There has been a firestorm of derision poured onto the obviously partisan piece of propaganda called a Chrysler Advertisement which played during the halftime show of the Super Bowl. When Clint Eastwood rubbed his tired eyes on Monday Morning, he probably did not expect the harsh criticism that he received in the press, on television and on talk radio shows across the fruited plains. I have heard people defend him, and others roast him. Put me in the camp of the former, but my defense of Mr. Eastwood will not exactly leave him with a warm and fuzzy feeling towards me, if he by any chance actually reads this.
Some of the defenses of Mr. Eastwood have been based on the idea that he is one of the only show business stars who is more to the right than left on most issues. To this I say so what. One of the distinctions between conservatives and liberals is that we on the right will not sacrifice our convictions in order to circle the wagons around someone who is clearly wrong. The liberals on the other hand, they’ll defend their own vehemently, no matter what the crime, nor how egregiously it was violated. We’ll hear vitriolic stories about how America is broken because we would even have the temerity to mention the alleged bad behavior in the same breath as those who committed the acts. In the case of this commercial, sorry Clint, it was a piece of political propaganda, start to finish.
I believe that Mr. Eastwood’s defense should be something more like this. His agent got him a gig, which was reputedly to hawk cars supposedly made in America to those of us watching in television land. Clint, being a professional actor, read the copy from the teleprompter with precious little grey matter devoted to the meaning of the words which were flowing so eloquently from his mouth. As an actor, Clint Eastwood was having a, “Ron Burgandy,” moment. The end result of course was a two minute endorsement by Clint Eastwood for Barack Obama.
If you still believe that the commercial was not an Obama Campaign ad, paid for by the shareholders of Chrysler, (which by the way includes all American Taxpayers now,) consider this. The ad agency who produced the Eastwood advertisement is Wieden Kennedy. The ad agency who produced the Obama campaign ads for Barack Obama in 2008 was Wieden Kennedy. The ad agency who has been retained by Obama 2012 is………… Wieden Kennedy. I was getting that Chris Matthews must be getting a tingle up his leg look on my face even before I found this little bit out. I don’t think I was alone either, as by late Sunday evening, my inbox was inundated with emails calling out the man with no name for being a dolt, who allowed himself to be pimped out like some 10 year old kid who’s parents were trying to send him to Michael Jackson’s house for the summer.
As a service to Clint Eastwood, and this advice is free of any charge by the way, wake up and read the copy of the next ad you are asked to read. Fire your agent, he is a partisan Obama hack, and is more than willing to pimp you out without your knowledge. Ask a grown up from now on if you are not able to understand the implications of your gravitas being farmed out. Feel free to do a little research on your own, reading is not a bad thing. Having others read stuff for you can be devastatingly bad.
If your ad is about Detroit, and they feel the need to film it in Los Angelos, there is probably a reason. Take your film crew to Grand River and Gratiot Avenue in Detroit, just see how long the indigenous population allows your film crew to keep their expensive equipment and their lives. You wouldn’t have even made it to the words come back in your spot. Currently in the city of supposed comebacks, there have been bear sightings within the City, because no people wish to live there any longer. If, as your commercial suggested, the bailouts have helped the Motor City out, how is that possible with a sales total of under 10,000 hybrid cars over the last 3 years combined? Keep in mind, that dismal total Mr. Eastwood, includes the massively expensive government subsidies in both the manufacturing and retail points of the process. How exactly does the comeback theme play out with those massive, and by the way, unconstitutional bailouts square with you anyhow? Not exactly the American Spirit of rugged individualism and Yankee ingenuity to take the tax dollars of people in Alabama to bail out a failing S & P 500 company located in Detroit now, is it.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
The Rush Limbaugh version of the Clint Eastwood ad:
I am going with Eastwood was duped, because the alternative
is depressing.
@ RIX:
That’s about where I am. I’m not into star worship by any stretch, but I have been a big Eastwood fan ever since he was Gil Favor’s ramrod.
Typical goofy Newt:
‘I LIKED THE CLINT EASTWOOD HALFTIME AD’
Whiskey-Tango-Fookbar?
@ huckfunn:
Rowdy Yates!
@ huckfunn:
Newt should never speak of anything sports related.
I remember a debate in December when he said he was looking forward to the college basketball championship game.
RIX wrote:
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin….
RIX wrote:
Rowdy Yates – the ramrod to Gil Favor (played by the late Eric Fleming). Eric Fleming died in a drowning accident in Peru in 1966.
Bumr50 wrote:
The worrisome thing about Newt is that one never knows what might come tumbling out of his pie hole. Just like the moon colony. We’re $15T in the red and he’s thinking moon colony. Just goofy.
@ RIX:
I think he was duped. He’s a Libertarian and not an Obama fan.
Clint Eastwood stopped being much of a conservative around the time he finally found acceptance by the Hollywood establishment. He went from Dirty Harry movies to “The Bridges of Madison County” (with Maryl Streep) type of flicks.
Rodan wrote:
Exactly. He is much more of a libertarians then a hard core conservative.
@ huckfunn:
A Moon colony is not goofy. We do start to have to get off this planet. China and Russia are serious about their space programs. If they get space dominance, we are screwed.
@ Speranza:
He just did the ad and didn’t realize it was propaganda.
@ huckfunn:
Moon Base, not colony. There is a huge difference, and I am not at all convinced that it is a bad idea.
Rodan wrote:
Please, if a Democrat said it (moon colonies) we would be doubled over in hysterics. More evidence (as if we needed any) that Newt’s mouth and his brain is often not in sync.
@ Speranza:
Moon Base, not colony. There is a huge difference, and I am not at all convinced that it is a bad idea.
Rodan wrote:
I don’t know about Clint these days. Many think he sold out once he became “respectable” to Hollywood.
@ huckfunn:
@ Rodan:
I do not want to sleep Under The Light Of A Communist Moon!
Clint Eastwood did a huge Valentine to America in the form of his film Gran Torino—a film which grudgingly accepted “multiculturalism” in the melting pot mode, as long as it embraced America; a film which reluctantly, but thoroughly, put its faith in the rule of law; a film which insisted that the mere language of bigotry was nothing more than white noise, and that what mattered was the conduct of a man and the acceptance or rejection of a man on the basis of that conduct.
The film Gran Torino was a followup on, and a continuation of, Eastwood’s much-earlier love note to America Bronco Billy. They are in some ways the same film, though with different action, different characters, different plotlines, and separated by several decades.
I do not doubt Eastwood’s love of America; he has demonstrated it time and again. I am, however, thoroughly convinced that Eastwood was suckered into sleepwalking through a cheap imitation of his own genuine love for this country when he was prevailed upon to do his Superbowl ad.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Gingrich in Bloomington calls for bold ideas, defends moon colony
Flyovercountry wrote:
I rather spend money on a Moon colony, than this stupid war in Afghanistan.
Rodan wrote:
Indeed a moon colony is not goof. What is goofy is that Newt would bring that up while we’re spiraling into socialism and economic oblivian. Moon colony is a great idea… somewhere down the road.
@ Speranza:
If we didn’t spend all this money on wars for Islamic Democracy, we could have had colonies in space.
Speranza wrote:
That would mean beginning the actual feed from the Moon at 11:29:58 to correspond to 11:30:00 Eastern Time! Heh!
To hell with a Moon base. Give me a Moon Pie and some freebase.
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@ huckfunn:
End the stupid Afghan war and you can use that money for Space colonies.
Although, maybe we can send Charles Johnson up to the Moon first?
Flyovercountry wrote:
Base – colony, whatever. In the debate he called it a base. In a clip a few days later he spoke of “lunar colonization”. Good idea; wrong time.
Rodan wrote:
First of all, that’s a freeload, not a payload. Second, have you any idea what it would take to get that gelid mass free of Earth gravity?
huckfunn wrote:
Oops; forgot the link:
@ Speranza:
I heard the original speech, and he very clearly said base. It has been turned into colony by folks having a fun time using it to score cheap political points. The entire thing has become hyperbole. If the idea were so bad to begin with, why the need to change the wording and therefore the meaning. Even in this article which you’ve posted, I can not help but notice that they did not get a quote of Gingrich saying colony, just others continuing to paraphrase him.
all your base are belong to us!
huckfunn wrote:
Rawhde!
every dollar spent on technology to get into space is returned $7 back to gdp over the next 20 years in better tech and products. this is the ONE government program that actually turns a profit
Rodan wrote:
You’ve been watching too many sci-fi flicks.
Rodan wrote:
That’s what I want to beleive, & I see no reason
not to.
@ Rodan:
Just think how it would annoy the koranimals! Infidels living on the moon; they worshiping a moon-god.
Rodan wrote:
He and his loozards are already moonbats.
@ coldwarrior:
That was what I was thinking when I heard of Newt’s proposal.
Flyovercountry wrote:
See my #30 above. Actually, I didn’t see the debate. My initial notion of Newt saying “colony” came from the vid where he speaks of “lunar colonization”.
citizen_q wrote:
if i ran nasa, any time a company used on of my inventions, patents,or processes the nasa logo would have to go on said final product somewhere as a reminder.
if that had occurred, we would not be having this discussion because we would have been reminded over and over again just how much space tech we use every day.
@ coldwarrior:
Good idea!
coldwarrior wrote:
Another point lost on the great laughing masses. Ball point pens for example, courtesy of Nasa.
@ citizen_q:
@ Flyovercountry:
we came up with that idea one night at my friends bar while we were arguing with the ditzy girlfriend of one of our friends. she was complaining about wasting money in space.
she also said this: ‘don’t you think that we have already polluted the earth enough? now you want to pollute space with radiation?”
we were discussing the pros and cons of nuclear reactors on space equipment. she didnt last long in our circle
@ Flyovercountry:
How about medical monitoring equipment? Designed and developed by NASA to keep track of astronauts biosigns while in orbit?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
A whole lot less if we freeze dry Him or just send his brain in a cryogenic container.
@ Prebanned:
Do they make cryogenic containers that small?
Life long Actors Guild Union Member.
If your not paying attention your part of the problem Clint.
Beware of your “Dixie Chick” moment. You might not even get a second chance.
We out here are not the problem, Obama and the commie hate America Democrat Party and their Union Thugs are the problem.
Not knowing the facts is not an excuse.
tfk
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That gaseous blowhard could launch himself from Culver City on his own power.
@ Carolina Girl:
There is a real problem with a Charles Johnson launch.
Sending something that unsightly with such poor hygene
could be viewed as an act of war by ET’s.
@ taxfreekiller:
Also I’m sure Clint has had his hand in a script or two over the years. I don’t give him a pass that he didn’t get the significance of the voiceover. “Halftime in America”? A commercial being delivered at the halfway point of Hussein’s first term. C’mon Clint. Don’t play us for suckers. You did enough of that when you foisted “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” on an unsuspecting public.
@ RIX:
And also justify all those “space pollution” fears from the 70′s.
I was just gifted with a Nook Tablet and have been setting it up. Nifty little gizmo.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Exactly. We just can’t launch Johnson.
Rodan wrote:
Rodan is right.
Actually Newt said he wanted a successful and efficient Private Space Age. What little public funding would be through offering prizes (such as the X-Prize) that already is known to work. “For example, most of the great breakthroughs in aviation were as a result of prizes. [Charles] Lindbergh flew to Paris for a $25,000 prize. I would like to see vastly more of the money spent encouraging the private sector into a very aggressive experimentation“. However, vast sums will be returned to earth by commercializing space, moon mining, … Companies first in space would garner vast profits.
Bill Whittle, as usual, explains it best.
huckfunn wrote:
I have to disagree. A moonbase is indeed goofy. There are no resources on the Moon to exploit and as such any advantage it might be said to have as a staging area is completely offset by the logistics of keeping the base supplied.
Besides that, when one calculates the energy requirements to send something anywhere else besides the Moon, stopping off at the Moon is not in the least bit advantageous.
It’s a great sci-fi genre (I still love ITV’s series “UFO”), but that’s all a Moon colony will ever amount to.
If you want to open up off-world bases, start on Mars. There are resources there that make it possible to eventually build up a colony that can sustain itself not only technically but also economically.
Of course all this is nonsense. A nation that enslaves generations not yet imagined with debt isn’t going anywhere.
Missed this:
Lamar Smith of Texas has called Holder to be under oath Feb. 10.
Tomorrow:
Thought I was up on things.
http://judiciary.house.gov
should find it there.
Ted Poe will have some good questions some say.
I that dam sissy House Speaker will let them go at Holder???
Can not find it there ..
but there is a letter Dated Jan. 31, 2012 that calls Holder.
Well it only says contact the committee by Feb. 10 to schedule interviews.
silly me thinking the R’s would get off their ass’s and do someting
“schedule interviews” wow, bad boys are they not….@ taxfreekiller:
Crusader Rabbit wrote:
A moon base/colony will make sense when we can afford it. Based upon existing exploration, no one can possibly know what resources there are or aren’t present on the moon anymore than Columbus could know about the true riches of the New World when he washed ashore on Hispanola. There will be a base/colony on the moon someday and I sure as hell hope the Stars and Stripes are flying from the flagstaff.
Crusader Rabbit wrote:
Yep!. We have to get our economic house in order before we commit trillions to space.
Crusader Rabbit wrote:
happy reading!
@ Crusader Rabbit:
So let China have the moon then? Americans in 2012 are as short sighted as the Ming Chinese in 1430′s.
History repeats itself.
Fritz Katz wrote:
And then we’ll have the fucking OCCUPY LUNA crowd….
Rodan wrote:
There, fixed that for ya!
@ huckfunn:
We can save money by ending the Afghan war.
@ Macker:
Its not just Liberals. many Conservatives also oppose a serious space program.
This is an American problem and one that as a history buff makes my stomach turn.
@ Macker:
That looks like a penguin wearing a chicken suit.
@ Fritz Katz:
Exactly! A private-public partnership.
Rodan wrote:
I’m all for that. Victory is not in Teh Zer0′s lexicon. If we’re not there to win, bring ‘em home.
66 comments on a thread about the Clint Eastwood ad for Chrysler and nobody even mentions the latest from Iowahawk???
Tsk, tsk…
@ Speranza:
Well, a moon colony would necessarily begin its existence as a moon base, would it not? You have to walk before you can run.
Bumr50 wrote:
That’s actually Chicka-Roma, the mascot for a fictional fast food joint in the movie U.S. Marshals. Tommy Lee Jones got to wear the suit on a stakeout. When it came time to apprehend the suspects, he cocked a shotgun at the small-fry bad guy and said: “Regular or Extra Crispy?”
@ Rodan:
OK, my bad. It turns my stomach too.
Liberals Are No Fun : Part MMCVII
h/t M. Malkin
Good evening gentlemen. I must admit, all this space colonizing has me giggling quite a bit.
Mike C. wrote:
Where’s the link, bee-yotch??
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(It’s here…)
@ Bumr50:
So on one hand they want the Moochelle Obama project Let’s Move get people more active….by not allowing sports on beaches? Yeah, OK. That makes sense. NOT.
@ Bumr50:
I would assume nobody on the board would need directions to Da Hawk…
@ Mike C.:
Excellent point.
I was conditioned at the swamp, where if I said that it was a nice day out I was expected to provide a link to a weather map.
Old habits die hard, I suppose…
@ Bumr50:
Gorgeous and 75 outside, and I can’t enjoy it…damn Arthur in the left knee and lower right back nerve pinch. This sucks shit.
@ Bumr50:
@ NoThreat2U:
This LA County Bored (sic) of Supervisors have to be effeminate bastards….
@ NoThreat2U:
It’s all your fault, you kept hitting people with
fisbees.
Just found this in my e-mail (you can download the whole book).
I haven’t read it yet, but it looks interesting.
Macker wrote:
They want the revenue from the fines.
@ Macker:
Marcia Brady.
@ RIX:
Trust me, I am more of a danger to myself then anyone else. I fell and blew my knee out the other night. It is huge and trust me, you have never seen bruising like this. It looks like a dead body….all the blood pooling around the knee. lol lol lol
@ NoThreat2U:
Might be a hematoma.
Does it feel like a sponge?
@ Bumr50:
It is hard as a rock. And ugly as all hell.
@ NoThreat2U:
I am sorry to hear that, it sounds painful.
Did you see Jimmy Fallon doing physical competition
with Michelle Obama?
Our subject was on screen. They must be drugging him
if he hasn’t escaped.
We need to move soon!
@ RIX:
Yeah I saw that. I am so sick of that woman. I saw somewhere they were selling Michelle 2012 ladies brooches. Remind me again what the FLOTUS has to do with the POTUS job?
@ RIX:
I am still ready at the signal though. The knee is minor compared to our mission. I will military crawl if I have to just to “secure the package”.
@ NoThreat2U:
Sorry to hear that.
You should get an x-ray.
I tore my ACL playing hockey, but didn’t get it diagnosed until after the season, and I did some serious cartilage damage playing on it.
Charles Johnson walks into a bar with a Bullfrog
growth on his forehead.
The bartender says, “Hey buddy how did yo get that ugly
growth?”
The frog says, “I woke up one morning & the thing was
just growing on my back.”
@ Bumr50:
I can still bend it, it is just really stiff and turning black. The black is starting to wrap around to the back now too. lol lol You’re right though, it could be worse then I think it is. I hate sitting in the ER. Maybe I will go see my doc tomorrow and see what he says. I can’t imagine what color it will be by then.
@ RIX:
Ba dum dum *chiiing*
@ NoThreat2U:
Yeah,looks like a go.
@ Bumr50:
Huh? Why Marcia Brady?
@ NoThreat2U:
Like I said, I PLAYED with a torn ACL. After a few days your muscles start to adapt to the injury and compensate for the lack of stability. The pain is agonizing, but can be managed. I convinced myself it was a sprain, because it was the playoffs.
I ended up OK, just torn cartilage to go along with the cadaver ACL, but the Doc said I was really lucky that I didn’t tear another ligament in the same knee.
Trust me, it’s best to be safe.
@ Macker:
New Thread.
@ RIX:
@ Bumr50:
Shit happens, Marcia!
NoThreat2U wrote:
Every First lady has some focus. With her it’s fitness.
Kind of ironic.
@ Bumr50:
If it gets blacker and starts wrapping around even more, I will call the doc tomorrow. I also have a nice bruised cheek from hitting the curb. lol lol I can’t see well in the dark and probably shouldn’t have been walking at that time of night. Imma dumbass.
@ RIX:
Focus yeah, but to make it seem like she is up for reelection is just retarded IMO.
@ NoThreat2U:
wtf did you DO to that leg????
(just saw the pics)
NoThreat2U wrote:
No you’re not.
Shit happens.
I wear a ballcap and actually had to get stitches from having my head down and walking right into one of those boxes that control the traffic lights downtown.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Michelle Obama is a nasty piece of work, an over
indulged racist.
@ Bumr50:
satruday lecture is part two of three from last saturday…as a heads up
@ coldwarrior:
Excellent.
@ coldwarrior:
I tripped over a chunk of blacktop along the side of my road. Landed on the knee and the right side of my face. It looks worse then it is…I think.
@ Bumr50:
My nightvision sucks bigtime.
@ NoThreat2U:
is this a twist injury or impact?
@ RIX:
I cant wait to see them lugging their junk out of the WH…with their heads hung low….mumbling “buncha racists” at us.
@ coldwarrior:
Impact. Just put up three more so you can see how black it is getting. lol
NoThreat2U wrote:
They will not go gently into that good night.
They will whip up racial animosity to a fever
level.
@ RIX:
I don’t know if I believe that or not. Maybe it is just beyond my scope of belief. I do pray that you are wrong about it.
coldwarrior wrote:
Here’s one for you:
http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/basics/wwwwh.html
Just to get to LEO, never mind the lunar surface it will cost you at least $2000/lb, or approx $16,670 per gallon of pure H2O. That also assumes that the government isn’t insinuating itself in the process. Multiply costs by at least 5 if that happens.
The cost of sending just the necessary water to sustain human life to the Moon will bankrupt any colonization effort. Loss rates are huge due to the complete lack of an atmosphere, so you have to constantly resupply.
Mars is more accessible economically for that reason alone. You don’t have to bring water, and you don’t have to search for it. The surface is relatively-speaking “soaking wet”.
Mars will do you one better, you don’t need to bring the propellant to blast off either. All you need is a little hydrogen and a reactor and you can manufacture literally tons of propellant. If you bring a sufficient power system (which your colony is going to need anyway) you can even get the hydrogen on site rather than having to bring it.