[Obadiah]

My take on Clint Esatwood’s appearance was that it was stunningly successful. Yeah, you weren't quite sure where he was going and that kept you on the edge of your seat, but the effect of what Eastwood did cannot be overstated.

Eastwood's remarks had the effect of an actor breaking the fourth wall in a movie, only in this case, Clint broke the fourth wall in politics. Eastwood made it acceptable to ridicule Obama and to acknowledge that Obama is a failure.

In all the protestations you heard about Clint Eastwood's remarks not one person — not one — called Clint Eastwood a racist.

Clint Eastwood broke the fourth wall in politics and Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan ought to be ever grateful because Clint Eastwood's remarks broke the dam that will lead to the landslide in November.

[Lazamataz]

You put it quite well.

[Kirkwood]

“In all the protestations you heard about Clint Eastwood’s remarks not one person — not one — called Clint Eastwood a racist.”

When people use the phrase “angry old white man” instead of saying angry old man, you can be sure there is racism. They maybe didn’t have the courage to call Eastwood a racist to his face, but the implication is still there.

[taildragger]

Even more so, for years he has been the iconic one liner guy verbally eviserating the bad guys with with the likes of "do you feel lucky punk?" So much so others do it too, Willis, Ahhhnold etc.

But with his iconic status, he could verbally gobsmack Obama and get away with it, no one else could, what we had the the duplex complexity of is this the actor talking or a conservative in his off time saying this? Either way it was so out of the box it sent the likes of Maddow for a loop... IMHO It was his metaphorical Dirty Harry calling the anointed one a punk, just like he has been telling bad guys what he thinks for years in so many ways...