‘It’s Halftime in America’: Clint Eastwood Narrates Powerful Super Bowl Commercial for Chrysler
- Posted on February 5, 2012 at 11:42pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Chrysler made news with a moving Detroit-centric Super Bowl advertisement last year, and it looks like they’ve done it again. Titled “It’s Halftime in America,” the advertisement aired during halftime of Super Bowl XLVI and features Clint Eastwood narrating a powerful presentation intertwining commentary on the idea of halftime in the game, American economy, Detroit and automobile industry, followed by a positive message moving forward. Despite producing the video and paying for it’s high Super Bowl air time cost, the word “Chrysler” is not heard in the advertisement.
(Related: Why did the NFL have the Chrysler ad yanked from YouTube?)
“This country can’t be knocked out with one punch. We get right back up again, and when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our engines. Ya, it’s halftime in America, and our second half is about to begin,” Eastwood says as he drifts off camera and the Chyrsler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram logos appear.
The Detroit Free Press reports that dealers were given a sneak peak of the advertisement earlier in the day:
“The key message is that there is still another half to go as both Chrysler and the nation continue to recover from the 2008-2009 recession that drove Chrysler and General Motors into taxpayer-funded bailouts.
‘It’s a whole different kind of theme from last year,’ said Darvish, who was among dealers who got a sneak peak of the two-minute commercial during the National Automobile Dealers Association convention today in Las Vegas. ‘It’s all about the greatness of the country.’”
CBS News notes that Chrysler was bailed out with $12.5 billion from the U.S. government in 2008, and following bankruptcy restructuring is majority owned by Fiat SpA. In 2011, Chrysler earned $183 million, compared with a loss of $652 million in 2010.
Eastwood produced, directed and starred in the 2008 film”Gran Torino,” a drama telling the story of a gruff retired factory worker in a demographically changing Detroit neighborhood.
Watch the advertisement which to some may closer resemble a political campaign video rather than car commercial:
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1947
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:33amClint, Obama Motors give me a break
Fed up in Bama
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:16amClint DOES NOT like Obama. Go back and watch some of the interviews w/ him. NOT a fan, at all. In saying that, re-listen to the clip above, again.
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:22amIt may be halftime for America, but it is GAME OVER for Obama.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:37amI agree .. not half time .. time for a NEW GAME.
Report Post »Libertarian
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:44amThe commercial was excellent, it was moving and had similar emotion to it as Reagan’s “Its morning again in America”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY
However, it was ruined because it was for a car company, one that was bailed out on the backs of the American taxpayer. This commercial flashed an analogy in my head, people will like the commercial because it “made them feel good” versus the reality of its substance. People look at the Republican candidates the same way, they want someone that looks presidential regardless of their record, forgoing their message, voting record or substance.
This commercial sponsored quasi-communism, by saying we stuck together and used public funds to save an auto company. Disgusting.
Report Post »Triton84g
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:55amFor GOP Machine (FOX News) lovers… IN YOUR FACE! This commercial was slick. People who understand economics got the message. The Republicans can.t come up with a real opponent for Obama this coming election. So sorry for them. Watch the most recent State of The Union speech and hear the facts.
nelbert
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:22amI’ve got news for both political factions: if you’re out of work, you just want a job.
Report Post »Eastwood is known to hold conservative beliefs, but his message here seemed to transcend politics.
NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:47amTriton
Do you prefer cherry or orange Kool-Aide?
To the rest of us non-Kool-Aide drinkers, this was a fabulously well-done ad, and because Eastwood is famously very conservative, it was possible to hear what he was really saying: In spite of everything this Marxist Progressive government has done to us over the last century, America is awake now, and come November, the direction is about to change!
Report Post »TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:30amPointless. Unite on what?
What are they saying?
Join the collective? Hand our country over to incremental oppressors? Socialism? to The people who subvert our Bill of Rights and Constitution? Submit to the people who can’t find enough ways to regulate every aspect and right attached to our lives?
Unite and defend our rights and Constitution as patriots? Are they trying to be patriotic?
If I have to ask, then they’re making a very weak attempt.
Are they asking for another bailout?
No GM cars for me! No more bail outs. No unity with progressive, marxist, socialist, communist aganda advancement.
The Democrats are holding us at halftime. They are leveling the playing field, sending gulf and keystone and Alaska and offshore oil rig jobs (good paying jobs) to other countries. They are holding our fuel prices high. They are blocking new refineries. They are interfering with fuel prices and the ability to buy fuel. Where does the economy go from there? How does it grow?
They advance socialized medicine with a massive 2700 page pile of oppressive dominance over individual rights.
They are taking us to THEIR goal line. We have to take the nation back home. I’ve seen enough. Get your wallets & walking shoes ready to help get patriot representatives into the seats where oppressors currently sit.
Report Post »Obamacare must go.
BlackAce41
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:13amClint Eastwood, Is one of the very few Conservative Republicans in Hollywood. He is for gun right and he cannot stand NOBAMA…
Report Post »proud2bmom
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:32am@Triton
You look to Obama’s SOTU for “facts”? Do you check the pantry for frozen foods, too?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:35ami think Clint will be arrested by the thought police…Think about it, the only way to win the second half is to do something drastic. I think the NDAA should be kicking in if I follow Clints line of thinking.Yep Clint is talking about doing something evil to the Pres I am sure…after all i have seen his movies. He gets even in the end…
Report Post »SEPARATENOW
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:56am@TRITON
I do not watch Fox News. I do not listen to or watch Glenn, Rush, et. al. Instead I know what is right by its impact on liberty and freedom of opportunity. Anything which gains opportunity on the backs of others by the force of government is, in some measure, tyranny and with it the correlating diminishing of liberty. Thereby subtracting from all of us economically and civilly.
You can paint anything to look pretty. It does not mean it is truly beautiful.
Report Post »guns-an-bibles
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:58amNOTAMUSHROOM
If America is awake now, why are we allowing the MSM to dictate who we vote for?
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:31amI enjoy the message however it should have been a Ford commercial – no bailout.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:40amIts halftime and the stadium is in foreclosure……and all the fans want free beer and hot dogs… Clint
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:46amThis country cant be knocked out with one punch…… Hey Clint , its a thoudand punches a day, and it our Criminal Federal Government DOING THE PUNCHING……
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:04amNews flash..Its not halftime in America. THE GAME IS OVER. If you think otherwise you are dellusional or in denial. The current administration has created a whole new game with new rules. Game Over!!! No election is bringing us back from this train wreck. The Titanic just hit an iceberg and the current crop of Republican talking heads are debating with the orchestra what music to play at dinner and what china to use. Buckle up. Its going to be a long hard ride. Quit depending on politicians to help you. Practice self-reliance.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:34amI cannot believe that the campaigner in chief on our dime ruined the Super Bowl Pre Game!
I was throughly disgusted that we had “ANY POLITICS” infused in the Super Bowl pre game or commercials which IS to take our minds OFF the GARBAGE of politics that this man has been spewing day and night for three years.
I changed the channel to CBS and watched Golf until he was finished with yet another long winded lousy campaign speech.. I’ll be damned if I was going to listen to this narcissistic fool he disgusts me!
But when the Politburo NBC the State Run News the Obama Channel has the Super Bowl on its channel you know we are gonna’ get the propaganda shoved down our throats even on Super Bowl Sunday!
I was disgusted!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:52amcommercials aside there is still no improvement in the job rate and unemployment. fake numbers by the government doesn’t put people in jobs.
Report Post »maumau
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:03amDont even punk! Clint is one of the only outspoken conservative in the hollywonderland crowd I for one like this commercial.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:08amThis, just last week:
Rep. Clarke asks Obama to bail out city of Detroit
After listening to President Obama give a bullish analysis of the nation’s once-bankrupt auto industry in a speech at the University of Michigan, Clarke met with the president aboard Air Force One to argue that Detroit might soon need the same sort of federal assistance.
“I went on Air Force One with one purpose: to talk to the president about emergency aid for Detroit,” Clarke told MLive.com. “[M]y request is based on the fact that we want to avoid the city running out of cash in the next two months, but we also want to stabilize the situation in a way that will create jobs by making streets safer, better educating and training people for jobs.”…
Report Post »http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/207349-gop-rep-clarke-asks-obama-to-bailout-city-of-detroit
Unix
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:35am+THAT my friends is a REAL American, he brings tears to my eyes…he is a true Patriot…if only we had more MEN like that in our great country. Instead we have jellyfish and communists…God in Heaven, have we sunk so low, that you have now turned your back on us? I don’t blame you Lord, we are losing your grace, because we have trashed our morals and values, and the American way…we are lost, and there is precious little time to find our way again.
Rise up Patriots, get off your duffs and TAKE BACK America from the Baal worshipers, starting at the top by voting the occupier of the WHO out, and all of the progressive lucifarians with him, throw them out on their ears!
TEA
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:44amSo do the right thing….. AND DUMP THE UNIONS!!!!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:52amThose who watched the game, even those who passed on the halftime joke, saw the commercial. Everyone including GB and the blaze can stop trying to co-opt it now.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:16amtriton you are just another brainwashed communist, this administration has plans for you and all of us, and they’re not good ones either, I wonder when you ignorant lemmings will ever wake up?
Report Post »aztd1
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:12pmLest I be redundant, but why is Clint pushing a foreign-owned car company in a “patriotic” ad? Wouldn’t you be behind an American owned company in such an ad instead?
Report Post »peace maker
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:23pm@ Hypnos Most people believe that Ford Motor Company was supposed to be the only major U.S. automaker not in need of a bailout or that Ford never got any government loans unlike GM and Chrysler. That is incorrect. Ford was the first US auto company to go to the Government for a bailout a year before GM and Chrysler so they missed all the bad press. On 6/29/2009 Ford accepted a $5.9 billion loan subsidy under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), their second Government Loan. Back in 2006 before the credit markets collapsed, Ford essentially mortgaged every facility it had in order to borrow $23.5 billion. Ford was not as solid as everyone thinks, they too have had the government help them out, just they missed all the media hype since they had gone first to the Government “Well.” They were already on the recovery path when GM and Chrysler got their hand out. One of the Reason Chrysler needed help: At the time Chrysler was way in the black but they were set back by the departure of Daimler when Daimler left they charged Dodge a $650,000,000 management fee and that crippled Chrysler’s future R&D funds. So they not activly survive the market turn down. GM was poorly managed and had too many brands that were not contributing to the bottom line and were more of an anchor than anything, Hummer, Buick, etc..
Report Post »Dd09999
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:34pmI wonder if he will do a commercial for AIG, Fannie and Freddie. One day the world will wake up and hear the cha ching of our cash registers. Bunch of bailout whores.
Report Post »Mizurax
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:48pmGreat commercial… But Detroit makes terrible vehicles. I know. I own one. It’s a big pile of dog poo. It’s the last “Chyrsler, Jeep, Dodge” vehicle I will ever own.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:10pm@Unix
“The Beguiled”…America, you are on your “last leg, the other “a stump”,(speeches from the current administration and the radical media). Don’t eat the poisonous-mushrooms that are being served to the American people. America do not be lulled-to-sleep by “Play Misty For Me”.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:29pmThank you for reminding people that Ford is not innocent of taking govt. money. Don’t forget, though, that Ford was at the table at the same time as GM and Chrysler begging for whatever they could get. It wasn’t until they saw the strings attached to the cash that they said “no thanks”. Also, what helped them to secure the loans they needed was a huge cash reserve that they had from selling off most of their foreign brands. They were in such bad shape a few years before the collapse, they had to start selling. Because they did it before the bottom fell out, they got very lucky and had lots of money.
Report Post »You’re also right that GM had been poorly managed, but they were working their way out of their bad place. They had been putting great people in place, making better and better cars, their sales were up and the future was looking bright. Some of their brands weren’t pulling their weight, but the two you mention were. They kept Buick because it’s the most poplular foreign brand in China and was poised to make the amazing recovery it is now making in America. Hummer was a cash cow prior to the collapse, but that was the market hardest hit by the downturn. As to the others; Saab had always been a problem for GM. Saturn and Pontiac also were showing real promise. Both had great vehicles at the time (Aura, G8!), and even better ones in the works, and they both had very loyal owner bases. It’s terrible they were forced by the govt. to close such a storied brand as Pontiac.
Clive
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:39pmi knew clint was republican, but i still couldn’t tell if this ad was pro or anti-GOP.
Report Post »i think the ad was purposely vague, so both sides can claim its backing them, and we can all feel super.
SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:45pmClint is another one of the good guys who late in life try to get on the good side of God and fall into the trap of thinking supporting big government makes them look compassionate in his eyes.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:55pmTRITON…that’s comedy gold….LOL..Watch the SOTU address for the facts…please stop, my sides are killing me…you’re hysterical.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:59pmand you know…nothing says “tough, strong and American” like losing $1.3 billion dollars of tax payer money to auto companies with ridiclous business models that price themselves out of the market due in part to their union coerced financial obligations to their unionized employees. $1.3 billion tax payer dollars you’ll never see again. Yes America, bail a failure out today so they can fail again another day. “It’s half time…has Clint found his mind yet”?
Report Post »RufusEdinwhirl
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:07pmChrysler is owned in majority by an Italian company and makes the cars in Canada and Mexico. Sometimes you need to do a little research before you sign on and agree to read the script. I think Clint meant well, he was just used by the unscrupulous 1 percenters, that would be Soros, Obama, and company.
Report Post »65Plus
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:13pm“It’s half-time in America. Go vote OBAMA.” We, the people, paid Fiat Billions to take Chrysler off our hands. None of the “loans” have been “paid back.” Lee Ioiacco in his last book was foaming at the mouth over an Obama future presidency. All you need to know is: “Democrat!Democrat!Democrat!” Thinking not only unnecessary, but absolutely forbidden. Think Soros’ Civil War is just around the corner. Americans vs. Democrats.
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:42pmSeems like everyone has forgotten that Chrysler is now owned by FIAT. HELLO?
Report Post »Teufel Hunden
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:44pmWhat happens at half time? You change direction. Oooorah!
Report Post »decroded
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:10amProduction volumes from the Americas is expeced to drop over the next seven years, while production volumes from Asia is expected to have a remarkable increase from 2 per cent in 2010, to 9 per cent of overall volumes in 2018. The group’s Chinese production volume is expected to witness a twelve-fold increase by 2018. Taken together with projected volumes in Iran and India, more than 11 per cent of the total Fiat-Chrysler vehicles produced globally are expected to be from the group’s Asian operations (frost.com)
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:28amThis was a tremendously well done, moving commercial. I found myself actually tearing up a bit. Eastwood is a stunningly talented man.
It is ever so ironic, though, that such a gripping, pro-America ad is put out by a company that was given, by our government, to an Italian company, as well as the Canadian government and the unions. The bailouts, the left will tell you ad nauseum, saved the auto industry. BUNK. The bailouts were for the sole purpose of forcing the two unfortunate companies to be railroaded by the government into giving unprecedented money and power to the unions. Had the bailouts not been given what would have happened? Legal bankruptcy proceedings and restructuring. With the bailouts what happened? ILLEGAL bankruptcy proceedings where bondholders were told to stuff it, while the unions collected all the cash and interest in the companies they could. The government took control of the businesses and forced countless independant, successful (non union) dealers out of business, screwed the bondholders who, by law, were to be the first to collect, fired personnel who dared object, and handed control to foreign governments, foreign businesses and the unions.
Socialism 1, Freedom/Liberty/Capitalism 0.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:45amDo you know what is really sad? A man of his years lacking wisdom to see that building cars cannot be the glue that binds Americans together……building anything for that matter. The common thread that joined us together were…I say “were” because its gone now, were the Judea-Christian values of morality. Our communities fail for lack of morality! Drugs, crime, greed, hopelessness, lack of vision have long crept in. Oh sure some kid comes up with a great idea called Facebook….so what! We’ve gotta have someone coming up with a multitude of brilliant ideas everyday to be on par with what we once were and did as a country. Face it, the American spirit of real competition has since been replaced with everyone wins.
Its also the agenda of some to take country down and destroy it and I would agree that thats happening.
A car commercial to rally Americans? Please! If we are that far gone that it takes believing in some car company than we are too far gone that is for sure.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:55amSorry Chief, but belief in some ancient myth is not going to bring back America, jobs will. Jobs that Obama’s policies have saved and created. Obama saved the auto industry and the jobs of hard working Americans. If the GOP would get out of the way the recovery could move along faster.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:25amEncinom, you just can’t pass up any opportunity to spew your hatred of Christianity, can you? Chief didn’t speak of any ancient myth. He spoke to the very real values that our founder funamentally based our nation upon. Call them American values instead of Judeo Christian, if you wish, the principle remains the same. Our founders studied, and borrowed from, several philosophies, including the fundamentals of Judeo Christian teachings. They didn’t create a theocracy, but instead used the basics of a very solid philosophy to give us a nation of freedom and liberty.
Report Post »Jobs alone will not set our ship right. The morals and values that founded our country and saw it become the almost instant standard of the world have been largely discarded, and the result is what you see today. Govt has replaced the family unit by a very meticulous design. We have created a culture of entitlements that rewards bad behavior. If our people return to the basic values that made this country so amazing, we will have all the jobs we can handle. If we merely keep trying to make jobs appear from thin air, our country will cease to be.
GeorgieJo
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:51amSORRY CLINT—I love ya for your movies and director abilitys but you are promoting a GOVT OWNED car industry.
NEVER would I drive a Detroit made car
NEVER.
OMG in 2012
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:18amThat about sums it up! Well said. Thank you for remembering the facts.
Report Post »guns-an-bibles
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:22amencinom
hahahahaha!!!!!!!! You have got to be KIDDING!!!!!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:36amencinom – please read George Washington’s innaugural speech, it is you that believe in the myths. Your day of gnashing of teeth and wailing for your govt to come help you are coming fast. You will be sorely disappointed by what comes next, and you will be bewildered by the backlash…so stay comfy at home collecting welfare and unemployment, it will not last much longer…there is no chance of you waking up, because your life is a nightmare…just wait until reality hits you right upside the head. Obama saved jobs? Created jobs? You are delisuional, and your pack of hungry communists and islamo-fascists will rue the day when true Patriots stand up to your nonsense.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:26amSecond half without Obama you fool! Are these people ignorant or blind, dumb or what??? Second half my arse, if we have a second of BHO your America will be gone Clint G.O.N.E. God help us!
Report Post »sdranger
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:14amI guess alot of my friends on the Blaze just didn’t get the commercial. Chrysler was never mentioned once you have to know and ID the flashes on the screen to figure that out. How many Americans actually can do it? Not very many IMO.
If you are into sports and really into football the second half is where history is made. Look at the game New England ahead at half time, scores right away in the second half, but in the end loses the game.
Take note you bunch of socialist, communist free loaders. It’s half-time in America we’ve been hit, knocked down, shouted down, ridiculed and even our beliefs are trying to be taken away. It’s half-time America we will WIN. Stay focused, prepare for the worst, work for the best. It’s half-time America.
Report Post »CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:28pmIt’s halftime in America. And Barack Hussein Obama is fundamentally transforming the United States into a third-class socialist toilet while he wipes his azz with the Constitution.We can and we will come back but only if we flush that turd and his crap-filled cronies for good and forever.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:00pmClint Eastwood is doing Obama Campaign Commercials now, huh?
Chrysler is in bed with Obama, but who is going to buy cars because of an Obama Campaign Commercial? We are with the federal government we are here to help and we don’t need to make no stinking profit. Classic, now the super bowl ads are just Obama commercials, that’s a good way to bring down the super bowl ratings.
Report Post »badgesjacksonSOUNDEDcool
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:25amKinda like the Tim Allen GM commercial about the “car America had to build.”
Report Post »Rayindyinoh
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:34amI hate that sell-out ad also.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:59amThe whole notion that “Detroit is back” is a lie anyway. Detroit is the carcas of a once great city sucked dry by a parasite (UAW). The parasite is too stupid to know it’s host is dead.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:25amAt first I thought Clint was going to say, “Chevy” and “Volt” and that he was bought and paid for by Obama and crew. I’m glad it was “anything else but Obama and GM”. I guess Clint will not be voting for Obama and the IRS will be “paying” him a visit for being a traitor to GM.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:52amChrysler was just as bailed out as GM. In fact, Since parts of Chrysler were given to Canada and the unions, and the majority going to an Italian company, I would say Chrysler was the worse of the two bailed out automakers.
Report Post »I wish people would stop equating the Volt with Obama and the bailouts, as if it was a government-mandated car. Now, the new Dodge Dart IS govt-mandated. Fiat earned an additional 5% stake in Chrysler by bringing a 40MPG Dodge (it’s really an Alfa Romeo) to the states. The Volt was in the works long before the country even knew about Obama. GM needed a eco halo car like Toyota’s Prius. I’m no greenie (give me a Camero with 500+ HP, please), but for a large swath of the population, and for the image, GM needed their own Prius. The Prius is a sales success for Toyota, and a huge boon to their image. The Volt is a remarkable technological acheivement. The fires we’ve heard about are still under investigation, and from what I’ve read, NHTSA may be to blame for not handling the crash-tested car properly. I’m reserving judgement, but I‘ve no doubt they’ll be able to remedy the problem, if there is one. The high cost that has so many people poo-pooing the car will eventually come down as the technology is perfected and spread out over more vehicles, like the stunning new Caddy that will use the next gen Volt tech.
Now, if you want to complain about the subsidies the Volt, and cars like it, receive, I’m right there with you, but that‘s not GM’s fault
Bonnieblue2A
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:24amI think if we can unite against Progressives and return to our US Constitution and the limited powers of the federal government our founderes envisioned that we can snatch liberty from the jaws of Totalitarianism. We can turn this game around and pound the statists into the ground. Huddle up now, Ron Paul 2012!
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:11amI agree with verything with th exception of Ron Paul. He can not and will not win, sorry.
Report Post »DoctorPlay
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:24amNot good enough Welloddy…
Report Post »pethealthguru
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:24amI really wanted to vomit.. an American Icon selling out to Gov’t motors & my tax dollars… “did I just pay your paycheck??’ FYI … did you cash it?… I will never buy a GM Product knowingly again…. Just the political overtones in the ad…. that is CORRUPT!!!
Report Post »DoctorPlay
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:22amThey spent how much of my money (sorry, borrowed from Chinesse) on that commercial? Clint is supporting a 50BILLION dollar bailout? How’s that 35$ a share (IPO) working out for you? GM was allowed to break bankruptcy law to satisfy the UAW (ask PREFERRED stock holders). Where was Congress? I’m so sick of this! Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »sermaus
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:22amNice words, powerful message, I just want another coach for 2012, not the one in DC now
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:20amI love Clint Eastwood. I think he meant well. The bailouts are behind us now – so what to do next? I think he might have liked things to have played out different, but they didn’t. He loves his country and did the best he could with what he had to work with.
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:15amI am personally offended by this propaganda commerical that was obviously titled toward justifing a second term for President Obama. It is offensive to attempt to treat hard working Americans that they are so stupid they do not know the turth behind money lost by bailing out the auto industry and lining the pockets of unions that laundry money for the Democratic party. Sorry, we are not buying it, fool us once shame on you fool us twice,,,,,well it just isn’t going to happen
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:25amActually we are into the 4th quarter and soon our National nightmare will be over and Americans will be the winners and Obama will be the loser. November 2012……………
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:48amI wish it was that easy! Dear Leader will get a second term. The phony numbers will continue to be produced out of thin air and the MSM is already ratcheting up the propaganda machine to push Dear Leader over the top. He will win a second term, thats of course if there is a USA by this fall for him to govern, yes its that bad. WW3 is at the door…our door. This time we will not be protected by distance and two vast Oceans.
Wilma
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:52amLiberal pundits are out this morning reinforcing the message. It is embarrassing and frustrating to see RNC get schooled once again by the DNC.
Report Post »Present Relic
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:13amI love how they try to make a commerchle “powerul” to try to lead our nation back on path, sad to me that you have to goto such levels
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:11amI would buy a bike before I would buy a chrysler. The bond holders got a raw deal while the unions made off with the money. Eastwood should have been promoting Ford verses Chrysler or GMC.
Report Post »Messenger4God
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:52amMy experiences with GM, Ford, and Chrysler have been nightmares. I’m sticking with Toyota and Lexus. I like Clint Eastwood as an actor but it just ends there.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:59amMessenger, I‘m sorry you’ve had so many troubles with American cars. I’ve had very few. My prized vehicle is an Oldsmobile Cutlass from the late ’80s, and it is a fantastic car from that period. My family has primarily had GM vehicles for decades and have had very little problems. Between us, we currently have GM vehicles from just about every era, and I’ll put any one of them against a similar import. We’ve also owned Hondas, Toyotas, Kias, Chryslers, Mercedes and several others. In all, we’ve always had the best luck with GM. My last new vehicle was an ‘05 Chevy Silverado. What an amazing truck. Comfortable, powerful, easy to drive, absolutely trouble free, and believe it or not, was worth more when I traded it in at 2 years old, than what I paid for it (I got deep discounts).
Report Post »I guess my whole point is, if you are excluding American vehicles from past disappointments, you are truly missing out. The current crop of American vehicles are better than ever, and are worth anyone’s attention. While I’ll not buy another new GM until the govt. is out of their business, I can’t wait for that to happen. The Camaro ZL1 is just begging me to buy it.
Messenger4God
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:54amB_RAD,
Report Post »I have not totally given up on American cars. The Camaro has always been a favorite of mine.
aztd1
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:39am@B_RAD….. too bad Camero isn’t even built in this country (neither is the Dodge Challenger). Mustang is the only one built in the USA.
Report Post »peace maker
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:14pmI have owned 57 vehicles in my life and the Toyotas were horrible. Toyota truck rusted out prematurely, My Camry; the rear door stoped opening due to a frame tweak after being only 2 years old, and second Camry the dash stoped working, computer problems, gutless, and front light assembly fell off. I race trucks as a hobby and five of my tow rigs were / are Dodges. I put 250K miles on each one before selling, and my totaly cost for maintenance (out side of Oil changes) on all five was less than $1670 ( one crank sensor, ball joints, a few bearings, clutches) For 5 vehicles from 1988 to present. Not many brands have worked so well for me. My 68 Charger runs perfect, as does my 73 Challenger, my 92 Ramcharger, my 01 Durango, my 4 Jeeps ( all over 188K) running perfect, my 07 Charger perfect, and my Dodge T-Rex 6×6 148K no problems, my 2005 GMC running good with minimal troubles and my Fords were very reliable, they reliably left me on the side of the road every trip we took.lol…. So I don’t agree that Japanese cars are any better. I have studied the Lean Six Sigma aproach of Toyota, and the US big three utilize the same quality approach.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:10amYeah The Unions Were Bailed Out With our Money and The Armpit of Michigan can not help themselves.They Did Not Band Together. Unions were paid off with Tax money for votes.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:20amShame on EASTWOOD .. I would think he would have known better.
Report Post »Suzanne Winter
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:07amI found it repugnant.
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:19amAgreed. I was offended.
Report Post »Fletcher13
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:06amIf the bail-out infused incompetent Chrysler Motors is our “hope” or model for conservatives, then this country is truly going to continue on its way through the u-bend of the crapper!
Report Post »LoneStarGigger
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:06amThe game should have been over for Chrysler years ago. I was not impressed with this add. It didn’t make me want to go out a buy anything Chrysler. This just reinforces what happens when you have liberals running any thing for more then two years minimum. If we keep up with the BS we have for the last four years this entire country’s future is Detroit. Or Philadelphia, Cleveland and on and on. Does anyone pick up a pattern here? I’m not trying to hide it.
Report Post »maccow
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:05am“Its half time in America” I’m thinking its time for a game changer before we get our butts handed to us in the next half (four years) just like the last half. Talk about time to win one for the Gipper.
“Detroit’s showing us it can be done?” Sure, showing us that Liberal politicians and Labor unions can absolutely destroy a once thriving community.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:24amI agree .. like that phoney ad last year .. where they showed only the few good parts of Detroit … this is nothing but propoganda .. THEY SHOULD SHOW THE REAL DETROIT … burned out buildings and falling down homes ..drug dealers and addicts … that is the REAL Detroit .. thanks to decades of progressives and unions ruining not only Detroit .. but Flint and many other Michigan towns .. including my old hometown of Jackson .. it is getting more and more dangerous just to visit.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:07amDetroit is STILL nothing but a democrat-caused ghetto, and halfway thru the ad if we had not seen that quick shot of that Chrysler emblem on that shiny front grille, we would have kept on thinking obama was about to walk out lisping ‘he is the savior’ at any moment. and even then we half expected to see obama getting out of a Chrysler at the end.
God bless FORD Motors.
Report Post »jpsays
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:04amGran Torino‘s setting wasn’t picked for it’s wonderful urban backdrop for nothing. He seems to be sincere in his support of America. I don’t think it a campaign for anything Chrysler.
Report Post »marion
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:04amNothing Mopar after 2009, until they prove themselves, but I do have to say, they are doing some pretty amazing things over there, getting ready to hire another 1,800 people to start building the new Dodge Dart. This makes 10,000 rehired people, more than anyone else, so I am going to keep moinitoring things for a while, see if I change my mind later.
Report Post »possom
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:03amHalftime? It seem’s to me were down to the last play!
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:20amIndeed.
Report Post »USNJIMRET
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:03amI found it hard to believe that Conservative Eastwood would have anything to do with an ad that seemed to say it was OK for the bailouts to “save” Detroit from it’s own stupidity. A powerful message indeed, but, IMO, the wrong message. America does NOT Need the kind of government centered “help” to reclaim her place in the world. As Mr Reagan said, “Government isn’t the solution to the problem, government IS the problem.”
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:25amAmen!
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:01amI posted this up on savingtherepublic.com not too long ago and some ppl just make you regret doing things sometimes. Some of the negativity I saw on it just makes you think whats wrong with people even after you put a note to it “Substitute Detroit for “We the People”, America or Americans; what a great ad!! Heck, sounds more like a political speech from a true leader than an ad from a bailed out company!!… Clint 2012“ Some took my ”Clint 2012″ literally others took opportunity to bash.
This country is really going down the tubes b/c when a “patriotic” commercial comes on you want to spread and ppl decide to go negative’ what are you left with? This is something to remind people we have been down and we will come back. It WILL BE hard but we can do it!
This commercial and Eastwood’s commentary WAS GREAT. We came make a come back, so to those who want to bash just go away. Leave, because you are the problem, YOU and your kind are in the way. Some of you are too critical and so negative you are bringing everyone down!
Report Post »maccow
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:08amThe problem with the add is its for the Government Motors Corporation. Kind of made me think that the “First Half” was Obama’s first term and therefore the last thing we need is a second half under Obama.
Report Post »I’m thinking game changer time.
BMartin1776
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:18amI understand that and its why when I posted it up I said SUBSTITUTE Detroit with We the People America, Americans. I even comment about them being bailed out. I saw through the Chrysler Govt Motors and viewed it as a patriotic message WHICH IT IS. This was a great message but all the “Doug/Debbie Downers” are ruining and attacking it! Just sign of the times anything and everything done with good intentions will be destroyed. We see it with this campaign and now with this ad and anything remotely like it.
Report Post »Marine25
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:03pmSome would rather the American auto industry have completly died than this President’s plan for saving them succeed. If it were a Reagan or a Bush plan it would be cheered and saluted.
Report Post »Oh well, racism trumps patriotism for some.
Thankfully most Americans are not that way.
Teufel Hunden
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:59amMarine25, what’s this racism crap. In case you haven’t noticed, Barack Hussein Obama is half black and half white making it difficult to pick a side. Now drop and give me 20 maggot!
Report Post »Buster_Highman
Posted on February 5, 2012 at 11:57pmLove Clint Eastwood, but, I wouldn’t be caught dead in a Chrysler product made after 1972.
Report Post »flashlight
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:14amMy 98 Ram has over 300k, you drive a Honda or something? Go USA
Report Post »Buster_Highman
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:21am68 F-250. Parts are cheap. Easy to work on. Runs great.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on February 5, 2012 at 11:56pmTime for a new president, and a legal one this time.
Report Post »edmundburk
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:04ami used to respect eastwood, but doing commercials for goverment motors(GM or Crysler does it matter?) oh well, I still like him just not his politics.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:17amMaybe that’s what Eastwood was eluding to……time to go with a new president in this next half.
Report Post »mohavegreen
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:51amLets hope this year is not half time for Khomenini Obama and posse, but the end game. Football teams change direction at half time and I’m still in shock from the first change in wind direction by BO.
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