A Better "Halftime In America" Commercial
Clint Eastwood drew a lot of ire, rhetoric, and subsequent explanations as to the real motives behind his Superbowl halftime commercial. Frankly, the commercial could and should have been much better. One proposal for what a less cynical and thus far more sincere "Halftime in America" commercial should be comes from Omid Malekan, creator of the original Bears (explaining QE for the "rest of us") cartoon. We believe this is what should have been shown during the superbowl. And certainly not presented under a Chrysler, pardon Fiat, umbrella.
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Eastwood disgraced himself with that commercial.
They suckered the poor guy into it. Manipulated an old man.
When Eastwood was asked about Ron Paul he responded 'he's as good as anybody else.' That spoke volumes about his ignorance. The superbowl add was not surprising.
Eastwood is brilliant. That's why he is where he is, and you are where you are.
Rebuttal: Sondra Locke
What was appropriate was the Madonna halftime show that followed the commercial:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2012/02/its-halftime-in-america-mad...
America.....symbolically like the Patriots....loses in the second half.
thank you for removing the wankers intrusion...
Agenda 21 For Dummies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM
Another one:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/its-halftime-in-america-the-ad-cli...
The truth hurts I suppose. What's wrong with that?
You exchanged wealth for welfare, so what's your problem?
hat's off to Clint. ..a straight shooter and an American original. Long may he run.
Sustained!
Further Rebuttal: The Bridges of Madison County.
That kind of analysis appears to indicate you truly must be a judge to be that ignorant of an argument.
Nobody's record is blemish free...we're all allowed a couple of mulligan's..at least he didn't marry her.
Where is he where he is?
Come to think of it, where is I where I is?
And where are you?
There are no brilliant actors, except perhaps at acting. They are a species more closely related to the Politician than the Genius.
my waiter last night told me he was brilliant actor. of course, he got that order wrong, but that's because he is above doing anything other than great 'acting'.
Actors are not brilliant. They are paid to act, perhaps sometimes brilliant, or otherwise; however, there are very, very few actors that can be considered brilliant. You've been closed.
Turns out, ZeroHedge has a lot of sheeple on here. Clint Eastwood is a fucking actor that reads lines for a living. I can't believe we are discussing what he got paid to read.
Saying "Clint Eastwood is a fucking actor" is a lot like saying "Mahatma Gandhi is a fucking community organizer."
The guy did do some acting, sure. He also had a career.
He's also about to get his ass taxed off. I think he belongs to the >250K club.
Yeah, what a crime. Helps ya realize just how oppressed the extravagantly wealthy are these days. Poor Clint being crushed under the Obamanation's jackboots.
...he says, digging in the couch cushions for food money.
No kiddin. I'm poor as a motherfucker, but at least I'm not a whiny little bitch.
@bluderdog, You just got the worst analogy award. *CLAP CLAP CLAP. What an asshat
Clint Eastwood is not just some actor. He's also a producer and a director, which are a great deal more. And no disrespect, but that's probably a whole lot more than your sorry ass has accomplished.
I may not have liked his commercial much but it was just a commercial. Get over it.
Edit: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/
I used to work for the guy...he's so much better in real life than any of his movie characters. He is one of the few people left in the world where you can shake his hand on a deal and he's good for it. The guy is a stud and his character and integrity are untouchable.
'Unforgiven' is my favorite movie he did He's got talent but he shouldn't blend his work with government propaganda. It really makes him look like a tool.
You are not your job.
You are not how much money you have in your wallet.
We are the all singing all dancing crap of the world.
he is an 'actor' and a 'producer' and a 'director' and he created BS in the media, with himself as the hero. none of it actually happened in reality or ever will. most of it couldn't even possibly happen. if you want to believe in media, keep on. if you want to have a life, turn it off and get on with it.
my sorry ass actually has a few accomplishments and one of them isn't selling crap to make the general public buy crap because they are brain dead. but - i'm not rich, or famous. so i'm a loser.
he is an 'actor' and a 'producer' and a 'director' and he created BS in the media, with himself as the hero. none of it actually happened in reality or ever will. most of it couldn't even possibly happen. if you want to believe in media, keep on. if you want to have a life, turn it off and get on with it.
my sorry ass actually has a few accomplishments and one of them isn't selling crap to make the general public buy crap because they are brain dead. but - i'm not rich, or famous. so i'm a loser.
Clint Eastwood just revealed his real colors.
Clint started his movie career as an honest and dedicated SP policeman who uses unconventional means and risking his own police career to protect the general public from government & politicians who protect & promote criminals, rapists, perverts, murderers, etc., The “halftime” commercial revealed the real Clint Eastwood: an excellent actor and a very phony person. It should not be surprise for everybody.
After all, Clint is a Hollywood star. It is not a secret that Hollywood is owned by the Zionist Mafia. The same Mafia also owns WallStreet and the FED. The Hollywood Mafia promotes filth, crime, violence, use of narcotics, etc., The Mafia that does an excellent job destroying the cultural & political fabric of this great Nation. Do you really expect that an honest man with integrity would be permitted to become a Hollywood superstar and/or insider?
IMO - caconhma just brought down the curtain to a standing ovation. Well said.
Actors pretend for a living and have no concept of reality.
They get paid to lie, just like politicians.
Do some amateur acting and you'll figure out that the best actors are the character while acting it - they act, react and even feel the emotions that that character would feel in that situations.
Bad actors are the ones that do the "make believe I'm this person" kind of acting.
Thus (proper) acting isn't lying - if the character is a fake representation of somebody, blame it on the scriptwritter. If you want to see professional lying, check-out politicians.
That said, my words apply to stage actors, where it's live and there's no second takes. There's a couple of stars from the screen that I suspect aren't all that good as actors.
"It's not a lie if YOU believe it!" -- George Costanza
No, that was Eric Holder in sworn testimony to Congress. - Ned
Pretend? I always thought they got paid hundreds of millions for their movies so they could keep in tou with reality....
true, but the commercial is offensive and clueless
That commercial was pretty good. The guy who made it is right.
I'm all for a better, more free, non-oligarchy America.
We've got to get Ron Paul in if we want to turn this country around. The Maine caucas was blatant fraud, check out this video here:
http://ronpaul2012blog.blogspot.com/
When Eastwood was asked about Ron Paul he responded 'he's as good as anybody else.' That spoke volumes about his ignorance.
First, we all need to understand just one thing. something we all have in common - we are all terror suspects the lands of our republic have been declared a war zone and any of us can be locked away on a whim, by our employees, in the name of the global national security ponzi.
The phrase, "he looks as good as anybody else", is very clever subliminal pitch for Dr. Paul as could be. A fair portion of us may fear supporting Dr. Paul's efforts would condemn us to wearing a scarlet letter for being 'unpatriotic'. A real "rule of law" and honest "golden rule" advocate is not usually part of our made for TV quad-annual presidential horse race. Glenn Greenwald remarked that when he spoke about the "rule of law" in Washington DC, he felt like he was speaking a foreign language.
Clint's "he looks as good as anybody else" response is a great low key pitch to anyone straddling the fence or doubts what their common sense tells, the: He's not saying "Not Paul", he's asking "Why not Paul". If ya come on too brash too baudy with the gentry off Dog Patch they will ignore you - ya gotz tuze soft shoe an idea everyonce in a while - do an an end around instead of a run up the middle and all that stuff.
Besides - the 'bowl's" (which your's truly has boycotted for a decade) ad policy does not allow political content. The ""bowel's" suits denied a building 7 ad and antiwar ad or two (did not know a position on genocide or war crimes is considered a "political" position). Ahhh - what the F* - we're a; drunk on the ecstasy exceptionalism - why spoil the party - and besides - did you see the Madon's demonic posturing - or did one of her breastesses flop out - again.
The collapse will not stop - the system is totally broke. Alternatives 1) The resignation and house arrest of all political employees (associated with the ponzi) and their relatives as well as resignations from the heads, and boards, of the fractional reserve CDS and debt dealers on the "Street: and their subsidiaries bit it voluntary or some "not yet quite imagined how" hard or soft coup by the republics rank and file civil and uniformed employees who would also need to set up a provisional government to manage the republics business internally and externally, as well as facts and evidence.of the crimes that delivered the collapse. Either that, or 2) 300 Million turn less than 10,000 into compost or, 3) the golden rule.
But the system is broke - it's broke as we comment. It's broke beyond even Mr Wizard's repair skills, It has to be rebuilt ground up all over again. Dr Paul stated last year he believes it may be to late to tweak a correction - the best he might be able to do was mitigate the consequences and shorten the duration.
There is no miracle - no QE manna from the big cheese of the big cheeses can put Humpty Dumpty of our shallow national pride back together again - the fascists want fog of a world war to hide their useless murderous asses from us. If we wait - they'll be pawning of our bandwidth, our water system, our air, our food production our roads just like they did in every other banana republic they IPO'd to sacrifice someone else's homeland, friends and families for.
The tipping poinr has been breached - even the blind can see the truth and are angered by the crimes and lies. Angered by their prolonged bout of apathy.
Sometimes a whisper is louder than a shout And some things sometimes are beyond the hope of dialog.
Wake up!
its not half time....it has been declared a "no contest".....a merciless beat down from the special privledge on the sheered sheep...no its not half time ...its a mike tyson fuckin knockout...
Disgrace? Not even close. He sent a good message. If more people at his level did the same we'd be in much better shape as a country.
have a little respect. The man is Dirty Harry. Nuff said.
I don't care if he's Dirty Sanchez, I respect him, but he sells out.
Coming from you, that's saying something.
Pull the cash outta your ass louie, dirty harry is a movie character, nothing more. Clint Eastwood is an actor that I enjoy from spaghetti wetserns to even Dirty Harry. However his message was garbled at best and pro-statist at worst.
Age has worn out Eastwood's body and mind, but he still wields a lot of influence. Unfortunately, there's many people who like to manipulate old men in positions like that.
I agree, Eastwood disgraced himself supporting Obama! That was a clear political add! He would not have done it 30 years ago when he was making the old spagthetti westerns and beating the crap out of Lee Van Cleef!
I love watching right wingers get their panties in a wad over every noC'm that flies by. Get a grip, you clowns.
yes, libertarian peabraniacs, let's continue with your tribal thinking, it's going to lead us back to 1812. What? Detroit is coming back? It's horrible, just horrible! I wish Taliban blew them up or something. Ron Paul!
You mean way back when the U.S. didn't have to travel 6,000 miles to fight undeclared wars, and won them?
Are you an Obama girl or a Romney girl?
I'm looking forward to your youtube 'viral' video, with tight tshirt and big hooters, while singing off key.
I think america goes with the playbook out of Benny's back pocket. Print print print.
Bravo!
I'm leaning more in the 7 min left in the 4th quarter camp.
Tyler is pulling grass as "Joe Cool" while he runs the two minute drill.
Leave him alone. Even Ben Hur and Jeremiah Johnson had intermissions.
i like that. but let's just push that a little further as in GAME OVER.
...which playbook do we want to go out with? The one that's hard but brought us this far or the other one that's born of nothing but envy and fear -is more like it.
And since he's presenting the issue this way, he shouldn’t have been shy about pointing out who would rather fundamentally transform America instead.
Linsanity.
Betcha an oz of platinum he's a better economist than Krugman?
Princeton vs Harvard, we can sell tickets to this if they faceoff. Quick buy more MSG stock.
We can't be havin' no kid in no garage creatin' the next bright idea...anymore. Mega corporations are the only way, with one hand in Joe's pocket with price monopolies and the other hand scraping dough out of the US Treasury. More conforming to mass produced products is the way. Less independent critical political thought is the way. More capital formation through the Federal Reserve printing press is the way.
Stop this abuse of the airwaves calling for rugged individualism!
Kurt Cobain?
Damn right! Just ask the Europeans how many Garage Enterprises they created in the last century, over here people would not catch an idea if it was injected directly into their veins with a needle, that is a reason why America got so great(past tense) the Europeans just would not compete like it was beneath them
What the hell happened to AAPL?
Ummm...for about 30 minutes, the market actually worked and arbitraged sheer stupidity.
Ran out of juice.
Algos cannot read, but some "User" clearly did some ZH reading and made for the exits.
On a similar profane note, who the Hell is sending SHLD up nearly 7% this session ?
Ben Bernanke. He is expanding his book of broken consumer discretionary companies...this to go with his Red Roof Inn position.
Next, he will be checking his search screens for companies that have recently filed for bankruptcy...
Ripened from green to red.
Market down 81 points? Time for the PPT to save the day!
Equities? Going down? Unpossible!
Maybe someone can announce they are thinking about signing something.
Almost time for momo-tarder to tell us how restaurant stocks and sporting goods stores are making new 52 week highs...
Next thing we'll see cats and dogs living together. Utter madness. I need to hear the "F E D" tone to feel safe.
Member that 45 minute "Crude Complex" "mind freeze" daze back. It's like the an initial fax from the FED's fast and furious ponzi control romm inadvertently reported to the FED's insider's, "we're going to power down some printers for maintenance", when it was discovered the wrong insider spot market manipulation trading "fix" was sent out, after 45 minutes everybody got the "corrected" fix sheet that reported the printers were set to "hyper-print" and then "transporter print" and then "double hyper transporter print" (all in 45minutes!). Remember: falling USD equal inflated prices and inflated prices are the only thing carrying the fractional reserve ponzi markets.
Assets are now coupons that redeem other coupons that can only redeem other coupons and so on and so on and so on ... infinity,
Until further Notice
Thanks, in part to to the efficiency of our counterfeiting operation, there are no buyers in the equity and debt markets. We suggest our member primaries take advantage of our shared accomplishment and eliminate or re-task their HFT program and teams. Since there are no more buyers there is no need for HFT quote stuffing. In fact, there is no need for an index based on "actual" trading. From this point forward we will print what the FED and her advisory board determines the print for a given equity or index should be at any given tick. Again, thanks to those wo participated in this global ponzi coup. As we look forward to the next innovation to assure a continuing profitable crop of slaves are available (when other trinkets of wealth just won't do) and efficiently fed with scraps and crumbs we sweep from our dining tables. God decreed to Abraham that all disposable income held by the commons is our property!
rumour of rebalancing due to dramatic increase in mkt cap. last time they did this the market tanked.
Pretty Good. Better than the Chrysler tripe.
Maybe we would get some real leadership if we stop using the feel good halftime story and use a real situation. It's 5:00 left in the 4th quarter America, you're down by 4 and the other team has the ball.
Blah blah blah melodramatic patriotism. America has always sucked.
America is an idea long ago forgotten.
The illusion of America is finally being realized by middle class white America that the rest of the minorities figured out years back.
The minorities didn't figure shit out or else they wouldn't be supporting Obama. Same goes for your white middle class. Theyz all stupid self agrandizing, melodramatic, spoiled, complacent, charlottenz.
So true. The white middle-class is going Santorum right now. Nuff said.
Well, they're not stupid enough to fall for Obummer again, and they can clearly see Romney's nuts, so what other choice do they have? They don't know what NOTA even means, and Ron Paul, why he wants to take all of their free-stuff!
So, what do junkies do when their drug stops working? Why they get down and dirty with the next best thing to be had. Santorum, jenkum, it's all the same.
You gotta love the Republics. "Let's go back to the 14th century! No birth control for you!" What a bunch of maroons.
You get voted up for using "Maroons".
Its really hard to visualize freedom when the IQ is below 100. The below 100 IQ have always wanted to be a part of the herd.
There is a huge difference between IQ and common sense. Some people with high IQ have a real tendency to believe that they can control things and that leads them towards the top-to-bottom organization thinking. On the other hand, there are some people with lower IQs who could not make it to college but who can still figure out of common sense that you can't "shape society according to your wishes", to paraphrase Hayek.