(Talking to an empty chair) So, Mr. President, how do you handle promises that you have made when you were running for election, and how do you handle them I mean, what do you say to people? Do you just -- you know -- I know -- people were wondering -- you don’t -- handle that OK. Well, I know even people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn’t close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo -- why close that, we spent so much money on it. But, I thought maybe as an excuse -- what do you mean shut up?
(LAUGHTER)
OK, I thought maybe it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City.
(APPLAUSE)
I’ve got to to hand it to you. I have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that finally. And that’s -- now we are moving onward. I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it -- they did there for 10 years.
And yes the audience did indeed laugh and applaud all the way through his very public display of dementia, which might very well have been the MOST disturbing thing of all.
I swear that was the freakiest thing I have EVER seen at a major political convention!
Update: This bizarre routine even inspired a sarcastic response from team Obama in the form of this tweet.
This seat's taken |
Eastwood is secretly working for the Obama campaign. It is the only thing that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I think you're right! OBAMA 2012!!!
Deleteyeah it sure seems that way, doesn't it?
DeleteClint Eastwood could not have made the President look better. For Clint's sake it was too painful to watch, when I was finally able to see his act, it was spectacular, for President Obama.
DeleteI think this was the best campaign ratfucking ever. I'm in the camp that thinks(hopes) Clint's speech was a well thought out performance with a FU to the GOP and a subliminal "Mission Accomplished, Mr President!"
DeleteGive the reins to a woman who loves you. You will not be steered over a cliff. Huh?
DeleteLook at the stricken expressions on the wives of Romney and Ryan: They know their husbands are getting punked by Clint.
It's working. Time to make another donation to Obama!
DeleteDoesn't anyone watch the Eastwood reality show?
DeleteBut isn't an addled person talking to an imaginary being the average Republican voter? Come on, Griffin; they were just appealing to the base. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think maybe it is. The senior citizen lady I overheard saying yesterday that she really like that "young man Ryan" because he was such a good businessman and had done it all himself. She's obviously totally ignorant of "young" Ryan's plans for Social Security and Medicare! Not to say the GOP's plans for women's health issues!
DeleteObama/Biden 2012!!!
Morgan5:44 AM
DeleteYour comment insults all of us Liberal Dems who believe in God and Jesus.
How did you know I was talking about God and Jesus? ...gotcha!
DeleteConsidering Paulie Ryan has been a GOP politico insider since he got his driver's license - WHAT BUSINESS?
DeleteIt's the Master Thespian, he's ACTING!
ReplyDeleteApparently it's all in the writing.
He's a nasty NUT. That mess he did up there was meant to be nasty and disrespectful to President Obama.
DeleteObama/Biden 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI'll admit it was disrespectful, but yes people it was acting not dementia.
DeleteIf that was acting he is in deep shit. It was an act by an disrespectful asshole creep or early onset of dementia. Most likely both. Be sure to read the reviews by Ebbert and Lipton and those who know the business, also, too.
DeleteThe man appears to be disoriented and confused about his message, if, indeed there was a message. Eastwood is a great Hollywood actor and director but he, obviously, is not very focused. This leads me to believe he is either on the verge of dementia or is rather ignorant and dismissive of facts.
ReplyDeleteI am going with dementia. I am surprised that whoever allowed him to do this did not notice any signs prior. The Republicans failed EPIC with stage craft and management of this debacle. I doubt history will remember it was Mitt Romney's convention. Clint Eastwood owns this one. Every time one of his films shows, who won't remember what happened to him? It is shocking to witness demise on this scale. Reagan was a mediocre actor who could only go up with the right staging. In a million years who would guess that Eastwood could fall so far in such a brief time?
DeleteLook how long before they admitted Reagan had Alzheimer's. It was obvious before he ran for his first term. A demented actor is the perfect politician. He can be controlled so easily and the acting part comes naturally. Just feed him his lines.
Delete(also; did anyone else feel they were pandering to SNL fans? Lol)
DeleteEastwood has a just-filmed movie coming out in just 3 weeks: 'Trouble With The Curve'.
DeleteFor the next 2 months until the election, that movie will be a constant reminder of his senile rambling to the chair and a reminder of how horrible the 2012 RNC was compared to 2008.
Marz The RNC was incredibly generous. What a fabulous gift. It is something that will last for lifetimes. Thank you RNC for taking Mittens time in the sun away from him. Great timing and a great gift. Thank you RNC!
DeleteThe person responsible, whether Clint Eastwood was punking or not, is the head of the RNC. He should be someone bright enough not to end up with Romney's once in a lifetime great moment turning into the butt of all jokes.
DeleteEven if you believe that the 82 year old man is a great performance artist, secretly taking Romney down with a SNL skit, it is the end result that matters for Romney. His night was usurped and spoiled forever. Historic proportions.
His convention is disastrous. All the spinning in the world will not save it. Yes, this will bring him lasting fame. He could run a thousand companies like Bain but this moment will define him in another 50-100 years. He will spend the rest of his life trying to escape this.
If Romney was running a business he would fire the head of the RNC over this gigantic blunder. He can't do that because he has to pretend it didn't happen as it did. They can't admit any failure. They can continue faking things. They are good liars but he is a seriously bad CEO. The RNC convention 2012 is proof.
Thank you Clint Eastwood and your deeply LIBERTARIAN self. No way did he do this skit for the President.
Have you ever met a libertarian?
I saw somewhere on twitter it was Rmoney himself!
DeleteRachel's Tweet:
Delete"Mr. Romney himself asked Mr. Eastwood to come to the convention" http://is.gd/2Ugl2x
Romney asked him? He gets no advice and they don't vet people or rehearse their acts? How careless of Romney. Did Preibus just sign off on the tough actor as well? Poor management skills.
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ReplyDeleteREVOLTING. Palin would have only punched the throat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYjXIA0nyS4
Who would have thunk Dirty Harry could make Dirty Sarah look good?
DeleteWhy on earth did the RNC2012 leaders allow him to use her hair stylist?
Invisible Sarah was sitting in the chair.
ReplyDeleteAnd Clint was retroactively telling her to sit down and STFU.
DeleteYeah, Sarah is the one with the colorful language. President Obama doesn't curse like a sailor or Tripp Johnston. Poor Tripp, not his fault he is raised by neglectful cursing slobs.
DeleteThey couldn't dig up Ronnie or Heston so they trotted out the next closest to dead old demented actor they could find. He is a perfect representation of the Republican party. Rambling old white fart yammering to an empty chair.
ReplyDeleteThey would have done better with Bush on a bender, like at the Beijing Olympics. This was PATHETIC.
DeleteTed Nugent, Jon Voight and Chuck Norris weren't available?
DeleteThey thought Clint Eastwood was a better sure thing than Arnold Schwarzenegger?
RNC2012 an epic fail. Just disastrous.
Eastwood was just wacky. That was the most effective and efficient way to lose respected legend status since Joe Paterno. I secretly wish he would appear at the Democratic convention saying it was all an act and that he punked the RNC!, but alas, the truth is that he is just another senile old guy that used to be cool. I noticed a lot of women on my FB really took to Rubio last night. Several of them were saying he was so handsome, smart, would make a great President, etc. The underlying tone seemed to be that they wished HE were running instead of what's-his-name. Ha ha ha! The best part of the whole RNC fiasco is that the organizers of a trainwreck that not only includes, but FEATURES a senile actor pretending to talk to an empty chair, rightfully thought that Sarah Palin was too much of a crazy, pathetic loser to speak there.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the bizarre song "I am, I Said" by Neil Diamond was stuck in my head after Clint Eastwood's speech:
"I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair
Awesome theme song! Now it's stuck in my head too. :-)
DeleteHa ha, me too! Now let's hope another verse comes true:
Delete"I am, I cried
I am, said I
And I have lost, and I can't
Even say why."
On to November!
Anonymous6:19 AM
DeleteSo they think Rubio would be a good president because they think he looks good? That is so ignorant. They said the same thing about Bush.
Convention 2012 egos run amuck. Rubio's Rubio for President speech did nothing for Romney. Another distraction. Whoever put the convention together is not a Romney supporter.
DeleteRomney's campaign tweet that you cannot judge Eastwood through a 'political lens' is totally false.
ReplyDeleteYou can JUDGE Eastwood through a political lens. He was ELECTED the Mayor of Carmel, CA. He was a POLITICIAN.
Eastwood also took a 'dig' at the First Lady. When he named off all the variations of milk and then said it was the parent's choice.
Too bad the media have not mentioned MAYOR Eastwood to disquality the campaign's comment of not being able to judge him. Sad & disgusting once again -- they totally missed that.
Clint once owned the Hog´s Breath Inn restaurant in Carmel. A bunch of us at the Naval Post-Graduate School checked it out. It sucked. And he knew it.
DeleteClint later sold it.
(I am a conservative who believes Eastwood is intentionally making a fool out of Romney.)
They SERIOUSLY tweeted that?? Wtf dude. Are they regretting picking an actor or something as their mystery speaker? You can pretty much judge anyone through a political lense. If my neighbor is Tea Party I know he's a fucking quack. Boom. There ya go.
DeleteThe guy spoke at a political convention - a NATIONAL POLITICAL convention. AS a "touted, hyped, mystery speaker." He wasn't acting in a biopic of Rmoney.
DeletePolitical lens is absolutely appropriate - and the RNC is desperate and clutching at straws.
Republican idols. Reagan, Heston and Eastwood. It is tragic what happened to these men but depraved that the GOP would continually use them for the sake of their pathetic revisionist history. Eastwood only brings more attention to the facts that the GOP worships false idols. If the GOP is so blind to the plight of some elder citizens, how can they deal with dementia in real life, with real people? This is just another example of Republicans covering up facts to promote a false narrative. They never saw how suspicious Sarah Palin's flat pregnant belly is and they won't see when their idols need care instead of being used to perform like a circus animal. Anyone who cared about Eastwood would not have allowed him to be used in this most pathetic display.
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http://tinyurl.com/9nzjt5z
I knew he was out of it when he sang the praises of dumb as a box of rocks, jon voight.
ReplyDeleteI would bet anything THAT was Donald Trump's skit he was talking about doing. Trump said it would not be a speech, but something really fun. It makes so much sense. Trump would have been talking to invisible Obama or the Obama impersonator they said would be there and Trump would eventually say "You're fired!", but Trump cancelled, so they had someone else do it. Clint said, "We have to let you go," probably a change by the speech writers because it wasn't Trump or Clint "ad libbed," a bit. That was supposed to be Trump. Too bad because Clint is held with the bag because it failed. It isn't Clint's fault or idea, it is the campaign or RNC or Trump's skit. They own it and deserve the blame. Don't blame Clint.
ReplyDeleteHe did get on the plane and up on the stage - unless he is really suffering dementia - he's responsible.
DeletePitiful. Pathetic.
If Clint was ad libbing the entire thing, why the huge prominent teleprompters?
DeleteThe concept reminds me of Bob Newhart's signature routine.
ReplyDeleteWas this meant to put nails in Obama's coffin, nailing his demise so Mitt come out by contrast appearing honest, the man to trust, moral halo etc? I am thinking of the Easter story, crucify the opponent, mock him, then voila Romney rises. Lol Romney convinces people he is human, pure etc. Etch A Sketch theater?
Obama: lying devil false prophet
Mitt: religious man of integrity
Was that accomplished?
Not even close. Mitt looks like a total goofus that can't even put together a half decent show.
DeletePresident Obama looks like the real man of strength and integrity. So vital and sincere he makes it look effortless although we all know the force of his hard work at times of great strain.
That perhaps might hold with the gullible for a bit, but as soon as we have a presidential debate and we see Obama and Romney side by side on the stage the cardboard cutout that is Romney will be undeniable to anyone with eyes and sense.
DeleteI would feel so sad if that was my Grandpa and no one even bothered to comb his hair. Anything that sad is not good for the country. If I go to visit Grandparents at the home I would be in a tizzy if their hair was neglected. I want to see the elderly shown respect and care for their basics, like help them dress. If you are going to show them off don't skip the details.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it is the small things that matter. What kind of people overlook that?
I think it is just ruffed up to not look so thin. Or maybe he thinks it makes him look younger or cool or whatever. The old white man viagra set and the blond bimbos on their arms have a different idea of style. I'm surprised he wasn't wearing a pastel blue jumpsuit and white sneakers with velcro fasteners.
DeleteThere is "ruffed up to not look so thin" and there is messy like old and or slob.
DeleteThis is the latter. There is absolutely no sign of it having a stylist touch. It looks like they were careless and just woke him from his nap and sent him out before sprucing him up.
Do you think the DNC convention producers would hire workers who would over look a detail like that?
Possibly he hit his head just before going on stage and there was nothing anyone could do, I doubt it.
he looked fine, your being too picky, this is a real guy, and he's 82 who cares
DeleteThe man looked like he walked out of a nursing home and wandered onstage and starting talking to an empty chair!
DeleteThe RNC should be ashamed of themselves for exploiting this man obvious "issues".
Does Clint remind anyone else of Creepy Chuck?
The only people who care are those that care about elderly care. Most of all when you use people to perform. What is the point of leaving them a mess when you are putting them out there to send a message.
DeleteOh yeah, he is tough because he is an 82 year old macho image maker. That was the wrong time to slack. If nothing else they could have cared about how it reflects on Mitt Romney. Old farts need help, too. It sucks when people don't care and let their idols fall in public. Only good thing for Clint is being too out of it to know. Let the sycophants cover up and tell him lies.
Clint Eastwood looks like he stole the Crypt Keeper title away from Cindy McCain.
DeleteThat's what I was thinking the entire time. No one was there to comb his hair before he went out?
DeleteIt looked like bed hair. Like he woke up from his nap and went immediately on stage.
mlaiuppa
DeleteThat is the most plausible explanation. He can direct and no doubt has assistants. For some reason no one was there to get him through this big moment. Very odd no one at RNC picked up the slack.
They are denying anyone knew what he was going to do. Some stage hand was told to bring the chair and you don't question the Clint. I don't buy that one, but it's their story... they just let the 82 year old wing it.
Anonymous 6:19 AM
ReplyDeletePerfect! Just perfect! I will never again think of Eastwood and Romney without that song playing in my head.
I am using it for my FB status and I wish I could give you credit.
authentic frontier gibberish
ReplyDeleteAwesome.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U
I'm voting for the chair. I liked what he said.
ReplyDeleteWhat was CE's point in imaging 'empty'?
DeleteFirst thing to come to mind is empty suit Romney.
It was pointless. Clint Eastwood will probably chastise dirty mops and brooms in the next Swiffer commercial.
DeleteEven Dirty Harry, doesn't like dirty mops!
Had he used an empty toilet I may have voted for it.
DeleteOMG....after all the hoopla about the "Mystery Speaker", they should have let it be a mystery.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, some Hollywood reporters defended his "act", stating that a lot of people just didn't "get" it, it was simply difficult to watch. It was totally opposite from the message in the Superbowl Chrysler ad. I lost respect for Eastwood.
No one in their right mind can defend this performance. He was the chosen act to send a message, like it or not, it was the worst performance of his life. It will probably go down in the history of US Convention performances as the biggest EPIC FAIL of all time.
DeleteFlacks are paid well to try and rectify the worst garbage. Like John Travolta, Eastwood has plenty who carry his water. There are many libertarians and conservatives on the west coast, including Hollywood. Don't forget California is huge part of the military complex.
I have been a Californian all of my 64 years. And Although there are conservatives in our state (including Hollywood), we remain a Liberal state.
DeleteI can't defend it (his performance), but I do understand why he did it. I know it was acting. But, uh....was there no better way to do that then to use an empty chair? If they were going for laughs, why not make it obvious it's a skit?
DeleteA bad tasteless, poorly acted skit by a rambling unkempt feeble looking old famous guy isn't any better or worse than a speech. So what it is a skit? The purpose should have been to get a positive message across for Mitt Romney. THAT WAS AN EPIC FAIL.
DeleteI listened to a few moments and said he's Clint Eastwood speaking terribly . too naby stutters. My dau said this is the guy who made his girlfriend Sandra Locke have an abortion ! I bet they forgot this. Another great family guy who has had how many affairs and wives girlfriends. Rules are for everyone else but he's a great republican whom they all admire. So you see they will make sure their wives and girlfriends can get abortions
ReplyDeleteAnd his vain family now is in the reality TV show business like the Palins and Honey Boo Boo.
DeleteBy the way, Clint did not bring in the ratings.
Now they know they should have gone with Honey...
http://theclicker.today.com/_news/2012/08/30/13575475-honey-boo-boo-ratings-top-republican-national-convention?lite
I LOVE the tweet/pic "This seat is taken"!! Genius!!! Kudos to the Obama camp, keep it up!
ReplyDeleteAnd boy is that pic making the pee pond "people" mad! It's almost scary. It's such a "how dare that blah guy sit in OUR White House, in OUR chair!"
DeleteReally, they are going bonkers over the Obama tweet. I loved it.
Anonymous8:32 AM
DeleteYeah...I just came from the Asylum and the patients are murmuring something awful! TeresaAK is leading the charge!
I think they are PISSED that the bald fella from Wasilla...big giant bug encrusted head will NEVER sit in that chair! LOL!!
If Clint wanted to give the Repubs the opportunity to make up poor excuses instead of praising their man of the hour, then Clint is a success. I am loving the apologists and all the excuses and defensive bloating. These conventions are a circus show. Image and performance is everything. The country should be focused on what a spectacular flawless job the GOP did and how convinced people are that Mittens is human and capable as a CEO/political.
ReplyDeleteInstead of human and capable, DEMETIA HAS GONE VIRAL. Human dementia without the halogram to send their message.
As if they need to bring attention to all the dementia in Republican Party.
It is good that dementia is viral. Whether Republican or Democrat it matters to educate the country about the problem. There is nothing like a visual to get the impact of what it does to once very vibrant strong people.
DeleteBillionaire Adelson's Daughter Pushes Journalist, Seizes Camera at RNC
ReplyDeleteDemocracy Now senior producer Mike Burke attempted to interview billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson inside the Republican National Convention, a woman identified as Adelson's daughter grabbed his video camera, tried to take it into a private suite and then threw the camera to the ground
http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/billionaire-adelsons-daughter-pushes-j
Not all journalist are safe around Republican Conventions.
Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/amy-goodman-huffpost-live_n_1837678.html
Not a good place for protests.
http://mbouffant.blogspot.com/2012/08/police-beattampa-2012.html
Dr Laura's son kicked a female protester when she was down at the GOP 2004 convention.
DeleteThe video is now missing and of course he got a way with his brutality. Like Jerry Morlock and Track Palin he was handled by joining the Army.
http://tinyurl.com/d93xf3
Convention history: http://tinyurl.com/bstp5x
URBAN DICTIONARY: http://tinyurl.com/9xtggg3 YELLOW ELEPHANTS
Schlessinger flacks were successful at deflecting culpability onto a Scott Robinson.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/09/02/48161/--Young-Republican
More dangerous and crazy
2008 RNC page http://tinyurl.com/8octp34
2012 RNC Guardsman Shot With Own Gun in Hotel Mishap
http://www.newser.com/story/153211/rnc-guardsman-shot-with-own-gun-in-hotel-mishap.html
2012 Oops: Secret Service Leaves Gun in Romney's Plane
http://www.newser.com/story/153162/oops-secret-service-leaves-gun-in-romneys-plane.html
Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. At least three people have died in an AK-47 assault rifle shooting in New Jersey. Suicidal ex-Marine self and two innocent victims.
As glorious as Republicans thought Mitt Romney's 2012 RNC convention speech was, he did not mention the troops. Mitt Romney's "human" performance was void of the service men and women of the military. Warmongering was pushed off on old timers like John McCain without the Sarah Palin distractions.
It's getting bad get your passports ready!!
Delete11:36 AM
DeleteEveryone is moving to Alaska for the apocalypse, there are a couple of places on Lake Lucille. We all meet up there. all the glaciers are melting and making room for more people. Alaska is most earthquake activity state and that should rocks some world. You don't need a passport.
I haven't been able to watch any tv or listen to even NPR because I cannot stand all of the straight faced lies. When I see Romney or his wife, all I see are hypocrisy & greed. I hope I make it to November!
ReplyDeleteWe just have to make it until November 6th! Then, this nightmare will be over and we can smile as we watch the Republicans eat lots and lots of crow. :)
DeletePlease, Please, Please!!
DeleteAs bad as Rmoney and rAyn are it's still not as bad as 2008. Still bad. Different kind of bad. But not AS bad.
DeleteThis entire convention was nothing but a hate/lie fest....a disgrace for the world to see. Nothing positive or constructive, no ideas....pathetic. If we go back to the 8 years of Dubya....he constantly embarrassed himself being a classless moron, there was nothing made up, you didn't need to. The total disrespect for Obama, who is nothing but a class act just infuriates me. Listening to Jeb Bush defend his retarded brother made me gag, Obama saved this country despite the total hatred of congress in nothing short of a miracle.
ReplyDeleteEastwood's next movie "Trouble with the Curve" comes out in three weeks. I wonder how that will be received after last night's debacle?
ReplyDeleteThe movie will do fine. But it won't help the RNC that their mystery speaker is obviously suffering from dementia in the movie. People seeing the movie will remember Clint talking to an empty chair during the RNC convention and that connection will remain with them.
DeleteAnswer me this. Would it have been a good programming move to have Anthony Hopkins speak a few weeks before release of Silence of the Lambs or Hannibal?
I don't see what is with everyone, Clint did great, he was funny, why doesn't everyone get it?
ReplyDeleteSTFU Krusty and get your ass back over to SPHASH...you haven't left a comment over there in the last five minutes...you're slippin Stalker! LOL!!!
DeleteThey do get it.
DeleteUmm because it wasn't funny. It was awkward AND disrespectful.
DeleteHumor is supposed to be witty and clever but somehow that gene doesn't get passed onto the righties.
Repugs are the first to whine and cry foul when they don't like something being said about them i.e. the big upset about the reporter who said Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life" (excuse me righties, she hasen't) and raising kids IS hard but when your uber rich it ain't so hard so STFU.
The kind of CRAP these repukes espouse should be enough to have supporters running away in droves!! It just boggles the mind.
The lying, RACIST, criticism that OUR President Barack HESSEIN Obama has had to endure in the press is atrocious. If your ignorant enough to call that "humor" then your right to vote should be reneged because you obviously don't have a high enough IQ to understand that this is a POLITICAL race between two opponents and it should be about the POLICIES and not UNCIVIL and UNCOUTH personal attacks on a man that is the height of decorum in the most divisive campaign this country has ever seen!
8:34 AM
DeleteIt is not nice to laugh at the feeble minded.
Only funny to those who get amusement from tearing the wings off butterflies, salting snails or setting cats on fire.
DeleteIt was an embarrassment to watch. The last thing you want to do is make your audience that uncomfortable.
It was an epic fail.
A VERY EPIC FAIL with monumental historic overtones. It is the Republican National Convention. If they ever had another one worth recalling that one is squashed. If you don't want to wait for history, check the polls. After the 2012 convention is when Romney will get his BIG boost, that always happens. How did that work out for him?
DeleteinvisibleObama twitter account has 44,000+ followers in just over 12 hours. The internet is truly the land of opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI think Eastwood must be bordering on dementia. Have you seen his wife's reality show?? He must be nuts to let her go on TV with that awful show.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, he won't go on his wife's show, but he went on Mittens' show. Go figure.
His Honey Boo Boo would have made him comb his hair.
DeleteThe wife used to be a local newscaster. I guess she figures reality TV is a step up. Too bad. No longer a respected journalist. I guess with Eastwood's money to support her, she really doesn't have to concern herself with her career.
DeleteClint Eastwood said: "But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it -- they did there for 10 years."
ReplyDeleteGood thing Clint's people can say he was doing ad lib, because otherwise this bit about Afghanistan is a fail. George W Bush was president when the USA went into Afghanistan.
But it is true that the Russians did not do well their Afghanistan adventure.
There were people who tried to educate the people about the entire ancient history of Afghanistan. Russia was a slight part and now we surpassed them. BUT IT DID NOT START WITH RUSSIA. Educated people tried to be heard and inform the public.
DeleteToo bad Eastwood is exposing himself as a bimbo at this time in his life.
The people of Afghanistan don't want foreign invaders period. They don't want the Taliban either. But when foreign invaders like Russia came the Taliban were on THEIR side.
DeleteI had an insightful conversation with a Afghani taxi driver who basically said the people over there are tribal and tough and they will fight, fight fight. He said that his country is in the middle and there are many forces who are trying to get a stronghold there, just look at a map. I'm no history buff but I realize if they have managed to hold on to their turf for this long then militarization is obviously not the answer. HUMAN RIGHTS. WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS. These are the roads to a stabilized country that all of the citizens of Afghanistan long for. Go HIllary!!
Democratic Underground has some great riffs on Clint! Check them out.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.democraticunderground.com/
It was tough to top "Kiss my ass. This is a holy site" for inappropriate but the Romney campaign managed it.
ReplyDeleteIn the endless days until the election, Romney is sure to supply many more WTF moments. Can he top this Eastwood fail? I would not bet against it.
I think Romney is on a roll and Eastwood will remain in the top 10 of WTF MITTEN MOMENTS. There are many more to come.
DeleteWhen your candidate's acceptance speech is far overshadowed by an old man talking to a chair - you have problems.
ReplyDeleteDinty
DeleteDon't clue in the clueless. They think we don't get Clint's great talent and humor at this memorable performance.
BWAHAAAAHAAAA
DeleteI have been laughing out loud at some of the classic bits people are saying about 'INVISIBLE OBAMA' on Twitter. Just classic stuff. I really do hope that SNL and the Daily Show do something loopy with it.
ReplyDeleteSlightly OT: Jindal invited Romney to Louisiana to view the damage...like he's freakin' President already. Talk about exploiting a situation for political points: the right is already gloating that Romney leads and Obama follows on Twitter. But Obama has the real power to do something about the situation and we know Romney's pretty limited in terms of his empathy and in terms in how far he's willing to extend himself for folks who aren't in his church. His entire business career negates his rep. as a charitable religious entity.
M from MD
Daily Show and Colbert Report have a special show tonight so maybe they'll do something. I wouldn't be surprised.
DeleteI'm hoping Letterman has something too.
Honey Boo Boo gets better ratings than Paul Ryan's speech!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/honey-boo-boo-ratings-top-rnc-paul-ryan-veep-speech-article-1.1148815
Thanks again Gryph for another stellar post. Always relevant and right on!
ReplyDeleteI remember being somewhat disappointed when Eastwood endorsed Romney. I knew he was a Republican, but I thought he had the sense to recognize a snake oil salesman when he saw one, but I guess party loyalty means more than integrity, or he hasn't been reading up on Romney, or he knows and just doesn't care.
ReplyDeleteM from MD
Many in Hollywood are as low as any snake oil salesman. I have relatives in the Hollywood business. Going back decades I was exposed to the conservatives and libertarians from time to time. It isn't new. I love my family and they aren't sexual perverts but never have I witnessed such ugly disrespect and disgusting attitudes towards different races. Time after time my sister and I saw the weirdest and most insulting incidents, even as children who knew nothing, we were shocked and wondered how did we get in that family. The war attitudes were severe and the hate I could not believe, it did not come from our mother and father. We would see it at events in the Hollywood area and when visiting the Hollywood conservative family and spent time around their friends. And way back they did skits and made jokes. The same old bad taste. These were people that could produce good quality television and film. It isn't new, Clint is just bringing it up to public awareness.
DeleteNo, he's just lost his good sense and is coasting long on team loyalty alone.
DeleteNow all I can say is that I wish it was Sarah. This is just so sad. Eastwood- gone the way of other leading actors; Sheen, Cruise, Gibson. There should be a focus group formed to study the impacts of unimaginable success on the psyche of actors. It seems their souls somehow wither and die under the strain of so much success paying someone else. Maybe even a program like Addled Actors Anonymous? They really do need help.
ReplyDeleteIt is like when you learn that your favorite Uncle isn't that wonderful man you thought you knew. He'd been boinking your cousin all that time. Sad and I don't want to believe what I saw.
DeleteI guess he spent too much time making sphagetti westerns....GOP avant garde.....?
ReplyDeleteOK, I know Eastwood did some commercial during the Super Bowl that the idiots interpreted as Pro-Obama. So I get that having him speak at their convention was in their feeble minds some sort of a coup. But why would they have him do his thing on Romney's big night? If he was that big of an attraction, why would they have him speak last night when Romney was supposed to be the main attraction? This was the night that Romney was finally getting what in his mind he so richly deserved. Finally, it was his turn. Why would they have the presidential nominee share the stage with 82 year old actor? What was the point?
ReplyDeleteI NEVER thought I would ever say this, but if they had been able to clean up Palin (a big "If" I know) and have her give a speech (obnoxious as it was to me) like she gave in 2008, they would have really riled up the base and kicked off the campaign. Now people are just commenting on Eastwood's dementia. I can understand that Romney is a control freak and couldn't trust her, but why would he think an actor giving a speech was a better choice. Aren't they always complaining about the Democrats cozy relationships with Hollywood also, too? And now they have to defend Eastwood's idiocy. It makes no sense. And this was their big "Mystery Guest?" Tone deaf doesn't begin to describe that crew!
Democrats cozy relationships with Hollywood also____________
DeleteHow many Hollywood-type Democrats run for Governors, Senators, Congress or President?
Who is most cozy?
Problem is that Palin is uncontrollable. Even if they cleaner her up, put her pre-written and rehearsed speech on the teleprompters, there is no guarantee that once she was in the spotlight, she wouldn't just take off on some word salad rant. After all, she wasn't nominated for anything and had nothing to gain by towing the party line. In fact the opposite. So they had nothing to hold over her to control her.
DeleteKinda a toss up which is more damaging. What Clint did or what Sarah would have done.
Maybe we will see a photoshopped pic of Ryan running a marathon too.
ReplyDeletehttp://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/runners-world-we-cant-verify-paul-ryans-sub
At some point, maybe the point where you realize everything you say can be verified, wouldn't you think Ryan would quit lying?
OT: A friend who was undecided who to vote for was persuaded by the convention speeches that Obama wants to take rich peoples' money and give it to people so they do not have to work. I addressed the lie that Obama removed the welfare to work plan and she argued Obama also extended and made it so more people can collect welfare, not work and live off the government and rich people...he wants to give people a free ride. She also was convinced Obama is devisive, promised "the world" and did nothing. She feels warm and fuzzy that the Romneys value mothers appreciating the work they do. She took away a white versus black portrayal and sense of goodness as a mother, having a family, church attendee and justice to not provide free ride to lazy people Obama wants people to do.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to share how someone was persuaded, swallowed the lies. It is inconcievable to her the religious twosome could lie. She was convinced Obama seeks half not work and the rich provide for them by working.
I think when people tout religion they are given a free pass and could get away with murder
I noticed since I was a kid that the slimiest snake oil salesman can pull out a Bible or start talking about his pastor or his church and 85% of people who consider themselves Christian will throw money at him and follow him to their doom. I will never understand why people will trust someone just because he says he is a Christian. Interesting that when someone actually behaves like a Christian is supposed to behave, he is usually reviled by other "Christians".
DeleteIt's like "The Night of the Hunter." Never actually saw the end of that film, might have to go and watch it all the way through. I can only assume, since it's a 50's Hollywood Classic, that Robert Mitchum gets his Just Desserts.
DeleteShe wasn't persuaded.
DeleteShe had already made up her mind and it was simply reinforced.
Don't bother to try to dissuade her. It will just annoy her and she'll never learn to sing.
Night of the Hunter is a classic.
Do see the end. Mitchum does get his just desserts and the kids stay in the loving foster home.
Well, I thought the Eastwood thing was funny, until I saw the part of the clip where Clint Eastwood makes a throat-slitting gesture when talking about "letting someone go". Not funny!
ReplyDeleteThat was my reaction also.
DeleteThat turned my stomach, but I found his whole skit rambling and idiotic. Not amused at all.
DeletePS. My friend took away Obama wants people to believe it is "greed" if the rich do not pay so others can sit at home not working.
ReplyDeleteI don't think your friend was undecided if he/she could be swayed so easily. It sounds more like this was the first time they ever thought about it.
DeleteYour friend isn't dealing with facts or reality.
DeleteOkay everyone. You tell your friends to forget the Reagan era welfare queen meme. First of all Clinton took care of that and I was on welfare at that time.
DeleteThere are always going to be people who milk the system but the onus is on the government to make sure the people who are eligible get the aid.
I left my husband who was (not a bad person) but a BIG drunk and he did abuse me when I was 7 months pregnant. Then I got laid off from my full time job. My mother was fighting cancer at the time and did not have the energy to help me out. OUCH but that's life. My ex paid into the system and I received $156 dollars a month above his $400. So I got $556 dollars a month plus food stamps. Whoo Hoo!! Counting pennies to put gas in the car that was my AMERICAN REALITY!! Tell these people to STFU if they have never walked in those shoes and WHERE THE HELL are their CHRISTIAN VALUES???
What I DID do is utilize the system to get a leg up and go back to college. Now I have two wonderful daughters who watched their mother go to college and be a positive roll model. My oldest who is a BSN just enrolled in an NP program.
And now I have to listen to this CREEP Ryan say he may take away the medicare that I have paid into for twenty years???
What will happen if these programs go away???
My husband actually wants the R/R ticket to win. That way all of his friends who say "I don't want crackheads getting my hard earned tax money" will find out who exactly is getting their tax money. When every program that these people paid into their whole working life is eviscerated by R/R ala Bain and trickeld up to the Richey Rich's who's gonna being crying foul then. The average working Joe's who can't understand that they are being a fed a CROCK OF SHIT on a silver platter!!!
Damn, she looks absolutely awful!
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin: Romney, Ryan Should Offer 'Mea Culpa' On Original TARP, Bailout Positions
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Thursday night that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), should come clean about their earlier support for the bailout and subsequent stimulus.
“Well, that is when a mea culpa comes in quite handy and everyone who voted for TARP and stimulus, and the six trillion dollars additional in debt that we hand to our kids and grandkids to have to pay off, which totals now $16 trillion in debt by growing government these last four years under Obama, now everybody needs say, 'hey, I’m sorry man, for voting for that, sorry for supporting these bailouts and the Cash for Clunkers and all these goofy programs where centralized government planners tried to plan our economy and they failed.'" Palin said in an interview with Fox News.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/sarah-palin-romney-ryan-tarp_n_1845315.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Oh wow, Sarah Palin learned a Latin word "mea culpa" gee, I'm so impressed...(NOT).
DeleteA "mea culpa" comes in handy for DairyGate and TrooperGate and all her other "gates."
STFU you ignoramus c**t.
Does Sarah know that mea culpa is part of the latin Catholic Mass?
DeleteThis was just fucking sad. Then again, Eastwood's performance truly captured the image of the Republican Party as senile, angry, and woefully under-informed.
ReplyDeleteJust wait until his new movie is released.
DeleteRyan, the lying egotist, neutered himself. Romney is a clutz. Ann, on the other hand, said one thing that has stuck with me: ¨He will not fail.¨
ReplyDelete¨He will not fail.¨
Beat that down, my friends, beat that down.
Consider the source. Her 15 minutes will not be long lived. Gordon Gekko's wife will say anything on cue.
DeleteIt was a racist act in my opinion, looking down at the chair/Pres pointing fingers. SHAME
ReplyDeleteI agree -- 1000%
DeleteThe 'angry' comments aims in the direction of the angry black man -- something we've not seen POTUS do. He does it with effective words. He cuts them down with words and they just don't get it
The Late Shows tonight will have a hayday with Eastwood.
DeleteI don't know if the scheduling is still the same, but in the past Letterman filmed Friday's show on Mondays. If that still holds true, then he won't be commenting until Monday.
Leno, Fallon, Kimmel, Conan, and the one I look forward to -- Bill Maher!!!
Eastwood is no SNL improver!! Just think what they will do to this when they come back to work as they're still on break I believe.
I don't think Clint knew where he was last nite...Very sad to watch him make such a fool of himself..This was the *big* surpr
ReplyDeleteise guest..Obama 2012
What's truly curious is how completely isolated from everything normal Romney is having lived his life in such a priviledged bubble,how utterly sure he is about himself and how blind to how utterly lame he comes off in his his attempts to act like a normal human being,how ludicrous his certainty that he's pulling it off. It's making him obviously ridiculous to all but the most blind.
ReplyDeleteIt explains, too, why when he was governor all other governors, Senators and politicians he associated with didn't like him. At all, and said so.
Even Republicans who want to like him so they can vote for him are uneasy and unhappy with him. Out of all the crazies in the primary season, he seemed like the smart one and he turns out to be awful,a mercenary empty suit with a narrow-minded liar for a running mate.
The Presidents' campaign team must have a terrible time trying to whittle down all the ammunition they have against both Romney and Ryan, there's so much. What to choose? What to use? Not time nor money enough to use it all! An embarrassment of riches. The smiles just get bigger and brighter every day. Axelrod can just barely keep from chortling on camera in interviews.
Yes, there are the Obama haters and the religious ideologues, but even they don't like Romney. And even if they did, there aren't enough of them to matter. The only worrisome factor is the big money guys who have a lot to lose and plenty of money to try to make things happen. But even they can't buy loyalty for a dolt, they can only try to keep the "wrong" people from voting. That's a problem.
Sondra Locke was right!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think she told the half of it. His image was better when he had few words, but I am glad he came out.
DeleteClint Eastwood on the phone with Obama now: "It all went according to plan,sir.
ReplyDeletehttp://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/eastwooding.html
That was a tweet from Chris Rock.
DeleteI know Mr. Clinton is a Republican but he is a self proclaimed "liberal Republican" who is a strong supporter of women's rights, the environment and marriage equality,etc. So maybe, just maybe:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/31/1126187/-Eastwood-Punks-Romney
Mr Clinton? Mr Clint Eastwood is a libertarian. Like Sarah Palin he is a former Mayor. You can call him Mayor Eastwood, a politician or an actor. Comic not so much.
DeleteThe Eastwood punk meme is by Billionaires for Wealthcare. Take it with a grain of salt. Plausible? Not close.
Clint is no SNL improv. That performance was full of anger. I've witnessed those kinds of skits at gatherings and they are disgusting. It always felt racists but no one ever claims to be a racist.
I was disgusted how Eastwood mocked Michelle when he listed all the kinds of milk available in school and said it's the parents choice. That there are schools that serve what I call 'would you like some milk with that sugar' drinks -- Eastwood should apologize.
ReplyDeleteAn empty chair = an empty suit Disrespectful, degrading the President and the Office of the President
Also what he and the 'choir' in the room thought funny were his comments of making President Obama sound angry -- the 'angry black man'.
The Rethugs can't play the 'Hollywood' card as they've tried in the past. They played the game and look what they got. Egg on their face!!
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ronald Reagun and years of revising history is what they are.
Deleteriddle me this batman -
ReplyDeletethe GOP says that government is bad
Mitt says that businesses create jobs not government (we built that)
Mitt says Obama (government) didn't create jobs
Mitt says that Obama spent billions (to create jobs immediately) on bailouts and stimulus and that this is not the proper role of government - that Obama should have let the "big ones fail".
how can it be government/Obama's fault that there are not enough new jobs when BUSINESSES are the JOB CREATORS and not government?
the messaging of GOP and Mitt is contorted and illogical.
(it needs to be said that many businesses are successful because of reliable government contracts.)
This convention was truly odd. Maybe it was the way the center, along with campaign managers, managed it in Tampa, compared to the 2008 in Minnesota. Seemed that in MN, the media spent more time on the celebrations and we got to hear at least some bands play.
ReplyDeleteAnd the crowds weren't as excited as they were with both democrat and republican 2008 conventions. I think a Romney event is always going to be ho-hum. But, as we've learned, excitement doesn't necessarily mean the candidates are qualified.
Yet, the crowd didn't seem to be exuberant for change, and didn't seem to get too excited for a new promises. I'd say on a scale of 1 to 10 in 'crowd excitement' they were a 5 compared to Obama's 10.
Do these delegates and staff really know what they are getting themselves into? Going to be interesting, hang on folks!!
Besides Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood is my favorite actor from that area. Even though I disagree with his politics, I have to give him a pass although I must admit I felt a bit sorry for him because he pretty much made an ass of himself.
ReplyDeleteHe is only an actor. Imagine if that was your father. You would be crying oceans of tears and feeling helplessly sad.
DeleteMy first reaction to seeing this was that Eastwood stopped JUST short of calling the President of the United States a "dirty nigger."
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I assumed he mimicked the throat slashing gesture, being what someone directing this mess, was doing to try to tell him to STOP, for crissakes.
Egging him on, hoping he WOULD go all the way to full blown racist, was a crowd that reminded me of those 1960's Biblical epics, where the bloodthirsty crowd in the Roman coliseum, cried for the lions to be let loose to eat the Christians.
Does it never occur to these fools, what this portrays of American citizens, to the rest of the world?
It occurs the same as it occurs to any narcissists.
DeleteYes sirree - old Clint can still hold a crowd, but he was sounding more like Homer Simpson's dad. The chair thing was clever, and we've got to hand it to the Romney campaign, they are frugal when it comes to spending money OPM when it comes to Clint's stage props. How much does a chair cost?
ReplyDeleteI agree with others about the unsuitable timing of his speech, when it was done before Rubio, then Romney. I think they needed to tone down the comedy last night and serve up a more family/traditional serious tone (as one can expect from a traditional Republican).
Agree too with Clint's use not of a FY coming from the invisible President. It wasn't appropriate and to boot in front of all those Mormons. But then if Sarah had been there, her use of her favorite words like cajones and limp and impotent and stripper poles and panties in a wad and whatnot would have had Ann Romney squirming in her seat.
Anyone else realize that Clint's wife and therefore their child is African and Asian descent and culturally Hispanic?
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't mean he is free from racist tendencies or pandering. I know Jewish people that hate Jews, self loathing. The man has very deep dark issues, I don't know about his current wife other than she is Hispanic. How much influence does that side of the family have on his children with her? He certainly treated Sandra Locke like garbage. He knows how he is suppose to behave with women. Sandra may have been too young and subservient. Francis someone seemed older and more independent. He may have wanted someone with flare to keep him in tow. He may live vicariously by catering to a more racist group of white men. He is a libertarian, the ones I have known can be all over the place. They may not be so racist but they do not stand up to the racists they have as friends. In that way they are racist. Like Joe Paterno, he didn't do what the molester did, he just allowed it to go on and on and on.
DeleteQuite literally, the president the Republicans are running against doesn't exist. They are running against an empty chair, and that chair is filled with everything they fear, hate, and disdain, which has emerged from their own obsolete imaginations. They are running against an imaginary president who simultaneously worships Allah and does a terrorist fist-bump with his wife, attends a too-liberal Christian church, is an atheist, wants to turn all of America gay, studies the works of Karl Marx from his pompous ivory tower and plots to make America a socialist paradise, an America he was never even born in and hates with a passion even though he wanted to be its president.
ReplyDeleteLike Clint Eastwood and the cowboy movies of old, they live in a mythological America where white guys with firearms were the heroes, and everyone else knew their place. The women retired to their fainting couches, the blacks tilled the fields or served cold beverages to the big men with cigars, the lands of the west were kept clear of "injuns" and Mexicans through the barrel of a Caucasian man's gun, and everything was right in the world.
That is the America that today's Republicans are yearning for. And they wish -- they wish so badly -- that the real Barack Obama and everyone who knows him for the dignified, decent president he really is, would, in the projected words of Clint Eastwood, "shut up," dismissing us to the status of a mere empty chair that powerlessly curses their rightful reign.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/31/1126383/-Attacking-an-Imaginary-Obama-How-Eastwood-s-Speech-Symbolizes-the-Entire-Republican-Campaign
Great article!!
DeleteAmen!
DeleteClint Eastwood was better off to say nothing. He speaks as a mega asshole.
DeleteHis poor wifey would know but settled for the Benjamins.
Republicans were warned not to isolate women voters. This week, they're being warned not to anger porn-watching voters. Especially because Republicans reportedly watch more porn than Democrats. Republicans (Libertatrians) go to strip clubs and purchase hookers more also, too.
Who said it first?
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/753492/thumbs/s-GRANDPA-SIMPSON-CLINT-EASTWOOD-large300.jpg
Relationships
ReplyDeleteEastwood has fathered at least seven children by five different women and been described as a "serial womanizer".[4][5] He had affairs with actresses Catherine Deneuve,[274][275] Jill Banner,[276] Jamie Rose,[277] Inger Stevens,[278] Jo Ann Harris,[279] Jean Seberg,[280] script analyst Megan Rose,[279][281] James Brolin's former wife Jane,[282] columnist Bridget Byrne, [283] and swimming champion Anita Lhoest.[274]
Eastwood married Maggie Johnson on December 19, 1953, six months after they met on a blind date.[284] While separated from Johnson, Eastwood had an affair with dancer Roxanne Tunis, with whom he had his first child, Kimber Tunis (born June 17, 1964); he did not publicly acknowledge her until 1996.[285] After a reconciliation, he had two children with Johnson: Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972). Eastwood filed for divorce in 1979 after another long separation, but the $25 million divorce settlement was not finalized until May 1984.[286][287]
Eastwood entered a relationship with actress Sondra Locke in 1975. They lived together for fourteen years, despite the fact that Locke remained married (in name only) to her gay husband, Gordon Anderson.[288][289] Locke had two abortions and a tubal ligation within the first four years of the relationship.[290][291] The couple co-starred in six films together: The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way but Loose, Bronco Billy, Any Which Way You Can, and Sudden Impact. On April 10, 1989, while Locke was directing the film Impulse, Eastwood changed the locks on their Bel Air home, had many of her possessions removed and placed in storage.[292] Locke filed a palimony suit against Eastwood, then sued him a second time for fraud, regarding a phony directing contract he set up for her in settlement of the first lawsuit.[293] Eastwood and Locke finally resolved the dispute with a non-public settlement in 1999.[294] Her autobiography, The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly, includes a harrowing account of Eastwood's treatment of her during the events surrounding their separation.[295]
During the last four years of his cohabitation with Locke, Eastwood had an intermittent, hidden affair with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves. According to biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel, and conceived a son, Scott Reeves (born March 21, 1986), at the premiere of Pale Rider.[296] They also had a daughter, Kathryn Reeves (born February 2, 1988).[287] The birth certificates for both children stated "Father declined."[297][298] Although they were mentioned in exposé articles as early as 1997, Eastwood did not present his and Reeves' children to the public until 2002.[299] Kathryn served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2005 ceremony where she presented Eastwood with an award for Million Dollar Baby.[300]
In 1990, Eastwood began living with actress Frances Fisher, whom he had met on the set of Pink Cadillac (1989).[301] They co-starred in Unforgiven, and had a daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (born August 7, 1993).[302] The couple ended their relationship in early 1995,[303] but remain friends and later acted together in True Crime.
Eastwood with wife Dina in 2007
Eastwood subsequently began dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor 35 years his junior, whom he had first met when she interviewed him in 1993.[302] They married on March 31, 1996, when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.[304] After their wedding, Dina commented "The fact that I am only the second woman he has married really touches me."[305] The couple have one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996)
What a slimeball. And his current wife is a fucking idiot. Hope the estate cash is worth it - you whore.
Well, that certainly isn't what the Tea Baggers would call "family values."
DeleteTrue genius Bob Newhart tweeted this after last night's performance art disaster: "I heard that Clint Eastwood was channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting our lawsuit..."
ReplyDeleteI think Bob should do one of his patent "phone" skits at the DNC--"Oh. Hi, Mitt"...
No.
DeleteHe should do a phone skit calling Eastwood about his speech at the RNC!
"Hi, Clint?" "Yeah, I was calling for some pointers."
Oh, and Bob is also 82. Same age as my parents.
DeleteI'll bet he's still sharp as a tack. Sharper than Clint, apparently.
I have always known that Eastwood was a republican. Remember, he was Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea?
ReplyDeleteHe used to have a more "Libertarian" outlook. His Wiki Page still confirms that.
Thank God I didn't know he was one of the extremists!! I, and many others, would not have given one red cent to see his Movies.
Or maybe it's just that he is 82 yrs old and may have some Dementia going on.
But sure as shit, if he doesn't have any Dementia, he fooled me and a lot of other people.
I hope he is retired now. I doubt it will be easy for him to make any more Movies.
mary b
(having a real hard time logging onto Google!!)
He has a new movie out. Someone gets him to the job and he can still work it. Ronald Reagan was propped up doing his job for years. He even testified while demented. With early onset dementia Eastwood can work it.
DeleteWith this RNC incident I am hearing that Reinhold Reince Priebus is throwing Eastwood under the bus. The poorly managed convention is going to be blamed on the old senile man, Clint Eastwood. He loves Republicans and will suck it up if anyone explains to him what went down.
When he said "I'm not going to shut up" twice, he was not talking to the empty chair, he was talking back to the producers trying to control his wackadoo through his earpiece.
ReplyDelete#Eastwooding
ReplyDelete"70,000 U.S. troops fighting in #Afghanistan. No mention of war by #Romney at #GOP2012."
Do you think Obama or Clinton will mention the war? Cindy Sheehan (son killed in Iraq) got dumped by moveon.org as soon as Obama was elected.
DeleteI don't know why the President would not mention the troops. Both he and Michelle are very active with them.
Deletehttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/with-president-obama-visit-fort-bliss-troops-talk-suicide-prevention/
Why didn't the Romney group learn from the McCain group. THEY DID NOT VET CLINT EASTWOOD. Now they have to live with the doom and destruction of his so called performance.
ReplyDeleteReince Priebus is the Chairman of the Republican National Convention. The same man that Chris Matthews took down the other morning. Matthews didn't know how distorted Priebus actually is.
ReplyDeletehttp://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2012/08/chris-matthews-goes-after-rnc-chairman.html
"Inside the Actors Studio" host James Lipton
http://www.allnewstrends.com/james-lipton-eastwood-disrespectful-at-rnc-nbcnews-com-2/
The RNC show good or bad, the buck stops with Mitt Romney and Reince Priebus.
Bob Schieffer had a great take on it: he said it was like when you spend months planning your daughter's wedding, and everybody ends up talking about the mortifying speech your drunk brother-in-law gave at the reception.
ReplyDeleteWhat I loved was they scrapped a holographic image of Ronald Regan, because they feared it would "upstage Mitt Romney".
ReplyDeleteWho is the blogosphere, twitter, news shows and newspapers focused on? Clinton Eastwood mocking Ronald Regan in his most vulnerable, while battling ALS, while dissing a sitting president and making a throat slitting jesture.
President Obama's tweet was genius. He's sitting with his back to them.
I could only get about half way through.
ReplyDeleteI can see where he was going. It's like a stand up routine or an exercise in actor's class. But it wasn't appropriate for the convention and didn't really work.
I understand why the Repub1%cant's would want a big name like Eastwood, but the guy is 82 years old. He's self made but also rich and white and male. Too bad they couldn't get a younger person better known to younger people. I undestand why that would be a hard get too. Not many of them are Rmoney supporters.
Not many youth are going to know who Ted Nugent is, or Jon Voight, let alone care what they say. What do they have left? "Walker Texas Ranger" and "Get off my lawn".
This RNC convention will go down in history books as the disaster it was Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair. Could have been hurricane Isaac in the chair and the outcome would have been the same.