Posted on 09/01/2012 3:23:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When "Dirty Harry" interviewed "Invisible Obama" at the Republican convention Thursday night, Clint Eastwood gained a new kind of fame, as the butt of jokes all over the Twitter-verse.
"Idea for a cable drama: Clint Eastwood is a hard-boiled cop that sees his dead partner in every empty chair. It's called 'La-Z Boys in Blue,'"read one tweet.
"Give Clint Eastwood a break. ...The RNC asked him to speak about ObamaCare and he thought they said ObamaChair," read another.
The actor's mock interview of an empty chair purportedly representing President Obama turned into one of the most-talked-about events of the entire convention. Probably not in the way Eastwood or the GOP intended.
It had convention delegates and other Republicans alternately guffawing and scratching their heads. And it gave Democrats new ammunition heading into their own convention next week.
"Condescending talk down and ridicule of POTUS by white man makes Eastwood a great tea party icon," read another tweet.
Yet in the real world - Carmel-by-the-Sea, where the 82-year-old actor and former mayor is regarded more as a friendly neighbor than a big-shot movie star, the reaction was akin to a shrug.
"Hey, he's a nice guy who walks around town and talks to all the locals," said resident Ann Oggerino, 48, who works at a downtown gas station. "Nobody's going to hold anything against him."
The guy's a hit
On a night Republicans hoped the country would focus on presidential nominee Mitt Romney, San Francisco's Twitter said Eastwood came close to stealing the online show.
The third-biggest spike in Twitter traffic during the entire convention, behind speeches by Romney and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, was the 7,044 tweets per minute posted after Eastwood had his imaginary, sometimes funny, sometimes halting, on-stage conversation with an invisible Obama, represented by that empty chair.
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"How'd you like a punch in the face"
Clint Eastwood has spent his entire adult life acting, directing and producing motion pictures. His entire act at the RNC was as intended. He beat the living cr*p out of Obama with nothing but a smile and a gravelly whisper. Anyone who thinks otherwise is too dumb to know the difference.
“If they can’t get the job done, you just gotta let ‘em go!”
The empty chair dialogue comes from an acting exercise from acting school. The stammer, and talking and switching around is part of the technique.Jimmy Stewart used the technique as did many vaudeville actors.
Its quite a laugh that the Dem reviewers , who have so many actors who are leftists in the party, missed the finer points of acting that Clint Eastwood displayed in his delivery of his empty chair dialogue with Obama. It was actually quite brilliant.
That smarted big time. Make no mistake about it.Watch them try to get back at Eastwood during their own Dem Obama worship convention.
Watch them try to get back at Eastwood during their own Dem Obama worship convention.
That is a mistake I hope they make.
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