Americablog has more on Ford Motor Company caving to right-wing Christian hate groups.

Former senior Bush White House officials negotiated anti-gay deal for Ford

The two Ford execs who sat down with the extremist gay-hating organization to work out the secret deal, who do you think they were? Why, two former senior Bush administration officials. Aren’t things getting interesting.

And with the New York Times and CNN covering the story, Ford is attempting to lie it’s way out of this mess. From the New York Times:

Ford Motor Co. said on Tuesday that its luxury Jaguar and Land Rover brands will no longer advertise in gay publications, but denied that the nation’s second largest automaker made the decision under pressure from conservative Christian groups.

”The decisions with regard to advertising was a business decision,” Ford spokesman Mike Moran said. He said Ford’s Volvo brand would continue advertising in gay publications. Ford hasn’t advertised its Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands in those publications, Moran added.

But John Aravosis at Americablog isn’t having it—he busts Ford on its lies and the New York Times for taking them at face value:

…three different credible witnesses, two of whom are credible journalists, have Ford on the record admitting not only that they caved to pressure from extremist gay-hating groups, but in one conversation Ford admitting to having reached a “formal settlement” with the gay-haters. That’s extremely troubling since it now leaves us wondering what other anti-gay actions has Ford agreed to in its secret agreement with the anti-gay bigots?