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Play Clinty For Me
National Review Online - The Corner ^
| August 31, 2012
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 08/31/2012 12:32:00 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Human Events: "..........Its OK to dismiss the brutal slander of the Obama campaign with humor, as Clint did when Invisible Obama supposedly gave him profane insults to relay to Mitt Romney. The silly notion of Obama as a serene, cool, Spock-like figure floating above the political fray is gone forever, but Clint shoveled a little dirt on its grave with those jokes. The pained over-reaction of Obama defenders does them no credit, and will not serve them well in the election. Americans are a humorous people who value the ability to take a joke. A thin-skinned campaign that appears to be cracking walnuts with its clenched butt cheeks usually turns them off.
And its OK to let Obama go, as Eastwood said, in what I think will prove to be his most widely quoted line: When somebody does not do the job, youve got to let them go. The significance of that statement, coupled with the raspy straight-shooting delivery of Dirty Harry, should not be underestimated."..... John Hayward
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Eastwood was hilarious and people have to be seriously anal to not have noticed.
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posted on
08/31/2012 12:35:01 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
You have to have a sense of humor.
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Clint Eastwood was great.
The liberal press is just besides themselves. You can’t make fun of obama - you just can’t. He is too serious. He is above satire. He is the One. No one makes fun of the “One.”
Clint did in 15 minutes what SNL was afraid to do for 5 years.
And I foresee it will open the flood gates...
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posted on
08/31/2012 12:48:06 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
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posted on
08/31/2012 12:49:15 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Great point. Clint Eastwood is a pro, still at the top of his form. Nothing he did was accidental.
I was actually thinking—despite the desperate lefty attacks on him—that he kind of pulled some of his punches. He could have hit Obama even harder. But that probably wouldn’t have been as effective with the people he wanted to reach. And no one could call it a hate speech and retain any credibility.
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posted on
08/31/2012 12:50:35 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: jwalsh07
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posted on
08/31/2012 12:51:00 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
To the great audience of thinking individuals out there across America, Eastwood's keen political analysis was delivered and received loud and clear.
Today, on the networks and "progressive" social sites, subtlety and humor have been deliberately misrepresented by the media "talking heads" and Obama surrogates as senility and signs of deterioration.
Voters are not buying it though, and Seniors may wonder if this is how the "bureaucratic panels" of Obamacare will evaluate their intellect and mental acuity, once they're in charge of health care.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The gist of Clint's message: "Right turn, Clyde America"
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posted on
08/31/2012 12:58:48 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Taranto: "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.")
To: 2banana
To: 2banana
....You cant make fun of obama - you just cant. He is too serious. He is above satire. He is the One. No one makes fun of the One.He isn't smart enough to be funny or clever or original.
To: loveliberty2
....Voters are not buying it though, and Seniors may wonder if this is how the "bureaucratic panels" of Obamacare will evaluate their intellect and mental acuity, once they're in charge of health care. As well they should. Seniors LIKE Ryan!
To: Cicero
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Nothing he did was accidental. I agree.
To: MtnMan101
Today, on the networks and "progressive" social sites, subtlety and humor have been deliberately misrepresented by the media "talking heads" and Obama surrogates as senility and signs of deterioration.
These lefty "talking heads" are either ultra-stupid or ultra-dishonest. They can't be anything else. Either they were too uninformed about vaudeville comedy to know that the stammer/ramble technique is just that... a technique. Its used when ever any comedian pretends to talk to an imaginary person. Bob Newhart did it often pretending to talk on a phone with someone. Jimmy Stewart used to use a stammer as part of his comedic technique. IT WAS AN ACT!!! They have to be immensely stupid to not see that. Or more likely, they're being intentionally dishonest and they just hate that their ox was getting gored and they're just trying to destroy anyone who disses Obama.
To: NonValueAdded
To: Cincinatus' Wife
CNN and the mainstream media are now out to detroy him for poking fun of O and B.
To: jwalsh07
The fact is, some people ARE seriously anal, and it shows in their faces. They have this pained, pinched appearance to their faces any time something less that complimentary is said about their idol, and it is a traumatic thing to realize that not everybody shares their almost religious zealotry.
That was classic and vintage Eastwood up there on stage, ranking with some of his best “Dirty Harry” or “The Outlaw Josey Wales”.
Clint had that Gatling machine gun up, loaded, aimed, and firing away.
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posted on
08/31/2012 1:25:53 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Are you better off than you were four years ago? Well, are you?)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
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posted on
08/31/2012 1:30:15 PM PDT
by
Wolverine
(A Concerned Citizen)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
AMC is running a Clint Eastwood marathon all day Monday. Someone in programming is being taken out and shot, even as we speak type.
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08/31/2012 1:30:50 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Taranto: "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.")
To: Cincinatus' Wife
It was one of the best performances I've seen this year.
Though he may have been wearing that Bob Newheart/Jimmy Stewart impersonation, and he did it well enough that I kept thinking there was something familiar about it until I finally figured it out, it was clear enough he meant what he was saying.
I can forgive the Bronco Billy days. Every man has to find and break his limitations. Clint Eastwood is a master and that performance last night was just more of why. Some age well; Clint's obviously a bit better at it than most.
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08/31/2012 1:31:02 PM PDT
by
GBA
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