Posted by Tina
Ed Timperlake over at The American Thinker had the best observations about Clint Eastwood’s performance! My favorite bit:
Americans can hear hard messages coming from Clint. He has a certain immunity that comes with being old and beloved. Yes, some of his sentences did not complete themselves. Yes, he was a bit doddering. And yes, his F yourself jokes were crude. Grandpa sometimes embarrasses the family at birthdays and anniversaries by bringing up uncomfortable topics. But everyone also loves Grandpa, and realizes he tells the truth because he hasn’t got that much longer with us, and doesn’t give a damn anymore what people think. The one thing everyone remembers about the party afterward is when Grandpa mentioned the adultery, the grandkid who did drugs, or the other secrets that everyone prefers to keep their mouths shut about.
There are lots of truths about President Obama — including that he really isn’t such a nice guy — that the media will not allow consideration of. Except from Grandpa.
Clint Eastwood topped off a sparkling lineup of speakers at the RNC Convention. Was there a group that wasn’t well represented over the last three days? I don’t think so…the Republican Party does indeed have a big tent.
Well done, Mr. Eastwood, well done. The cherry on top was the cut-away at the end of his speech to news anchors Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell. Ms. Mitchell was so furious she could barely contain herself, and Mr. Williams (for a brief moment) looked like he was sitting next to a live hand grenade.
I’ve always liked Clint Eastwood. He is a good actor and an even better director. “Gran Torino” was amazing. I’m not quite sure what he is doing in the Republican party–last I checked, he was pro-marriage equality, pro-choice, and anti-war.
But this speech was just embarrassing, and mostly served to provide comedic fodder. Many have likened his rambling speech to that of a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving. “Eastwooding,” in which people take pictures and videos of themselves arguing with empty chairs, has already become a huge Internet meme.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/eastwooding-inspires-social-media-users-upload-empty-chair-pics-clint-eastwood-speech-article-1.1148602
Jamelle Bouie put it best: “This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama.”
https://twitter.com/jbouie/statuses/241357291671138305
RHT447 I missed that…dang!
Its an ugly sight…all these hard core leftists running around with their hair on fire. But you know it had to be a shocking visual…smiling brown faces, some of them strong and accomplished women, one or two of them Democrats and ex Democrats talking with conviction about the things that matter to “old white men” as if our very lives depended on it.
Tina,
Here it is…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ODvuEgxRg
Chris writes; I’ve always liked Clint Eastwood. He is a good actor and an even better director. “Gran Torino” was amazing. I’m not quite sure what he is doing in the Republican party–last I checked, he was pro-marriage equality, pro-choice, and anti-war.
Chris, Clint may still believe in all of the above ideals, but he isn’t a fool. The mans speech you attempt to belittle is just the groundwork of realization as more 2008 voters have started to catch on to their mistake of voting for Obama. Clint’s delivery may not have been the best in his career, but the message was on point. Obama is a “empty chair” when it gets down to the fundamental values that help build America.
They don’t look “furious” to me, they look confused and uncomfortable. Mitchell was right, that speech was one of the strangest moments in politics I’ve ever seen, and Eastwood did misrepresent some of the facts. Look outside of the conservative echo chamber and you’ll see a lot of people agree.
Outside the so-called conservative echo chamber you find the left-wing Obama swooning propaganda bubble. Mitchell and Williams are cheerleading rather than engaging in journalism. The amusing thing is that they believe they are invisible. Here’s some of Mitchels unbiased snarky reporting:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/27/andrea_mitchell_gop_convention_dealing_with_oversized_egos.html
Democrats…”we”? Ms. Mitchell has obviously forgotten she’s not entertaining friends around her dinner table!
Here’s more:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/21/andrea_mitchell_romney_has_been_getting_a_free_ride_from_the_media.html
The woman has forgotten the bitter battle between Obama and Hillary (Where is her feminist loyalty?).
She is attempting to deflect attention away from the many democrats that have said they will not attend the Democrat convention and the former supporters of Barack Obama that have expressed disappointment in him and said they will not vote for him again.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/list-of-democrats-skipping-the-partys-national-convention-continues-to-grow/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/black-pastor-tells-cnn-his-church-wont-support-obama-plan-to-stay-home/
http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-obama-thrill-gone
And my favorite prediction to date:
http://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2012/05/30/why_obama_will_lose_in_a_landslide/page/full/
Wayne Allen Root has a point. Clint Eastwood demonstrated that point beautifully!
Styne is divine with his, “Play Clinty for Me”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/315658/play-clinty-me-mark-steyn
Tina: “Outside the so-called conservative echo chamber you find the left-wing Obama swooning propaganda bubble.”
Is there nothing in between?
I made a mistake. I didn’t think Clint was the right choice but wow was I wrong. Clint maybe ball those things Chris said but I can tell you Clint is not a liberal. Clint made a choice 4 years ago and now knows he was seriously in error. He came on national/international TV and confessed his error. A liberal will never ever do that.
Between Clint and that ex-democrat from the other night the Left should be scared $hitless about the election.
This is how I see it. Obama has lost all the republican votes he had. He had lost lets say 50% of the middle of the road votes he had. He has lost a good percentage of democrat votes. He has lost a percentage of the black vote. Not a chance in hell this election will even be close. It will be 1980 all over again. He has no one to blame but you, me, Bush, the republicans, the racist conservatives, Bush, Haliburton ( little nostalgia), The Swift Boat Vets, Big Oil, Bush, Bain Capital, Bush, Not spending more, and Bush. Did I mention Bush?
“Im not sure he could have pulled that off if hed delivered a slick telepromptered pitch. As Mr. Hayward suggests, the hard lines packed more of a punch for being delivered in the midst of a Bob Newhart empty-chair shtick from the Dean Martin show circa 1968.”
I knew I’d seen the empty chair skit done before, just couldn’t remember when and by whom. Thanks for the memory nudge.
Mr. Eastwood is a very talented man who has given us years of great entertainment. He deserves better then to be attacked because of his age he didn’t deliver a perfect performance. Shame on anyone who lacks compassion and understanding and attacks someone’s abilities. I loved it!
John 8:7
“He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Chris: “Is there nothing in between?”
If it exists…let’s see the list.
Toby I’m pretty sure you remembered to mention Bush…we could check the transcript…but you did leave out old white men…lol!
Never mind his age…Eastwood pulled that one off with his hairstyle alone!
Politifact and Fact Check should definitely be on that list, Tina. They evaluate statements from both parties and rate them true or false based on facts, not partisan bias. I can understand why your party finds that threatening, and wants to weaken the public’s trust in these organizations. There is no room for independent fact-checkers in your hyper-partisan, “us vs. them” world.
Jon Stewart made an insightful comment about “Eastwooding” this week:
“I could never wrap my head around why the world and the president that Republicans describe, bear so little resemblance to the world and and the president that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see.”
Republicans are arguing with an imaginary Obama; an empty chair.
Chris will you go see 2016?
Today is National Empty Chair Day on Twitter #emptychairday.
No, Jack, I won’t. I believe that D’Souza’s theory that Obama is motivated by “Kenyan anti-colonialism” is dumb, baseless, and plays on racial and xenophobic anxieties. His book is also littered with basic factual inaccuracies, like his claims about the Winston Churchhill bust. I don’t expect any better from the movie.
I’ve also never seen any of the “films” of Michael Moore, nor do I have the desire to. I try to avoid blatant propaganda pieces from both sides.
Politifact attempts to measure the truthfullness in the things politicians and others say…people don’t always agree with their conclusions.
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/why-im-boycotting-politifact/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/rachel-maddow-politifact-fired_n_1233411.html
http://ajr.org/article.asp?id=5253
This is what bothers me about your rabid insistence that you and you alone hold keys to the truth. You leave no room for opinion even when it is your own. You insist that your opinion about what someone has said is the truth and then attempt to bend others to your will.
I see a number of brick walls in your future when dealing with others. I recommend that you open up and simply allow that people often disagree.
Live long and prosper.