Here's the loopy lede [emphasis added]:
The Obama administration has declared the wildly popular 'Cash for Clunkers' program a success, saying it has revived the country's ailing auto industry and taken polluting vehicles off the road.
But the data shows that the program, which ends Monday, has apparently benefited foreign automakers more than their U.S. counterparts.
This is dumb on so many levels. Foxnews.com is clearly trying to suggest that Obama's “Cash for Clunkers” program was supposed to boost American car companies. (Hint: it was not.) But uh-oh! Toyota and Honda and others enjoyed a “Cash for Clunkers” sales boost. “Foreign automakers” are making out like bandits! “Cash for Clunkers” was lining the pockets of foreign automakers.
Thwack! (Sound of palm hitting forehead.)
In case Foxnews.com isn't aware, “foreign automakers” such as Toyota, and Honda, and Acura, and Nissan, and Hyundai all make cars in America. (Y'know, by employing American workers.) So the whole buy-American angle implied throughout the article is lamely out of date.