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.”
Absolutely! This just about sums him up!!
Great interview...make sure you click on the link to read the ENTIRE piece...worth it. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing...
I want a T Shirt with a picture of Clint .
He is the best shooter in the conservative camp !
Better than Romney and probably also Ryan who are trying to play it falsely “fair” and “nice guys”....
He had no idea that overnight, a rebellion had erupted online against the media’s condemnation of him, with thousands of bloggers, Twitterers and commentators calling him, “a genius,” “1,000 times more brilliant than the media,” and saying he’s “only gotten better with age.”
Eastwood 'gets' the MSM too.. we've got a convert...
Was just going to post the same! Ward Bond - Wagon Train. You beat me to it. ;)
Clint tells all and he knows he’s our hero!
Praise God!
I agree with your assessment of the character of Gil Favor.
I grew up in the early 60’s and never missed an episode of Rawhide.
A couple of years ago I started buying Rawhide again through
Amazon. I’m up to the fourth season now.
Might I suggest The Virginian also...James Drury playing the part of The Virginian is almost as equal as Gil Favor.
Pretty close that is...
Strike one: “We built that”
Strike two: The empty Chair
Strike three: The Donkey Pokey...Ya put the Lord in...Ya take the Lord out. and boo and shout...(Leni wrote it but I can’t remember it all.)
Three strikes....Is God in charge and taking them out or what?
Rock Hudson was just an actor.
What he did in private was his own business. He hurt no-one but himself.
Rock Hudson’s hoax was a tiny matter in the grand scheme of things.
The American people have been subjected to much more significant hoaxes. I would put the entire environmental movement in there, plus the current global warming business, as the greatest hoax ever. Bigger than Obama by far.
Right about here is when I couldn't keep from almost all-out balling.
EXCELLENT!
Hurrah Clint! You are a man of courage and conviction; we will not be silent. What is to be said will be said!! what is to be kept silent, will be kept.
Instead of starting with HNOpe on my empty chair today, I think I'm starting with HOax.
Clint nails it again.
Under normal circumstances, I’d just like to meet Mr. Eastwood and shake his hand. Now I’d like to shake his hand and thank him for telling the media what many Americans have been saying for several years.
As much as I am ashamed to admit this, have a liberal relative who is all excited about going to see 0bama today at his campaign appearance. She said they will probably have to stand, because it will be so crowded.
I SHOULD HAVE SAID that there is sure to be an EMPTY CHAIR on stage. Too late. Also I was tempted to say something about another wasted day. But I say nothing to keep family peace.
You almost killed me. I was eating an apple and started to choke when I saw your picture.
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