Clint Still Has the Guts that Punks Lack

Townhall.com ^ | September 3, 2012 | Shawn Mitchell

[loveliberty2]

Thanks, Kaslin. The writer properly recognizes that a President of the U. S.--whoever he/she is--doesn't immediately respond to what he/she and his/her team consider to be a second-rate "performance" by a senile 82-year-old man!

Further, all who have worked in the "conservative" movement for decades know for a fact that a primary tool of so-called "progressives" has been to ignore challenges to their ideology--believing that by ignoring, they delegitimized such challenges.

Yes, Eastwood made a real "mark," because he carefully dissected and exposed what has been camouflaged and ignored by the media hacks who now pass for journalists in America.

As an example, one wonders at the often self-described “intellectual” “progressives” who support an "elderly statesman" image of Biden’s Vice Presidency status while, about Clint Eastwood’s brilliant satire, they flocked to the TV cameras these past few days to offer faux “pity” and sincere criticisms of what they described as everything from senility to chants that his "sad" appearance of being a “doddering old fool.”

[lentulusgracchus]

Pundits suggest Clint was halting and lost his way. Maybe. But every time it seemed like that, he’d sharpen up and put a knife in Obama’s soft spots.

It begins to dawn on me that we who saw it live may have been privileged to witness one of the master political addresses of the 21st century. Rhetors may be teaching from this speech 120 years from now. And no, I don't think that's a reach.

[lentulusgracchus]

...about Clint Eastwood’s brilliant satire, they flocked to the TV cameras these past few days to offer faux “pity” ...

Check the Dana Milbank and Harold Evans threads currently running here in FR. Good examples.

[Gilbo_3]

Maybe I'm just not accounting for the cultural gap caused by the age differences. Folks my age and older [like Clint] INSTANTLY recognize Jimmy Stewart's style.

at 44, i didnt have anything in memory to compare the speech against...that said, although i believed at first look that Clint was *searching* for his words, even so, the effect was lightning once he uttered the 'knife twisting' line...

i guess Im old enuff and have the ability to *listen* to my elders in an attempt to gleen some wisdom from their experience...

If it was merely a staged performance, it was masterful in delivery...either way, the truth hurts the commie machine, and thats a good thing...