Conservatives are lining up to take shots at another Hollywood celebrity. But this time it is movie icon (and Republican) Clint Eastwood for his role in Chrysler’s “Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad below. In our previous discussion of the best commercials many people picked the ad and I put it in the top four. Frankly, as a Cowboy film nut and Eastwood fan, I loved it. Eastwood, however, was left unforgiven by that paragon of good politics: Karl Rove. Rove (who runs a huge Super PAC and pumps millions into campaigns from undisclosed contributions) denounced the commercial as
“corporate advertising” of the worst kind . . . in other words, corporate money that could be viewed as supporting President Obama. Ironically, Eastwood was a critic of the bailout, but the segment praises American workers not federal bailouts.
Rove lashed out at the commercial yesterday: “I was, frankly, offended by it. I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the president of the United States and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising.”
I can hardly improve on that statement, so I won’t.
Rove however may have gotten lost in the excitement. I suggest he watch this clip before giving another interview:
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To say Clint even remotely endorses Obama is a stretch at best. Though, it might have been more appropriate for Clint to reference Mr. Rove by using a quote from “High Plains Drifter”, where Clint tells the sheriff to “Slap the cuffs right on him”. Anyway, Clint would probably be more inclined to endorse Mr. Ron Paul than any of these other anti- American, anti- Constitution candidates the media keeps cramming down our throats. Check out “America Freedom To Fascism”, on You Tube.
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Blouise,
They do want the economy to fail. Just like they want Obama to fail. Fortunately, they bet on the wrong horse(s).
Such foolishness. Chrysler’s Imported from Detroit and GM’s Chevy Runs Deep have been hugely successful ad campaigns to … wait for it … SELL CARS.
Last year GM amassed 46,117,176 total online views of their Super Bowl commercials. This year they have hopes of doubling that number for Super Bowl XLVI.
I don’t know why Republicans are so pissed off at American Auto for trying to sell cars … one would think they’d like to see the industry fail.
Does Karl really need another reason to go on Fox News?
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You go, Clint. Now that’s a half-time speech!
It is really sad that Mr. Rove just can’t understand why the facts just keep getting stacked against him! Great links Elaine.
Karl Rove Wants His Message Back
By Jonathan Cohn
February 7, 2012
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/100465/karl-rove-chrysler-ad-clint-eastwood-obama-detroit-bailout
Excerpt:
As a friend of mine* once said, quotes from Karl Rove aren’t important for what they say. They are important for what they reveal. Rove’s statements about Sunday’s Super Bowl ad from Chrysler are a case in point.
By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about the ad, which Chrysler calls “Halftime in America.” It stars Clint Eastwood, narrating the story of Detroit’s comeback and turning it into a metaphor for America. The message happens to dovetail with the story that President Obama has been telling, about his rescue of the auto industry and the country’s slow climb out of economic despair.
During a Fox News appearance on Monday morning, Rove suggested the similarities were not coincidental:
I was, frankly, offended by it. … it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the president of the United States and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising.
I have no idea whether Rove really believes Chrysler produced that ad in order to do President Obama a political favor. But the fact that he and other Republicans are so worked up could mean that they are scared – not of the advertisement itself, but of the themes it contains.
Those themes are optimism and national pride. As Salon’s Joan Walsh noted on the Ed Show Monday evening, Republicans have basically owned those themes since the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan won an election with them. But lately President Obama has been the one making the case that it’s morning in America or, at least, just before dawn. He did it in the State of the Union and he’s done it in a series of major speeches since.
Uh-oh, It’s Morning in America
By Paul Krugman
2/7/12
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/uh-oh-its-morning-in-america/
Excerpt:
Nobody does hissy fits like Karl Rove; the master of hardball, dirty-trick politics is constantly outraged, outraged, at his opponents’ underhanded tactics. And the latest hissy-target is the Chrysler ad during the Super Bowl, starring Clint Eastwood.
Jon Cohn gets it: it’s actually a double-edged problem for the Republicans. They hate any reminder that they were dead wrong on the auto bailout; and they hate any thought that the Democrats are becoming the party of optimism. Hey, only Republicans are allowed to celebrate American success!
Talkin Dog:
” As a Democrat, please let him keep talking.”
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I had no idea that canines were politically active. Any word on the political affiliation of your arch-rivals, the cats?
From a four legged point of view I never trust a fat head whose parents named him Carl but employed the K instead of the C. And with last name Rove I beat he never lets a dog roam. As a Democrat, please let him keep talking. When they say that Obama should not have bailed out the auto industry they forget that the RepubliCons started that. So, they just lost Michigan, which is one of Willard’s Romney’s home states. Rove is in fact an expert in socializing losses and privatizing gains. He just hates to see an auto worker from the assembly line keep a job rather than a bank buddy keep his job, his bonus and his golf club membership. Soon he will have his Bonus Army march on Washington for their bonuses. Rove’s boy Speaker Boner will be there to accomodate. And as to Boehner, Boner, however you spell it, never trust a politician who would steal a dog’s bone.
There, I have ranted just like Herr Karl.