Akerson, of course, had Queen Mary in tow on his slow-motion, hackneyed victory lap of sorts at the show on Tuesday (today is the Unctuous Prick’s Last Day, by the way) because, in case you’ve forgotten, Akerson’s three-pronged (count ‘em) legacy that’s being crafted as you read this by his Chief Apologist/PR Bag Man Selim Bingol consists of the following: 1. Dan Akerson alone saved General Motors from itself. Nobody else. Not the True Believers in Design. Not the True Believers in Engineering. Not the True Believers in Product Development. It was Dan Akerson alone who saved GM and don’t you ever forget it. 2. He’s the Greatest GM CEO Of All Time, period. And 3. He’s the brilliant visionary who was singularly responsible for promoting a woman to be the first CEO of a car company. Not that she’s eminently qualified, of course, that’s beside the point, in fact. Mary Barra is as qualified to be CEO of GM as “Amway Bob” Ferguson – GM’s ex lobbyist - is to be running Cadillac. In Akerson’s twisted little mind it all made perfect sense, and he gleefully applied the same warped logic to both decisions in a malicious display of condescension the likes of which we’ll never see again. He did it, therefore he’s The Man. That’s all we need to know, right? Right. Good riddance, Dan, and have fun regaling your D.C. cronies on how you alone saved GM. Your sheer, unmitigated loathsomeness will not soon be forgotten.
