Super Bowl commercials and birthday boys.

It's the day after the Super Bowl, and wingnuts are still up in arms over that Clint Eastwood commercial.  The one where he touts the A-merry-can auto industry and the city of Detroit for making a comeback.

The wingnuts, of course, believe that it's all some kind of subliminal Obama plot. And that Eastwood is some kind of Obama operative.(Eastwood voted for McCain in the last election). Honestly, you need a PhD in craziness to figure out what goes on in the mind of a wingnut. You would think that they would be condemning their own guy for making a racist Super Bowl ad.

Clint himself had to finally make a statement to calm the wingnut waters:

 "Eastwood told "O’Reilly Factor" producer Ron Mitchell on Monday: “l am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. ...It was meant to be a message ... just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it.”

Thank you Clint. Now maybe the wingnuts can sleep tonight.

The other commercials were nothing special. As I noted last night, this was the year of the dog in commercial land. It was also the year of washed up actors, comedians, and black guys with Afros. Remember when A-merry-ca was afraid of black guys with Afros? Not anymore. The black man with an Afro has become somewhat of the new magic Negro. That friend that everyone must have. The black friend with an Afro product placement was mandatory for all major commercials during the Super Bowl last night.

Oh, and speaking of the Super Bowl,  someone needs to tell Mrs. Brady that it's not a good look criticizing her husband's teammates after a tough loss.

I know that those small men fans can be jerks, but sometimes you just have to suck it up.

Finally, Happy birthday Bob. I wish you were still here writing songs and spreading love. But di good dem die young mi bredren.

"Field, aren't you going to wish Happy Birthday to another famous person who was born on this date? "

Nope, there is no need to. Every time I drive through a neighborhood that was ravished by drug dealing and crime I remember him.

Halftime Show.

It's halftime at the Super Bowl. But rather than watch AARP rocker, Madonna, do her thing, I think I will do a little blogging.

I saw all  the commercials so far, and this is my take: Animals- especially dogs- are really in. A-merry-ca is still in love with rap and music, and music they consider "hip" to sell things. Jar jar Binks will be back this summer in 3D .(Whhyyyy?!) And I saw Howard Stern doing his best Bull Connor imitation for another shameless NBC promotion of one of their shows.  

That's pretty much it.

As for the game itself,  I really have no rooting interest. The Iggles aren't there so I could care less who wins. I actually hate both of these teams.

Finally, let me end this post on a somewhat serious note. I say somewhat because the person I am going to write about is pretty much a joke.

Anyway, Newt says that his Oness and his government has launched an all out "assault" on religeon because of the HHS policy on birth control.

 "Newt Gingrich upped his attacks against President Obama today over his administration's requirement that some religious hospitals offer co-pay-free birth control under the new health care law.

Gingrich's comments come after a week of outrage from the Catholic Church and his fellow GOP presidential candidates over the policy.

"This is a tremendous infringement of religious liberty," Newt Gingrich said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Every time you turn around the secular government is shrinking the rights of religious institutions in America."

While the policy was proposed in August, the issue resurfaced last week after Catholic churches across America read letters from the church's leadership last Sunday condemning the administration's policy." [Source]

I won't get into why this is a false issue from a legal perspective, but trust me, it is.

Still, I have to wonder, where was all the outrage and righteous indignation when Catholic priests were molesting young boys?

That's right, there was none. Certainly not from the people we are hearing it from now.

Now back to the game.