Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl ad, "Halftime in America," is perhaps generating the most discussion of all the commercials.
Here's the ad:
Kind of weird coming from Clint Eastwood.
Leftists are thrilled, claiming Eastwood embraced the bailout of Chrysler and is on board with Obama.
Eastwood begs to differ, sort of:
Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight on the Chrysler Super Bowl ad and claims in the liberal blogosphere and elsewhere that it was an implicit endorsement of President Obama and his decision to support the bailout of the U.S. auto industry.
"I am certainly not affiliated with Mr. Obama," Mr. Eastwood told a Fox News producer for "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday. "It was meant to be a message just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it. I thought the spirit was OK."
The gripping spot heralded the car industry's comeback — for which Mr. Obama increasingly has sought to claim credit in recent weeks — and rallied Americans to work together to help rebuild the entire economy, using Mr. Eastwood's trademark no-nonsense language.
...Mr. Obama's supporters started laying claim to the "Halftime in America" ad after David Axelrod, the president's chief political strategist, tweeted about it Sunday night, deeming it a "powerful spot."
Karl Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, then said the ad "offended" him and accused Mr. Obama's "political minions" of "using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising." White House spokesman Jay Carney on Monday said the Obama administration had absolutely no involvement in ad and didn't even know about it until it aired.
Trying to clear the air, Mr. Eastwood said that he's not supporting any politician at this time and that any money Chrysler paid him went to charity.
"If Obama or any other politician wants to run with the spirit of the ad, go for it," he told Fox News.
Eastwood has decided to balance on the political fence.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
The right and left are having their fun goofing on Clint Eastwood’s controversial Super Bowl ad, with probably the most significant parody being broadcast multiple times Tuesday on Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio show.
“When somebody tells me Clint Eastwood did a halftime commercial for Chrysler, I expect it to be something like this,” Limbaugh told his 20 million listeners....
Here's the parody, the Eastwood ad Limbaugh-style:
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