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"Clear eyes, full hearts, can&amp;apos;t . . . think of an original slogan?\r\nIn a letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week, Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg slams Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney for co-opting the show&amp;apos;s signature inspirational catchphrase, &amp;quot;Clear eyes, full hearts, can&amp;apos;t lose,&amp;quot; frequently uttered by Coach Eric Taylor (played by Kyle Chandler).\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I was not thrilled when I saw that you have plagiarized this expression to support your campaign by using it on posters, your Facebook page and as part of your stump speeches,&amp;quot; Berg writes. &amp;quot;Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series.&amp;quot;\r\nAdds the showrunner, &amp;quot;The only relevant comparison that I see between your campaign and Friday Night Lights is in the character of Buddy Garrity -- who turned his back on American car manufacturers selling imported cars from Japan.&amp;quot; (Garrity, a former Dillon Panthers football player and diehard fan, owns a car dealership in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas.)\r\nBerg says although he wishes Romney and his family &amp;quot;all the best&amp;quot; -- and that he&amp;apos;s flattered that members of the former Massachusetts governor&amp;apos;s team are fans of the show -- the candidate&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;use of the expression falsely and inappropriately associates Friday Night Lights with the Romney/Ryan campaign . . . we are not in any way affiliated with you or your campaign. Please come up with your own campaign slogan.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nScott Porter, who played the Dillon Panthers&amp;apos; former starting QB on the beloved drama, took to Twitter on Thursday to weigh in on his former boss&amp;apos; new beef with Romney.\r\n&amp;quot;Both parties using it to win votes. And my boy Pete Berg didn&amp;apos;t even trademark it. Shame,&amp;quot; he wrote. &amp;quot;Oh. And by the way . . . Obama did it first. And more classy.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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