Given the outsourcing, the massive bailout, the abandoned houses and the rest of the city’s emotional baggage, it was sort of inevitable that Chrysler’s “Imported from Detroit” ad, featuring Eminem and spanning roughly $12 million worth of airtime, would elicit cheers and jeers from Congress.

Rep. Dennis Ross summed up one point of view: ” ‘Imported from Detroit’ … ‘borrowed from China.’ “

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