How symbolic, the red and blue spheres merge and the resultant color is a deeper shade of blue. Propaganda is considered effective if it is subtle and delivers a covert or subliminal message without the subject being aware of the intent. In this image, the profile of Obama was superimposed over the merging of Conservatism and Socialism with the profile of Obama and the result is a deeper shade of blue; picturesque and convenient, Obama brings the country together and we are united under a deeper shade of Marxism. It was created by the same team that made the Chrysler commercial; it hasn’t achieved fruition, but not for a lack of effort by Obama and his lackeys.
Our public school systems have been infiltrated with the Leftist Part Line for decades. At first the message was so vague, we thought it was merely coincidences, teachers and text writers surely couldn’t be so blatant and obvious with their political agenda; oh, but think back, while we refused to call liars and Socialists as such, they increased their efforts and relied on terrorists like Bill Ayers, confidant to our president, for the Leftist message now in our children’s text books.
Now, either Eastwood has allowed himself to be duped like a moron or he is a part of the deception; regardless of his intent, he has been used as a key element in the Leftist propaganda movement. Unfortunately, we have all been played for dupes by the creative schemers of the Left for while Eastwood tells America we are at the halftime of the recovery, during the halftime of the largest event in television history, the insidious message is implied that America needs to give Obama four more years to complete his anemic recovery, that seems to elude everyone but billionaires, bankers, and others on the dole.
The fact that Chrysler is staging a fart, stumble, fall type recovery based mainly on enriching Obama cronies and unions with our taxpayer money is pushed from our consciousness; since, we receive the subliminal message to equate the auto maker’s efforts with our fight against terrorism, the struggle of Obama to win reelection, and the struggle of the two athletic teams. In the excitement of the neo-gladitorial struggle portrayed on the boob tube, we are supposed to lose ourselves in the excitement and intellectual numbness of the game, much like the games in Rome that staged to entertain the masses or the mob in Rome to keep them content and less likely to riot. Thus in a similar way, we are played for fools by the people who stage our games; no they aren’t staged to prevent us from rioting, but what an excellent time to exploit our self-imposed stupor to insinuate a covert message to reelect our failed president by one of his corporate acquisitions, with a percentage of Obama’s funny stash money, more commonly known as tax payer money.
Oh, but you say the message is vague and imprecise, how can you make the connection: sorry people, the message is supposed to be vague and imprecise, it is supposed to leave a subliminal impression that will encourage the mobs of unthinking drones to vote for Obama once again; after all, hasn’t he struggled valiantly to repay his contributors and unions with taxpayer money, at least when he can find time between golf games and vacations. The fact that the connection is obvious to those who are alert and cognizant means the message is there. If you want to deny it, like Eastwood who so gallantly gave his check to charity, but also willingly gave his image and voice to the Marxism of Obama, means you either endorse the Socialist cause or you are to dense to notice the ever deepening pool of Obama Socialism.
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Clint Eastwood got played
I am having difficulties with believing Eastwood understood the implications of this ad. I would bet he was given a script and he read it with the rest of the ad done afterwards. I would bet he never saw the completed product. On the other hand, Skook, you made some important points that make me squirm even more than I have been squirming under this administration.
As a father, I am enganged in grass roots politics to try to keep a free country available for my sons and and grand children. I see it gradually slipping away from us as a country. I find myself often saying “when I was a kid” more often these days. My sons smile in disblief. Those things are not allowed these days. What things are not likely to be allowed during their lives if this trend is allowed to continue. Like Skook writes, many of these changes are subtle. We have them before we know it. Then they are locked in stone with out our ability to change them!
Randy, in a few minutes, I will be doing a necropsy on a horse. When your boys and my boys are our age, I am afraid people will be doing a necropsy on our country. We have a voice for the time being, jump up and down, scream, and make a fist; our country is disappearing by the hour.
Unfortunately, some ultra-conservatives are still living out the Cold War days allowing their political biases to color the tint of their own conspiratorial theories of destruction. These sort of people have always been around as prophets of doom. They were even there faulting Lincoln on his looks, in hopes of defeating his policies.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): For once you are almost right. Most of those conspiratorial theories of destruction are fostered by the liberals not the ultraconseratives (if you can actually define that term so loosly applies!). How about over population, global cooling, global starvation, to only name a few. If your post was worth more of my time, I would post more examples.
Subsidies and state capitalism never work and never have worked. Your Federalis spend 10 billion and take in 6 billion per day. You ruin your economic system, you ruin everything. Too easy figuring that out.
Clint got played. Chrysler and Govt. Motors owe the poor taxpayers billions of dollars. The UAW is not finished ruining the American auto industry and the Dems need the political kickbacks. Corruption is the name of the game in the administration today. Who has the cajones to clean this up?
@oil guy from Alberta: I fear only Scott Walker, Allen West and Marco Rubio. Unfortunately, they are not running!
I tend to agree that it was hazy enough to where the propagandist (who penned the words and spliced the scenes) had motives that were never clear to the actor who read them.
Seems unintended consequences are the order of the day from Obama.
Only a few days ago a plane was almost not allowed to help cranes make their first migratory flight because Obama’s regulations made the pilot disqualified….or something.
Today it is the flights that carry out injured sled dogs in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.
Maybe by the time the race is over (and injured dogs have died) Obama will see fit to lighten up on what makes a pilot ”commercial” vs ”volunteer.”
@oil guy from Alberta:
The liberal/progressives are partially correct in their assessment of the problem. They claim it’s greed of corporations. Well, it is greed, but not necessarily of corporations, and not necessarily the type of greed they are talking about.
As I see it, there are two types of greed people engage in. One type is the greed the liberal/progressives accuse corporations of engaging in. The other is the type of greed that stems from wanting something for nothing, or that one believes they ‘deserve’ something for numerous abstract reasons. And that feeling of ‘deserve’ is the difference between them.
If I start a business selling a product, or products, to the public, I am going to want to sell it for as high a price as I feel I can get, but not so high that it negatively effects the number of customers I can sell to. In other words, I will seek a balance there, ultimately resulting in setting the price so as to get the highest amount, per time, of a particular product. Am I greedy because I seek to set the price as high as possible? Certainly, as I probably am desiring more money for that product than I actually need. However, this type of greed that I engage in is an integral part of an economy. I sell products to customers, that I have purchased from distributors, who engage in that same kind of greed as me, and those distributors, who sell to me, purchase from manufacturers, who also engage in that same kind of greed.
This kind of greed is actually good, as it sets value upon what a person produces. That value translates into wealth, and the building of wealth.
Contrast that with the kind of greed that stems from wanting something for nothing, because you feel you ‘deserve’ it. This kind of greed is the kind that sent Millions to Solyndra. This kind of greed is what caused the government to give the UAW’s unsecured investment into GM preferential treatment over those investors whose bonds were secured. This is the kind of greed that shifts money from taxpayers to cronies of whatever politician(s) are in charge of particular disbursements.
And, that kind of greed is the kind that destroys wealth. In no way does preferential treatment of UAW in bankruptcy proceedings, over those with secured bonds, create wealth. It only shifts wealth from one person to another, or many persons to another. And as that shift is accomplished, the value of the wealth is devalued, resulting in loss of wealth.
Solyndra is actually the perfect example of the destruction of wealth. Money was given to the company, in the form of a loan to the tune of $535 Million. We all know the story; The company abruptly closed up shop and declared bankruptcy. And new info out has them selling off capital equipment prior to the bankruptcy declaration. So, what happened to the money? We don’t really know the details yet, but one can surmise that much of it went into the purchasing of that equipment and materials. Does anyone believe that the equipment and materials were sold at the same value they were purchased at? If you do, then I have a bridge I’d like to talk to you about. So, that loss of value on that equipment and materials is a loss of wealth. Of course, it is actually much more involved than that, but that is the basic idea.
The type of greed that stems from that ‘deserve’ mentality is rampant in government, and is not typified by one party over the other. And yes, corruption is the mechanism by which this kind of greed is engaged in. Greed, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. It matters greatly what kind of greed, though.
Chrysler is F.I.A.T. and F.I.A.T. is Fabriconie Italiano Auto-Turisma the inexpensive car manufacturer, domestic and export markets, of the Mussolini regime. The made heavier models to be sold as taxicabs for the US market otherwise they were cheap, light and disposable. A corporate culture is a corporate culture and those autos reputation is cheap and shoddy. In management theory there is a diametric balance between union influence; whereby, the greater the influence of unions on business operations the slower the response time addressing the business condition. If this theory holds true then Chrysler, as a viable business entity, will deteriorate.
Excellent post, Skookum. The fact that it was vague and hazy was deliberate. This is part and parcel of Obama’s M.O.
Did you catch the Rush Limbaugh parody of this? It’s priceless.
Rush Limbaugh segment on Clint Eastwood “Halftime in America”
J.G. “Greed is good” Gordon Gecko. Tough to stand up for that credo, though I certainly understand your take in #9.
As a stockbroker,a R.E. Broker and a mortgage broker/banker I’d suggest greed is not a good thing in sales and eventually comes back to bite most all who regularly engage in it. To grossly over charge or “hide” commissions is greed and is wrong.
I agree John, that wanting something for nothing is also a form of greed. Clients asking you to do a loan for free or purchase a stock paying no commission is greed on their part.
Quite simply, I’ve found those who most closely follow the Golden Rule in sales are the long term successes in business, garnering repeat business and referrals. They also earn the respect of their peers and sleep well at night.
Pretty simple stuff but K.I.S.S. has always worked for me.
@Richard Wheeler:
You have completely missed the point, probably because you don’t understand exactly what “greed” is.
From Merriam-Webster
It’s simple enough to understand, Rich. The kind of “greed” that I stated was good, follows this definition. If a business owner were only to sell products for no more than is needed, there would be no room for profit. And in that case, there would be no reason for that business owner to remain in business. Greed is good, if it’s this type of greed. As I stated, this type of greed is what sets a value upon a product or service. That value, by being more than what is “needed” by the business owner, is what builds wealth. That building of wealth is what drives a capitalist market.
You bring up some contemporary character from a movie where they completely screwed up the definition in order to put a label to what that character was. The message people took away from that movie is that greed is bad, regardless of the accepted definition of the word. You, yourself, by bringing up that movie, have shown that you do not understand the definition of the word, either.
Greed is not bad. Greed is what raises the value of things, including people’s homes, investments, and collectibles. It is also what allows a small-time business owner employing one other person to grow and employ more than one other person. It allows medium-sized businesses to grow into large companies. In other words, greed is what creates JOBS.
BTW, that definition I posted is NOT the same as the Christian definition of greed.
Antics: just heard it on a recap of Rush while driving across Nevada, it was hilarious and pokes a sharp finger in the eye of Obama. I think we will be hearing it a lot more as the election approaches. That is the tricky nature of propaganda, in a free country, you run the chance of providing your opponents with lethal ammunition that can make you look like a blithering fool; should we be surprised?
I stand by one of my earliest statements, “If Obama was competent or capable and hired effective people instead of hacks, cronies, and effete phony intellectuals; he would be extremely dangerous and unbeatable.” If we owe him a thanks, it is for hiring these fools and for personally performing with the skill and grace of a cub bear making love to a football.
Thank you, Mr Obama, for proscribing your own defeat; for it is a fact, without your valiant efforts at displaying incompetence and the class of a nincompoop, none of these Republicans would have a chance of defeating you. The American people or at least loyal Americans, will be forever grateful.
Skooks Your problem Marine is that not one of your ” four horseman” can garner a sufficient following to defeat the incumbant. Perhaps a suprise at the convention? Why not ask the all knowing Rush.
J.G. #13 You dismiss the Miriam- Webster definition in favor of a so called “Christian” definition. How does that work? Can that be done at anytime ,by anyone,with any word?
I don’t think the word you two are having a hard time reconciling is “greed”, but the words “needed”… as in “more than needed”…. and “excessive”.
Rich, you assume that the “more than needed” is an excess of money that is “not needed”. But then, who are you to make that judgement as to one’s need – fiscally or emotionally – for money?
That “need” or “excessive” in greed could also be an insatiable desire for positive results, which may be reflected by not only cash return, but also business growth and expansion. Will you then say that the expansion is not “needed” or “excessive” simply because a single profitable outlet is sufficient to manage an individual’s personal debt?
The market takes care of the negative “need” in “greed” simply by virtue of competition… the same quality of product offered by others at a more appealing price and terms. Therefore the evil “greed/need/excess” you cling to is short lived, and driven out of business by the free market.
Greed is good in that it promotes incentive to improve and see growth results and rewards. Need is defined by the individual and is not confined to only a bank account. And excessive is another judgement call that can be determined by whom?
All in all, the “greed” you believe in is not a problem because it is, in reality, a temporary affliction that dies a natural market death.
THE REAL GREEDY ONE IN HERE IS OBAMA, and his greed is for ACQUIRING POWER over AMERICA,
HE IS TRYING EVERY THING TO GAIN THAT POWER, HE HAS GAIN AMONG THE POOR, WITH PRETENDING TO HELP THEM, he is trying to overpower the unemployed by giving them money from AMERICANS tax givers, he is trying to get the hand on the busyness, small by making them accountable to him, by control on them being help by UNIONS WHICH HE PROTECT BECAUSE THEY PAY BIG MONEY WHICH ALSO COME FROM THE WORKERS, AND BY HIS AGENCIES CONTROL COMING STRAIGHT FROM HIM, HE IS PAYING BY WAY OF HIS UNIONS ALL THE OCCUPIED PEOPLE TO SCARE THE GOOD PEOPLE OF AMERICA, HE IS USING THE VERY RICH TO DEMONIZE THEM TO THE EYES OF THE LESS FORTUNATE, HE IS DEMONIZING THE OTHER PARTY VIA HIS MEDIA, AND THE DEMOCRATS ELECTED PARTY WHO FOLLOW HIM
AND NOW TO THE RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION HE WANT THEM TO FOLLOW HIS DESTRUCTIVE INTENT TO KILL FUTURE AMERICAN, HE IS THE MOST GREEDY PERSON IN HISTORY OF AMERICA, HE GREED FOR TOTAL POWER. VERY DANGEROUS, NOW HE WANT TO FIND A WAY TO GET POWER OVER THE WEB, AND CUT THOSE WHO EXPOSE HIM PUBLICLY.
THE FBI IS LOOKING TO FIND A SCANNER TO SCAN THE WEB
@ilovebeeswarzone: He is not doing to bad in accumulating wealth either!
Randy,
he has thugs to collect or else also,
and he has about 200 people working on computer for the reelection only that day he is focusing on
and HUCKABEE IS ASKING IF THE REPUBLICANS CONSERVATIVES ARE READY FOR COUNTER THIS MASSIVE WAR ON WORDS BY WAY OF TECHNOLOGY, THEY CLAIM WILL MAKE THE LAST ELECTION LOOK LIKE PREHISTORIC, THEY ARE WORKING IN A 50000 SQUARE FEET BUILDING
BYE
SKOOKUM
THANK YOU FOR THE POST,
I thought CLINT EASTWOOD WOULD BE MORE AWARE OF WHO IS DEALING FOR,
WAKE UP CLINT, look further than your nose. you’re good but never too good to be deceived
by unscrupulous DEMOCRATS,
@johngalt: Fellas, if I may interject here, I believe Mr Friedman’s explanation of greed is quite clarifying.
Racist
thank you for MILTON HE IS GOOD AND VERY SMART,
BYE