Leiberman Walker Red".
And they all fit your MO to a 'T'.
Wait, I could be describing myself here.
Maybe THAT'S why I like the way you roll as 'Crazy Eddie' as you are.
All that is cool but somewhere on the way to the program, you've become the most entertaining auto writer in the biz.
Take that Frank Bacon and Dan Neil.
Who knows, pretty girls in Ohio may be even slapping I HEART Baruth bumper stickers on their vehicles as I speak.
Crap, if we had one we'd have one on ours too.
Keep up the great work and remember, whatever the auto press people tell you do, be George Costanza and do the OPPOSITE.
And don't you go changing!
Check out a sample of his latest work sending smoke signals across the net as we speak!
"the Cherokee name is not copyrighted, and the tribe has been offered no royalties for the use of the name. “We have encouraged and applauded schools and universities for dropping offensive mascots,” she said, but stopped short of condemning the revived Jeep Cherokee because, “institutionally, the tribe does not have a stance on this.”
In other words: We don’t care about it, you old white man, and we think your time would be better spent agonizing about truffles or font choice. The Cherokee Nation itself is busy participating in disaster relief and improving tribal access to healthcare.
Mr. Collins must have been absolutely shocked that the people he calls “American Indians” are unwilling to drop everything and march on Toledo (a name that, I must add, was stolen from the Spaniards) to protest Jeep’s newest trucklet. I wonder if he saw himself as a potential leader of the movement, standing hand-in-hand with the American Indian girl from “Banshee” (who is really a Cuban-American) and the Crying Indian (who was just a regular white guy in real life)."
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