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Bill Maher: Eastwood 'killed' it
politico ^ | 9/1/12 | CAITLIN MCDEVITT

Posted on 09/01/2012 9:35:17 AM PDT by ColdOne

“As a performer, as a stand-up comedian for 30 years who knows how hard it is to get laughs, excuse me, he went up there … without a net, on a tightrope. There was no teleprompter. He did a bit with just an empty chair and killed,” Maher said. “He committed to it, it was consistent and it worked.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmaher; clinteastwood
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To: SaxxonWoods
If he gets the buses full of union thugs voting two or three times in Chicago, or the Panthers intimidating white older people trying to vote for the next election too, then most likely he will.

I hope enough are fed up enough to help get out the opposition vote - calling, helping get folks to the polls, etc.

We may not survive another round of him and his minions - not to mention his wife who thinks (erroneously) that she's another Jackie Kennedy!

101 posted on 09/01/2012 12:00:36 PM PDT by momf (Gun, mind, power shouldn't be followed by "control"!)
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To: momf

Ilinois is a lost cause no matter what.

It’s only when they bus the votes to Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin that it’s a problem.


102 posted on 09/01/2012 12:02:38 PM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: hitchwolf

You are an idiot. Eastwood killed Obama. That’s why all your fellow RAT idiots are trashing Clint.


103 posted on 09/01/2012 12:04:34 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: netmilsmom; Dr. Sivana
He is an actor. Given that he was supposed to have a teleprompter delivering his lines and said teleprompter fried out (conspiracy? /s/) or so the rumor goes, I think that 82 year old man did quite well.

Actually, he was delivering it just as the original actor (Jimmy Stewart) did.

Except Jimmy Stewart was talking to the invisible rabbit Harvey, while Clint was talking to an invisable pResident.

104 posted on 09/01/2012 12:06:42 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: hitchwolf

Even more proof to me Eastwood trolled all of us and was a plant.
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The way the mainstream media, Democrats and certain FReeper posters are reacting, I think they sense that Eastwood was a hit AND EFFECTIVE. He certainly got under the Messiah’s skin.

Do have some degree of practice at trolling and being a plant?


105 posted on 09/01/2012 12:07:15 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Dr. Sivana
if so, even better... i read earlier that it was inop
106 posted on 09/01/2012 12:07:41 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ColdOne

He killed it? I don’t think so, but what would this idiot Maher know about being funny.

If Eastwood had not been performing in front of an audience who wanted so much to cheer him on, he probably would have been booed.

He pulled it out at the end, but, lordy, it was painful to watch. What’s more, it did not have to be that way. He had all sorts of help at his disposal.


107 posted on 09/01/2012 12:07:45 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: netmilsmom

Teleprompter or no, what professional performer would not go in with back up notes?

I found it painful to watch.

However, the net effect was good. And I do, BTW, have an empty stool out on the front lawn, next to my Romney lawn sign.


108 posted on 09/01/2012 12:12:03 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Momto2
I am a little out of it today - had to put my 14 year old dog to sleep this a.m. :(

I was scrolling down through the comments on this thread and came to yours. What a sad day for you. I hope you have people to help you through the grief.

109 posted on 09/01/2012 12:17:12 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: chessplayer

Thanks for asking. I try not to read anything about this crass person and would not have read through the article if you hadn’t posted to me.

I was talking about the first part, where he gave Eastwood “props”. It did make me suspicious and now I realize why. He was setting up his usual vulgar putdown routine for anyone who disagrees with him.

There’s a reason I try to avoid these threads. I feel like I stepped in a huge pile of maher and will never be able to scrape it off my shoe.


110 posted on 09/01/2012 12:18:12 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia ("Together we will unite America and get this done" - Paul Ryan - August 11, 2012)
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To: loveliberty2
So from now on, we can say Obama talks like Eastwood. Or Obama is giving us an Eastwood delivery. I'd love to see Schmekels face when Greg tell him that (on The Five).; )
111 posted on 09/01/2012 12:21:16 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. TY)
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To: opentalk
One big TY! : )

I was looking for that!

112 posted on 09/01/2012 12:25:12 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. TY)
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To: ColdOne

No one with good sense in Hollywood is going to get on the bad side of Clint Eastwood....not even in support of the Kenyan!!!


113 posted on 09/01/2012 12:27:45 PM PDT by ontap
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To: hitchwolf

Clints spot gave Mitt a net 16pct increase of the undecideds. I bet barry doesnt want anymore “plants/trolls” like Clint lol


114 posted on 09/01/2012 12:30:33 PM PDT by italianquaker ( 17 percent of the tea partiers support barry obama, the fox poll said so lol)
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To: Momto2
I am so sorry to hear that.

You may want to see post 79. Jimmy Stewart wrote a very touching poem about his dog Beau and read it out on The Johnny Carson Show. There was not a dry eye in the country that night. : (

115 posted on 09/01/2012 12:31:31 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. TY)
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To: Momto2

Sorry to hear about your dog.


116 posted on 09/01/2012 12:38:57 PM PDT by ChowChowFace
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To: logitech

He multi-tasks.


117 posted on 09/01/2012 12:59:45 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Harry Reid [PERVERT-NV] has Vickie-the-goat in lingerie & stiletto heels, tied-up in his office.)
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To: netmilsmom

“I want to see BO do better”

Right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of61E1FesPU


118 posted on 09/01/2012 1:03:33 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Harry Reid [PERVERT-NV] has Vickie-the-goat in lingerie & stiletto heels, tied-up in his office.)
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To: comebacknewt
Funny thing about "weird", it is usually more memorable than "normal". If Clint Eastwood had given a nice normal speech moving his eyes back and forth between functioning teleprompter screens following the lines written for him by some speech writing drone no one would have given him a second glance. Polite applause, a few chuckles at some lame joke lines, and a few tears for a cinema icon living on the backside of 80.

Instead he created an unforgettable metaphor for the entirety of the Obama presidency and struck a nerve that made every Liberal in America wince in pain and outrage. All with a smile and in the halting cadence of a wise elder best known for sending bad guys to their reward with a hand cannon and most recently for shooing low lifes off his lawn with an M1 rifle.

And you just know that they (or at least the designated "Intellect of the Democratic Party") won't be able to resist the temptation to mention his performance in the most disparaging terms possible at this week's convention, thus reinforcing the image countless times.

119 posted on 09/01/2012 1:28:57 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: black_diamond

It took me a little bit longer. About half way through, when he was talking about bringing the troops back home tomorrow, and said: “We’ll have to have a little chat about that,” it occurred to me - Wow, he’s doing Jimmy Stewart.


120 posted on 09/01/2012 1:45:25 PM PDT by rwa265
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