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wordspeak2 wrote:About her possibly flipping off the western world? That may be the closest thing we have to dissent on national TV, Simulist.
Unless, you know, you count Ron Paul.

Super Bowl draws record 111.3M viewers on NBC

By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history.

The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots on Sunday night. That narrowly beat the 111 million who watched Green Bay's win over Pittsburgh last year.

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Jeff wrote: By Lindy West, msnbc.com contributor

Sim wrote:All I can say is: I'm glad I didn't let the Superbowl interrupt our Downton Abbey marathon yesterday.

kelley wrote:the iconography is utter kitsch and devoid reference to or involvement with elite magick, in the sense that it's nothing but illegible pastiche. there's no message here; it's just the cladding of an empty spectacular edifice.

wintler2 wrote:

..Then there was the grotesque half-time extravaganza featuring Madonna, which was a weird parallel commentary on the state of American womanhood. Pretending to be ageless and indomitable, the old trooper performed a variety of standing crotch-locks on her Praetorian guard of hoofers and then stumbled more than once on the ridiculous bleacher stage-set that looked as if was designed to trip the performers up.

Message to American women: be sluts as long as you possibly can because there is nothing else for you in this culture. ..

http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/02/all-sc ... honor.html

Project Willow wrote:

Sim wrote:All I can say is: I'm glad I didn't let the Superbowl interrupt our Downton Abbey marathon yesterday.

But there's one we should analyze, what with its portrayal of the aristocracy as compassionate and likable.

Project Willow wrote:Series ends with him walking erect, ehem, and the two getting hitched. I'll bet you $50.

By Rob Neill

“Times when we didn’t understand each other … discord and blame …”

Clint Eastwood was reading from a script during this ad for Chrysler on Super Bowl Sunday, but the words also can describe the fallout over the ad. Which has, as pretty much everything does these days, taken on a life of its own as a political football.

Oh, and msnbc.com users said it was the best of the bunch during the Super Bowl.

The two-minute spot, which ran during halftime, has Eastwood discussing challenges faced by the country cut with images of an America seemingly fresh from a John Cougar Mellencamp video. He compared the country’s struggles with that of Chrysler’s hometown of Detroit – which he said had fought back.

And here’s where party affiliation seems to have to always come in.

Chrysler declared bankruptcy, was bailed out by American and Canadian taxpayers, and sold off to Italy’s Fiat before, early this year, being able to declare it had made its first profit since 1997. So the automaker is an American comeback story, government run amok, or something in between depending on where you are on the political spectrum.

“I was, frankly, offended by it,” Karl Rove, strategist behind President George W. Bush’s two presidential campaigns, told Fox News this morning. “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.”

The opposing team, of course, had an opposing view.

“Powerful spot. Did Clint shoot that, or just narrate it?” David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote on Twitter.

Eastwood, for his part, told Fox News producer Ron Mitchell, "There is no spin in that ad. On this I am certain. l am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message about just job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it. I thought the spirit was OK."

Eastwood opposed the bailouts of Chrysler and General Motors.

“It has zero political content,” Chrysler and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told Detroit talk radio Monday morning. “The message is sufficiently universal and neutral that it should be appealing to everybody in this country and I sincerely hope that it doesn’t get utilized as political fodder in a debate.”

Too late. But that’s what happens when you put something on TV in 2012.

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