TheBlaze’s Erica Ritz contributed to this report.
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One of the most touching commercials from Super Bowl Sunday was the Dodge ad based on the “so God made a farmer” speech by Paul Harvey. We’ve included the full audio from the speech below so you can listen to the entire, rousing tribute.
But first, here is the ad itself:
Harvey delivered the speech at the 1978 Future Farmers of America convention. Here’s the full transcript (the text in brackets didn’t make it into the Dodge commercial):
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said I need a caretaker- So God made a Farmer
God said I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk the cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat supper then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board – So God made a Farmer
[I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs,tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to await lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon, and mean it - So God made a Farmer]
God said I need somebody willing to sit up all night with and newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say maybe next year. I need somebody who can shape an axe handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe straps, who at planting time and harvest season will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, will put in another 72 hours – So God made a Farmer
[God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain, and yet stop in midfield and race to help when he sees first smoke from a neighbor's place - So God made a Farmer]
God said I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to wean lambs and pigs and tend to pink combed pullets; who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadowlark.
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and rake and disk and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church.
Somebody who would bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing; who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says he want to spend his life doing what dad does – So God made a Farmer
And here is the audio of the full speech:
You may recognize Harvey’s name from another piece of audio that seems to resurface often. Last year, his 1965 speech with the refrain “if I were the devil” experienced a viral surge on TheBlaze and elsewhere. We’ve included it below:
This story has been updated.
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LeadNotFollow
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:20pmGod bless the farmers. They are so taken for granted.
They do the extremely hard work that most of us could never do.
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Miami
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:53pmWonderful ad
It’s a shame it took an Italian car maker to make this ad, not to say the Detroit “come back” ad with Eastwood.
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The_Pointy_End
Feb. 4, 2013 at 1:04amAnd Obama’s tax laws have already guaranteed that the hard working farmer will not be able to pass his farm onto the next generation. Because that hard working farmer’s soil makes him appear to be a millionaire on paper so therefore the wealth must be spread around. So, when this hard working farmer dies, the government will tax away approximately 50% of the farm from the next generation who wanted to be just like dad.
…..and now folks you know the rest of the story. Good day.
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RabidPatriot
Feb. 4, 2013 at 1:09amBest Superbowl commercial that I have ever watched.
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Searcher4Truth
Feb. 4, 2013 at 1:55amWithout a doubt, this is my all-time favorite commercial. I wish Paul Harvey lived a bit longer so my kids could have enjoyed him.
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aztd1
Feb. 4, 2013 at 2:07amSorry, Paul Harvey would never try to steer people into believing Dodge is an American company. Dodge is foreign owned, and most of the trucks they show (all 2500 series and up) are built in Mexico. Even look at the tractors in the commercial, they’re all Case – also foreign owned. I salute the American farmer, not a foreign owned company pretending to be American.
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Bert in NY
Feb. 4, 2013 at 2:28amMy mother was a farmer and she did many long hours And she loved every minute of it. She raised the best veal they were like her children I hope you enjoyed them. You haven’t lived until you bailed hay in hundred degree heat. Then jump in the nearest lake. Have a pet chicken or bottle feed a new born lamb and I saw a few births go wrong too all a part of life. Paul just made me homesick. I used to start my day listening to him with my father.
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PatrioticFarmer
Feb. 4, 2013 at 2:59amThe one thing left unsaid is the fact that most all agri-businessmen (farmers, ranchers and the like) maintain the true American spirit of integrity, honesty, and the conservative values of freedom and liberty. You will find no one more willing to stand up for the lesser man who is in trouble or need. I wish the end of the commercial was right, eluding to that fact that these values are in all of us, but sadly I mourn for our county as a whole. I feel those values are being lost with each new generation. I pray those values will be reinstilled into our society again, but that might mean putting God first.
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Kalidor835
Feb. 4, 2013 at 7:19amForget that it was for Dodge. I don’t buy Dodge but I loved the ad. Why? Because it made me remember sitting with my late grandfather when I was 4 years old and listening to Paul Harvey’s radio show or him teaching me to read using a newspaper sports section. This wasn’t about Dodge for me but nostalgia. I’m not afraid to admit that the ad brought tears to my eyes as I watched it and remembered and for that I say thank you Fiat/Chrysler. You made a great ad.
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JSMedina
Feb. 4, 2013 at 7:56amTHE REST OF THE STORY (with a nod to Paul Harvey)
Let’s not get too excited on the idea….it premired on youtube on June 1st, 2011.
Dodge spent a bunch of money to make it look better…but it was not their ad agency’s concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QuzhwkaNC40
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DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Feb. 4, 2013 at 7:58amExcept it was the farmers’ willingness to cut corners that lead us to poison pesticides on our food. It was the farmers’ lack of stewardship that lead us to nutrient-depleting, petroleum-based “fertilizers”. It was the farmers’ lack of understanding that lead to large monoculture crops that put their livelihood at risk.(big agra) It was then the laziness of the farmers that accepted, and continue to fight for, subsidies that the rest of us in the private sector do not get(or want). It was the farmers that started feeding cows corn and packing them on feed lots to reap E. coli and acidosis.
The depictions of crops in this ad are from the farmers that failed humanity. I am a farmer. I am not that kind of farmer. Before the narrow-scoped view of the conservatives on this site, sling Saul Alinsky ad hominem “arguments”; I am not a liberal. By supporting the charity-case farmer; I assert that you are playing the part of a liberal/hypocrite.
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Minnaloushe
Feb. 4, 2013 at 8:29am…until Obamunism takes it all away.
And that’s the *last* of the story.
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RadarNJ
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:16amA shame it was a Mexican made pick up truck ….
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turkey13
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:18am@AZTD1 You need to check out GM. Most are made in Canada, Mexico, and the new plant in China. GM shut down the plant in Oklahoma City in 2005 because it was to profitable and making the other Union plants look bad. Sinc then they built a new plant in Mexico. Every day right now the union stewards still report to the union hall across the road on Interstate 40 ane then go across to plant and do – who knows except Obama and the UAW wheels. This plant should be sold to Honda and be making great cars right here rather than in Kentucky.
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Dagnabbit5
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:28amThis ad is a lot of symbolism over substance. DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator) is sort of correct. There are not to many farmers like what Mr. Harvey was talking about around anymore. Mr Harvey recorded that in the late 1970′s I think. Farming like that rarely exist like that anymore. At least not on a large scale.
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BarbieBabe
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:36amAnd after years of work tending the farm, the government will take away half of it in death taxes.
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wethepublicans
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:51amThe_Pointy_End, and everyone else: there are legal ways to avoid most of the death tax. If the current farm holder sells the farm to their heir for $1 you can minimize taxes that way. There are clever ways around most taxes if your lawyering and accounting is creative enough. Why is it -do you suppose- so many BILLIONAIRES are advocating for higher taxes?
If anyone is a tax lawyer or an accountant, and I am incorrect about my death tax trick, please let me know.
BTW pointy_end; I hope most farmers are smart enough to already know my advice. But there are millions of Americans that aren’t wealthy enough to pay the people it takes to find these loopholes. I imagine uncountable family homes, vacation spots, antique cars, expensive heirlooms, etc. will be lost to the insatiable appetite of the US government. There will be horrible stories, and the fact of the matter is that the death tax is double taxation…. which is unconstitutional.
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apexmoon
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:55amBuy a Camry instead. At least it’s actually built in the US with US parts.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/09/24/toyota-camry-recognized-as-most-american-made-car-on-the-road/
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techengineer11
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:02amDagnabbit5
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:28am
This ad is a lot of symbolism over substance. DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator) is sort of correct. There are not to many farmers like what Mr. Harvey was talking about around anymore. Mr Harvey recorded that in the late 1970′s I think. Farming like that rarely exist like that anymore. At least not on a large scale.
You are right however conservative people are yearning for simpler more moral and decent days.. This is more of the image they have of two generations ago… I agree it was much closer to the historical America but like you point out that doesn’t even exist on the farms today..
Forever gone.. Once innonsence is lost it’s not regained..
Remember how excited we were when we all thought Glenn Beck was a real conservative?? He made a few conservative statements and we all went ga ga over Glenn.. People yearn for true Conservatism and family values..
Sad but you are wasting your time.. It has been stolen.
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oldguy49
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:19amand under the new tax laws independnt farmers will cease to exist in a couple of generations……………50% death tax—government will take it and then……………….soylent green
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georgette
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:29am……….. there’s a
core part of man that hears truth and instantly recognizes it.
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Ditto Head
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:51amMost farmers drive Chevys.
I wouldn’t name a dog “Dodge”.
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Silvertruth
Feb. 4, 2013 at 11:03amRAM’s are made here, Canada and Mexico. Chrysler was forced to sell to FIAT by the current administration and started with the previous one. Daimler looted Chrysler for its cash on hand when it bought the company then bailed on it when it had run it out of cash.
Splitting the profitable pickup line (RAM) from Dodge lines them up to eliminate Dodge as a product line, kind of what they’ve done to Plymouth. In the end you’ll be left with Chrysler, Jeep and RAM, the ‘profitable’ lines. This is what FIAT is banking on.
By the way, many of those American farmers are still using FIAT products to farm with. FIAT was (some might argue still is) a big name in farming, with Oliver, Allis Chalmers, and White all being tied into FIAT at some point.
Being an American Farmer doesn’t mean you have to fund American only products. Most of the tractors made today have parts that come from foreign sources. This is because most American manufacturers cannot compete in labor costs with foreign sources. This creates something called a ‘trade deficit’.
Farmers do all the work Mr. Harvey said and do it for pennies an hour. You wonder why they get upset when they have to pay for someone to sit and watch TV all day. They can only afford what they can.
Don’t blame RAM, or FIAT, if you want to know why America is the way it is, that is simple, we let it become this way. We all took what we could to get by, now it’s time to pay the piper.
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txannie
Feb. 4, 2013 at 11:42am@aztd1…Case is originally an American company. AFTER the company bought out International Harvester (IH) it became top heavy with IH losers that sent some of the products to be made overseas. CASE started as American as John Deere and CAT. This knowledge comes from a 60 year relationship with CASE that runs out of Racine, WI. Now, even John Deere gets most of it’s products from the grey market. Even CAT gets most of it’s parts from Australia and Europe. Don’t just pick on Case and Dodge when you start throwing stones. Listen to the message about the farmer. Farming used to be the number one vocation and the reason America was able to become so well known the world over for our abundance. Now, the American Farmer is and endangered species that everyone thinks should still produce the same amount of products on 1/3 the area. We have been able to keep up until recently, but if gov. regs don’t get out of the way people are going to get hungry soon.
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Soulfire1975
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:52pmI liked it but started to drag out
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muffythetuffy
Feb. 4, 2013 at 1:00pmTHE NATIONAL SENTIMENT ABOUT SECESSION MUST BE GROWIN
Now we are seeing a lot of propaganda about how we are going to become one nation once again and that farmers are now our ideal. What a bunch of BS.
We are a rotten nation filled will cultural decay. We are two separate nations an one is attempting to destroy the other. Let me leave it to you to figure out which one.
1. We are no longer one nation and we will never be one nation ever again.
2. Most of the farmers in America have lost their family farms to the IRS and EPA. Farmers today are corporate farms.
Jeeps are being made in China and you can be all Chrysler LLC cars will be made in China. Why? Because what was Chrysler is now owned by a Chinese holding compay.
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Motorsports-X
Feb. 4, 2013 at 1:37pmyeah its ashamed the government gives them so much money and drives the food prices up while they drive brand new f250s and live in 5000 square foot houses… dont be fooled.. technology makes farming easy. everything is done mechanically now. and the most work they do is bringing in cotton which takes till 2 in the morning, and then having to clean the equipment. And yes, I used to work on a farm. I dont any more because i was tired of making 8.50 an hour while watching the big wigs be fat and happy with there quarter million dollar salary and everything they own a tax deduction…
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peace maker
Feb. 4, 2013 at 2:43pm@ silver truth. Right on, you have your facts straight there are so many who don’t do their homework and they think that Ford did not take any handouts. Wrong. They were in such bad shape they had to even put up thier tradmarks as collateral . FOrd was first to the government in 2006 for help from the Feds to avoid banckrupcy and again 2009 they got money from the government to re-tool. its amazing how thier billion dollar loan goes under the radar and Dodge and GM get all the bad wrap. All three of the big three have gotten government help.
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actionwriter
Feb. 4, 2013 at 6:40pmFinally, a superb bit of Americana worth the attention of this nation. By none other than one of the greatest human interest patriots of our time-Paul Harvey (RIP)
THIS is what intelligent people admire. The antics of a drugie- loadie hollytrash celib trying to rewrite the lyrics and music to our national anthem is not worth the electricity to put it on TV.
There may be cause to save this society after all. WTG car maker Dodge!!!
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sillyfreshness
Feb. 4, 2013 at 7:22pmYes, farmers are great and I love farmers, as I have family members that were farmers.
What I don’t like is some mega corporation playing on people’s emotions to get you to buy their product. Playing some audio clip from Paul Harvey (without his approval) to get you to spend money with them. That’s what this commercial is all about……to get you to part with your money with them, by playing on emotions and being ultra patriotic sounding. A mega corporation owned in part by the Democratic Party that accuses all whites, like these farmers, of being a bunch of racists. A mega corporation ran by unions that want more illegal aliens flooding up here to take more jobs away from Americans.
Don’t trust any corporation as they will say and do anything to get you to buy their product-even if it means pulling at your heartstrings or flat out lying.
Corporatism is NOT capitalism. Capitalism is all about companies competing against each other for your business. Corporatism is all about one or a few companies gobbling up all their competition and getting bigger and bigger, thus preventing more competitors from entering the marketplace. Then when they become so bloated they start to implode, they are labeled “too big to fail” and then get public funds as a bailout. Next time let them fail and start over.
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Snidely
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:05pmAwesome commercial! But, it’s actually for Ram trucks, not Dodge trucks. Chrysler split the trucks from the Dodge line several years ago.
Also great that they are supporting the FFA. (I used to be an FFA member.) Go to the Ram Trucks website for more info.
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PA PATRIOT
Feb. 5, 2013 at 8:44amHere is the link to tha ad agency that produced the ad.
Lets thank them for a great job.
I did.
http://www.richards.com/index.html#/about/
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jbean
Feb. 5, 2013 at 12:44pmThis was a great ad – strange that a foreign company has been able to tap into the heart of our country. The same auto maker teamed up with the USO to produce an awesome ad that ran with Jeep and a tribute to our military. But we all had to sit through the tepid or trashy to be able to appreciate a couple of really great ads.
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Advection
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:20pmThis Ad stopped me in my tracks. It was great.
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The_Jerk
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:31pmDitto. Great ad.
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GoodStuff
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:00amDodge is Chrysler. Chrysler took a bailout. No thanks.
Ford all the way.
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GuruMeditation
Feb. 4, 2013 at 5:20am@GoodStuff: Agreed. That’s how I roll.
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atechgeek
Feb. 4, 2013 at 7:35amAgreed .. but I didn’t even remember who made the commercial .. all I remember is “God bless a farmer !!” They are the american image of hard working, God loving, and family values.
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TROONORTH
Feb. 4, 2013 at 8:52amOne thing that God doesn’t make anymore is broadcasters like Paul Harvey. He started back in the days of vacuum tubes and ended his career with his voice bounced around the planet on satellites. in days of yore, millions of people would warm up their radios and through the heterodyne squeal of fading voices calling out in the night, the static of distant stations and the crackle of unseen storms, they would hear the voice of Paul Harvey and know all was well. At the end of his career, with his voice digitized and heard on a million computers, people around the world would listen to him, laugh with him, cry with him and stand in awe at the wonders of the world brought to them every day. And that, my friends, was the rest of the story.
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tallsteadt
Feb. 4, 2013 at 8:54amI agree with what Paul Harvey said about farmers, it was simple and true just like many of the farmers I have met. I am just sad that it was used as a blatant manipulation to sell something.
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CABERNETQHS
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:23amWill there ever be another like Paul Harvey? That generation will go down as our finest. God bless all the hard working farmers, protect them from the EPA.
Wonder why Dodge felt they had to leave out the part about driving 5 miles to church. Was that just crazy over the top religious?
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apexmoon
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:02am@CABERNETQHS
“Will there ever be another like Paul Harvey? That generation will go down as our finest.”
Thanks for spiting on the rest of the generations. Do you tell your kids which one is your favorite too?
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700P
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:19pmStill only buying Ford. They didn’t take the bail out despite the questionable political leanings of their founder (I still go to Disneyland as well). It’s sad how the halftime in america became a prophecy of a second term..but I also liked this commercial (probably my favorite of the bunch).
The 49ers are my least favorite team but I can’t see how that wasn’t holding.
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VRW Conspirator
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:31amGreat ad but right with you about dodge and jeep and Chrysler. Ford all the way
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Spitfire1938
Feb. 4, 2013 at 3:44amFor the life of me I do not understand ‘Americas’ loyalty to Disney. They own ABC News, perhaps the most anti-American communist propagandizers of the major MSM. Disney Entertainment (Films & TV), Disney Parks and the Disney Cruise Line are masterpieces of entertainment that function behind a wonderfully “Glossy” facade of “Fun and Entertainment” that effectively purveys their subtle, nearly invisible, but hard core Progressive Propaganda message. Once the method and mechanism of their deceit is revealed it’s not possible to participate in the “Happiest Place on Earth” without feeling manipulated and oppressed by the sheer audacity of their deception.
The very fact that a majority of Americas still hold “Disney” in high esteem reveals how effective their model for “Change” really is and why Glenn Beck is such a big fan of “Walt’s” original ‘vision’, before it was hijacked and distorted.
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Miami
Feb. 4, 2013 at 6:26amVRW Conspirator
Can you say Built in Mexico?
You do know that Ford has moved most of their plants south
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700P
Feb. 4, 2013 at 8:43amMiami,
My planet destroying Excursion was built in Kentucky. Like Mexico (and this is a joke for those who don’t understand sarcasm) it’s a Right to Work State. Lesson; unions aren’t just destroying the country but with the exception of Emergency Responders, who probably shouldn’t strike and therefore need them, have become Evil in their primary purpose is self-preservation/perpetuation and thrown in with the DNC (another Evil organization).
Understand on the Disney/ABC thing…I wish I didn’t like them so much either for the same reasons. They started going downhill when the idiot Eisner was in charge….or more accurately when Walt died.
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peace maker
Feb. 4, 2013 at 2:35pmYou are wrong on the Ford bail out. They were the first company in trouble in 2005 so they went to the government for help before Dodge and GM and got billions in Loans to keep from filing bankrupcy. They were in recovery mode before GM and Dodge had to get help. Then in 2009 Ford got another 19 Billion for re-tooling aid from the Department of Energy. They too went several times to the government for help, they just missed all the bad press.
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spirited
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:18pmSuper Bowl Sunday’s massive audience was a wise choice/time to get out “the word”.
>What truck was that? -lol
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Mapache
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:17pmWE NEED YOU PAUL HARVEY….we really need you.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:50pmJr. Could have taken over, but didn’t seem to have the same interst in news as pop did, even though Jr. Wrote “The Rest of the Story” segments. Jr. Seems to have dropped out of sight. Don’t know what he is doing since they cancelled him for Huckabee.
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spfoam1
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:12pm…….and the govenment is regulating them out of business, and taking their land and destroying their ability to pass the farm to their children with the death tax.
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Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:20pmUhh, farmers get massive subsidies from the federal government.
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samnjoeysgrama
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:23pmI am sitting here in central Kansas, and I am surrounded by family farms that will have to be sold when the parents die to pay the estate taxes. Will big Ag buy them up? Probably.
A friend was talking to a service center in NY and the person asked for his Log in name. “Farmer” he replied, “because I am one.” “Wow,” she answered. “I didn’t know anyone still did that.”
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
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americanexile
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:29pmWrong, “sensible” dem. Corporate farmers get subsidies. Corn and soy farmers with dem senators raking it in don’t represent all farmers.
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wellright
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:37pmBig ag gets massive subsidies, Family farms are mostly headed down the tubes. And Uncle Sammy wants it that way.
You should check some of the new regs on farmers. FDA is going to do away with roadside veg stands, even trying to make it illegal to sell (or give for that matter) veggies to your neighbors.
Say CENTDEM, ever been to a farm.?
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Joshua81
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:38pmUh, do you even know a farmer? The government is killing them. Go to your local co-op, ask them how they feel about the government.. you might learn something.
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redneckdiver
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:40pmhttp://archive.redstate.com/stories/featured_stories/do_agriculture_subsidies_help_save_family_farms
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Rowgue
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:58pmSome legitimate farmers are getting killed but that’s mostly because there is too much compeition. Just like most other markets it’s saturated beyond belief. The fact of the matter is most farming is subsidized whether it be small family farms or big agriculture.
The thing that’s actually killing the small farmers is the fact that the government price fixes the agriculture industry in defiance of the anti-trust act.
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Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:09am@sam
Estate tax kicks in only after 5 million dollars. How much assets do these farmers have?
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Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:23amI don’t disagree that these subsidies disproportionately hurt smaller farmers. But farmers as a whole get a lot of federal support propping their businesses up in the form of subsidies. Most farms now a days are corporate farms and aren’t really “family farms”
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missdagnytaggart
Feb. 4, 2013 at 1:00amSensible-
Their assets are all tied up in land. They can’t pay the estate taxes unless they sell some of the farm to pay the tax. I’m from Iowa and everyone here knows farmers are land rich but cash poor!
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hillbillyinny
Feb. 4, 2013 at 3:33am@Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
Uh, if you check on who is getting “all those subsidies” and why, you’ll find that real farmers get them because they aren’t paid even WHAT IT COSTS TO PRODUCE THEIR PRODUCT. However, you’ll also find people like several of the liberal MSM “newscasters” who own large areas of land in the west with cattle on it, receiving large amounts of subsidies, because they’re are PURPOSELY RUNNING AT A LOSS, because they need the TAX BREAK from their NY City income!!!
Check it out!
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D-Fence
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:05amBig farmers and AgriBusiness get subsidies. Stop government regulation from taking control of all facets of our life. The time for having small family farms is NOW. Government is continuously encroching on our liberties. They do not know best! These entitlment mined political class set the rules to gain more power and preserve their power.
TEA
SOL
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leyland
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:45amHey ‘middle of the road’ democrat, the US FED GOV’T forces farmers to grow/not grow certain products for the ‘welfare’ of QUOTAS set by the same US FED GOV’T, more unintended consequences of ‘fair minded’ control freak know-it-all MasterMinds. Supply and demand used to work just fine with sales of grown goods attributable to QUANTITY on the market. BUT no, your GOV’T forces farmers to limit production of selected product by giving them those so called ‘subsidies’. Farmers getting subsidies is not the problem here.
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txannie
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:03pm@sensible_cen_dem (an oxymoron to say the least)….you have no idea what you are talking about and your comments show how ignorant you are on the subject of farmers. When ONE combine can cost $300,000.00, and you need at least 4 to do the job of getting food to your table, how many of these do you think will add up to that 5million mark? And a combine is just to harvest. What about the tractors, trucks, equip, cost of fertilizer, etc….you are absolutely a clueless moron.
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usmc1063
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:11pmThis was the best Super Bowl Ad Ever.
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SpankDaMonkey
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:11pm.
If Paul was still alive Obama & Holder would lock him up……
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1HonestInjun
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:09pmPaul Harvey would be ridiculed by the left in this day and age. Sure do miss hearing his voice on the radio.
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wellright
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:11pmAnd now you know…..the rest of the story!
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Rowgue
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:43pmGood Day.
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nw5052001
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:09pmPandering to avoid being in the same category as GM….
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bannedfromCNN
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:12amMaybe they’re having ‘buyer’s remorse’?
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R.A. Bullseye
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:09pmAmen.
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katy
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:07pmYup! Awesome ad! Makes me want to go and buy a Dodge.
Classy ad!! Nice to see.
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SUNTZU
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:26pmI would never buy a dodge
but I could go back to farming.
I remember my Grandfathers 48 dodge
milking cows 0500 using oil lamp to see.
I remember most of that other stuff too
10 cents would get you a candy bar and a coke
then they added a one cent tax ,been going down hill
sense then
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waspanglosaxon
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:06pmBoth of my grandfathers were farmers and ranchers in South Texas (that was before the ZOG/Rick Perry government turned it all back to the illegal aliens and their numerous progeny). No occupation ever worked harder or was more essential. Be it in an industrialized nation or the poorest 4th world country, the farmer is, was and always will be the backbone of every economy. One farmer is always worth all the quacks, shysters and politicians in any nation.
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Fubared
Feb. 4, 2013 at 10:59amOne farmer is more than worth all the aryan pos’ on any given day. Aryan=fertilizer.
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TADTAD
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:05pmCongratulations to Dodge for the best commercial. Honorable mention to Bud with the colt growing up. Well done.
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Restored One
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:39pmDitto. Those were the only good commercials. They did not have the shock and aw, just real people.
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nevshttmess
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:04pmmy next truck will be a dodge , it’s about time we start getting back to God in this country even if it’s in a commercial . I love that it was done on the national level too with millions of viewers
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RadarNJ
Feb. 4, 2013 at 9:21amThe Ford F-150 has the most American made components… unlike Mexican made Dodge.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:04pmI agree, Americana at it’s finest tribute to those unappreciated people that feed he world, the American farmers.
Could almost not tell it was a truck commercial.
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RJJinGadsden
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:13pmEven if it was Clint Eastwood, this sure beats last years Dodge commercial. I made a post on another story where most of us were shooting the bull about the game anyway, that this was hands down the best commercial of the game.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:43pmI teared up.
I own a Ram 1500, I love my truck.
This commercial was the absolute best.
As I said, I teared up over this, and it reminded me that Paul Harvey was the best radio personality and American ever born. I truly miss him.
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Zipit
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:45pmIt was without a doubt, one of Paul Harvey’s greatest clips ever! And he had many great clips!! It was a true testament to what made this country great! Unfortunately, it was used by a company, that is owned by a union and a government, that not only don’t believe in, but actually want to tear down those very ideals that made us a great country!!!!
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:44amHey RJJ
The picture with the old man and the child walking through the snow on the prarie, reminds me of the times my Grandpa used to take me hunting in Wyoming. That scene almost made me cry, and what I love is I have taken my son with my uncles out in the same land to go Deer and Elk hunting. The thrill both me and my Uncles get is when my son shoots his animal, and the look on his face when we make a meal of his Deer/Elk. That is America and all the city folk that want to look down on us, take our guns away, or call us stupid, because we ain’t up to their standards. Well, they need to watch this commercial, go look at their cubards and realize where their food comes from, for if it wasn’t for the farmer, the country folk, and us out here in middle America, their cubards would be bare.
Again, I watched that commercial 5 times, and I teared up. THAT is America.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:58amBy the way, if anyone would like to get MP3 files of “The Rest of the Story” here is the link.
http://www.paulharveyarchives.com/trots/
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FaithfulFriend
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:04pmFantastic. And Yes, God Made the Farmer. God Made Us All to Farm.
Unfortunately our our big fat asshat federal government won’t let us farm without regulating the crap out of us with bureaucratic piles of stink-heap.
And as far as I know, God still doesn’t make Dodge trucks, and the last one I bought was for crap.
But the ad was super fantastico!!
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Magyar
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:04pmIt rocked—yes it did! Loved it.
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db321
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:03pmI pray God send us another Paul Harvey! Thank you Paul and Jeep, and thank you God for the Farmer. Great Ad! This ad had my vote for the Best!
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James
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:01pmSo Why did Dodge leave out a “a five-mile drive to church”? Don’t want no Christians driving your trucks?
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RJJinGadsden
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:19pmThey followed the speech made so long ago by Paul Harvey.
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Hangman54
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:22pmPC Bu!! **** thats why… it makes me sick to my stomach
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Rowgue
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:10amI hardly think it had anything to do with not wanting christians to buy their trucks. It’s called “God made the farmer” for crying out loud. And he says god a good twenty times or so throghout the ad. They had to cut some out to fit it within the time limit of the spot.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Feb. 4, 2013 at 12:37amDude, take a breathe, it was a GREAT commercial.
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carl1000
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:00pmAWESOME. Can’t wait for MSNBC to respond…then again I dont care what they have to say.
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wzd1a
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:00pmBeautiful poetry.
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Totally Domestic
Feb. 3, 2013 at 10:58pmNice! I do so appreciate the hard working farmers of the USA!
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CatB
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:08pmHaving lived on a farm … and been part of the farm community .. it is as Harvey said .. I really like this commercial .. people need to be reminded that their food doesn’t just come from the supermarket. So God made a farmer.
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Shasta
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:59pmI just used this opportunity to tell my adult children (again) that the American farmer is under attack from the Obama administration and progressives in general. They think I am nuts, I am sure.
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Maximus
Feb. 3, 2013 at 10:57pmSad that Paul Harvey’s words were made into a truck commercial.
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imsteph
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:02pmPrefer the Paul Harvey ‘If I Were The Devil’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGVCO6CByQ&feature=share
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GJPinks
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:09pmIt’s not a truck commercial, it’s a Dodge Truck.. Ram Tough, if you don’t know,I understand and forgive you.
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ComingUnglued
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:10pmI’m glad at least his words were heard all these years later, even if it were in a commercial. Farmers are truly some of the hardest working people in the country. I applaud you. God Bless.
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1HonestInjun
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:26pm@Imsteph
“If I Were The Devil.” shows how quickly a great national like ours can fall into decay.
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LeadNotFollow
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:28pmIMSTEPH….. Paul Harvey was a prophet of God. He tried to warn Americans.
He seemed to know that Radical Islam and the New World Order were just over the horizon.
Wish Americans had listened to Paul Harvey.
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Dr.Fez
Feb. 3, 2013 at 11:41pm@ComingUnglued I’m with you there.
His speech was a little before my time, but hearing it now, it still carries a powerful message.
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tajloc
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:06amThat’s ridiculous….Not really an ad. I could not see the TV for the tears when they mentioned Ram.
Best ad ever. My pals stood up and clapped after.
“I will not comply.”
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Jim
Feb. 3, 2013 at 10:54pmGood Day!
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JSMedina
Feb. 4, 2013 at 8:01amIdea totally ripped off from
“Farmers Tribute: So God Made A Farmer. Paul Harvey”
Uploaded on youtube on June 1, 2011
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