By Thomas Durante UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 9 February 2012 Clint Eastwood, the star of the Super Bowl's most controversial TV ad, has denied the Chrysler spot was a booster for President Obama's re-election campaign. The ad, which declares 'it's halftime in America,' has received mounting criticism from Republicans, who say it was a thinly-veiled nod to President Obama, who bailed out the auto industry during the recession. The ad was subject to additional backlash today after it emerged that it wasn't even filmed in Detroit at all -  but in New Orleans and Los Angeles. Scroll down for video
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Shock as it emerges the ad was actually filmed in in New Orleans and Los Angeles
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Karl Rove says he was offended by ad that he said is an example of Obama's 'Chicago-style politics'
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Michelle Malkin decries commercial as Clint Eastwood 'fronting an auto bailout ad'
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Obama camp praises ad as something 'Eminem and Clint Eastwood can agree on'
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U.S. taxpayers lost $1.3billion in Chrysler bailout
He said: “I'm a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the president of the @placeholder and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising'.