Yes, apparently so. The New York Times hasn't stopped sniffing and sniveling since the speech. Herewith their Saturday snivel-sniff:
http://tinyurl.com/8nvxoaps
Friday Mark Halperin of TIME magazine (yes, that's "Mark-Son-of-Traitor-Mort", as in Halperin) delivered a crack on PBS's convention coverage (and repeated it on Charlie Rose an hour or so later) about Clint's empty-chair gig being "a Bayonne dinner-club routine". Snippy-snippy-snit-snit! Pissed Mark off, old Clint did. Guuuuuuud!
Clint Eastwood is a global icon.
He has more personal stature than any of his detractors could even hope to accumulate in 3 lifetimes.
Let’s ask him if he cares.
:)