Peter Berg, the writer-director of the Friday Night Lights movie and television series, is not pleased that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has co-opted a phrase from the show for his campaign appearances.
In a letter to the Romney campaign sent Friday and obtained exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter, Berg calls the use of "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose" an act of stealing. "Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series," Berg writes in the letter. "The only relevant comparison that I see between your campaign and Friday Night Lights is in the character of Buddy Garrity -- who turned his back on American car manufacturers selling imported cars from Japan."
Personally I kind of liked this last part of the letter best:
"Your use of the expression falsely and inappropriately associates "Friday Night Lights" with the Romney/Ryan campaign. Mitt, we all wish you and your family all the best. We are grateful for your support of our beloved show, but we are not in any way affiliated with you or your campaign. Please come up with your own campaign slogan."
But you see therein lies the problem, because NOTHING about the Romney campaign is original. neither Mitt Romney, nor his staff, have "come up" with anything.
His economic plan is stolen from the Bush administration. His hair is stolen from Ronald Reagan. And his policies are stolen from whoever happens to be leading him in the polls at the time.
If EVERYBODY were to stop Romney from borrowing his ideas from them that would pretty much be the end of his campaign.
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I'm sure that Ted Nugent and Hank Williams, Jr. would be happy if Mitt used lines from their songs. Somehow I can't see him doing "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" or "Cat Scratch Fever" and it's hard to get a "Stranglehold" when you're wearing mittens.
ReplyDeleteNote the de facto cease and desist was brought to their attention early Friday and the campaign has failed to modify their marketing materials. Given the 24/7 nature of said enterprise, there is no excuse for their failure to comply.
ReplyDeleteThat there are few artisans of esteem at their ready has left conservatives at the mercy of their own fledging architects. The next Howard Roark*? Glenn Beck.
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*bonus points for ironic Rand reference, please
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DeletePerhaps I failed to make my case: watch the video,cookies. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll shake your head in dismay.
Has anyone looked at the Alaska Family Council website recently? This is Jim Minnery's "church". It looks for all apparent purposes like a political action committee website, which of course it is. They managed to co-opt the last municipal election by sending scores of unregistered voters to Anchorage to file "contested" ballots. Now he is funding a similar effort to get his crazies to turn out enmass again. Apparently there wasn't an issue sufficiently interesting to them this time (like doing away with someone elses rights). What can we do to reduce his impact? Which of the moderate senate candidates are most in need of support? I think Minnery has proven that the time has come to begin stripping these "churches" of their tax exempt status. If they want to play PAC, fine, let them follow the rules like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteCaptain Zero (Governor Parnell, Sarah 2.0) headed their gathering last week, there is no separation of church and state in Alaska.
DeleteI think the Alaska Ear was correct, she calls it the Talibanization of Alaska.
DeleteI'm awaiting a Palin tactic of slamming Peter or the show as lame or cancelled from her or the Romney campaign any minute now. . .
ReplyDelete8:10am, last I saw her she didn't have an ass to wiggle? However she IS an ass so maybe she just wiggles her whole body.
DeletePerhaps he'd like to adopt the Mormon motto created by Southpark:
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Gryphen, they are going with the Ryan Plan! Not
ReplyDeleteThey either have no plan or a secret agenda.
At best Mitt claims they will simplify the tax code. He sells that as if it will be a tax cut.
I saw an ad today with Mitt making one claim he has an energy plan that will create millions of jobs. That is a new fiction tale.
Natural Phenomena (add this to your video collection, Jesse)
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Mitt's such a goober I'm almost starting to feel sorry for him now, almost.
ReplyDeleteA little off topic but a good one on why Obama will win.
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Well Ronald Reagan's speechwriter, Peggy Noonan (still taking bows for that)stole the "shining city on the hill" phrase from someone else. Except that writer was long dead IIRC.
ReplyDeleteLeave it to Ward Cleaver to lift an iconic phrase from a popular television show. He has no scruples whatsoever.
How about if he changes it to "Cleared Corporations, Full blind trusts, Can't win"?
ReplyDeleteFirst "The Boss" endorses "The Only Adult in the Room" and now This? That had to leave major magic skid marks!!
It is not merely the matter of Ethnicity but not also about the minority or majority the rel is the mater of humanity that is essential point for every one whether in hand of authority or playing a Golf at national or international level.
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