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People rarely pick a fight with Dirty Harry. But Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood has generated fierce debate about whether it accurately portrays the country's most economically distressed city or amounts to a campaign ad for President Barack Obama and the auto bailouts.
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Conservatives, including GOP strategist Karl Rove, criticized the ad as a not-so-thinly veiled endorsement of the federal government's auto industry bailouts.
Originally posted by NthOther
I doubt he did the commercial for anything else than a paycheck. Eastwood is a pretty staunch libertarian, so I really don't think he did it as an endorsement of economic statism.