Posted on 02/25/2021 9:19:23 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Jeep said it will resume airing its Super Bowl commercial starring Bruce Springsteen after the pro-Biden singer-songwriter pleaded guilty on Wednesday to consuming alcohol in a restricted area. The “Born in the USA” rocker managed to avoid the more serious charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving.
A spokesperson for Jeep said in a statement sent to multiple news outlets that the automaker is “unpausing” the commercial. “As we stated previously, we paused the commercial until the facts were established. Now, that the matter has been resolved, we are unpausing the film,” the spokesperson said.
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Jeep had suspended the commercial just three days after it first aired during the Super Bowl LV broadcast. New Jersey officials revealed after the big game that Springsteen had been arrested in November for DWI and other charges. The revelation angered groups including Mothers Against Drunk Driving, which said the arrest should have been made public before the auto commercial was viewed by tens of millions of football fans.
In addition to pleading guilty to the lesser charge, Springsteen was fined $540. The two charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving were dropped due to lack of evidence.
Springsteen, who campaigned for Joe Biden during last year’s presidential race, recently announced a new podcast partnership with former president Barack Obama.
The Jeep commercial featured Springsteen urging America to heal its political divisions and for people to come together “in the middle.” During last year’s presidential race, the singer repeatedly bashed then President Donald Trump, promising that he would leave the country if the president were re-elected.
Bruce Springsteen also teamed up with novelist-turned-activist Don Winslow to create an anti-Trump viral video that repeated the Atlantic magazine’s debunked “losers” and “suckers” smear against Trump.
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I’m no fan, but really?
You too would have been let go, if even charged with a BAC of 0.02%. That there was any question of impropriety is ludicrous on its face.
This was the purest of posturing by some hick sheriff’s deputy trying to make a name for himself. No law was broken, but a crap ton of publicity ensued for Springsteen.
DUI laws apply to those we enforce them on.
And dot you forget it!
Like I need more reason to despise Springsteen and everything he ever stood for! Truly infuriating!!
Who wants anything built and owned by Europeans who want to own us!
Wont see SNL doing a skit on this
Laws are for little people, but campaign (or personal?) donations from Jeep are for the people who count.
I wonder how much rescuing a new ad campaign is worth.
This was a fiasco from Day One because he was arrested on Federal property and the case was being administered in Federal court. They probably spent three months figuring out just how the hell to proceed, and which counts would ever stand up in Federal court.
The establishment gets a free pass again...
Establishment privilege... only the serfs need to respect the law...
I sure won’t be buying any Jeeps anymore.
LOL! Nope. Looks like more than one of us has seen the ‘DAMM!’ t-shirts.
Springstein aside;
Is the Jeep demographic really a bunch of hand holding kum-bye-ya sheep? I always thought of Jeep drivers as rugged individualist. What a change from Marlboro Man to Pajama boy.
Jeep will have Bruce Springsteen drive drunk into a tree.
No, he’s hiring Tiger Woods as his chauffeur.
Bruce Stringbean is my favorite.
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