Audio: Rush Limbaugh parodies Clint Eastwood ad; Update: Reason TV parody added
posted at 8:55 pm on February 7, 2012 by Tina Korbe
Clint Eastwood might say that, because he has no political affiliation with Barack Obama, his ad on behalf of Chrysler couldn’t possibly be political — but that doesn’t mean Rush Limbaugh can’t mock the ad with all his usual hilarity. Luckily for us, he did. The parody aired on El Rushbo’s radio show today, and it fills in the gaps of the original ad for those who aren’t able to read between the lines for themselves:
Here’s a clue for Chrysler and Clint Eastwood: If the White House is delighted, Democrats are gleeful and Republicans suspicious, your $14-million-or-so ad probably wasn’t perfectly on the up-and-up. True, Clint Eastwood is a registered Republican and an original opponent of the auto bailouts and, yes, Chrysler has already paid back most of the money it received in the bailout, but a truly great — and apolitical — ad is one that makes viewers on both sides of the aisle laugh, cry or shiver with goosebumps — and, ultimately, buy the product. This was not that.
Update (Allahpundit): This one’s much truer to Clint’s political instincts than the original ad, I’d bet.
Update (Tina): This post originally suggested that Chrysler had repaid all of the money it received from taxpayers. Actually, U.S. taxpayers lost about $1.3 billion in the Chrysler bailout; Chrysler won’t ever have to pay that money back. I assumed, because Chrysler had paid back all the federal government had required of it, that taxpayers had been fully reimbursed. Silly me!
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Yep. Unfortunately, many Repubs are praying for a messiah (e.g. Obama), instead of lifting their eys to the truth.
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Wow pappy. A comment that long I just skipped thinking it was ResistMuchWeeWee.
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That joke is from my former boss who fought in the South Pacific. He went to a college to tutor as a volunteer and was surprised that the kids never heard of Iwo Jima. But he was more upset by their denial of American exceptionalism and and lack of commitment.
He had stories to tell them — and me.
Don’t give up. Work with your state or local party. If it feels useless, just try to organize something.
Too few centrist and right people make friends and get involved.
Pray and ask God to lead you.
Great men suffered and died for the fragile thing we have left.
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Never have missed a vote. Never will vote again. Let it burn.
oldroy on April 18, 2013 at 9:48 PM
You’ll have to cut TerryE some slack. She’s a party-first kind of gal. Destroying the country is fine with her, as long as a republican wins as a result.
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“Because we are sooooo stupid” — The Rs in DC
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To hell with the Republicans.
Sarah Palin, we need you.
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Rubio is a joke and he’s making the Tea Party look incompetent for dragging his phony azz out. He’s thinking he’ll get the Hispanic vote with this move and he’s trying to shore that base up…Mark my words he’ll leave the Republican Party and run as a demorat as soon as he gets this through, well, if he does.
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rickyricardo on April 18, 2013 at 11:02 PM
We have seen in the middle-East the negative effect of tribalism and loyalty to the tribe rather than to the country so perhaps Rubio’s support of what appears to be a Chuck Schumer orchestrated amnesty bill is just expressing his loyalty to the Hispanic tribe over loyalty to the USA.
Nomas on April 19, 2013 at 6:45 AM
Illegal immigration could be enforced, we just don’t have many like sheriff Joe who will stand up and try to do what is right. You see NY can put out a bounty on American citizens who own a firearm, but you cannot question the customer or cashier in Wall-mart that doesn’t know a single word of English. If we made employers criminally liable for those they hired and made it ever Americans responsibility to report those that are clearly not American, this problem would be nipped in the bud. But in this day and age, doing what is right will brand you as being a xenophobe or a racist.
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Question for Rubio: will there be any quota on Chechnyan Islamist immigration?
Do we have enough of their “diversity” yet?
virgo on April 20, 2013 at 9:47 AM
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