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Clint Eastwood's Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: The Untold Obama Connection
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ^ | February 7 2012 | Tina Daunt

Posted on 02/08/2012 8:01:00 AM PST by Para-Ord.45

Two members of the creative team that produced the two-minute minute spot for ad agency Wieden+Kennedy donated their personal time in 2008 to make pro-Obama art.

In the days ahead, similar politically charged queries also are likely to be raised about the highly regarded Portland Oregon-based ad agency that produced the spot—Wieden+Kennedy, some of whose key creative professionals privately supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election.

Eastwood was the surprise narrator of the spot that aired during Sunday’s NFL title game, one which both Republican and Democratic politicos have characterized as subtly echoing some of the incumbent president’s major reelection campaign themes.

In an appearance on Fox News Monday, GOP political strategist Karl Rove charged that, “The leadership of the auto companies feel they need to do something to repay their political patronage. 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.”

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1 posted on 02/08/2012 8:01:08 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45

A valentine to Barry from Chrysler/Fiat.


2 posted on 02/08/2012 8:06:11 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (So just where does the "buck stop" at the Department of "Justice"?)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Hardly a shock.
Baraq got 57% of the popular vote in Oregon.


3 posted on 02/08/2012 8:12:49 AM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: Para-Ord.45

It was a well done and subtle piece of propaganda as ever was produced. I couldn’t help watching it and thinking wistfully if only it was true. It should be studied in the future by all who wish to prop up failing regimes.


4 posted on 02/08/2012 8:23:38 AM PST by dog breath
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To: Para-Ord.45

The Democrats are going to count every day a Soldier is in combat, but they just shovel hard-earned taxpayer dollars over to their UAW buddies. Next time a Democrat talks bipartisanship, laugh in their face.


5 posted on 02/08/2012 8:24:00 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Para-Ord.45

This will backfire on Chrysler. (But, I quit buying their crappy junk years ago.)


6 posted on 02/08/2012 8:25:37 AM PST by no dems (I'm more concerned with America's future than I am Newt's past.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
When I first heard the ad, I assumed the “halftime” was referring to Obama’s unfinished American makeover needing another term. In my opinion, it WAS a political ad disguised as a car ad.

I think Eastwood got played.

7 posted on 02/08/2012 8:26:07 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: Para-Ord.45

Dear Clint; hop on your scooterchair and ride off into the sunset.


8 posted on 02/08/2012 8:26:18 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: dog breath

Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apN5VgQ_FcM


9 posted on 02/08/2012 8:26:39 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: blueunicorn6

Note how the media has not said a word about Obama reducing hazard pay for our troops and neither has Boehner or McConnell.


10 posted on 02/08/2012 8:27:36 AM PST by anoldafvet
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To: Para-Ord.45
Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) seems to have morphed into the slimy persona he portrays to despise. Certainly he didn't do that commercial because he needed the money.
11 posted on 02/08/2012 8:31:31 AM PST by drypowder
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I didn’t like the ad, but perhaps I was analyzing it from too-deep a perspective. It it obviously a brilliantly conceived ad, regardless of one’s opinion, because it’s being talked about so extensively. The negative aspects (which I saw in the foreground ahead of the potentially redeeming aspects) weren’t “in your face” so bad.

Superficially, there’s nothing wrong with the ad: “Pull together, we’ll get through this, we’ve done it before and we’ll do it this time”.

Of course, there are multiple levels of hipocracy:

The idea that tax dollars are paying for a propaganda piece.

The other times we pulled out of it, it wasn’t a creditor-crushing gvmt bailout that did the deed, in fact, the last time the gvmt intervened, arguably the bad times lasted a hell of a lot longer than they had to.

One might also say that the injection of political or politically-themed material in the midst of the Super Bowl isn’t exactly what folks tuned in for.

But the part that really galled me was the line that “both teams are in their locker rooms plotting how they are going to win....[in the second half]”

OK, so these “teams”, each one is by definiton plotting to have the other team lose. And yet, there is this conflation of “America must win, will win, always does win”. So if I buy the analogy, there must be one team that is plotting for America to lose and the other team plotting for America to win. The question is, does this imagery, by not identifying which team is which, say “stop the competition and cooperate” meaning “call off the game”? Or does the ad say “we’ve gotten through these things before, let’s return to the principles and/or values that worked before, which is much more a Clint Eastwood-type message. I don’t know the answer but the defect in this analogy kind of invalidated the whole thing, at least for me. YMMV.

On balance, I’m still not enamored with the ad. It left me uncomforatble, perhaps that was the aim. I think it was well done, but for the most part I think Clint Eastwood could read a Chinese menu and turn in a dramatic performance.


12 posted on 02/08/2012 8:49:03 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (The only economic certainty: When it all blows up, Krugman will say we didn't spend enough.)
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Eastwood was a republican. Did he buy into obamas charisma or what?


13 posted on 02/08/2012 8:51:12 AM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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To: dog breath

Government Motors


14 posted on 02/08/2012 8:52:04 AM PST by rxtn41
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To: Para-Ord.45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQo8p92iPk&feature=player_embedded

This is an unlisted Utube video.


15 posted on 02/08/2012 8:59:45 AM PST by matthew fuller (Obama has definitely earned a second term- 99 years in Leavenworth USP.)
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To: rxtn41

A couple days ago O was trying to use “America is at half time” for his own demonic purposes. On Beck earlier, a fellow mentioned “America is at halftime and we are down 13 Trillion”. Sounds more like it.


16 posted on 02/08/2012 9:02:28 AM PST by libertyhoundusnr
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To: Para-Ord.45

DoD should hire these guys to run the Psy-Ops program in Afghanistan. I was totally taken in and never equated anything beyond a need for the Nation to get its act together before it’s too late. I knew Eastwood’s conservative background so accepted it for what it was worth. Guess I was wrong.


17 posted on 02/08/2012 9:04:30 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: Para-Ord.45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_8qCbHsUA&feature=player_embedded


18 posted on 02/08/2012 9:12:36 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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http://wjr.com/FlashPlayer/default.asp?SPID=34612&ID=2388908

Fiat/Chrysler CEO Marchionne, start listening at about 4:07 - actually makes conservative, “American values” statements.


19 posted on 02/08/2012 9:13:00 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet ( I AM THE TEA PARTY LEADER !)
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To: nascarnation

....and Portland, with it’s gay Mayor, probably voted Baraq 97%!


20 posted on 02/08/2012 9:18:35 AM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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