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Late-night talk shows can't get enough of mocking Clint Eastwood's empty chair (Circling wagons)
NBC News ^ | September 1, 2012 | Craig Berman

Posted on 09/01/2012 7:47:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend, but not all of his movies were smash hits. He’s no stranger to getting poor reviews.

But he may never have received worse reviews than the ones he’s hearing from late-night talk-show hosts after his performance at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, where he spent quality time on national television in spirited debate with a figment of his imagination.

“Amidst the tired rhetoric, empty platitudes and overwrought attacks, a fistful of awesome emerged in the night … where it spent 12 minutes on the most important night of Mitt Romney’s life yelling at a chair,” Jon Stewart said on “The Daily Show.”

Much to the Romney campaign’s dismay (and to Sen. Marco Rubio, who might have otherwise earned headlines for his introduction of the nominee), Eastwood’s argument with an invisible man was the story of the day...

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: clinteastwood; eastwood; obama; romney
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Do they really think they're going to put the toothpaste back in the tube? That they can ridicule Clint Eastwood to soften the effects of this on Barack Obama? Hahahahahaha!
1 posted on 09/01/2012 7:47:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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What they don’t realize is that most Americans heard Mr. Eastwood loud and clear.


2 posted on 09/01/2012 7:51:39 PM PDT by abercrombie_guy_38
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Eastwood produced some fine wine that night...and it gets better with age!!!

The more I hear cuts of his empty chair monologue, even though I enjoyed it the night of the convention, the better it sounds.

3 posted on 09/01/2012 7:51:45 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems logical, because what they fear, they ridicule.


4 posted on 09/01/2012 7:53:04 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought Clint was great. He was funny, called for getting rid of Obama without being mean about it, and was thoroughly charming. Never realized he was such a cool dude outside of the movies.


5 posted on 09/01/2012 7:53:42 PM PDT by juno67 (Gua)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought Mr. Eastwood was just making the point that he could see right through chairman obama.


6 posted on 09/01/2012 7:55:04 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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7 posted on 09/01/2012 7:56:36 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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Another of what I have called the "nonsensical" "progressive" views on Eastwood.

The Dem "talking heads" and surrogates just can't bring themselves to acknowledge that the entire world "got" Eastwood's message loud and clear--and they have nowhere to hide.

Agree, too, with Applegateranch's comments on another thread about the genius of Eastwood's use of his object's own "egregious speech pattern," commonly referred to by pseudointellectual "progressives" as a sign of Obama's great intellect and deliberative style.

Now, however, with Eastwood's use of it, "progressives" (an entire set of "empty chairs" when it comes to understanding and defending the ideas of freedom), find such a "deliberate" and halting style denotes everything from senility to "doddering fool."

Another gem was his use of a former President's assessment of Romney's "stellar business performance" in this total unmasking of the great destroyer of business in America.

From Geraldo Rivera on FOX to Gloria Borger on CNN, the faux criticism and claims that Eastwood distracted from the Romney speech and Borger's claim that parts were "crass" are laughable when compared with much of the Dem performer language and inferences. No, he actually set up the public for a speech by a man who's been known for filling many seats of leadership.

This was a priceless and iconic performance which will live on, long after Eastwood is gone, and Obama is a distant memory in the rearview mirror of presidents.

8 posted on 09/01/2012 7:57:34 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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by criticizing it, they’re just drawing more attention to it. The more I watch it, the better I like it


9 posted on 09/01/2012 7:58:19 PM PDT by stickywillie (a corrupt parallel universe exists beside our wonderful Constitution)
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10 posted on 09/01/2012 8:01:23 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Obama, a ship sailing on yesterday's wind)
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I would almost be willing to bet money that someone tries to do something similiar at the DNC next week. Inevitably, the LSM will remark on how brilliant it was.


11 posted on 09/01/2012 8:04:41 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Socialism is the political dream of the unachiever, the excuse maker, and the lazy.)
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To: stickywillie

You know that is an excellent insight.

When a person points and laughs at someone else, he must first point.

Others will indeed see.

This is perhaps an unforseen consequence of thier tactic.


12 posted on 09/01/2012 8:04:52 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: loveliberty2

Clint Eastwood set himself up as bait to pull the “nattering nabobs of negativism” off their otherwise ruthless pursuit of the substantial issues that both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to carry to the American people.

The reaction from the left was both entirely predictable and hilarious at the same time. Clint punk’d them, and they have only slowly begun to realize the real depth of the damage that was done. Suddenly, it became OK to criticize Obama, and not be the least bit racist.

The techniques of Gary Trudeau and “Doonesbury” turned back on the liberals.


13 posted on 09/01/2012 8:06:29 PM PDT by alloysteel (Are you better off than you were four years ago? Well, are you?)
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I bet Clint Eastwood doesn't give a rat's-ass what all these Democrat nobodys think.
I've had a crush on him since he was Rowdy Yates on Rawhide. He's an American legend and loved as much as the Duke!
14 posted on 09/01/2012 8:06:50 PM PDT by Cindy of Nashville (What has the Democrat party become???)
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To: stickywillie

Me too.


15 posted on 09/01/2012 8:07:58 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


16 posted on 09/01/2012 8:08:59 PM PDT by nutmeg (I'm with Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz: "ABO"/Ryan 2012)
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To: Not gonna take it anymore

I can tell you I seen 1 Movie this year 2016 and now its going to be two the new Clint Eastwood as Atlanta Braves Scout


17 posted on 09/01/2012 8:12:30 PM PDT by scooby321 (AMS)
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18 posted on 09/01/2012 8:12:55 PM PDT by OL Hickory (Jesus and the American soldier-1 died for your soul/1 died for your freedom)
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Clint Eastood is 84 tears old. He has my respect.
The left tolerant as they claim to be, loving the elderly as only the left knows how, ...........I’m speechless


19 posted on 09/01/2012 8:13:44 PM PDT by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: juno67

Have seen him on a couple of talk shows. Charming and witty, sarcastic and impish. What you saw is “the man”.


20 posted on 09/01/2012 8:15:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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