New GM head: ?I don?t know anything about cars?

So says Edward E. Whitacre Jr., the new chairman of General Motors Corporation. What qualifies Mr. Whitacre for the position, then?

?A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I?m not that old [he’s 67], and I think the business principles are the same.”

Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reasons,

“What was required was somebody with savvy, big-business experience that could take a company, change its management culture, make some of those tough decisions to put it on that path toward viability.”

Then why not hire Larry Flint to run GM?

According to Wikipedia, Flint is not that old either [he’s 66] and his porno empire rakes in around $300 million a year. That proves that Flint has the “savvy, big-business experience” required to “take a company, change its management culture, make some of those tough decisions to put it on that path toward viability.”