The commercial that actor Clint Eastwood made for the Chrysler corporation, shown during Sunday night's Super Bowl broadcast, has ended up causing quite a stir.
On this site, a lot of folks got really fired up about it, some calling it the best Obama re-election commercial they could imagine.
Over in Wingnuttistan, Karl Rove and conspiracy theorists immediately began frothing at the mouth that this was some sort of quid pro quo (although wingnuts don't actually use such language) for the Obama engineered bailout.
But it turns out that among the vast majority of Americans who don't live and breathe politics to the degree that us and other denizens of the blogosphere do, their thoughts regarding the spot were much different.
According to a poll I just conducted in my head, Americans watching the Super Bowl were having these thoughts during the Chrysler commercial:
45% Hey, Dirty Harry wants us to buy a Chrysler.
20% Why’d they film this when Clint had such a bad case of laryngitis?
15% Do you realize if the Pats win, Tom Brady gets to have celebratory sex
with Gisele Bundchen?
10% Man, has Eminem aged in a year’s time.
7% Do you realize if the Pats lose, Tom Brady gets to have consolation
sex with Gisele Bundchen?
3% Oh, that’s right. Obama saved the US auto industry.