Criticism of the Chrysler-Eastwood 2012 Super Bowl Commercial Illustrates How Rabid Partisanship Spits on America’s Future — Can We Possibly become any More Self-Destructively Blind than This? — On the Value of “Made-in-USA”

08 February 2012

How do these people get so distortedly crazy?

Chrysler’s 2012 Super Bowl commercial, featuring producer-actor and former Mayor Clint Eastwood, came under rabidly inane partisan bickering.

The air-headed tumult obscured the commercial’s genius metaphor for the nation’s ability to re-gather itself and leap successfully forward.

Partisan prickliness took a stab at destroying the advertisement’s optimistic and useful message — which both political parties could use to format their (allegedly) different visions for our national path forward.

Links to the commercial

Chrysler Corporation, It’s Halftime in America, Chrysler.com (05 February 2012)

Chrysler Corporation, It’s Halftime in America, YouTube.com (05 February 2012)

For example — what the characteristically mouth-foaming Republican Party strategist Karl Rove said

From Fox:

"I was, frankly, offended by it.

“I'm a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the President of the United States and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising and the best-wishes of the management which is benefited by getting a bunch of our money that they'll never pay back.”

Leave it to rabies-tainted bone-heads to twist optimism into defeat

What sane American is unhappy to see Detroit back in business?

What patriot bemoans General Motors’ climb back to being the world’s number one automaker?

What fool thinks it would have been better for the nation’s military and economic security to let two American automakers and their associated heavy equipment manufacturing infrastructure go out of business?

What anti-American ideologue wants to stomp on our legitimate pride in our past-proven ability to get back up and go on to win?

Disclosure

I drive a Ram pickup. I bought it after I saw Chrysler’s 2011 Super Bowl ad — Eminem and Chrysler’s gritty tribute to Detroit manufacturing and Made-in-USA pride.

Link

Chrysler Corporation, Imported from Detroit, YouTube (05 February 2011)

If Karl Rove and his out-sourcing plutocratic ilk don’t like this, they can meet me (and the millions like me) on America’s home-field industrial and agricultural battlegrounds.

The moral? — If we can’t even agree about the worth of an obviously inspiring metaphor, what hope is there for actually living it out?

Sometimes, one just has to wonder who put these viciously brainless and excessively ideological partisan clowns in charge of America’s future.

It’s time to fight back.

PeteFree.com

Criticism of the Chrysler-Eastwood 2012 Super Bowl Commercial Illustrates How Rabid Partisanship Spits on America’s Future — Can We Possibly become any More Self-Destructively Blind than This? — On the Value of “Made-in-USA”