“I created the TV show Friday Night Lights and came up with the phrase 'Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose.' 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. Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series. The only relevant comparison that I see between your campaign and Friday Night Lights is the character of Buddy Garrity - who turned his back on American car manufacturers selling imported cars from Japan. Your use of the expression falsely and inappropriately associates Friday Night Lights with the Romney/Ryan campaign. [...] Please come up with your own campaign slogan.”

—Peter Berg, the writer-director of the Friday Night Lights movie and television series, in his letter to Mitt Romney. [x]

“Governor Romney: I created the TV Show 'Friday Night Lights' and came up with the phrase 'Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose.' I was not thrilled when I saw that you have plagiarized this expression to support your campaign ... Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series. ... Please come up with your own campaign slogan.”

—writer-director Peter Berg, in a letter to the Romney campaign, via soupsoup via The Hollywood Reporter.

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“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...Please come up with your own campaign slogan.”

—Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg, in an irritated letter to Mitt Romney. Berg is annoyed that the Romney campaign has appropriated a tagline from his TV series—“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose”—for use on the campaign trail. “Your use of the expression falsely and inappropriately associates Friday Night Lights with the Romney/Ryan campaign,” Berg writes. “Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in the series.” Oddly enough, the author of the book upon which the series is based has endorsed Romney for president. source (pdf)