{"id":17510,"date":"2012-10-18T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17510"},"modified":"2012-10-18T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:46:24","slug":"tv-writer-accuses-romney-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17510","title":{"rendered":"Tv Writer Accuses Romney Of\u00a0Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u00a0 \u2014 The creator of <em>TV\u2019s \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d<\/em> is accusing <strong>Mitt<\/strong> <strong>Romney<\/strong> of plagiarizing a phrase from the show to use as a campaign slogan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Berg<\/strong> wrote a letter to <strong>Romney<\/strong> on Friday saying he\u2019s \u201cnot thrilled\u201d that the Republican presidential candidate is using the phrase <em>\u201cClear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can\u2019t Lose\u201d<\/em> on campaign posters and his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>On the TV show, a small-town Texas football coach uses the phrase to inspire his players before taking the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Berg\u2019s<\/strong> agent distributed the letter to the media. In it, the writer-director-actor says <strong>Romney\u2019s<\/strong> politics and campaign aren\u2019t aligned with the themes of the TV series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Berg<\/strong> goes on to thank the governor for supporting the show but says, \u201cPlease come up with your own campaign slogan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Romney<\/strong> campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u00a0 \u2014 The creator of TV\u2019s \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d is accusing Mitt Romney of plagiarizing a phrase from the show to use as a campaign slogan. Peter Berg wrote a letter to Romney on Friday saying he\u2019s \u201cnot thrilled\u201d that the Republican presidential candidate is using the phrase \u201cClear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can\u2019t Lose\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}