The right is not attacking Clint Eastwood.
Republicans are going after the union workers, and Eastwood just happens to be in the line of fire.
Their stated goal when the auto companies went bankrupt wasn't so much to kill the companies outright, it was to send them into reorganization that would shred UAW contracts. If that had happened and the companies bounced back as they did, every Republican in the country would be touting their success today.
It just frosts their asses when companies and unions work together toward mutual prosperity, and this is absolutely killing them.
As an aside, if Chrysler cars got the same mileage around town this halftime commercial is enjoying, we wouldn't have an energy crisis. LOL.
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In his last movie as an actor, Gran Torino (2008), Eastwood portrays "Walt Kowalski"
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), a gruff retired Polish American Ford factory worker and Korean War US Army veteran, has recently been widowed after 50 years of marriage. His neighborhood near Detroit in Highland Park, Michigan, formerly populated by working-class white families, is now dominated by poor Asian immigrants, and gang violence is commonplace. He vehemently turns down a suggestion by one of his estranged sons to move to a retirement community, and lives alone with his labrador retriever, Daisy. Walt suffers from coughing fits, occasionally coughing up blood, but keeps this from his family. Father Janovich, the young Catholic priest in whom his wife had confided, tries to comfort him, but Walt openly disdains the much younger, inexperienced man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Torino
His 1972 Gran Torino--
