However during the interview he was also asked about his infamous RNC appearance with the chair.
Here are a few of his responses:
Interviewer: "Did you ever think, out of all of the moments at both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, that YOUR speech would still be what everyone is talking about?"
Eastwood: "Hah, hah, I didn't. You get a lot of people bugged at you."
Interviewer: "Are they bugged at you? What kind of feedback did you get?"
Eastwood: "People loved it or hated it, and that's fine.That's what it's supposed to be. I mean that was the reaction. I was just having fun. If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re gonna have to take what they get."
Interviewer: "Don't you think it's classy that Obama still has really nice things to say about you though?
Eastwood: "I don't think he really does."
Interviewer: "No he does! He's called you a legend, an icon, I mean he was very gracious."
Eastwood: "Well I think he can be very gracious when he wants to be, that's fine. And I have no problem with him at all. I just have a problem with the situation that we're in right now. There's nothing personal. When he came in I thought it was great. I thought the multiculturalism, the multi-racialism was great, all that kind of stuff. But to me it's just about the work."
WTF? That performance wasn't personal? It sure sounded personal, and more than a little insulting.
And it certainly does not sound like Eastwood gave a shit if he helped Romney or not. He just did it as a hoot.
Eastwood goes on to express no real confidence in Romney's ability to do a better job than Obama, but simply says that he would HOPE that Mittens would be a little more organized and businesslike.
Personally I don't think there have been too many presidents more organized and businesslike than Obama, but hey I also don't talk to my furniture, so what do I know?
You can watch the video for yourself by clicking here.
I will freely confess that I have spoken to some pieces of my furniture.
ReplyDeleteIt usually comes in the form of one word: F...
Why? After it's jumped out and gotten in my way and I've walked smack into it, slammed my foot & broken a toe or two!!
Confession over!!! I feel freer now!!
P.S.: Don't forget - President Obama is on Letterman tonight and I'm sure Dave will ask about the tapes as the President has so far said nothing. Even Joe Biden deferred and said he'd let the tapes speak for themselves.
Yeah, I too have said some pretty foul words to furniture. The furniture never seems to change its ways, though. I must not be getting through.
DeleteThe story of my life- my poor mangled pinky toes, almost always happens while multi-tasking or dogs getting excited because of doorbell and running under my feet to see who's at the door.
DeleteI almost choked a my friend last time it happened, or at least I thought about punching her in the neck because she was being so nice and my. toe hurt so bad
Next thing I know, I come home the next evening after working late, and she'd come over here with a couple of mt neighbors,and by the time I get home, she's already gone but they moved everything that could be moved--- living room furniture, coffee table and sofa table, floor lamps and all of that stuff moved around, plants moved, nothing where I know where it is, and of course what happens?
This time, I bang my BIG toe on my right foot trying to get something to drink during the night. While I'm rolling around on the floor and the dogs are crawling on top of me thinking I'm playing with them, I notice that my friend had left a large flat coffee table book on "display" on the table.
The title of the book is Feng Shui. I gave it back to her and had her help me move everything back so I don't kill myself sitting down where there was a recliner before but then there was nothing but air or happy space or whatever. It was like a voodoo curse or something, getting my energy balanced and shit.
Next time, I'm just going to curse Clint Eastwood. Or George W. Bush.
The very quirky blog Veterans Today has an article that might interest Gryphen and some of his readers.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/17/the-ultimate-battle-jerusalem-against-athens/
Thanks for the link. I read several of the articles including that one about Jerusalem v Athens. Not a ton of comments but some very good ones and then there were some wacky ones. I scanned a couple of the articles bc there's too much real news out there for me to give a lot of time to some of those subjects. Maybe if I get caught up I'll check out more of the stuff there. Looking at the masthead and title, I assumed it would be much different than it is, but interesting for sure. Thanks again.
DeleteLike Eastwood, all politicians are actors too.
ReplyDeleteThe difference is that Eastwood gets the luxury of a closed set, multiple takes and editing, which politicians don't get.
Much of Eastwood's intensity on film comes simply from his looks and the fact there's music present.
Again, something politicians can't employ.
It looks like Mitt doesn't understand that do-overs in politics are either flip-flops or a double-down on a gaffe, neither of which makes him look very Presidential. Someone please tell Mitt that he really doesn't have an Etch-a-Sketch to facilitate do-overs without people noticing.
DeleteIt is painful to watch Mitt contort himself over all of the crap he reveals in speaking off-the-cuff or honestly, as we commonly refer to it. Mitt needs to do the yoga thing more than Bristol, just in case the Kochs decide to take him camping.
I'm boycotting Eastwood's films from now on. Does he care? Probably not but I'm younger than he is. His films need support from my demographic. But it won't be from me, Clint. Won't be from me, you hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteHe also likened himself to Bob Newhart. For those of us old enough to remember, he only wishes! Like Sarah fashions herself to be Ivana.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP is truly a clown car.
Newhart was a master. He was just the right amount of neurotic. Great temperament. Always killed on Tonight show or Letterman.
DeleteI'm still giving Clint a pass on this thing. He's an icon, and yeah, I know he's just a republican and an actor, but if we look at everything through partisan lens, we'll limit our own thinking and views we take in.
POB is giving deference to him and being respectful, and I can too, I guess. Clint us just being himself and it was a weak performance. But the man is 82 and still working. I think it's classy of the President to still give Clint his due respect for his body of work. Just my opinion, but it was just a crappy, ill-conceived skit that didn't work for me. But neither did the movies he made with the chimp, Every which way but loose and the other one whatever it was named. They did well at the box office, but I guess I didn't get his doing the thing with "Clyde" -- just remembered the damn monkey's name. Haha
"There's nothing personal. When he came in I thought it was great. I thought the multiculturalism, the multi-racialism was great, all that kind of stuff. But to me it's just about the work."
ReplyDeleteI am more than a little disturbed by this statement. He was more interested in Obama's race than his credentials? I could care less if he was black, white or purple, I liked what he said and how he said it. O's vision of America is mine as well, that's why I voted for him, not because he's multi-racial.
Dis-jointed remarks, but I take it to mean that as a uniter of our diverse melting pot of cultures, Obama was what our country needed to begin healing from the Bush regime. I don't know how much of a policy wonk Clint is, but I'm sure his agent and business manager have told him that Romney's tax plan will save him millions.
DeleteI know we seek to view those we admire through rose-colored glasses and through a picture frame of benevolence, but he's a businessman and a 1% er for sure. At his age, I'm sure he's looking at what the estate tax will cost, etc. Just my opinion.
I hate people who exploit Alzheimer's or other forms of senior dementia victims - and that's what the RNC did. Bastards.
ReplyDeleteThey are nothing but a bunch of rapscallions.
Deleteo/t This is the child of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a police officer?
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54902212-78/linkin-gun-leatham-family.html.csp
You would think they would be more prudent in these matters than say the Palins or Johnston.
I never took him for a low information voter until now.....
ReplyDeleteRemember -- He was an ELECTED MAYOR.
DeleteHe's also been appointed to a number of positions on various committees and commissions.
Scary
He's no dummy, but if he's looking at a huge tax billl on his estate that he's earned over his 50 year career, I'm sure it reinforces his capitalist ideas. Hopefully, he'll give a lot of it away. I don't even know what the amount is for exemption today on an estate, but it was $1M and then graduated up gradually to $2 M to $4M and it might be close to $5M now, but it's a serious chuck of change thereafter, maybe 35-40% if I recall. Like it matters when you're dead, but even though he's been super successful, he probably worked 20 years before he was making big bucks. With with a net worth between a quarter billion and a half billion (just a guess. Last I heard yrs ago was $200M, he's looking at a tax bill of over $100M. Those kinds of numbers make many folks republicans, or they are democrats who hire a CPA who is a republican. Oh well.
DeleteOK folks, my apologies to the Foggy Mountain Boys and George Clooney
ReplyDelete(whom I wouldn't leave my husband for).
But sing along with me to the tune of "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
A one, and a two..
I am a man of constant sorrow
I can't get back the money I've spent
I bid farewell to my run for president
And all the hubris I had to borrow
(chorus) All the hubris he had to borrow
For six long years I've been in trouble
For in this world I'm bound to sob
I'll just settle for ruling planet Kolob
Reality has finally burst my bubble
(chorus) Reality has finally burst his bubble
It's fare thee well to my one love
I never expect to see it again
For I'm bound to be tagged a real has been
So says Heavenly Father from above
(chorus) So says Heavenly Father from above
You can bury my political career
Away in some deep valley
Where Obama can hold a celebration rally
While I'll take it quietly in the rear
(chorus) He'll take it quietly in the rear
Maybe the voters just couldn't be bought
My gaffes you'll never hear no more
But I'll fade to God's golden shore
Where I'll hide away on my $1 million yacht
(chorus)
Where he'll hide on his $1 million yacht
Blue Girl Liz living in a red state :(
Very nice Liz, I believe you have captured Mitt in verse very well.
DeleteLiz, if you need a talent agent, I might be able to squeeze you in since I don't have any other clients yet. Hey, we'll do lunch. Great Cohen Bros movie. I actually got a taste for some of the old bluegrass music after watching that movie. Good stuff!
DeleteAnonymous 7:46 PM:
DeleteYeah, I'm in. You could bill me as the "2012's Weird Al Yankovic." Although I kinda resent being called Al..
Right now I'm working on my version of "I Shot The Sheriff"
"I shot my chances
but I never ever had any..."
Gryph-
ReplyDeleteO/T: You might want to take a dip in the C4P. Someone named "Val" mentions you in not-so-nice terms in the Comments section of the recent Dugan/McGinnis thread. The comment is terrible (and the article is full of lies about Joe M.)
O/T: Palin was Inside Edition this afternoon saying she sympathized with Jeffrey McDonald because she knows first-hand Joe McGinniss' tactics. She sympathizes with a convicted murderer because McGinnis wrote a book about her. Unbelievable.
DeleteShe empathizes with a sociopath. It's not surprising if you think about it.
DeleteStupid is as stupid does. Sarah has no clue about anything and only barks to her minions some trite for them to research in their half ass way. They are for certain the gang that can't shoot straight. She will no doubt double down on her latest fake narrative.
Deletehttp://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2012/09/never-one-to-let-go-of-grudge-sarah.html
Sarah, you ARE shameless, aren't you? Also, knuckle-dragging stupid.
DeleteTo align yourself with a man who is probably a psychopath -- as though Joe McGinniss's summer in Alaska and his softball reporting on you is the same as his in-depth reporting on a man convicted of murdering his family: it's beyond belief, and beyond reason.
Sarah, do yourself a favor and stop. Just stop. All you're doing is giving The Rogue more publicity, btw. But you really can't help yourself, can you? It's a sickness, this narcissism, this overwhelming need to be noticed, no matter what the reason.
No advice anyone could give you will convince you that calm, measured, reasonable, mature thoughts and feelings are what are expected of someone who was once given a political forum in which to express yourself.
You're nearly 50 years old. Your career is in the rear view mirror. Your family is a laughingstock; the more they put themselves out for public inspection, the more they make the Real Housewives of New Jersey look like Ph.D. candidates.
It's time to fold your tent and realize that the beauty pageant is over. You lost.
When asked whether he thought Palin had read his book from cover to cover, Morris said: "Somebody did."
DeletePalin weighs in....
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/9/18/sarah_palin_weighs_in_on_jeffrey.htm
So I guess Romney is "dumb enough" to ask him?
ReplyDeleteFunny too: Romney's book is "No apologies" and Eastwood's film is "The Unforgiven."
Rmoney and ArrogANNt should apologize to the world for wasting air by breathing. And their five good for nothing sons, too.
DeleteObama campaign: Romney using 'failed playbook' of Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/250209-obama-campaign-romney-team-using-failed-playbook-of-sarah-palin-joe-the-plumber
Chris Matthews had on Joe Klein this afternoon and he said all the Republicans have is this false image of Obama that they have created. 'He's Muslim, anti-American, a socialist.' They have repeated these falsehoods over and over and over again to the point that their followers believe it. That's all they have. They are betting this election on the fact that voters vote against Obama because of these false claims they have made over the past 4 years.
ReplyDeleteAnd here is proof that is working, from c4p:
Delete"I really don't get the Healthcare thing". It's simple, because it has nothing at all do do with providing quality Healthcare for the Country. It has to do with controlling approximately 1/6 of the economy and using Obamacare as the main vehicle to turn the United States of America in to a marxist/islamist slave state. The hospitals are meant eventually to be, self-contained mini-Auschwitz's,Buchenwald's and Treblinka's. At the Heart of statism,wheter it's Obama's "marxist/islamist version",or the Bush crime family's "Rockefeller/Rotschild Fabian socialism,New World Order", it all comes down to the same thing eventually...Genocide!"
Conspiracy at is finest.
Romney was dumb enough to WASTE prime time national audience on an unscripted, moronic, unappealing ex-star.
ReplyDeleteThe reason Super Bowl ads are so fantastically expensive is because THAT audience is so huge. Not a second of air-time is wasted, every nuance is thought and re-thought to exploit the opportunity.
Romney's convention audience, obviously, was less than Super Bowl scale, but, it was FREE, FREE, FREE. And Romney's business acumen was non-existent. Romney's management expertise is not good enough to run a simple convention, much less a country.
"...dumb enough to ask [Clint Eastwood] to go to a political convention and say something..."
ReplyDeleteYes, Romney is dumb enough. He's also dumb enough to tick off Great Britain on the eve of their Olympic Games. He's dumb enough to say 47% of Americans consider themselves victims. He's dumb enough to tell us his effective tax rate and expect us to not check his actual tax returns.
Romney gives a whole new meaning to "dumb". In fact, one has to wonder if Clint Eastwood isn't the only one having trouble with his mental faculties.
Romney's 10PM EDT presser to answer 3 questions on his 47% blunder featured an unusual display of disarrayed hair. He looked unprepared, scared and... dumb.
Agree 100%. My gripe against Mitt Romney has been his lack of intellectual curiosity but, you're right, he's also just plain dumb.
DeleteI still think history will be VERY unkind to Eastwood on this thing.
ReplyDeleteTo defile the Republican convention with a lameass skit where the sitting President supposedly tells his opponent to go fuck himself, was bad enough...
...for the supposed "evangelicals" to applaud that treasonous, and lewd act, is even worse.
What the Republicans have been "defiling" since January 2009 is the office of the presidency. They rejected President Obama's right to that office from the evening of election day, 2008. Clint Eastwood's crazy performance at the RNC put the their absurd treasonous behavior on display for the world to see although I bet he just thought it was funny.
Deletesome of those comments he makes sound borderline racists.... oh that multi-racism thing was good? wtf does obama's race have to do with anything? eastwood is sounding again like a crazy person
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