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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: ColdOne

Maher? As if more than 217 people still cared...


41 posted on 09/01/2012 10:10:55 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Americans want what Americans always wanted: Better lives for families; little government authority.)
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To: KarlInOhio
But Rachel Maddow said it was a disaster.

What she meant was Eastwood's speech was over her head.

42 posted on 09/01/2012 10:11:24 AM PDT by oyez ( .Apparently The U.S. CONSTITUTION has been reduced to the consistency of quicksand.)
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To: pallis
“...There was no teleprompter.”

None for Clint, TWO for the empty chair.

43 posted on 09/01/2012 10:11:47 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:26:34 PM · 11 of 56
hitchwolf to Howard Morrison

Well I’m from New York and would never leave it.

Whatever floats your boat I guess.


44 posted on 09/01/2012 10:12:16 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Wait a minute! Romney doesn't suck? I'm trying to keep up.)
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To: albie

“Maher is a comedian? I don’t think so. Marxists are never funny.”

The whimsy of tyranny. Marxism and Maher, both, are f’n jokes.


45 posted on 09/01/2012 10:14:03 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: ColdOne

Lefties are now claiming that when Eastwood did that finger slash across his throat he was sending a message that obama should be assassinated. So look for that meme to catch on.


46 posted on 09/01/2012 10:14:34 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: houeto; hitchwolf
You got a mouse in your pocket?


47 posted on 09/01/2012 10:16:20 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:34:40 AM · 38 of 70
hitchwolf to Happy Valley Dude

Sometimes I wonder if some of you even know what you’re all talking about, or are just more willing to defend the flavor of the month.

Rubio is right to attack Newt here. Newt has advocated a liberal position. To me, THAT is the RINO.


48 posted on 09/01/2012 10:16:34 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Wait a minute! Romney doesn't suck? I'm trying to keep up.)
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To: MNJohnnie

News 4 Tucson Online Poll
Whether they loved it or hated it, many people are talking about Clint Eastwood’s surprise speech Thursday at the Republican National Convention.

Did you like the speech?

Yes
1587 votes
93.4%

No
112 votes
6.6%


49 posted on 09/01/2012 10:17:14 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: SaxxonWoods; hitchwolf

I guess hitchwolf doesn’t like the fact that Eastwood was brilliant and effective. My conclusion is that hitchwolf is either dense or a troll.


50 posted on 09/01/2012 10:17:38 AM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: ColdOne

Clint said everything but “A man’s got to know his limitations.”

—The line that makes “Magnum Force” worth watching.


51 posted on 09/01/2012 10:19:00 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Dr. Sivana; ColdOne
The Dem "talking heads" and surrogates just can't bring themselves to acknowledge that the entire world "got" Eastwood's message loud and clear--and they have nowhere to hide.

Agree, too, with Applegateranch's comments on another thread about the genius of Eastwood's use of his object's own "egregious speech pattern," commonly referred to by pseudointellectual "progressives" as a sign of Obama's great intellect and deliberative style. Now, Eastwood's use of it, with "progressives" (an entire set of "empty chairs" when it comes to understanding and defending the ideas of freedom, such a "deliberate" and halting style denotes everything from senility to "doddering fool."

Another gem was his use of a former President's assessment of Romney's "stellar business performance" in this total unmasking of the great destroyer of business in America.

From Geraldo Rivera on FOX to Gloria Borger on CNN, the faux criticism and claims that Eastwood distracted from the Romney speech and Borger's claim that parts were "crass" are laughable when compared with much of the Dem performer language and inferences.

This was a priceless and iconic performance which will live on, long after Eastwood is gone, and Obama is a distant memory in the rearview mirror of presidents.

52 posted on 09/01/2012 10:20:04 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: palmer

Moby Concern Troll is the term.


53 posted on 09/01/2012 10:20:32 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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To: ColdOne

Damn. I misread the title. I thought it said “Bill Maher: Eastwood Killed Him”.


54 posted on 09/01/2012 10:22:51 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: black_diamond
It took me all of about 20 seconds to conclude he was playing it like a scene from “Harvey”

I was watching it on TV (which kept skipping on sound and video) and then tried watching it on the Internet(CSPAN) (which kept skipping on sound and video). It wasn't until later when I could watch uploaded videos of it that I got the 'shtick'

55 posted on 09/01/2012 10:23:25 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: hitchwolf
Even more proof to me Eastwood trolled all of us and was a plant.

A plant?? Only the dims do that. They had Sandra the fluke and debbie blabbermouth sneak into the convention. I say you are a troll.

56 posted on 09/01/2012 10:23:39 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (RINO season is open. No limit. Make them extinct.)
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To: Heart of Georgia

Now why would this goofball say ANYthing remotely positive? He has an ulterior motive.


Maher- “I knew he was a Republican,” Maher said. “But I thought [he was] kind of an old-school, reasonable Republican. I had no idea he was such a down the line, right-wing a-—hole.”

That sounds like an ulterior motive?


57 posted on 09/01/2012 10:26:05 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: ColdOne

At first I thought his remark that we should “possibly” elect someone new was sabotage.. Then, it occurred to me that this passive overture COULD appeal to a wavering liberal, nudging them towards Romney.


58 posted on 09/01/2012 10:27:37 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Dr. Sivana

He IS 82 years old...


59 posted on 09/01/2012 10:28:29 AM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: Dr. Sivana
For my part I found it painful, moreso because I know this is a tier 1 veteran actor/director, and expected a smoother delivery.

That was part and parcel of the presentation....

Do you honestly believe that Eastwood...with all his decades of top work as actor and director would come on a set with his hair all fluffed if he didn't tell his make up artist how he wanted it...and his portrayal of an old geezer from someone as smart as a tack and quick as a cobra....?

Game Set and Match to Clint

60 posted on 09/01/2012 10:29:02 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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