I know everyone has been trying very hard to put a positive spin on Clint’s speech, but to the people who don’t read FR, the speech was a disaster. Clint looked and sound like Jim from the tv show ‘Taxi’. He ate up time with his disjointed meanderings and so other speakers could not speak. The convention had to cut a biographical video that would of gone a long way to introducing and humanizing Mitt to the rest of the USA.
I’m all for trying to make the best of a bad situation, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that Clint hit one out of the park.
Really? It’s driving the left insane. By any measure, that’s “hitting it out of the park.”
As for his meanderings and eating up time, the teleprompter cut out-—he was winging it. And he could have taken even longer, as far as I’m concerned. The alternative probably would have been some speaker bleating that yes, women do matter and they work really hard. Or someone eager to show they could speak Spanish.
I’m all for trying to make the best of a bad situation, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that Clint hit one out of the park.
‘Bill Maher: Clint Eastwood ‘Killed’ With Empty Chair Performance’
Comedian Bill Maher may be an avid political and financial supporter of President Barack Obama, but he still found the rambling “sit down” that octogenarian Clint Eastwood gave the POTUS, via an empty chair at the RNC, funny, reports Politico.com.
The ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ host said that though he had no idea that Eastwood was such an “a**hole,” he “killed” his routine:
“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.
“People have been saying for years: these conventions are too scripted, they’re too slick, they’re too overproduced,” he added. “A guy who went up there who wasn’t slick … and killed with the crowd? I gotta give him props for that.”
http://newsone.com/2033655/bill-maher-clint-eastwood-rnc/
It wasn't just a homer, it was grand ridiculing slam !
I thought the speech was greatest political art in a long time; a masterpiece. There is no such thing as bad publicity and the more the liberals media politicizes it the better. You forget only a few million watch the conventions or even care outside of those who are politically loyal. I would prefer water-boarding to 5 minutes of the Democratic convention. A fluff piece to make a politician more human? Haa, haa.
Obama as an empty chair is resonating in tens of millions of people who did not watch the convention. It is burned in the subconscious of every independent voter in America. Do not underestimate art. If it was not so effective the main stream media wouldn’t be helping spread the story to millions more. They are being played for fools.
I watched it "Live" and, like many others, felt uneasy. His age, the hesitations and pauses, knowing that he was flying without a net and wondering if he would make some horrible mistake, had me sitting and sweating on the edge of my seat.
And when he finished up so strong I breathed a great sigh of relief.
However, now when you watch it via YouTube etc., knowing that everything will finish OK, a whole new light shines on it. It comes through as a sly and masterful performance all designed to do one thing...replace the current President.
Welcome to Free Republic newbie.
Are you kidding me? It was great.
It is only lefties who dislike it. It is honest, funny, creative, and reflectd reality.
He DID hit it out of the park.
YOU MUST BE KIDDING YOURSELF OR A PLANT....Eastwood’s face book page picked up 150,000 likes in 24 hours after the speech..HE connected BIGTIME!!!..No matter how it is spun ..the bell has rung..and that sound the liberal elite cannot take back...I heard him!!..America heard him!!..HELL, the rest of the world heard him LOUD and CLEAR!!
“If the person is not doing his job...it’s time to let him go!”
Lastly...from now to the election..every time Obama opens his mouth..people are gonna think “EMPTY CHAIR”!!!
When I heard him live I thought it was a series of disconnected, confused-sounding ramblings. I have watched and listened a few more times since then seen the reaction, and I think he hit it out of the park.
It was the most memorable speech of the convention, and there were some very good ones. The ridicule of obama as an empty chair with no way to defend his lack of accomplishments and spewing nasty curses will go a long way to cutting him down to human size. And the comments that we own the country, we hire the politicians anj we shouod fire them if they don’t do their jobs hit home.
“I’m all for trying to make the best of a bad situation, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that Clint hit one out of the park.”
He did.
I know everyone has been trying very hard to put a positive spin on Clint’s speech, but to the people who don’t read FR, the speech was a disaster. Clint looked and sound like Jim from the tv show ‘Taxi’. He ate up time with his disjointed meanderings
And who else do we know who stumbles and meanders when he doesn’t have his teleprompter to use as a crutch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of61E1FesPU
Eastwood may have been deliberately imitating obamas “uh” and “er” filled speeches.
It wasn’t a complicated skit and I really can’t understand anyone not getting it, even those who don’t read FR.
I’ll re-post my take:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2925460/posts
Saturday, September 01, 2012 4:15:39 PM · 24 of 41
Heart of Georgia to SeekAndFind
I thought it was a fantastic visual.
The empty chair represented to me the fact that
normal-thinking Americans have been ignored
for nearly 4 years.
The empty chair has ignored us regarding
obamacare, illegals, gay marriage, etc.
and all the while telling us to go
_____ ourselves (through surrogates
and in-your-face EOs).
Clint talked back to it and ridiculed it for us.
It was brilliant and I adore him for doing it.
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