{"id":6432,"date":"2012-02-08T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6432"},"modified":"2012-02-09T06:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T10:02:21","slug":"clint-eastwood-super-bowl-auto-ad-rove-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/08\/clint-eastwood-super-bowl-auto-ad-rove-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood Ad Flap Madness (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2012\/02\/06\/then-they-came-for-clint-eastwood\/\">Karl Rove!<\/a>  His <a href=\"http:\/\/loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/06\/detroit-automakers-are-rebounding-karl-rove-is-offended\/\">delicate sensibilities<\/a> were offended by Clint Eastwood&#8217;s uplifting auto industry Super Bowl ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over stirring French horns and stark photos of Detroit workers, the ad used the auto industry\u2019s rebirth from bankruptcy as a symbol of American renewal and determination. But it contained some shocking language for those, like Mr. Rove, who are easily bruised:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDetroit is showing us it can be done and what\u2019s true about them is true about all of us. This country can\u2019t be knocked out with one punch. We get right back up again and when we do the world\u2019s going to hear the roar of our engines. Yeah.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Rove is just one among many Republicans expressing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/clint-eastwood-chrysler-super-bowl-commercial-287778\">outrage over the ad<\/a> narrated by Eastwood, a loyal Republican who says the ad has nothing to do with politics.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Eastwood Ad Madness (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It seems Eastwood committed a sin:<br \/>\nHis truth-telling ad brought chagrin<br \/>\nTo the GOP crowd &#8212;<br \/>\nWords of hope said out loud<br \/>\nAre a threat &#8212; they might help our Prez win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Karl Rove! His delicate sensibilities were offended by Clint Eastwood&#8217;s uplifting auto industry Super Bowl ad: Over stirring French horns and stark photos of Detroit workers, the ad used the auto industry\u2019s rebirth from bankruptcy as a symbol of American renewal and determination. But it contained some shocking language for those, like Mr. Rove, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[742,95,72,265,21,20,1813,57,1349,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1811,1599,1809,2792,2786,1604,1808,1041,2764,2763,1814,2778,1812,397,702,1810,1117],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobiles-satire","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-celebrity-verse","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-hollywood-humor","category-karl-rove","category-patriotism-poems","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-advertising-humor","tag-auto-industry-bailout","tag-automobile-industry","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign-humor","tag-chrysler","tag-clint-eastwood","tag-detroit","tag-election-satire","tag-gop-humor","tag-halftime-in-america","tag-karl-rove","tag-marketing-humor","tag-patriotism-humor","tag-republicans-humor","tag-super-bowl-ad","tag-super-bowl-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}