Posted on 08/31/2012 1:51:35 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 31, 2012
Derek Hunter
Liberals wanted nothing more than to see a divided Republican Party this week, sputtering out of Tampa and limping across the country. They didn’t get that.
What they got was a party united behind their nominee and in purpose.
This unity has caused even more panic than normal.
While waiting to interview former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, I listened to a reporter from CBS ask him three questions in a row about how he’s out of the mainstream of the party because of his pro-choice, pro-gay marriage views. Giuliani, being too smart to give the reporter the attack on his fellow Republicans he clearly wanted, denied any division. Were it not for time constraints, there’s little doubt the question would’ve been asked several more times, not for lack of an answer but for lack of the desired answer.
I asked the mayor if the division was more a reality or media meme. Not surprisingly, he thought the latter.
Giuliani said, “Sure, we disagree on some social issues but there’s always disagreement. The question is: do you agree on a lot more things than you disagree on and I think, ‘yes, we do.’ There’s one thing this entire convention is focused on, we all agree on: we cannot take four more years of Barack Obama. He will ruin our economy in a way that’s going to be very hard to repair.”
“Mitt Romney will be a much better President than Barack Obama even if we don’t all agree on everything he will do.”
He continued, “They’re (the media) are looking for the little fissures in our party and trying to take the little disagreements and trying to make them into permanent disagreements, which they’re not.”
The mayor was right, but the media has their agenda and their candidate. He must be protected at all costs.
That’s why you got a night of coverage last night mocking Clint Eastwood’s brilliant performance mocking President Obama as an empty chair. Inside the “Washington bubble,” which travels with them to these events, they’ve never heard such things at Georgetown cocktail parties.
It’s a world in which former New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael is quoted as saying, “I don’t know how Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.” (The actual quote may be different, but equally as telling of this “bubble” mentality.)
You’ll never find a more incestuous group than journalists. That they socialize extensively, if not exclusively, with each other in Washington and events like conventions is not a surprise, but the extent to which they insulate themselves from their fellow non-journalist humans would shock even the most ardent observer. They may interview real humans from time to time, but those are people picked by their producers and they safely return to the bubble once the recording devices are off.
That’s why you get today’s media meme – Clint Eastwood was a huge flop last night.
In the convention hall, Eastwood talking to an empty chair was huge hit. In homes across the country, the reaction was the same. Inside the bubble is the only place it wasn’t well received.
The incestuous circle of media wagons has been immune from such talk, only bringing criticism of the President up to mock it over a Tom Collins or gin and tonic at David Frum’s house, or some such similar venue. As they are the megaphone, and the filter, through which politicians are forced to speak to the American people, they are confused and angry when someone deviates from their desired norm.
Eastwood said what I’ve heard from non-journalist, non-political people for the last two years – President Obama hasn’t delivered on his promises, and now things are worse. There’s a growing sense, that’s been growing for a while, that President Obama doesn’t know or care what he’s doing, that he’s an empty suit.
Clint Eastwood made him an empty chair.
The media has, and will continue to tell you that Eastwood was a flop, a mistake of epic proportions. Democrats will say how horrible it was. But they both know this country holds Clint Eastwood as an icon and has done so for nearly 50 years. Real people like, trust and believe him. A tornado’s worth of spin won’t touch the credibility that man has earned with the American people.
How do I know I’m right? How do I know Democrats even know this, no matter what they’re saying publicly? Twitter.
Last night the Obama campaign felt the need to respond to “the Eastwood fumble” with a tweet saying, “This seat’s taken” and a picture of President Obama sitting in his chair in the White House Cabinet Room. In spite of the revelation that fully 70% of the Presidents Twitter followers are fake accounts, his campaign felt the need to respond to the remaining 30% and the world. Campaigns don’t respond to things they see as irrelevant, they respond to things they see as damaging in the hope of stopping the hemorrhaging.
What all the spin, all the MSNBC hosts and paid consultants or pictures of Obama sitting in chairs in the world can’t change is that that chair is still empty when it comes to successes and to ideas for improving upon his failed record. And what all of those things will never, ever be able to change is the fact that a man, an icon that the American people know, love and trust, went around the President’s media guard dogs directly to them and pointed it out for the whole world to see.
Last night, Clint Eastwood not only made a lot of people's day, he made a difference in this election. As a conservative, I feel lucky to have had him on that stage...punk.
Clint finally got to play himself..and serve his nation in this time of crisis.
ROFL
But I think he was best back in the 60s and 70s,
So was America!
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The 1970s? Uh, no. That’s when our society started to circle the drain as far as marriage and the family go.
...I found it a little sad when he seemed to be stumbling and forgetting what he was saying....
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Yeah, I can’t say I was impressed with his performance.
But maybe he did it on purpose to draw the left out so they let loose with lots of criticism of the elderly.
Perhaps everyone should put an empty chair out in the yard until Election Day...nearly everyone has a beater chair they could use...
Watch it again on video and it will confirm to you this simple fact - it’s a classic for all time!
Obama wants people to believe that his hobnobbing with George Clooney and MJ (Michael Jordan) and black rappers makes him cool, and here comes the coolest cat perhaps ever in cinema (Steve McQueen was up there too) and he mocks “The One”.
It was ok. He hit a single. With the empty chair he could have hit a homerun by running through a more complete list of his failures and highlighting his blameshifting and scandals. he should have gone down a list, boom, boom, boom.
You’re so right about his coolness factor. Who would have thought an 82 year old actor, who barely speaks in his movies, could stay cool for so many decades. Must be because he doesn’t give a crap.
Nonsense. What Eastwood did was make fun fo the little sleazy narcissist. To use the stagecraft differently would have ruined the intention. Little barry bastard commie cannot stand to be made fun of. To go too far would have givent the fool and his media minions fodder to cancel the brilliant inferences. I’m sorry that you cannot understand that, bless your heart.
Nonsense. What Eastwood did was make fun of the little sleazy narcissist. To use the stagecraft differently would have ruined the intention. Little barry bastard commie cannot stand to be made fun of. To go too far would have given the fool and his media minions fodder to cancel the brilliant inferences. I’m sorry that you cannot understand that, bless your heart.
Showing the back of the chair, with Obungo’s strangely shaped head and massive ears peering out at the top, is an insult to the American people. It is symbolic of this entire administration’s attitude toward the American People.
The lefties and Obama himself are confused that by just sitting on a chair they believe they have accomplished something.
As Clint said last night, 23 million Americans out of work is a national disgrace. Obama is a national disgrace.
I know I see a lot less Romney bashing on here than I used to. And that includes me. I was swayed by Clint and Mitt.
I know I see a lot less Romney bashing on here than I used to. And that includes me. I was swayed by Clint and Mitt and the personal stories.
Bob Schieffer, on tonight’s SeeBS Evening Purgefest, was apoplectic in his whining tirade about Clint Eastwood’s ridicule of Traitorbama.
I don’t know how Schieffer managed to unlock his lips from Barry’s keister long enough to hiss his venomous vomit.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/08/31/pmt-jon-voight.cnn
So I guess you're saying it doesn't take much to make the left apoplectic these days.
The response of the delegates and guests was the clincher. You don’t see that kind of enthusiasm very often. That’s the real story aside from the great performance. They were on fire!
The low spot in the criticisms is Yahoo actually blasting Clint Eastwood’s presentation. Bottom line is that the low point of the entire convention was Yahoo’s Washington Correspondent making bad jokes about black people drowning while the other Yahoo/ABC journalists laughed. Neither Yahoo nor ABC would be advised to negatively critique anyone - but they will in this case for the simple reason that the best lines of the entire event were Eastwood’s. Yes, this is our country, the government DOES work for us and, since they can’t do the job - we WILL elect someone who can.
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