Right rallies for 'Empty Chair Day' - AFSCME president Lee Saunders kicks "Eastwood" chair off stage

Politico ^ | TIM MAK and JUANA SUMMERS

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The right rallied on Labor Day to celebrate “National Empty Chair Day,” a show of solidarity with Clint Eastwood after his infamous address to an invisible President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention last week.

...Notable conservatives like Michelle Malkin and writers at Breitbart.com, as well blogger Prof. Glenn Reynolds, kicked off the trend, according to the conservative blog Legal Insurrection.

The blog, which had asked readers to send in photos of empty chairs, updated its post midday to say that the response had been so overwhelming — and the backlog of photos so great — that they were forced to close submissions.

....Meanwhile, #Eastwooding — which was trending on Twitter last week after the Hollywood icon’s speech, and refers to an address to an empty chair — has arrived at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

....AFSCME president Lee Saunders, capping off a fiery speech to the Wisconsin delegation Monday morning, held a conversation with an invisible Eastwood.

“Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry, make my day,” Saunders yelled, knocking the empty chair off of the stage....

[1_Rain_Drop]

weird thing is, I had the thought of putting an empty chair on my front porch yesterday BEFORE I knew there was an empty chair day coming up. It’s almost as if we all were thinking the same thing simultaneously.

The Tea Party started as suddenly as this chair thing did.

[TheOldLady]

That was impossibly perfect.

It is a sterling silver, lovely example of the difference between conservative Republicans and violent, insane, thuggish, communist, any-means-necessary, union Demwits.

Did Mr. Eastwood kick “O’Bozo” around or off the stage? No, he just spoke to “him.”

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lee Saunders for showing the whole world what is in your heart and the evil methods you use to attain your America-hating objectives.