Obama's GM made limo

GM gets its bailout — sort of

President-elect Barack Obama’s new ride has arrived — and it’s a hybrid.

A new model of a presidential limousine made by General Motors Corp. has been delivered to the Secret Service. The armored 2009 Cadillac Presidential Limousine will make its debut at Obama’s inauguration.

Older-model “gas hog” presidential limos will remain in use, including a modified Cadillac DTS introduced at President George W. Bush’s 2005 inauguration.

The Buzz says if GM can only sell about 1 million more presidential limos, it just might make it.

Speaking of bailouts …

If banks, mortgage companies and auto manufacturers can get a bailout, why not companies that provide adult entertainment?

At least that’s what Larry Flynt wants to know. Flynt, publisher of Hustler, and Joe Francis of “Girls Gone Wild” fame petitioned Congress this week to provide a financial bailout for the $13 billion-a-year adult-entertainment industry.

They’re seeking $5 billion in federal assistance, “just to see us through hard times,” Francis said.

The other side of the story

Former U.S. attorney general Alberto Gonzales, who resigned last year amid congressional investigations, is working on a book to tell his side of the story of the demise of the highest-ranking Hispanic in the history of the federal government.

“This is not about writing a best seller,” Gonzales said, insisting the book would be a success if read only by his sons, now 13 and 16.

“I think there is so much misinformation out there,” he explained, “not just about me but about the Bush administration and what we were about.”

Another false alarm

An investigation into a suspicious vehicle in northwest Washington shut down streets for about an hour earlier this week.

Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren said bomb-sniffing dogs alerted officials to the vehicle, which was going through a checkpoint to access the building that houses Obama’s transition team.

Authorities determined the driver was authorized to be in the area and that the vehicle posed no security risk.

The Buzz says it was George W. Bush moving those WMDs to another “secret” location.

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