"Talk to the chair!"
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Posted on 09/01/2012 10:30:45 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Obama’s spokesman derided Clint Eastwood for his remarks at the Republican National Convention, in which Eastwood made a series of jokes at the president’s expense by pretending to conduct an interview with Obama while only talking to an empty chair.
“I wasn’t quite sure what I was watching,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said yesterday of Eastwood’s performance. He prefaced that dismissal by saying, “I’m a huge fan and admirer of Clint Eastwood’s work, both as a director and an actor.”
Eastwood made several jokes at Obama’s expense and that of Vice President Joe Biden (whom he called “a grin with a body behind it) during a skit that ended with a statement explaining why he thinks the president — whom Eastwood was excited to see inaugurated in 2008 — should lose his reelection bid.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Ooohh, methinks some people on the left are rather thin-skinned. It seems that Dirty Harry has struck a nerve.
Thus far, Mr. Eastwood's use of Clinton's "stellar business performance" has either slid by unnoticed or is being ignored by Clint's Demo critics.
I heard it the first time by and thought that this is a very well thought out "bumbling" skit.
Small men, weak men, feel they have to react to every slight, real or just perceived. Poor leaders are always looking behind them to see if they are still being followed.
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Good Lord he is so sexy in that picture.
Hey, the TOTUS and Michelle Obama’s Mirror have a friend now!
Empty Chair has it’s own blog!
http://emptychairoftheus.blogspot.com/
Hopefully the entire Obama crowd, and its legacy of dishonesty and mediocrity, will be gone in five months.
LOL!
"Talk to the chair!"
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Play Clinty For Me
By Mark Steyn
August 31, 2012 3:08 P.M.
Like William F. Gavin, I hugely enjoyed Clint Eastwood’s turn last night, but I’m not sure I agree that it was “unintentionally hilarious” and that “he forgot his lines, lost his way.” Clint is a brilliant actor, and a superb director of other actors (and I don’t just mean a quarter-century ago: In the last five years, he’s directed eight films). He’s also, as Mr. Gavin observed, a terrific jazz improviser at the piano — and, in film and music documentaries, an extremely articulate interviewee. So I wouldn’t assume that the general tenor of his performance wasn’t exactly as he intended. The hair was a clue: No Hollywood icon goes out on stage like that unless he means to.
John Hayward writes:
The intended recipient was not Mitt Romney, the convention delegates, or even Republican voters, but rather wavering independents. Clint was there to tell them it’s OK to find Obama, his ugly campaign operation, and his increasingly shrill band of die-hard defenders ridiculous. It’s OK to laugh at them.
I’m not sure he could have pulled that off if he’d delivered a slick telepromptered pitch.
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/315658
Steyn and Hayward nailed it. That’s exactly what Clint was doing. And it appears to have worked.
Obama attacks Navy Seals
Obama attacks Clint Eastwood
What’s next on his list?
Mom and Apple Pie?
“I wasn’t quite sure what I was watching,”
That’s because you never saw the Jimmy Stewart movie “Harvey,” Jay. If you had, you would have known you were witnessing a brilliant parody of that film’s main character, Elwood P. Dowd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKECvqSVWPA
The Charge: Ridicule without a federal permit
Yes, Clint knew exactly what he was doing.
Saul Alinsky Rule 5:"Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
You know that Obama can’t get that brilliant bit of theater out of his mind. I love it!
A smart administration wouldn’t have even commented on it. The fact that they have speaks volumes of how badly it got under their skin.
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