JOSSIP REPORTS — Yesterday we reported American Media's CEO David Pecker — owner of such things called Star, The National Enquirer, and The Globe — was sending out company-wide memos encouraging his employees to write into Congress on behalf of an automotive bailout bill to save the Big Three (Ford, Chrysler, and GM) from financial bankruptcy.

Which is a great sentiment, except according to a tipster, Pecker has never owned an American car in his life: "Bentleys? Yes. Porsches? Yes. BMWs? Definitely. But he has never, to my knowledge, ever sat behind the wheel of an American automobile."

So why is Pecker so gung-ho about saving Detroit?

Says our spy, who admitted to a touch of schadenfreude glee at the thought of the "car nut" being exposed as a overseas auto snob, the only reason Pecker wants his employees' signatures is so Congress will give more money to the car companies, which can then go on and spend that money advertising in his magazines, which will keep Star editor Candace Trunzo from putting out a magazine as thin as the anorexic beach bodies on her cover.

Well it's a brilliant lobbying effort, if you ask us. Mr. Pecker is a registered lobbyist, right?