Posted on 09/07/2012 7:13:32 AM PDT by NYer
Indeed he is.
After a week as topic No. 1 in American politics, former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians after his appearance at the Republican National Convention last Thursday night, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter and in the blogosphere, is all the proof anybody needs that his 12-minute discourse achieved exactly what he intended it to.
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”
For five days after he thrilled or horrified the nation by talking to an empty chair representing Obama on the night Mitt Romney accepted the Republican nomination for president, Eastwood remained silent while pundits and critics debated whether his remarks, and the rambling way he made them, had helped or hurt Romney’s chances of winning in November.
But in a wide-ranging interview with The Pine Cone Tuesday, he said he had conveyed the messages he wanted to convey, and that the spontaneous nature of his presentation was intentional, too.
“I had three points I wanted to make,” Eastwood said. “That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.”
I agree!!
You don’t have to be ashamed. Annoyed will do.
If they talk back and try to convert everyone in the room you can't just let them have free rein anymore....look where its gotten us?
I stopped keeping the peace when the occasional liberal in my universe would make an NPR-Induced comment about Bush
I really wish I was still living in Ohio.....I could have put my Empty Chair out in front of my old house and really given my Zombie Eyed Transplant Neighbor from "Merryland" a heart attack!
Not wishing ill even for the most stupid, (read liberal democrats here - although its really a struggle for me on some days) in this terrible economy has been knowing that these same idiots had decided to retire two years into this depression based presidency. They let it slip once that a lot of their retirement is wrapped up in that house.
When I went back a month ago they still hadn't sold it and every house BUT mine that was for sale 18 months ago was still on the market.... I wonder how their "Saviors" presidency has been working out for them?
Like Eastwood’s follow up statement, kind of “Don’t back up, reload” mode, heard that somewhere before :)
It is disappointing to learn this is what he believes..
"Eastwood is a liberal on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion,....."
Excellant!
After seing the dem convention, anyone still criticizing Clint Eastwood are themselves certifiable. You might never see such a conglomeration of loons in one place ever, ever again. Oh, Lord we pray.
Excellent! Thank you very much!
Oh yeah. Not only certifiable, but anti-American!
We continue to pray!
GOOD to see you, dearest azishot!!!
Joe Biden has three little words for you:
Game Cameras
“They vett most of the people, but I told them, ‘You can’t do that with me, because I don’t know what I’m going to say,’” Eastwood recalled.
“It was supposed to be a contrast with all the scripted speeches, because I’m Joe Citizen,” Eastwood said. “I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.”
...all Eastwood could tell Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, and his aides, was “to reassure them that everything I would say would be nice about Mitt Romney.”
But even then, with just an hour before he appeared on stage, it still hadn’t occurred to Eastwood to use an empty chair as a stand-in for the president.
“There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” Eastwood said. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.”
He asked a stagehand to take it out to the lectern while he was being announced.
He also said he was aware he hesitated and stumbled a bit, but said “that’s what happens when you don’t have a written-out speech.”
God Bless Him!!
Rush just talked about this very article.
Three little words.
LOL!
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