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VenusRising

(11,252 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 10:24 PM Aug 2012

Remember how pissed the Righties got over the "It's Halftime in America" ad?



It made Rove's head explode. All the right-wing talking heads said it was an endorsement of Obama's bailout of the auto industry. The auto industry is unionized and we know Republicans can't stand that. Eastwood belongs to a union.

If it was political theater it was absolute genius. How many people are talking about Romney's speech today? I haven't heard anything. All I've heard about is the crazy ramblings of an old man to an empty chair.

Just thought I would put that out there.
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Remember how pissed the Righties got over the "It's Halftime in America" ad? (Original Post) VenusRising Aug 2012 OP
I really think it was political theater, absolute genius. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #1
Yeah, I figure someone EC Aug 2012 #2
Do you really think a well known egomaniac like Clint would make an ass out of himself... Walk away Aug 2012 #3
He made movies where his co-star was an orangutan. VenusRising Aug 2012 #5
Andy Kaufman would have been proud. Frank Cannon Aug 2012 #4
I'm beginning to believe that there is more to this R. Daneel Olivaw Aug 2012 #6
Clint rediscovering his American roots ? billofrightsalive Aug 2012 #7

EC

(12,287 posts)
2. Yeah, I figure someone
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 10:31 PM
Aug 2012

was on his ass screaming for equal time and endorsement of Mitt, that he just said "Okay, you want equal time? Here's your equal time, now shove it...

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
3. Do you really think a well known egomaniac like Clint would make an ass out of himself...
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 10:32 PM
Aug 2012

in front of the entire country and destroy his own image for "political theater"? Everyone who wants to act in any professional medium in the U.S. has to belong to a union. I am sure that a lifelong Libertarian like Clint would burn his union card and the union if he could.

My guess is he is a "Friend of Ron Paul"

VenusRising

(11,252 posts)
5. He made movies where his co-star was an orangutan.
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 10:44 PM
Aug 2012

I think it's possible.

And even if he is a "Friend of Ron Paul", no one is talking about Romney today. Everyone is talking about Clint. You can't tell me that his ego isn't being fed. There are many in Hollywood who maintain that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)
4. Andy Kaufman would have been proud.
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 10:38 PM
Aug 2012

There's no way that Clint wasn't trolling us all last night. And it was a masterful performance.

7. Clint rediscovering his American roots ?
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 11:42 PM
Aug 2012

I wondered...about the paradox: upstaging to downplay vs. strangeness?...one could believe that Clint has rediscovered his American roots and seeing/hearing the similarities between GOP policies-plots-plans and the 1930-1945 nazi policies-plots-plans, was horrified to his very soul that he had in the past contributed his support to reagan-conservatives-become-neofascist-antiamericans the likes of hitler's henchmen... having seen old B&W newsreels of nazi meetings, I shivvaa'd to see/hear the crowds response to the
hitler-fantasies-like speeches...

...and on a news tangent: tonight's news reported that a Massachusetts richguy owning a harley dealership put 3 billboards on his lawn with lighting/security cams to protect ...damning obama including utilizing an image of a young girl with her middle finger in an obscene gesture ....

by their acts so shall ye know them... the bunch of gop-supporters are every bit hitler's nazi regime redux...

no american should forget how many Americans as well as Europeans fought Hitler, lost their lives/permanently disabled, to save Democracy and Human Rights from the fascists .... no American can claim US Citizenship and vote for neofascists who plot to subvert the US Constitution-Bill of Rights and spit in the eyes of WWII Vets [dead/alive] ...

I wish DNC and Obama's reelection campaigners would get ahead of these dangerous neofascists...hitlet et co. sneaked into the german republic to overtake german democracy while the german people slept or were conned into nazi-membership to recoup 'germany uber alles' ....to recover from economic crisis/debt, to regain technical leadership, ... and while some didn't care who paid what price for their german pride recovery, others were just too afraid to fight the crowd and refuse to join the nazi party...and when the smell of burning bodies wafted across towns, they still turned away ... so that the few who attempted to save the jews from slaughter did so at the cost of their own lives...once the nazis were in control of absolute power over government, it was too late, and whatever they did they did with impunity...unchecked by no one...poland was overtaken...austria succumbed easily...france-belgium-spain an easy convert as was italy's mussolini-and UK was alone, begging the USA for help...UK solders slaughtered on the shores of france, rescued by townspeople who crossed the channel in tiny family boats to save their fellow british soldiers left to die on french shores under german overpowering military on the hills...a touching true story, will Americans empower neofascists ... will a few fight the fascists to stop the slaughter of American Democracy, burial of the US Constitution-Bill of Rights ... ? but what other country will save the USA from its own sellout to faschism... there will be non one strong enough to defeat such a coup d'etat....

...but we can defeat the fascists if we pull the wool from our eyes, open our ears and understand the consequences of what we hear...and fight the fascists taking control of the USA now....

and if we cannot win because the electoral college is bought out by fascist riches, ...then we must fight to take the loyal-to-the-USConstitution/Bill of Rights and leave the union ... the 13 colonies must unite and reform a union under the US Constitution ...

which way will California go ? which way Washington and Oregon ? how to save New Mexico surrounded by neofascist political controls ... ??

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