Posted on 09/02/2012 2:24:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Clint Eastwood got one thing right during his senior moment at the Republican convention: Hollywood isn’t all liberal. The first time Clint gained serious press attention in national politics was 1972, when he was invited by President Richard Nixon to attend his nominating convention in Miami. Nixon was a movie buff who understood the power of Hollywood. In 72, he wanted to use specific celebrity endorsements to shape the way that the public understood him. He wanted Democrats like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr to show that he was a centrist and he wanted Old Hollywood to evoke nostalgia for a happier, more traditional age. When Nixon held a meet-and-greet for actors at his West coast mansion, one guest called it “a cocktail party at the Hollywood wax museum.”
Commentators at the time were sniffy about Nixon’s Hollywood strategy precisely because its choice of symbols seemed so passé. The 1970s are remembered for experimental liberal film making – Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, All The President’s Men etc. The hot talent of the time was Left-leaning, even hippie – Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Warren Beatty. But Nixon understood that movie politics is just as diverse as its many genres. Individual movies can be interpreted in multiple ways. The Godfather was meant as an attack on hyper-masculinity and even a parody of Nixon, but it became part of a revival of white ethnic nostalgia. It could be argued that the Corleone family’s patriarchy offers a seductive alternative to bureaucratic welfarism.
Moreover, different people watch different sorts of movies. The early 1970s might be best remembered by historians for the radical current in Hollywood, but audiences also flocked to see movies that protested 1960s liberalism.....
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I think they are concerned More Hollywood figures will also voice concerns about Obama, so they have to deter them by bashing Clint.
The viral video clip is hitting an audience and that didn't watch convention. This is a big plus for GOP.
The Left is certainly making our day.
LLS
If they’d only get off our lawn.
Maybe he’s ‘taking the bullet’ a la “Gran Torino” so the others who cower in fear might step forward with courage.
Spooky.
He “pantsed” him in prime time.
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Is that like a wedgie?
How Branding Sold America on Obama
The Clint talk --empty chair image was a direct hit to all of the effort in branding Obama.
Worse...it’s yanking somebody’s drawers down around their feet.
;D
Thank you.
I will hop on over there and read it.
:)
This was a career ending move. Now, at his age, that doesn't matter as much, but he will loose parts for it. He will also start to draw flak from the right for his liberal views on gays, abortion, etc.
I don't really know why he did it, other than he must REALLY hate Obamma
Thanks. My education was lacking in that subject. :)
Anyone who loves this country feels the same way as Clint Eastwood.
Supporting our loyal ally Israel would a true conservative act of courage. Don’t expect such moral leadership from evil Obama.
I watch “The Big Bang Theory”.
I now know of many ‘nerd humiliation tactics’.
LOL
Like many who served in the armed forces and grew up with depression era memories, Eastwood has seen unemployment and what it does to the country. I think his plea was simply based on who will do best for providing jobs to Americans.
If you begin to realize the Left is comprised of cults it makes more sense. Cults draw in members with promises of utopia, beat down its recruits with guilt and shame and mostly retains its members via fear.
Yep... he pulled those drawers right up over those jug ears.
LLS
Yes, indeed. What a difference a few years makes.
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