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Bill Maher: Eastwood 'killed' it
politico ^ | 9/1/12 | CAITLIN MCDEVITT

Posted on 09/01/2012 9:35:17 AM PDT by ColdOne

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To: ColdOne

This may be the only time I agree with Maher.

Even if you didn’t like the speech/skit, it took a lot of guts to commit to it and get up there and actually do it.


21 posted on 09/01/2012 9:52:55 AM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: MNJohnnie

Bingo... dead center of target.

LLS


22 posted on 09/01/2012 9:53:12 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: Dr. Sivana
A smooth delivery would have greatly lessened its impact. Eastwood is a brilliant actor/director who knows his craft. Clint may have physically lost a step or two but his brain and acting ability are still firing on all cylinders.
23 posted on 09/01/2012 9:53:14 AM PDT by JPG (Make it happen.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

>>I know this is a tier 1 veteran actor/director, and expected a smoother delivery.<<

He is not a stand up comedian. He is an actor. Given that he was supposed to have a teleprompter delivering his lines and said teleprompter fried out (conspiracy? /s/) or so the rumor goes, I think that 82 year old man did quite well. He went up cold. Imagine rehearsing your lines knowing that you had teleprompter back up and suddenly having to deliver without. Hellsbells, I’ve done the readings at church and messed up worse than Eastwood did.

I want to see BO do better.

AND as one bright FReeper said, it took Akin out of the headlines.


24 posted on 09/01/2012 9:53:25 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: ColdOne
...totally disagreed with what Eastwood said in the speech

So does Maher think the timeline on Afghanistan withdrawal is a good idea? That Gitmo should remain open even though Obama promised to close it? What exactly does Maher disagree with?

25 posted on 09/01/2012 9:54:48 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Now that is awesome to hear!!!! They will continue to overreach bashing an elderly American icon, who served in the military in which he survived a plane crash, Korean war veteran, mayor, producer, director, spokesman, State park commissioner, Film commissioner, academy award winner, and lastly actor and now stand up comedian.

Keep at pilgrims. They are making my day by going overboard against an icon.


26 posted on 09/01/2012 9:55:50 AM PDT by commonguymd (New media has not replaced the MSM. It has emboldened it. twitter @commonguymd)
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To: hitchwolf

Looks like your post is “even more proof” that you are a troll and a plant. The first proof was the first post on Eastwood, the second proof was your second, etc.


27 posted on 09/01/2012 9:56:45 AM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: MNJohnnie
You can tell how effective it is by how hysteric the Leftist propaganda bots in the Media are about it.

Bingo! The genius of Eastwood's performance didn't fully hit me until the next morning, when I realized that all the feigned stammering and rambling forced viewers to listen carefully, and focused undivided attention to the softly, almost reluctantly stated words that followed. "We own this country... They are our employees... You got to let them go." By the time those words were delivered, everyone was paying rapt attention - and his words landed like sledge hammers. The Left is screaming because it hurts.

28 posted on 09/01/2012 9:59:28 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: ColdOne; All
There was no teleprompter. Yes there was, but it was used by the chair.
29 posted on 09/01/2012 10:00:43 AM PDT by Lattero
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To: ColdOne

Maher is a comedian? I don’t think so. Marxists are never funny.


30 posted on 09/01/2012 10:03:42 AM PDT by albie
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To: ColdOne
Thanks for posting the article.
It brings up a MISSED POINT.

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“As a performer, as a stand-up comedian for 30 years who knows how hard it is to get laughs, excuse me, he went up there … without a net, on a tightrope. There was no teleprompter. He did a bit with just an empty chair and killed,”

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AHHHHHH, but there WAS a TELEPROMPTER. Not just ONE but two, and ALMOST EVERYONE MISSED IT. They, like the chair, were a prop and part of the skit.


31 posted on 09/01/2012 10:05:18 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( Lame and ill-informed post)
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32 posted on 09/01/2012 10:05:25 AM PDT by devolve (------- --- GO AHEAD - MAKE MY DAY --------- ------------- ----- ------------)
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To: hitchwolf

“Even more proof to me Eastwood trolled all of us and was a plant.”

You’ve been here such a short time. I wonder what the rest of your posting record looks like.


33 posted on 09/01/2012 10:05:28 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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To: ColdOne

I never thought I’d agree with Maher on anything. I don’t understand all the crap being put out there about Eastwood’s performance. It took me all of about 20 seconds to conclude he was playing it like a scene from “Harvey” (the one-man play with Jimmy Stewart and an imaginary rabbit) and using/imitating Jimmy Stewart’s speaking style.


34 posted on 09/01/2012 10:05:45 AM PDT by black_diamond
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To: ColdOne

Now why would this goofball say ANYthing remotely positive? He has an ulterior motive.


35 posted on 09/01/2012 10:06:13 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia ("Together we will unite America and get this done" - Paul Ryan - August 11, 2012)
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To: V_TWIN

“She’s my daughter......she’s my sister.....”


36 posted on 09/01/2012 10:06:36 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: logitech

Bill Mahr is a walking marital aid


37 posted on 09/01/2012 10:08:45 AM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: hitchwolf

Monday, August 27, 2012 10:36:00 AM · 122 of 156
hitchwolf to CaptainK

Well this is terrible but not surprising to me.

I’ve taken a lot of heat here for this, but I am sticking to my opinion that I think Obama is going to win. There are many people who like sitting on their fat behinds all day collecting government checks.

I hate thinking it but I do. Obama is going to win.

___________________

There you go, folks. A Moby in full flower.


38 posted on 09/01/2012 10:09:09 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clint Eastwood masterfully unmasked Obama, but the left missed the subtleties


The nuance experts missed the subtleties? But how can that be?


39 posted on 09/01/2012 10:10:28 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Dr. Sivana
For my part I found it painful, moreso because I know this is a tier 1 veteran actor/director, and expected a smoother delivery.

So.... you missed the subtleties as well ?

I had the same problem. I thought it was Clint having problems staying on focus. It wasn't. He was imitating Obama's tendency to wander and blather. Try listening to it again, and maybe you'll see he knew exactly what he was saying and doing.

As I said on another thread, Eastwood was mimicking Obama's speech patterns, and the MEDIA proclaimed Eastwood was acting like he was demented (feeble minded). What does that tell ya ?

40 posted on 09/01/2012 10:10:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( Lame and ill-informed post)
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