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No NFL here..

Again, the commercial popped up before game time, on my Youtube.

Using Roku, was watching goose hunting videos
My cat loves em.
Climbs on the couch and expects me to turn on hunting vids so she can swat at critters on screen.

No fuggin NFL or NBA in this house.
Gave up on pro and college sports, and even reg TV chit, years ago.

The point of the commercial is that he is liberal. He's a liberal at a church. Churches are generally seen as republicans establishments. Add in he's Kansas which is typically a red state, as are most of the heartland states. That's the point of the commercial, that supposedly we meet in the middle, and right can accept left, and left can accept right. It was very well done in my opinion, especially in today's "that offends me" mindset. And for the record, I'm not a Springsteen fan.

Theyre telling you where the middle.is geographically, as if that translates to the middle politically, when theyve skewed everything so far left.


Fuggem.

The message of the commercial was solid: for the good of the country , let's be open minded, discuss ideas and meet on what is best for the country.

From a reality point of view it has several issues:
- MASSIVE HYPOCRISY: where was this add for the last 4 years when the Ds did everything possible to obstruct and remove Trump
- assumes the "middle" is where you want to be

That said, they didn't pull any political punches, just said essentially "everyone, pull your head out of your ass and start talking". Hard message to swallow after the last few years if you believe it was a D generated ad, good message to hear if you believe it was a non-political ad

Have there been any commercials where an obvious conservative says “let’s unite”?


Waiting.......

I'm happy they did the PR BS.
We will be shopping for and SUV this spring. Jeep is now off the list.

Anything with Springsteen or Hollywood lecturing you, is political. Don’t doubt that ever.

I'm not into midget music.

Way too much of the same/same to not think that there were not "guidance" protocols in place that dictated what would be accepted for viewing.....And the only one that could make the rules was the NFL....

Some major companies opted out this year....They can tell you it was about covid and money....but I have doubts....


https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl...dweiser-pepsi/1e3psq09p5zul1823m1j6k0emy

And they still didn't make a pickup! Go figure.

Trump and plenty of his followers wanted the Democrats to get on the Trump train and ride it to prosperity. Many took advantage of all the winning his Presidency brought forth for the country, while at the same time railing against him/us and trying to do their damndest to sabotage the country. The Dems have crossed the line in the sand on many issues. The only compromise with them should be do we legalize machine guns first, or silencers? And by "legalize" I mean stop the infringement and get rid of the unconstitutional laws and free the political prisoners.

Lets take a relatively small thing for an example: Why, when we have the Instant Background Check, is there a law against interstate buying and selling of handguns? There is no reason other than the Federal government has had a little-known but fully functional policy in place of doing everything they can to slow down and even prevent gun sales within the context of current "laws".

The Democrats want you to have an attitude of compromise and inclusion in their evil. Guns are "only" one thing.

Springsteen, just another liberal pos.

Was it a Bronco Sport? They are mini Broncos

Ford stopped building the real Broncos in 1977.

I drive a JEEP every day here on the ranch, and we have 5 of them we use for hunting, they are like any other 4 wheel drive that's used in rough country, you have to take care of them, we have never seen a Ford, Chev, Dodge, Toyota , That will hold up to our kind of use and abuse, we have a 93 Sahara, with 300,000 ranch miles on it, I have a 05 LJ with 176,000 miles, with regular care, Jeeps will do the job. I'm no fan of Springsteen, and have not seen the commercial, and piss on the NFL.

Rio7

Won't be long before we are all driving around in 20 year old jeeps without tops in the middle of winter...........

Did anyone notice the big red star in the middle of our country at the end of the commercial?
For some reason, China came immediately to mind, whether conscious or sub-conscious.

Yeah, let's all just forgive & forget & unit & eat the good schitt sandwich that the Demons want to serve up now called the "Unity Schitt Special"

That was the message of this ad, & I ain't buyin' it.

Here's what The Federalist had to say about it today, by their very best writer.

Springsteen Jeep Ad



The 3 Worst Things About That Terrible Jeep Super Bowl Ad

How could a major corporation not see how propagandistic it comes off to suggest that when Republicans win a national election, that's divisive, but when Democrats win one, that's unifying?

By Mollie Hemingway

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In a generally weak year for Super Bowl commercials, Jeep’s stood out for being particularly obnoxious and tone-deaf. Called “The Middle,” left-wing political activist and world-famous singer Bruce Springsteen narrated and starred in the ad about how the country has been divided, but now it has a bright future as the “ReUnited States of America.”

While advertisements that appeal to virtues in order to increase sales and profits can work — see Toyota’s beautiful ad about the joy in adopting a child with special needs — this one fell flat and faced mockery and opposition from many viewers. Here are the three main reasons the ad didn’t work.

The Messenger Is Known For Hating Republicans
Many Americans love Springsteen’s music. His successful career has spanned four decades. Many liberals love that he shares their political views and works so hard as a political activist. Springsteen, like so many other wealthy celebrities, regularly speaks ill of Republican voters and politicians.

Just before the 2020 election, Springsteen called for “an exorcism in our nation’s capital” as dark music played on his radio show. Of Trump’s presidency, he said, “I thought it was a f—ing nightmare, but it was true.” The episode, titled “Farewell To The Thief,” also insulted President Trump’s family.

The 71-year-old Springsteen told Australians that he would leave the United States and move there if Trump was re-elected.

Springsteen’s posture against Republicans is well known and goes back decades. He was angry at President Ronald Reagan’s positive mention of Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” He endorsed and campaigned for John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

Of President George W. Bush in 2008, Springsteen said the United States was now “suffering the consequences” of eight years of rule by a “very radical group of people who pushed things in a very radical direction, had great success in moving things in that direction, and we are suffering the consequences.” By 2016, he was calling President Trump a “moron.” In 2017 he bashed Trump in a protest song.

As one Twitter user put it, “That’s all I could think of, the whole spot. Being preached to by someone who doesn’t respect my views who relishes in suppressing them, having the nerve to pretend to be ‘my community’ and declare unity. They have no idea how transparently cynical the whole thing came across.”


The Images Were All Off
The ad began with images of a tiny Christian chapel in the middle of the continental United States. The chapel, which seats maybe a half dozen, features a cross on top of a map of the United States that is painted like the American flag.

Later Springsteen’s narration uses biblical imagery evocative of the Old Testament journey of the Jews to the promised land: “So, we can get there. We can make it to the mountaintop, through the desert, and we will cross this divide.” Springsteen says that the chapel is for all, which is undoubtedly true, but it’s very particular religious imagery to be used in service of car sales.

While lefties began claiming that Springsteen was endorsing “Christian nationalism,” others felt that Jeep was “using our religion and God to mock us.”

The ad featured the Springsteen, who is extremely well known for being from New Jersey, wearing a cowboy hat and boots, small earrings in each ear. He appeared to have continued his regular upkeep of plastic surgery. The overall effect was one of cosplay rather than authenticity.

A Jeep with no top on in the middle of what seemed to be a particularly frigid time in Kansas drove down a dismal road. No Jeep owner would do such a thing. In general, the images were frosty, cold, and dark.

The final image was a map of the continental United States minus, for inexplicable reasons, the upper peninsula of Michigan. In the center was a red star, an image historically associated with communism and more recently with socialism.


The Argument For Unity Was Not Made Well
“The middle has been a hard place to get to lately,” Springsteen said at the beginning of the ad. The end features the text, “To The ReUnited States Of America.”

What made the United States divided until recently, the viewer might ask. Why, according to Jeep, is the country reunited now?

For 74 million Trump-voting Americans who lived through four years of epithets and refusal by elites such as Springsteen to treat the president of the United States as legitimate, it’s not hard to see why the ad is going over like a lead balloon. One reason the middle has been a hard place to get to is because of wealthy and powerful people like Springsteen spewing hatred toward Republican presidents and their voters dating back to the 1980s.

Joe Biden, after winning a narrow election that came down to about 40,000 votes in three states, began asking the media to run with the narrative that he was a unifier. They dutifully did so, even as he signed radical executive orders and moved not one bit to the center but further and further to the left.

Corporate media, who have ignored or mocked concerns about election integrity despite the widespread sloppiness and rampant mail-in balloting associated with the 2020 election, have cheered on the crackdown of protesters in or near a riot at the nation’s capitol. They did so after spending months defending and contextualizing violent riots from the left that seized cities across the country, attacked federal buildings, killed dozens of Americans, set churches on fire, and terrorized small business owners.

How could a major corporation not see how propagandistic it comes off to suggest that when Republicans win a national election, that’s divisive, but when Democrats win one, that’s unifying? The corporate-approved approach is to paper over disagreement while Democrats hold power while amplifying a full-on #Resistance when Republicans are in power.

Jeep sales will not heal the fabric of the country. Jeep ads can’t even help toward that goal so long as they are using dishonest and manipulative partisan framing in service of car sales.

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is a senior editor at The Federalist. She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College and a Fox News contributor. She is the co-author of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. Follow her on Twitter at @mzhemingway

Springsteen is a has been , washed up .

I would be not just surprised, but amazed, if Bruce and his family turned out not to be crypto-Jews. They fit the pattern, right down to the nonsense name that sounds European, but translates oddly. It was obviously contrived. He has certainly been "chosen" to receive all the cash, fame, awards, and accolades available, particularly given that he has little talent. He has had relationships with Jewish women: another tell.

Just food for thought.