Why Do Conservatives Hate "Half Time in America?"

At the National Review, a far right conservative wrecking ball, Christian Schneider wrote an amazingly negative and vapid piece about the remarkably uplifting “Halftime in America” ad by Chrysler, featuring Clint Eastwood.

The underlying anger has everything to do with Obama, who saved the entire American auto industry. Republicans were willing to host foreign car makers whose profits would go overseas. 

Oh, and Christian Schneider is also another one of the pseudo elitist “senior fellows” at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. These are trash talking propaganda machines.  

Schneider is repulsed by anything remotely positive, everything hopeful:

It makes sense that Chrysler would want Clint Eastwood to narrate its “Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad; the stoic, gravelly 82-year-old actor exudes old-school charm. The ad, which declares it to be “Halftime in America” urges us all to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and get moving, so once again the world will “hear the roar of our engines.”

This is the ad that pisses off conservatives?

Great line that reminds of the old days when America had a love affair with cars. Wheels meant independence, and muscle cars ruled. But Schneider has no perspective, no historical reference point:

The Chrysler spot merely stitches together a few vacuous bromides, masquerading as profundity. While the video of the capitol’s illuminated east wing plays, Eastwood growls, “The fog of division, discord, and blame made it hard to see what lies ahead.”

Schneider whines about the horrors of citizens fighting back, and a few small isolated incidences:

Of course, the “division, discord, and blame,” in Wisconsin began when unions tried the burn the state down … Everyone knows the results. Union protesters calling the Lieutenant Governor a “f***ing whore” to her husband’s face after a Walker speech. Screeching demonstrators being dragged out while attempting to disrupt Walker’s State of the State address. WWII veterans being greeted with Nazi salutes at a capitol Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony. Protesters disrupting a Walker-led ceremony for Special Olympics award recipients. Forged recall petition signatures. Lawmakers having beers dumped on their heads. The list goes on and on.

And finally, think tank “fellow” Christian Schneider nails it by unknowingly blaming his own party:

Organized labor’s pay and benefit demands are what brought U.S. auto makers to their knees in the first place. As George Will is fond of saying, American car companies actually became health-insurance companies that happened to sell automobiles.

It's because the Republicans have opposed a single payer health care system, the competitive edge that other countries have over us, that straddled not only the auto makers but everybody who has a business. Ooops.