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I was both shocked and appalled by the performance of Clint Eastwood last night. I have no problem with him being a Republican but I have a great problem with him being so rude to his president.
He has many liberal friends and HE himself is Pro-choice, for Gay rights as well as Gay Marriage, assisted suicide and for sensible gun legislation...... ALL of which are moral anathema to the modern GOP.

I had great respect for Eastwood as an Actor, Director and even a film composer but all that was lost in the 10 minutes he showed a profound disrespect for the office of the Presidency along with a great need for aricept. He came across as the lunatic family member that interrupts the sanity of an occasion and is rushed to the attic to live out his days. Not only did he thoroughly embarrass the Republican party, he also represented Hollywood very poorly. I was lookng forward to going to see his new film with AMY ADAMS but after that you could not get me there at gunpoint. The RWNJ seems to think this will all blowover, but I really think such a cruel mockery of a beloved man will have an effect. The Right will pour into the theatres for the film but I really think it will not have the numbers they would have seen had Eastwood not spewed his hateful diatribe.

My guess is the DNC will have someone sane like Clooney speak to counter that debacle that was Clint Eastwood.


HH

This was my FAVE moment of the night, captured below in this pic


Hahahhaa sorry I meant to say FAUX NEWS not FUX NEWS.
 

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I didn't think Mr Eastwood appeared anything like Joe Biden.
 

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ok, besides the embarrassment of last night I'm struck by the choice of Eastwood by the RNC
Just mere moments ago, when Clint's "Million Dollar Baby" was current the "conservative far wrong" were so up in arms - they were calling for Clint's head on a stick
 

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I saw the performance of Eastwood, and... I felt sorry for him. What he did on stage, was embarrassing, considering his talent. It was an incoherent rambling rant, that made no sense. I think he thought he could improvise on the spot, and that didn't work out for him at all. Which mirrors Romney's campaign, exactly.



I was both shocked and appalled by the performance of Clint Eastwood last night. I have no problem with him being a Republican but I have a great problem with him being so rude to his president.
He has many liberal friends and HE himself is Pro-choice, for Gay rights as well as Gay Marriage, assisted suicide and for sensible gun legislation...... ALL of which are moral anathema to the modern GOP.

I had great respect for Eastwood as an Actor, Director and even a film composer but all that was lost in the 10 minutes he showed a profound disrespect for the office of the Presidency along with a great need for aricept. He came across as the lunatic family member that interrupts the sanity of an occasion and is rushed to the attic to live out his days. Not only did he thoroughly embarrass the Republican party, he also represented Hollywood very poorly. I was lookng forward to going to see his new film with AMY ADAMS but after that you could not get me there at gunpoint. The RWNJ seems to think this will all blowover, but I really think such a cruel mockery of a beloved man will have an effect. The Right will pour into the theatres for the film but I really think it will not have the numbers they would have seen had Eastwood not spewed his hateful diatribe.

My guess is the DNC will have someone sane like Clooney speak to counter that debacle that was Clint Eastwood.


HH

This was my FAVE moment of the night, captured below in this pic


Hahahhaa sorry I meant to say FAUX NEWS not FUX NEWS.
 

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He made a lot of sense actually. Its just that you do not agree with him. It sucks when you find that someone you look up to or idolize does not share your point of view. Clint is still sharp as ever and that performace cut pretty deep for some people, to be sure.
 

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He made a lot of sense actually. Its just that you do not agree with him. It sucks when you find that someone you look up to or idolize does not share your point of view. Clint is still sharp as ever and that performace cut pretty deep for some people, to be sure.

His conversation with an imaginary Obama couldn't have been more excruciating if he had used sock puppets.
 

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He made a lot of sense actually. Its just that you do not agree with him. It sucks when you find that someone you look up to or idolize does not share your point of view. Clint is still sharp as ever and that performace cut pretty deep for some people, to be sure.

Mr Eastwood is a Libertarian. Why can't he say what he wants
After all John Clarke and our King Charles II drafted the ND Rhode Island Charter, guarantee liberty for all. This was the concept that socked the world and still does.
 

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the empty chair was a metaphor. He used it to make the point that the presidency is currently an empty chair. I thought it was clever. Now, you may be insulted and disagree, thats fine. But Clint was razor sharp. I'll tell you this much, it takes a lot of balls to do what he did. The majority of his peers will be upset about this and he will most likely be black-balled in a lot of Hollywood circles.
 

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There was not a damn thing brave about what Clint did last night, even Ann Romney was embarrassed as she was caught cringing during his tirade.
It was actually pure cowardice cause I doubt he would have the audacity to say those things to President OBAMA in person to his face.
All the Right Wing journalists who are worth a damn (not ones on Fox who get their Journalism credentials from a box of KELLOGS Raisin Bran, yet never eat them , so they remain "Full of Shit") were actually embarrassed, even the former chair of the RNC remarked about what a disaster it was, I doubt Princess Priebus will show the same integrity.

It has NOTHING at all to do with me disagreeing with him, in fact in many ways I agree with Mr Eastwood. It's all about a profound disrespect for a sitting president. What he did was patently Un-American. I have had friends who dislike Obama say to me that his ranting was just sad and by any measure of pride it INDEED WAS !


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the empty chair was a metaphor. He used it to make the point that the presidency is currently an empty chair.

A strange notion for a man who accomplished more (in his first two years, at least), than all but one or two presidents in modern history.
 

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I didn't think Mr Eastwood appeared anything like Joe Biden.

You're right. But Biden doesn't have Alzheimer's yet.

His conversation with an imaginary Obama couldn't have been more excruciating if he had used sock puppets.

:rofl:

There was not a damn thing brave about what Clint did last night, even Ann Romney was embarrassed as she was caught cringing during his tirade.
It was actually pure cowardice cause I doubt he would have the audacity to say those things to President OBAMA in person to his face.
All the Right Wing journalists who are worth a damn (not ones on Fox who get their Journalism credentials from a box of KELLOGS Raisin Bran, yet never eat them , so they remain "Full of Shit") were actually embarrassed, even the former chair of the RNC remarked about what a disaster it was, I doubt Princess Priebus will show the same integrity.

It has NOTHING at all to do with me disagreeing with him, in fact in many ways I agree with Mr Eastwood. It's all about a profound disrespect for a sitting president. What he did was patently Un-American. I have had friends who dislike Obama say to me that his ranting was just sad and by any measure of pride it INDEED WAS !


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It was a study in absurdity and will come back to haunt not only him but the Repugs who ok'd him.
 

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the empty chair was a metaphor. He used it to make the point that the presidency is currently an empty chair. I thought it was clever. Now, you may be insulted and disagree, thats fine. But Clint was razor sharp. I'll tell you this much, it takes a lot of balls to do what he did. The majority of his peers will be upset about this and he will most likely be black-balled in a lot of Hollywood circles.

It's a bad metaphor...
 

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One thing that really bothered me about Eastwood's speech were the instances where Invisible Obama "interrupted" him, once where Eastwood said that IO had told him to shut up and the other where IO had apparently told ey Romnto go screw himself (Eastwood made a comment about Romney performing an impossible act with himself). What bothered me was Eastwood's supposition that the real Obama could be that low, base and vulgar. Did he forget that the party he was there to represent - the Republicans - have tried to demean and demonize Obama at every opportunity, even going so far as to interrupt him during a State of the Union address? And yet, Eastwood thinks it's amusing to have Obama call him out? And the throat slashing motion was distasteful, especially given the real threats hurled at President Obama.
 

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One thing that really bothered me about Eastwood's speech were the instances where Invisible Obama "interrupted" him, once where Eastwood said that IO had told him to shut up and the other where IO had apparently told ey Romnto go screw himself (Eastwood made a comment about Romney performing an impossible act with himself). What bothered me was Eastwood's supposition that the real Obama could be that low, base and vulgar.

Exactly. Now, if he had been doing a routine with an imaginary Truman or LBJ, it would have made sense. But Obama?
 

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the empty chair was a metaphor. He used it to make the point that the presidency is currently an empty chair. I thought it was clever. Now, you may be insulted and disagree, thats fine. But Clint was razor sharp. I'll tell you this much, it takes a lot of balls to do what he did. The majority of his peers will be upset about this and he will most likely be black-balled in a lot of Hollywood circles.

Hey Matt -- it wasn't just the empty chair metaphor, it was also the "invisible black man" metaphor. I think poor Clint got suckered by some very saavy Republicans who thought they could send the hidden message via a Hollywood messenger!
 

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Hey Matt -- it wasn't just the empty chair metaphor, it was also the "invisible black man" metaphor. I think poor Clint got suckered by some very saavy Republicans who thought they could send the hidden message via a Hollywood messenger!


They will NEVER admit it, but I too think that is what happened. He did comes across as someone who was on stage fumbling for linesthat were not his own and then improving hateful stuff when the memory failed.


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Eastwood's performance was certainly a great gift to satirists. I hope that everyone has seen this frame from an old episode of The Simpsons, though I was sorry to learn that it was modified from the original to be more topical. (The original version said "Old Man Yells at Cloud" rather than "Old Man Yells at Chair.")

Eastwood drew cheers and applause with the line "See, I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway." Leave it to Jon Stewart to remind the remarkably short-memoried audience that Mitt Romney holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.

But Stewart's best observation was this summation: "So we owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was a truly hilarious twelve minutes of improvised awesome in a week of scripted blah, but because it advanced our understanding. . . . I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bear so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience. And now I know why: there is a President Obama that only Republicans can see."