Oh Snap!
First a grieving mother and now a famous writer … you’d think Mitt would just shuddup.
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.”
Mitt, dude, you’re rich. Hire somebody to think for you.
Thanks to Barbara L. for the heads up.
I haven’t read the book, “Saturday Night Lights,” but I wonder if those words are in the book, because the author of the book, Buzz Bissinger, recently wrote a snarky article in The Daily Beast on why he wasn’t going to vote for President Obama again.
1The TV series FNL is one of the best series ever produced, IMO. I would come unglued hearing the Rmoney campaign using the Panthers’ chant.
As much money as he’s spent running for the last 6 years, you’d think he could hire someone to write stuff for him instead of stealing.
2Good artists borrow, great artists steal – Pablo Picasso
3Well, I just did my bit for the country! I just handed my Early Ballot to the mailman. Now I can bitch any time things don’t go the way I want them to. I love voting!
4Good for you, Gramiam! Our ballots will be in the mail (how civilized, the whole country should try vote by mail) one week from today. I will then be on the phone nonstop until election day making sure people turn the dang things in!
5Why doesn’t use stuff from his supporters — like maybe there’s a Ted Nugent riff that sounds warm, fuzzy, and happy.
6Since the book and the TV program are authored by two different people, this must cause mental anguish for Romney and his kind. They don’t even see a solitary person as someone “real”. For them to cope with two different people, when they want something that might be under the control of either (or both) is just too hard for them.
7It has been so long since Mitt the Twit was in touch with his own values, or knew where he actually stood on any issue, that he runs thru catch phrases like someone with a nasty cold runs thru a box of Kleenex.
8Or, Mz Patti, like an elephant runs through peanuts.
9Just discovered your blog. I have been in mourning since Molly died thinking I’d lost my last good sister, and here you are. Hey girl, you are the bomb. mb
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