Clint Eastwood: 'I Am Certainly Not Politically Affiliated With Mr. Obama'
Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood has come under some heat for appearing in a Chrysler commercial on Super Bowl Sunday that some feel was pro-Obama.
Eastwood spoke with Ron Mitchell, the producer of Fox's O'Reilly Factor, Monday to set the record straight:
l am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message about just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it. I thought the spirit was OK.
I am not supporting any politician at this time.
This supports what NewsBusters reported via the Los Angeles Times in November:
The only Democrat he can remember voting for is Gray Davis when he was elected governor of California in 1998...“I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves,” said Eastwood, who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and environmental protection. “But I’m a big hawk on cutting the deficit. I was against the stimulus thing too. We shouldn’t be bailing out the banks and car companies. If a CEO can’t figure out how to make his company profitable, then he shouldn’t be the CEO.”
Watch the ad yourself and decide if it was pro-Obama or just pro-America:
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Saw the ad during the SB...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 8:44pm.
...and I thought it was pro-America, but admittedly, I was cringing just a little.
When the ad was over, I exhaled in a sigh of relief. I didn't detect bias, but maybe I was just wishing too hard.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
You didn't detect any because
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:02pm.
You didn't detect any because there wasn't any. Those that did are just as bad as the PC police who detect an insult in the most innocuous of terms.
innocuous
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:11pm.
Isn't that one of the "dog whistle code words" the Tea Party uses?
Are you joining the Vast Tea Party Conspiracy Bal ? /Martin Bashir Mode off
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Not that I'm aware of. I'm
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:30pm.
Not that I'm aware of. I'm just amazed at how hard people will work at finding a reason to be offended.
And to prove it.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:07pm.
You're affended. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
hbnolikeee, how old are you?
Submitted by GreenTea on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 4:41pm.
hbnolikeee, how old are you? or are you just a retard?
Nasty little nOOb, aren't you?
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 6:12pm.
Drive by, seems to me, too.
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So you didn't see a cross in
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:56pm.
So you didn't see a cross in the bookcase 4-years ago?
⇒ So he was duped
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 8:43pm.
But just like the Chevy Truck commercial where FORD doesn't make it through 2012, the message was plain.
Yeah...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 8:47pm.
...That message was pretty plain, and just dumb!
Question: Why Ford, and not Dodge? Hmmm.....
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Because ...
Submitted by Fredy on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:31am.
Ford is selling many, many, more trucks than both GM and Chrysler combined!
does he not realize
Submitted by spepper on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 8:50pm.
Does Clint not realize that being a paid actor in a Chrysler commercial, he is essentially being paid with STIMULUS money authorized by Obama?
does he not realize
Submitted by 46Blitz on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:47pm.
The money he made went to charity. Get off his lawn.
...the point is it was still
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:02pm.
...the point is it was still an ad financed by obama - and it claims detroit is rebounding? they have a ways to go - it aint half time in michigan just yet
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
You're saying it was funded
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:52pm.
You're saying it was funded by Obama because the government bailed out Chrysler? When does Chrysler's spending become its own again?
When does Chrysler's spending become its own again?
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 2:59pm.
When the secured bond investors are given back their money that was stolen by the administration and given to the UAW. After that, they're on their own....as long as the Italians give them permission.
⇒ Somebody set me straight here
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:01pm.
"Chrysler to their credit didn’t even have cars in the ad." Is this true?
Or is that a Ford Mustang and Ford F150 at the 2:01 mark of the commercial?
Does it count if Chrysler didn't technically have any cars in the ad because technically those cars belonged to somebody else?
Somebody help me identify those automobiles starting at the 2:01 mark.
If you missed it, the ad was
Submitted by Outback Jon on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:17pm.
If you missed it, the ad was apparently mostly filmed in Los Angeles and New Orleans.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/detroit-comeback-ad-filmed-new-orlea...
⇒ What's the diff
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:21pm.
He was touting Detroit.
Can you help identify those two vehicles starting at the 2:01 mark?
Cool, check the times again, it ends at 2:01.
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:45pm.
I did see a Barracuda and a Ram pickup in the ad.
⇒ Yeah, that's them.
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:49pm.
But I guess since they weren't technically built by FIAT . . .
I knew there was a reason the writeup denies any Chrysler cars in the ad.
Also Seen
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:49pm.
A Jeep.
What's up with Clint's voice? It's the same one he used to mimic John Houston in a movie.
he's getting old that's why -
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:04pm.
he's getting old that's why - a thousand years young will do that...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Everyone likes Clint
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:26pm.
But I get a kick out of Lee
I was with Clint until the
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:29pm.
I was with Clint until the end when a bailed out car company represented Detroit. This, added to the Government Motors Apocolypto commerical about GM rising from the ashes over Ford PROVES, I SAY PROVES this was totally political!
Clint I know it's hard to admit you may be a useful idiot but... you were used.
The reason a Ford was the
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 11:17pm.
The reason a Ford was the butt of the joke in the Chevy truck ad was b/c of the long-standing Ford/Chevy rivalry, not as a message against Ford for not taking a bailout.
Exactly.
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 11:37pm.
Exactly.
Ford ought to come back with
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:02am.
Ford ought to come back with a commercial that shows a veritable utopia where Fords abound and then cut to the end of the apoclypto. Saying something like Some guys headed in the wrong direction with the wrong trucks.
Ford pulled their ad
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:21am.
that demonstrated that they were stronger for not having to take a bailout. First their was contact from the WH but then there was no pressure to pull the ads.
An actor/director DOESN'T know the power of perception?
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:34pm.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that an actor who has had his commercial success failed to realize exactly how this message would be used in the Super Bowl, particularly since he is a director and is used to the mindset of how to bend an audience to the script's point of view.
He royally screwed up with the largely conservative fan base he has built over the years, and now he wants to explain away his out of it--quite inarticulately. He was either a fool or a willing tool--both of which are bad. Seems like Clyde the Orangutan could have seen this one coming, but Clint did not.
Clint was wrong
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:38pm.
It's not halftime, it's the 2 minute warning in the 4th quarter. We're down 15 trillion to zero and half our team is rooting for the opponent.
I was thinking the same
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:45am.
I was thinking the same thing, Tug..............I figure that 'halftime' was somewhere before in the viciinity of LBJ and the 'Great Society'............after having the score run up on us during the 'New Deal'..........only to put a few points on the board during WW2 and the 50's and early 60's. And we managed to get back into the game during the 80's, even though the referees were juicing the game in any way possible................so now we're at the 2 minute warning, with no time-outs, and our starting line-up is long gone, and we're playing in 'enemy' territory, and the sports writers are writing us off before the game is even finished, and, as you said, half the crowd hates us and wants to see us punished, and the refs are calling the game like that Leslie Neilson umpire character in that movie that he made.
Hail Mary time??? Hell, it's going to take more than the Immaculate Reception to win this game, especially against a team that is captained by the Immaculated Conception!!!
Halftime implies half over, is America half over?
Submitted by CT on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 11:06am.
It's halftime in America jumped out at me as a finite view of America's future limiting by definition.
Remember Ronald Reagan “its morning again in America” not twilight.
I'm o.k. with 'halftime'...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 11:22am.
...given the start of America began over 400 years ago:
Jamestown (or James Towne or Jamestowne) was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia. Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 14, 1607 (O.S., May 24, 1607 N.S.),[1] it was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States... wiki
I'd say we are good for another 400.
Just need another 'Tea Party' to oust the current 'king and his court' and we will be just fine.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Not to pick nits
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 3:02pm.
and with deference to St Augustine, Fla., Jamestown ceased to exist for years. My old hometown, Hampton, Virginia, established in 1610, is the oldest, continuously settled, English speaking city in the United States.
Yes! Clint Eastwood is saying
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 11:54am.
Yes! Clint Eastwood is saying we've only got 400 more years, and then the Thetans take over.
Thetans bal?
Submitted by vrwc13 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:23pm.
...maybe the Nephites though.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
i'm pretty sure it will be
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:07pm.
i'm pretty sure it will be THE AMISH - they are way ahead of us now anyway...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Clint's Blindside
Submitted by Edward Cropper on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:25pm.
I agree with those who feel it is hard to buy that Clint didn't have any idea this would be considered as a boost for Barack Baby. Clint acts dumb but I can't believe he is THAT dumb.
Eastwood said "Mr. Obama"
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:40pm.
Isn't that racist? I could swear it was last week.
Eastwood was used by the left.
Submitted by Chris_1791 on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 11:38pm.
I think Clint Eastwood got used for this advertisement just like Andy Griffin was used with his AARP commercial. Both these men are old and maybe don't really understand what is going on and that the left will use them & trash them when they have served their purpose.
Unless You Have Proof Otherwise,
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:00am.
Andy Griffin is a fellow traveler and a willing foot soldier for the Left.
Clint Eastwood not only acted in this debacle but also wrote lines for the commercial. As DrSam has already pointed out, Eastwood is savvy on the use of media to create impressions. Dementia or altered mental status is an excuse but no one has offered proof Clint has diminished capacity.
andy griff-ETH
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:08pm.
andy griff-ETH
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Nope
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:04pm.
If we're going to be picky about this old Lefty then his name is Andy Griffith.
Here's a half-arse thought for you Clint,
Submitted by Kansasgirl on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 11:50pm.
stick to acting.
I've Stopped Wondering If
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:34am.
Clint is losing it. He sounds horrible in that track.
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You people are kidding right?
Submitted by Marcus Porcius on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 4:24am.
The ones who said there's no pro-Obama stuff in there are blind as hell.
We all came together and "did the right thing." Right. And what would that be? Oh, that's right...bailed out the car companies. You know, the ones Clint said we shouldn't have bailed out but now he's doing a commercial congratulating us all for doing it?
Give me a break.
It's almost as bad as the ad for the "extended range electric Volt." First of all, is that like saying if I push my car out of the garage, then start it and drive off I can call it an "extended range human powered" car? Please.
Then the statement comes that it's not only the car we should have built, it was a "car America HAD to build."
Again, thanks to Obama and fools like Clint that was and is literally true. We HAD to build it...we were given no other choice.
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." G.K. Chesterton
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Welcome to the meme - the
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:08am.
Welcome to the meme - the bailout, cars for clunkers, destroying the secondary market - it was a GOOD thing according to the left. Morons.
Ronald Reagan
"...not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama"
Submitted by vrwc13 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:46am.
Notice he didn't call him 'president'?
I don't either.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Affiliated with Obama because
Submitted by PaleHorse on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:03pm.
Affiliated with Obama because he did a Chrysler commercial? Wasn't it Bush who first bailed them out with $4 billion dollars before Obama even took office?
i think it was the new
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:10pm.
i think it was the new democrat congress that did that
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Oh, yes. "Half-time" was not
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 2:12pm.
Oh, yes. "Half-time" was not an allegory to the President seeking a second term. Not at all. Nothing to see here!
good call Immortal Fish...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 2:16pm.
...hadn't seen it that way.
Don't think Clint was 'in on it' though. Just used.
Might be interesting to 'follow the money' on this.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Eric Bolling
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 8:16pm.
Eric Bolling on "The Five" must have read your post as show prep.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
It doesnt matter now
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:28pm.
Clint. The democRATS have glomed on to it and it will be used in the campaign. Have your lawyers call their lawyers.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:08pm.
Ol' Clint may not be "politically affiliated with" BO, but he was definitely used by BO..
Ole Clint got capped by Dirty Barry on this one.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:17pm.
It wouldn't surprise me if it came out that Axelgrease was consulted by the creative team.
"We want the message to be subliminal... very subliminal."
what?
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 2:39pm.
Clint: if you actually want us to believe you about the ad...you are a liar or a fool; perhaps both. You seemed to have joined the Hollywood knee-jerk liberal clique; say hi to Sean, Tim, Babs, Susan and the rest
.“I’ve always
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 2:40pm.
.“I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves,” said Eastwood, who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and environmental protection.
So the free thinker believes that those who choose not to recognize gay marriage should be forced to do so by law.
Gee, he's a regular Rosa Parks of the free thought movement isn't he? Only a devout leftwinger would fail to see the hypocrisy of that. I suppose he's also a champion of using guilt and shame against those who disagree with the laws imposed upon us in the name of the religion of Global Warming. At least the abortion thing is consistent because the individual on the receiving end of that never has the ability to speak.
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Rush Limbaugh's Clint Eastwood "Halftime in America" Parody
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 3:08pm.
Clint Eastwood "Halftime in America" Parody
Don't know how long it will be up A Great ad to play next fall
You Didn't Build That.
clint
Submitted by angelann1 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 4:04pm.
he got snookered !!
I have no reason to trust
Submitted by vote24 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 4:38pm.
I have no reason to trust ANYONE in Hollywood, but Eastwood was as close as you can come to a common sense person. But really, My thought at the time I saw the commercial, was greaaat, Eastwood is a closet liberal doooosh, I should have known. I'm not looking to be offended. I could care less, but Mr. Eastwood was definetely used as a leftist tool to imply how grandiose and super duper Obama and his communistic policies are. Probably they just made Clint an offer he could not refuse. Never underestimate the lowness of a liberal's character.
Halftime in Detroit?
Submitted by Santino Corleone on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:39pm.
Detroit and greater Michigan (along with CA, NY, NJ, IL) are the poster children for failed liberalism. With huge public sector (or UAW) pension/healthcare tabs, huge taxes and entitlement programs and "elected" liberals at the table doubling and tripling down on failure while they cater to the needs of their union pals and violate the rest of their constiuents, it's more like half assed time. Feel good commercials with Clint or Eminem won't lead to a Detroit renaissance. Only stopping the rampant, corrupt tyranny of liberals will. What a joke---almost as bad as Madonna's halftime schlock (didn't that suck hard? would rather have seen those dog riding monkeys).
Regarding Clint, sure, put a 44 magnum in his hand in San Fran and he's a conservative. But hanging around with the likes of Morgan "I'd vote for Obama 1,000X if I could" Freeman and Leo "Al Gore is a genius" DiCaprio, to name a few, has to take its toll. Ol' Clint's been immersed in the Kool Aid too long. He's old school and the nuanced, subliminal campaign messages in this spot probably didn't even register with him...I hope so anyway.
Man's got to know his limitations.
Upstate Michigan
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 8:22pm.
I get to the Alpena area on occasion to visit a relative. What use to be a decent agricultural area with some light industry has become a welfare haven where people take their government money and feed the slot machines at the local Indian casinos.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama