What were some of the best Super Bowl Commercials? UPDATED

UPDATED: What was Glenn’s favorite commercial? The Chevy “Apocalypse” video featured below.

It was a close call between the “Halftime in America” commercial and the “Apocalypse” commercial, but ultimately the funny tone of the “Apocalypse” narrowly edged out Eastwood’s powerful message.

Nevertheless, he did say that the message was one that was “unbelievable” and that there may not be a message more appropriate for America right now.

He did joke, however, that rather than it being halftime, we may be well past the two minute warning.

But what did he love about the “Apocalypse” ad?

“They are standing in the Apocalypse just eating Twinkies,” Glenn laughed, “and it starts to rain frogs.”

“The whole ad had Glenn Beck written all over it,” Pat joked.

Be sure to watch him explain in this clip from radio below:

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Original:

Yes, even Glenn’s producers got to take some time last night to watch the game (or in some cases, just the commercials). What were some of the favorites last night?

A lot of people seemed to really love the Chrysler/Clint Eastwood “Halftime in America” commercial, with many commenting that they found Eastwood’s words more inspiring than anything coming out of Washington. However, Sara J., Mercury’s Social Media Guru, did tweet “#Ford doesn’t need Clint Eastwood to sell cars #OrMyTaxes…and Id rather have a Ford #superbowl“.

Check out “Halftime in America” below:

Here is one of Glenn’s favorites, the one he called the funniest:

Here’s one that nerdier members of the staff liked (fans will understand why towards the end)

Like the dog in the one above? There was another winning commercial that featured a dog last night:

One commercial that seemed to have a lot of promise and buzz leading up to last night was the Ferris Bueller inspired “Matthew’s Day Off”. Many on the staff, however, felt that it didn’t quite live up to the hype:

(And because I’m a HUGE nerd – here was my favorite! The extended trailer for “The Avengers”)

  • http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

    Answer me a question, why should I bother being concerned with super bowl commercials?

  • Anonymous

    cause they are fun Snowleopard! :)    my favorite like always is the ETrade baby :) hahaha love it.  :)

  • thelionoftruth

    Commercials are senseless entertainment to gain the lusts of our eyes. There’s nothing in them
    that warns us of the distraction of reality we should be concerned about. Fun of the game yes!
    Be drawn to coveting idols like cars and girls and drinking parties lead to a lowering of character in ourselves that leads our beings to a destructive falseness of happiness.

  • thelionoftruth

        Ovada Does it mention in the constitution for the pursuit of Fun! I think that’s temporary. Happiness or Blessings are much longer in moral attitudes and that
    can be still comforting fun in comfort of peace in harmony. Ya’ Think!

  • Anonymous

    snowleopard….it just takes all kinds of people to make the world go around….it’s just fun for some people and not for others…no problem. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/WMQPXAV5M2YMUBXCOXOBFV7WWA Caleb Miller

    You heard it here folks. The constitution clearly states…NO FUN EVER. Thank you for showing us the way lionoftruth

    You need to watch this 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maqOpMXnDjQ

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6OHDWMI5OBTIKI7K4UTZ3RGAAM Kelli

    My favorite was the yogurt commercial with John Stamos

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000474187269 Mendolyn Skye

    WE HAVE A HULK!

  • JoAnn Compton

    Hey thelionoftruth – the Constitution was written by those who had God in their lives, so check out the Bible dude cause me thinks that you can have fun without losing your morals. If you noticed, Glenn did not post any of the good in the flesh commercials on his post. You need to look for the good in everything you do, not avoid all of it because it may be bad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309448387 Nathan Shepard

    Anything that wasnt selling sex was a great commercial this year.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jude-Olliges-Ray-Diamond/1161850620 Jude Olliges Ray Diamond

    WOW!  Clint Eastwood did it again, without further ado, AWSOME
     

  • http://twitter.com/PhilN4Congress Phil Norris

    Clint Eastwood got it right. Too bad he had to bring his message in a commercial for a car. We need more of this message of coming together and putting aside our differences, whether they be cultural, racial, social or economic differences. Division among the different people in America has never gotten us to where we need to be. President Lincoln spoke of this when he said that a nation divided against itself cannot stand. Wake up America, we are divided. Families are divided because one brother got a bigger inheritance or has more money or seemed to have more favor with the parents. It is time for us as individuals, families, communities, and all Americans to search for what really matters and concentrate on that. I can tell you that “having more stuff” and worshipping the god of materialism is not what really matters. Right now, go take a look at your children, your parents, your brothers and sisters or take a look around you at work. Look at photos of the friends and people in your life on Facebook……..that is what matters. Spend your time investing in that and this country will turn around almost overnight.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1309448387 Nathan Shepard

    Because if you watched them you saw how corrupt society has become to air the ridiculous sex filled trash ads that they did.

  • http://www.facebook.com/huntfortravel Christopher Russell Hunt

    Hey Glenn,

     I just wanted to comment on the Chrysler commercial.  I have owned 2 Chrysler minivans, and I have sworn I will never own another one of their vehicles–minivan or otherwise. I bought a new 2006 Town and Country and had to have almost $4000 worth of work done to it just a 3 or so years later—and I am particular about servicing my vehicles.  I wrote them a letter basically telling them what I just told you.  Chrysler’s problems are of their own making.  They made(make?) a crappy prodcut and tried to compete with manufacturers that actually made a product that worked and would last beyond the warranty.  Anyway, that’s just my 2 cents worth.  I’m all for buying American-made, but you have to draw the line somewhere.  Maybe they make a better product now, but I’m not gonna spend my hard-earned money to TRY and find that out.  

  • Gerry Winthrop

    The only problem with the Eastwood/ Chrysler commercial? No cars are made in Detroit anymore, so how can you import something from an imaginary place? While you can appeal to the pride and vanity of people with slick filming and moving music, at the end of the day, Chrysler should have been allowed to go bankrupt and a better, stronger company would have emerged from the ashes. Instead, we took billions in taxpayer borrowed fiat currency, and propped up the failed systems of inefficiency so they could live in their inefficiency in perpetuity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jude-Olliges-Ray-Diamond/1161850620 Jude Olliges Ray Diamond

    WOW!  Clint Eastwood did it again, Best commercial, without further ado.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Travis-Beauford/100000143061820 Travis Beauford

    Funny thing about the Chevrolet commercial.  Chevrolet didn’t survive the economic collapse without a government bailout.  Ford did.

    just my two cents.

    Chrysler commercial was awesome.

  • Gerry Winthrop

    The only thing dividing us at this point is ‘the great uniter’ in the White House. We can only stand together as long as our core values are the same. 60 years ago they were. Now? Not so much. We need to return to those values of limited self rule government, faith, family, the right to fail, and limit our government to those 18 enumerated powers granted under our founding legal document, the US Constitution. As long as there are those that strip us of our unalienable rights granted to us by God, and not the state, then there will always be division. The shared vision should be our founder’s vision.
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/epulka Ethan Pulka

    I am from Michigan and I agree the Chrysler ad is another add for Obama’s Campaign. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/lrpirkl Lon Pirkl

    Do you mean we can be happy but fun is unconstitutional.  Do you have a dirty mind and think fun is just sex and drinking and buying every produce that is advertised?  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1828061006 Lucky Gene

    Ford DID NOT take the bail out money…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFVQKLjLXgM 

  • http://twitter.com/PhilN4Congress Phil Norris

    Well said Gerry. Core values are what we need to return to.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lrpirkl Lon Pirkl

    Speak for yourself.  Judge not for however you judge you shall be judged.

  • Anonymous

    Will there be a  plague of frogs raining on the Chevy forever.  Terrible commercial.  How could twinkies survive and not the Ford?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kimberly-A-Lacey/100001094507911 Kimberly A. Lacey

     I agree,..but I have to admit I liked Clint Eastwoods dialogue.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Gnatkowski/100000020072405 Mike Gnatkowski

    I thought the Dorito commercial with the sling shot was one of the best.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gene-Stephens/1677889547 Gene Stephens

    We need to bench Obama for the rest of th game. Then fire him.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ UStyrannyClick4Proof

    The Ferris Beuller one and the one with Seinfeld and Jay Leno were pretty funny

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Braeden-Hyde/1318753184 Braeden Hyde

    The purpose of commercials is to sell stuff.  The businesses paying for the spot have a right to do it if they want.  it’s not their responsibility to “warn us of the distraction of reality” (whatever that means).  

    So my suggestion is that you lighten up a bit.  If you don’t want to watch them, then don’t.  But some of us enjoy seeing what creative minds can come up with.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Forrest-Cook/1465014098 Forrest Cook

    Here is my message for Detroit and the automakers:  I WANT to find a car that gets a minimum of 40 MPG highway and is in a price range I can afford and I would like that car to be built in America.  That’s not easy to do…I know…I’ve been trying.  

  • Anonymous

    Phil I am looking around. I am looking in the eyes of my 18 year old daughter who has worked hard playing piano and violin since she was 6, and I have never told her to stop achieving. I told her you do the work and we will provide the way. I have done this for three grown adults who have jobs and work hard. Because of the economy, the housing debacle and my husband’s unemployment, we cannot with any certainty tell her she can go to college where she is accepted. All the music schools have accepted her, but we cannot provide the support needed. I would sell my house, except it won’t sell. I would work 2 jobs if I could get them. My husband will live anywhere to get a job. I was born into a poor working class environment and moved all the way up to the edge of the 1%, but now we are sliding fast. I want Americans on autopilot to wake up and know we do not live in the land of the free anymore. We are no longer free to prosper; we are stuck in a divided spin machine. Nothing makes sense anymore! Clint Eastwood should have not backed a company that should have gone bankrupt due to mismanagement at its highest level. Instead they believe we are fools. We have been fed back some altruistic porridge that appeals to those that think America is still a meritocracy. They are making sure it is not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rosemarie-Dalton/1438046751 Rosemarie Dalton

    Thanks for posting these so I could watch them again…Especially enjoyed hearing Clint Eastwood’s message…We need to pull together as a country for a better world than what we are living in today…Too bad we can’t rewind a little and take back what we’ve lost…Please God bless the people of America with knowledge.  Let us not make another mistake at the voting booth this time.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VVNCMDTGNV57FJP4G7AS7XAEG4 Brian B

    The commercial during the Superbowl that stood out
    to me was the Olympics ad for NBC.  The tone of the message was
    that during the Olympics, the country comes together–setting aside our
    differences–to get behind our athletes in competition.
    Now this
    contradicts my upbringing.  I grew up in the 70′s and 80′s.  I
    distinctly remember the hockey team, and the cold war era boycotts.  The
    Olympics used to be a time when nations came together despite the
    cultural and political divides between those nations.  Now, unlike then, we have to
    unite our own nation, since we are no longer a United States of America.
    I think this is a radical change in
    perspective, and indicates our peril.  This is a sign of just how
    close we truly are to the nation being torn asunder.

  • Frank Polack

     If a commercial affects one’s character, said person probably didn’t have any character to begin with.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly – I was going to say we are divided because we have been divided by the powers that be – the current “occupier” at the White House.  He, his administration and the media is seeing to it that we stay divided so they can win – hoping their part of the division is the bigger part.  I just wish people paid attention and saw for themselves instead of taking what they hear at face value.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Kimberly, agree with you as well – and as someone said earlier, I wish it’d been about the true American Spirit and not just Dodge & Chrysler.  Will WE as a people get up and have our second half??  I doubt it if Obama wins re-election.  The analogy with the game will be that BOTH teams will lose – but one side, the Liberals will think they won.  Sad…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Robertson/565001914 Edward Robertson

    What do you expect from a Chevy comercial?

  • Anonymous

    The unions will be the death of these companies.They will move operations to other countries or we will give them another bailout or they will sink.It is all just a matter of how they will die not if they will die. However if we would have allowed the bankruptcys, the survivors would be well on the way to truly rebuilding . However ,Clint Eastwood , is indeed the sexiest old guy around,I never cared what came out of his mouth,he was just fun to look at!

  • Anonymous

    You really are a smart person. Running for political office I hope!

  • Anonymous

    I agree. Much of our family was together and I have decided will have to keep the under 13 yo entertained during the Superbowl. After halftime and fear of what the commercials will be. A shame when you have to think like that .It used to be a family day. Seems like they take a chance on the wrong folks to perform ,then apologize for someones bad actions quite frequently. Perhaps if they got quality performers and the contracts were written to withold pay and fine for inappropriate behaviour we could all go back to watching as families again.

  • Huss Family

    Loved Eastwood’s message – trouble is, socially speaking, we no longer can seem to agree on “what is right”….and the current economic policies of this country and this administration are making it difficult if not impossible for that economic engine to get roaring and pull us out of this hole.  It certainly could and has before…but not unless the government gets the h&*^% out of its way. 

  • thelionoftruth

     I judge not. There is only one who is judge Do you know who he is?

  • Anonymous

    You know, in my opinion, Clint Eastwood had a good message, but, poor choice to use bailout as an example!  Yes America is strong and pulls together when attacked.  Bigger government, government take over and bail outs is not the Peoples solution, it is the power of the government’s solution.  This is not the American way.  In my personal situation, my husband and I had a good business (Colorado Bail Bondsmen). We had a business that employed 10 agents (tax payers), providing a service that cost the tax payers NOTHING!  Now, the government has stepped in and implemented a new entity called “Pretrial Services” to provide that same service at cost to not only the client (violating 2 amendment right) but funded by our tax dollars!  Our business was reduced to 2 agents. Now tell me, does that make sense to you?  Bigger Government is not what we need, bail outs is not what we need.  We need the government to get out of the way and let the People implement and utilize their core values of “Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness” as our Constitutional Rights! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Mark/1454095041 Brian Mark

    Don’t take this the wrong way…but I didn’t understand this when my parents did this to me at the time.  Make her work her way through school.  I worked 55 hours a week at 2 jobs and took 18 credit hours a semester.  Yes it was brutal, but I came out of college with no debt and an appreciation for hard work.  It also boosted my resume when people saw what I did and knew that I could prove I was a hard worker.  Now at the time I resented my parents that were very well off for not helping, but in the end it was the best thing they could have done for me.

  • thelionoftruth

    I would prefer over-saved than under- saved but I’m fine with knowledge on how to be saved from death. Oh! BTW Fun can come
    in many different forms. Depends what mindset you are in.

  • thelionoftruth

    No but I think commercials in general steer us to be lustful materialist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/boltphotography Clint Bolt

    Clint Eastwood for pres. 2012

  • Anonymous

    Clint Eastwood had the best Super Bowl commercial, ever.

    It was Regan-esque in its delivery, reminding me of the ‘New Day in America’ message. Why can’t our Politicians capture a style like this? Granted, both Reagan and Eastwood have been professionally trained in acting; but the no nonsense delivery, the cut-to-the-core simplicity of the message, does not allow for one inch of partisanship.  

    It was poetic in scope; and though I ultimately became a bit disappointed when I had realized that he was talking about cars, using the drive of the automotive industry as a metaphor for the drive of us as Americans, I still came away with chills and more motivation to get up off of the proverbial floor and to fight on. Because that’s what we do as Americans.

    Clint’s politics are not too far from Libertarian (let each be left to his own, and left alone by the Government), and he’d be one candidate that I could surely rally behind.

  • thelionoftruth

     Good show Brian! And I hope you teach others that hard work does pay even if it’s
    just on your character. He’ Hear! and Applause to you!

  • Nunaya Dambizness

    Dude, take a chill pill; better yet, take two!  If you can’t relax enough to enjoy some harmless, humorous commercials, you’re gonna lead a short, sad life…

  • thelionoftruth

     That appears to be Todays problem taking a pill to fix all the problems

  • landofaahs

    People live in a world of diversions from reality.  They’d be better off reading their Bibles but alas they will latch on to any diversion that keeps them from contemplating their eventual demise. Just a thought

  • Anonymous

    Methinks that you did not see the commercial. I admit to being disappointed to see images of automobiles in the commercial- though they were not the focus. This was different. ‘Half-time in America’ was one of the best wake-up calls I’ve seen on television since Glenn left FOX.

    Am I casting my ideals onto this commercial? I don’t think so. This was a distinct message to unite as Americans, that we have been through some tough times, but tough times don’t define us. It takes more than one hardship to knock us down.

    Go back and watch the whole commercial, listen to Clint, and then come back and make an informed comment.

  • Kevin Days

    When an elderly actor gives a better motivational (and believable) speech than the current Commander-In-Chief…

  • Nunaya Dambizness

    Sorry, but you missed the BEST one:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpi2IAec9Ho

  • Anonymous

    Gerry, but again, you missed the message.
    I agree that they should not have been bailed out. Nobody is too big too fail. Capitalism will fail if we continue down this path.
    However, with that being said, isn’t it time to move on from this? I know that it is an election year, so I’m not saying forget those that are responsible.
    But isn’t it time to move past bickering, and work on solutions?
    Are we Americans, or are we a nation of lemmings who need to be spoon-fed our talking points depending on whether we have a -D or an -R next to our names?
    We can’t get this one wrong, Gerry.
    If this current Administration returns to the White House for another 4 years, there won’t even be a Detroit to quibble about.
    This message could not come at a better time. It’s a rallying cry of sorts; an attempt (yes, through a tribute to Detroit as a symbol of what had made us great) to unite us to pick ourselves up off of the mat, stop making excuses, and get on with being that ‘shining city’ again.
    If we don’t do it, who will?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XQT2Q2YPD4GLWZN3AYCUMZ2M54 cssconsulting

    The only thing I would have like to see different…..was that it had been a Ford commercial.  Saying that we didn’t need the gov. money we can do it on our own…..but all in all, I think Chevy did pay back anything it borrowed….it was a strong message and truer words were never spoken.  Now we need a strong President to stand by those words and bring American and Americans out of the dark ages again and remind us of our heritage as Americans…..first and foremost.  Love Clint.

  • Anonymous

    My first thought was that when Clint Eastwood said we are at half-time that he meant half-time for Obama, which means 4 more years!  One I got over the shock of that and listened a second time, it was a good message to all of us as Americans.  It is up to us if we are going to get back on track.

  • http://twitter.com/bueno40 Eduardo Bueno

    My son asked what he should do after he came back from his mission and I told him to marry, find job, go to school all at the same time because that is what I did back in Brazil in the 80′s when inflation there was 5,000% a year. He is in America and as a bad as it is he started working for almost nothing as an intern and was accepted at a university with a grant because of good grades. I had not funds for hi college either. He married and did not have a bed (I found out later about the bed thing). He then was hired by the company he was an intern at and changed his major (he wanted to be a math teacher but found out that he could make computer programs.) He never stopped working or going to school. They live in a very tight budget. They bought a car on credit and that gave them a rating that allowed them to build a house. The borrowed money on a plan where they built their own house and for 1.5 years they did not have weekends and him and the other 7 house buyers built the 7 houses and saved a lot of money building equity immediately. This is in America of today, not in Brazil, and with parents that could not provide for college so he would stay in the dorm reading books and putting his life on hold at my expense. I am glad I told him this was the land of opportunity regardless how bad it is and that I had my experience in a country that is way back there compared to what America is. Maybe you should re-evaluate how things should be done and she will have a lot more to tell her brothers than they have to tell her. It s a chance of a lifetime to things the hard way. Prosperity made America lazy and we should learn from it. The great depression saved this nation. I hope we learn too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Barbara-Ellis/100002921337218 Barbara Ellis

    The best was Clint Eastwood.

  • Anonymous

    Now, I am wondering…was anyone else annoyed by the plethora of public service messages disguised as commercials?
    1.) We wouldn’t have beer without GE? Really? The same GE that pays no tax?
    2.) OK, GE and their turbines are, what…saving the planet?
    3.) as nice as it was to look at, the 1-800 flowers commercial. I can remember growing up in the early 90′s, and how the Calvin Klein ads were controversial because they were so unfocused on a product and instead sold sex. This commercial, shown on such a widely viewed event as the Super Bowl, IMO, shows how far we have fallen. There are children watching this game.
    4.) which brings me to Beckham in his underwear. Trust me, I get the whole sex appeal thing, but does it really need to be crammed down our throats like this?
    5.) Go Daddy’s gimmicks are not even amusing anymore
    6.) I prefer Coke over Pepsi. But this whole Polar Bear thing is waaaay overplayed. Can we please stay on message and talk about the product and not the manufactured crises of melting ice caps?

    and my biggest irritant came from the tyrant himself, the one to whom term limits does not apply…none other than….NY City Mayor Bloomberg and Boston mayor I-have-no-idea. 

    7.) let me get this straight…I am supposed to believe, that Mr. Anti-Gun himself, Michael Bloomberg, the one who has helped make owning a fire-arm akin to attempting to buy a nuclear warhead in NY City, is for, FOR the 2nd Amendment?!!? Yeah, sure. He supports the guns, so long as no one has any.

  • http://twitter.com/bueno40 Eduardo Bueno

    Sorry Littletime. I don´t mean your daughter is lazy. I only mean that prosperity in America created this mentality that people must only go to school and then work and that put a burden in the parents that should not exist. People can survive hard work. She puts a lot of time in music and at the same time goes to school and who knows how many other things she does. That was not my point. Sorry if I did not express myself right. But I agree with you that supporting companies that do not honor America is bad.

  • Anonymous

    I am sure it has already been said, but I can’t believe Clint being a conservative was in that ad. Yes it was a great message to America brought to us by a company that is no longer American. The commercial should have been Yes it’s half time in America but if you are down the government will bail you out and then you will still have to sell the majority of your assets to a foreign company.  Time for the second half..  Chrysler-Fiat

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002270863021 Larry McCracken

    Did anyone else catch the not so subtle pro socialism Pepsi commercial where Elton John decides who gets Pepsi and who doesn’t ?  ” Pepsi for EVERYONE ! “

  • thelionoftruth

        I can’t tell if he is for the new change in O-bama’s process to continue or
    for people are just believing in the getting him out. But we’re a long way from
    oneness! I really don’t see any message at all! The oneness we should be
    seeking is God’s will be done. no one seems to take that seriously these days.

  • thelionoftruth

        Maybe that should be Fiat-Chrysler…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1717017000 Edward Sperry

    AMEN!! GOD is the great creator and if american takes GOD, hope, faith and the Government continues to take  our 
    18 enumerated powers granted under our founding legal document, the US Constitution – then we are nothing more that RUNNING toward a country divided in a country of socialism / communistic rule….where WE THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT RIGHTS, NO SAY, NO FREEDOM, NO CONTROL, NO HOPE… We need to take OUR country back… it starts with GOD – in truth, love and OBEDIENCE to GOD and then REMOVING OBAMA and making RIGHT choices as to whom we vote INTO ANY OFFICE. AMERICA is WE THE PEOPLE.. NOT a select few. IF WE do not make the RIGHT choices for the RIGHT people to govern our country then we the people are GIVING our rights away with our vote.

  • Justin VanRiper

    No – the car commercial where the cheetah is released from is cage, and rather than race the car, he turns around an tackles the guy who released him from the cage. Best ever. 

  • thelionoftruth

     Yes that is our first priority! To know God and to learn how to obey
    and love His Righteousness is imperative for survival as a country.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VVNCMDTGNV57FJP4G7AS7XAEG4 Brian B

    That commercial was not too subtle…It was a monarchy, not socialism.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1137879759 Annie Brewer

    And I think you said it even better than Clint!  Amen!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1137879759 Annie Brewer

    Another great reply!  This is the point I’ve also been making b/c I am a big Classic Film Buff and the movies were so simple and appealed to everybody b/c we were all of the same beliefs no matter our race, color, or creed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1137879759 Annie Brewer

    Littletime–our circumstances are almost exactly as yours.  I agree with everything you’ve said here, including disappointment from Clint that he didn’t back Ford–the only company that didn’t take a bailout.  We took our last savings and bought a few shares of Ford just for that reason.  I hope this little investment pays some of the grandchildren’s college expenses.

  • thelionoftruth

        You know one problem is I still don’t see the candidates mentioning
    “Term Limits” The first one to push this is the one to look at!

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ UStyrannyClick4Proof

    My favorite was the one on world domination.

    Osama Obama Biden (Bi)n La(den)
    Think this is just some amazing set of coincidences? Think again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Irina-Krasnyuk/745534442 Irina Krasnyuk

    it is mindbuggling..reported from Detroyt.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Brian. I too worked my way through college and lived at home. She already works to jobs in high school, but it effects the fine tuning of classical performances that she has to do for college auditions. Tuition are 35,000 to 50,000 and we pray for scholarships.
    I am just angry that I cannot find a way to get things moving in a positive direction. At the same time our government wants to regulate us to death and the banks we bailed out are not refinancing loans that are 20 year to the good. When Washington hurts my child’s chances I get angry! People who did plan are just as screwed as people who did. Not good.

  • Anonymous

    I bought a Ford Fusion 2 years ago. A good car! It’s almost sacrilegious to continue the bailout by buying GM stock.

  • General Kota

    Looks like a good movie but I put my money behind Jedi before the Hulk.  

  • Anonymous

    No there is no change in his message! It’s the same, collectivism! That means he wants us to feel we are in this bad economy together, and give more to take care of the “common good” meaning everybody! Collectivism in religion is that our salvation is tied to each other, not a personal relationship with God. Same message all the time!

  • Anonymous

    Dude, we take it personally because our country is under great debt because they CHOSE to bail GM out. Yes it would be harmless and funny if it didn’t hurt so bad.  

  • Anonymous

    Is it a call to greatness? Or a call to “stop whinning America, you’ve bad times before” suck it up collectively! GM was bailed out! They didn’t suck anything up but our taxpayer bail out money. Unions and bad mangement mad GM bad! What are Americans called to do now? Buy more GM???

  • Anonymous

    I learned today that Chrysler (Clint Eastwood’s commercial)  Is 58% owned by Fiat. (Italy). But WE have (own) Clint!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RUUSQHBWUNJ672CQZYJQJGM6CI Barbara

    Very surprised that neither of the Dorito’s commercials made your list, I laughed until I cried at both of them……

  • http://www.facebook.com/mschurch2 Michael Schurch

    Show your stand against socialism – Vote in this poll and pass it
    to as many conservitves as you can find!
    Call their bluff!

    http://www.political.com/OfferSeriesPage.aspx?g=041356fe2ecc4d058d438932d2aee988&nm=01ngafw2ktxjas&ue=1&se=52

  • Anonymous

    The choice of Clint Eastwood to send this message to America is perfect. There are few actors who speak the truth like Clint. America would do much better if the POTUS was someone like Clint to open the eyes of ALL Americans.

  • Anonymous

    Glenn got it right again!  I agree totally with his #1 favorite “The Apocalypse”.  Love it!  I like the music selection-”Looks Like We Made It!”
    The Frisch’s Big Boy and Twinkies just add to the genius of this commercial….
    and the poke at Ford.  
    I agree with Glenn probably 99% of the time.  Do you think I am watching toooo much GBTV??? lol –Dee:-)

  • http://twitter.com/misrold John H

    Too bad that the American taxpayer spent all that money to make a Superbowl commercial for Government Motors.

  • Leslie Arnold

    I for one will never buy a GM or Chrysler product ever again.  Ford man, the rest of my days, or until they take a bail-out.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with Glenn.  Top 2 commercials were Chevy and Clint.  I part ways with Glenn there.  Clint was #1…simply because I love football and football metaphors.  It’s time to take Obama out of the game.  We need a QB who loves this country and the people in it and, more importantly, will take the oath of office seriously.  I agree with deebriggs, the music selection for “The Apocalypse” was too priceless.  Let’s use it in November.  What say you, Dee?

  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crazy_politics/ crazypolitics4U

    Didn’t anyone like the Audi vampire headlight commercial? http://youtu.be/lw9ZeXB2uKs. That was one of the first commercials of the super bowl and it cracked me up!

  • Anonymous

    Littletime….I think you need to relax just a bit. I hate socialism and communism as much as any sensible person that understands freedom and liberty would, but you’ve got to take it easy. 

    Are we all not Americans? Are we not all created in God’s image? Aren’t we all on the hook to pay for the GM bailout? 

    I don’t see where in the Eastwood ad there was anything even remotely suggesting collectivism. 

    At times in my lifetime, I have felt the sense that we are united as one people- those of the United States of America. 9/11 was one time. But as a young child in the 80′s, I can remember Reagan. Reagan restored pride in being American. 

    That’s what we need again. Not devisiveness. Not bickering. We need to be honest, and work together for the common good. That’s not collectivism. Not the way I’m saying it. Obama, yes. Me, no. 

    Government get out of the way, and let the free people of the United States sort it out. Find a trail, or blaze a new one, just like the ad says. That’s American.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gerald-Scott/100002227796670 Gerald Scott

    what’s the real problem with America today isn’t a problem that just recently started goes back a few generations when parents stopped teaching their children about God. and each generation  gets farther and farther away from him. Our real problem is of a spiritual nature. God said if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways and seek my face I will hear from heaven and I will heal their land. It’s that simple fellow countrymen get prone on the floor on your face in a position of humbleness and cry out to God with a sincere heart and ask forgiveness for turning our backs on him and he will answer. He has given us a choice to serve him and let him be our God or keep thinking we can do it ourselves if we just believe in ourselves and we can become enlightened enough. People often say the bible says God helps those who help themselves. But it says that nowhere in the bible. God says he will be a help to those who cannot help themselves. And we are a nation lost in sin and corruption, idolatry, loving our possessions more than God, sexual immorality, loving and promoting homosexuality, and killing millions of innocent unborn children(54 million since roe vs. wade) We need a spiritual reckoning with God as our sinful nature seperates us from the love of God. And Jesus did make that atonement for us on the cross but we have to believe that and begin to live our lives in a manner that shows we believe it. Just saying we believe it isn’t the same as living like we really believe it. Just saying it and not living it is nothing more than lip service. Jesus said why do you say you love me but won’t do as I say to do. He actually said if you say you love me and won’t do as I say then you are a liar.  And guess what the bible says that a liar will surely never enter into the kingdom of heaven.

  • thelionoftruth

        Perfect the words are of a mature understanding I will offer my posts on another
    Glenn blog if your interested. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/blog/show/is-it-morally-wrong-to-take-a-life-yes/ We believe that our Father is the only person that
    provides all things to us His Created Beings.

  • Anonymous

    These days I suppose i’m taking life a little to seriously, but i must say i find i have very little interest in watching professional sports anymore when these guys with there stinkin lawyers argue multi-million dollar contracts to play and have fun while there is so much suffering in our world. I also find it hard to enjoy multi- million dollar commercials by chrysler and gm bought with our money that we will never see again. I pray that we all may open our hearts and minds; seek out a humble existence,  and ask God to lead us towards His purpose for us in these trying times.

  • Anonymous

    Right on Clint Eastwood.
    I look around America and get sick at what’s going on.
    Let’s all get together to fix the mess we got OURSELVES in.

    God Bless all

  • Anonymous

    RE: Bud Light commercial with We-go
    I have a rescue dog too! He is a miniature dachshund. I named him “Tootsie Roll”. He doesn’t fetch my Bud Lights when I say “Here, We-go” but he very dependably delivers small Tootsie Rolls every day. Remarkably, he required no training. You might say he’s a natural. The only problem is that his Tootsie Rolls taste terrible! Seriously, they taste like sh*t! I suspect he may be making Chinese knock-off Tootsie Rolls because I have never found a wrapper……….ever.

  • thelionoftruth

     Now THAT! is funny!!!!  Best I’ve Heard in awhile even better than the commercials!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Lion.
    I often wonder if anyone appreciates my mental illness and warped sense of humor.

  • Anonymous

    my neighbor’s step-mother’s base pay is $80/HR 0n the c0mputer .She has been out of work for 5 months but last month her paycheck was $7597 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Here’s the site to read more, CashLazy.com

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7QIFAFNWAADFBFT6QTH23TXB3M Joe

    Clint Eastwood is a great actor.  Chrysler is owned by Fiat and the UAW.  You figure it out.

  • Anonymous

    not only do we need to eliminate the current president , we also need to clean out the entire House, Senate, and congress that have been there for far too long  due to all of us that havent taken the time to pay attention to our own that govern this great country… when the elections come around rid ourselves of all the INCUMBENTS .. they need to be tossed out… there are too many that are in agreement with OBAMA and they are backing him on the MARXIST AND SOCIALIST  policies that are being shoved down our throats.  this is a good way to help stop what is happening to us..   we need a clean slate with people that will follow the constitution

  • Anonymous

    Great. I get to watch Chevy commercials made possible by my taxpayer bailout money. 

    Does Ford still have to pay for their own commercials? 

    Tough to compete in a “free market” where guvmint picks the winners and losers.

  • Anonymous

    I, too, bought a Ford when I was car hunting a few years ago,

    Littletime.    Am pleased with it.  Would never buy a GM now.

    Though, in the past, we’ve had both GM and Chrysler cars.  But

    that was then—this is now.

  • Anonymous

    You know, Ethan, there were two fellows on the O’Reilly show on Mon. who discussed

    this ad since there had been some protests made about its being political (hidden) in

    nature.   As one of them said: Ads are made to sell things.  Even if the language is not

    overt, there is a subliminal message conveyed.     O’Reilly read a note he had rec’d from

    Eastwood who said he made the commercial as a sales pitch—no politics was involved.

    So, it’s up to the viewer to decide for himself—political ad or not?

  • Anonymous

    Tom,  My husband gave up on sports a long time ago when, as you say, the players

    needed ”lawyers to argue multi-million dollar contracts to play—”    He said they should

    be in the business pages of the paper, not the sport pages.

  • Anonymous

    Okay Clint didn’t suggest collectivism! GM bailes out by American people. We hold big debt because of it, but GM is saying WOW look what we have done! We have turned it around! Don’t feel bad America! Well frankly if I get a boat load of money dropped in my lap, and I prosper, it’s not because my work alone. GM had our money to make them get better. This is not capitalism The irony is that they are giving American’s a PEP Talk! Big Joke! Yes the underlying tone of the commercial is “we are in this together” , GM is being managed by BIG BROTHER, hence the message is if we come together we can continue to come out of this. I don’t want anything to do with this government. If you understood Obama, you understand his underlying belief system. Collectivism! Follow the dotted lines. There is no transparency here!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1575410085 Alicia Clark

    my favorite was Huff the Great Dane in “Man’s best friend”

  • Anonymous

    For those of you who are praying for our son Steven, please continue
    to pray to God for a miracle of healing for him and please thank God
    for the little miracles he has performed on our son and pray now for
    the big miracle.
    After his first three chemo treatments, he developed pneumonia and
    when he started his next round of chemo he became so weak. 
    All he wants to do is sleep all day and when  he wakes up he is
    angry at himself because he didn’t get up to eat or do his exercises.
    He didn’t tell us because he didn’t want us to worry.
    We will be taking turns every day to be with him so he will at least
    eat and exercise.  His  friend will continue to be with him at night
    and on the weekends.

    Please continue to pray for our son, not only to regain his
    physical strength but also to regain his mental optimism.
    We ask God and Jesus for the miracle of healing on his
    entire body and that he never gets the cancer back again.
    We thank God every day for the healing miracle.  As I have
    said before it may be that one last prayer that will heal him.

    God Bless you all

  • http://www.facebook.com/pqbowers Pam Q Bowers

    Although I am a serious Cat lover, I can still appreciate the ‘sick sense of humor’ of the ad for Doritos where the dog is burying what seems to be a missing cat and bribing his owner with Doritos to keep quiet.

  • Anonymous

    I’m glad you didn’t take the commercial. They would have had you putting down the company that didn’t take the money, and supporting the bad guys. I think that was probably the commercial they wanted Glenn to do. It would have looked at a little different with Glenn.

  • thelionoftruth

     I have decided! In my heart for the Potter to mold me, as He sees fit.
    That is why I am a peculiar person. I stand by the true God and He wants me the
    way He wants me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathy.ellenberger Kathy Ellenberger

    Yes but I liked the M&M one.  We couldn’t stop laughing.

  • Anonymous

    I had a thought after seeing the Chevy Apocalypse ad:

    I realized that GM’s ad agency had missed a huge comedic opportunity. The three Chevy owners could still emerge from the Mayan end of the world. Dave the Ford owner would still be dead but there would be one more survivor, a lone pedestrian and he would walk into the frame bringing the Twinkies.

    As it has long been predicted, the one survivor of the end of the world would be Keith Richards and he would ask the Chevy truck guys if they’d like a Twinkie.

    This would beat the hell out of the frogs as a punchline and the ad would have gone down in history along with ads like the Mean Joe Green Coke ad.  As it is, we’ll forget this ad in a couple of weeks. Sad, really. What could have been.

  • thelionoftruth

       Hey…Joe where are you going with those words in your mouth…

  • http://www.facebook.com/kellyryanballard Kelly Ballard

    you are talking about Whataburger on your Radio show right now.  What-a-burger food is reason enough to move to Texas all by itself.!

  • thelionoftruth

       Unknown Author: 

     God
     determines who walks into your life….it’s up  to you to decide who
    you let walk away, who you  let stay, and who you refuse to let go.  When  there is nothing left but God, that is when you  find out that God is all you need.

  • Lisa Lafko

    Doesn’t anyone think that the whole “Half Time in America” statement is a reference to being only HALF WAY through Obama’s much “deserved” TWO terms?!?  That Americans need to continue with the SECOND HALF of the game (Obama’s second term) in order for America to succeed?!?  I think it was a not so clearly veiled campaign ad, and it makes me sick.

  • thelionoftruth

     In the George Washington : Diligence Biog. I Wrote…

     Wow! 12 Comments 4 of them are mine. Are we all still asleep? It looks like something
    big has to happen again to wake us up! Like Obama’s re-election! Maybe that is what God is waiting for to send His Son!
    The shadow of this is like Moses in Egypt. God will again show all Mankind once and
    for all His force is the only presence in existence that will save His Created Beings. Are you with me? 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/GRIJGJPNGME6XOT6XLYKZH7GQE Don Anderson

    yes yes yes yes yes!

  • Anonymous

    i disagree. we need to be united sure. but don’t make it a religious thing. the first colonies didn’t belive in the same thing and they found a way to be united. it wasn’t a union because they were all the same but that they were united because they acknowledged each others diferences as well as their similarities

  • thelionoftruth

        I believe there’s some truth to that. But how do you
    think these people came together in a united way?
    Now if you don’t believe God had something to do with
    it I can’t argue with your disagreement!
    But I believe in the providential powers of God and through the toughness of the need to help one another
    brought them to survive the hard times that they had
    experienced in those days and brought them closer
    to God! Making for the greater need for the God given
    rights of the Constitution to become existent, in the
    need to unite them to follow certain Judeo/Christian
    rules as a means to keep together as a nation. Yes I think God had a hand! In it.

  • thelionoftruth

       I pray for you also that the true Creator of all things is revealed to you and your
    Family answers His Call. For He says you must know and worship My Name!
    Yahweh the (Ail) God of all Creation.  Praise Yah! Hallelujah! Amen!

  • Anonymous

    i do believe that god guided those events that united this nation. i was not saying otherwise. however, i was saying that not all of those people were in fact christins, and those that were was from difering christian churches. god does not march in with a blast of an agles horn but quitely on muffled feet. you can only see gods hand in a matter after the fact. mainly, i was saying that this is not a church and not all are saints. people will follow better hearing what it is that matters best to them rather then a sermon on the mount. there are many things people take as everyday not seeing the thread that leads to judeo/christian values