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CNBC's Harwood: Eastwood Speech 'Big Blunder, Big Set-Back For Romney'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/08/2012 7:10:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Guess John Harwood was feeling lucky today. CNBC's chief Washington correspondent went on the Today show and boldly proclaimed that not only did Clint Eastwood not accomplish his mission with his RNC speech, but that the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as "a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney."

Harwood did not adduce a scintilla of evidence in support of his contention that the speech hurt Romney. And his universe of pundits apparently does not include people like Jonah Goldberg or Mark Steyn.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinteastwood; johnharwood; rnc; todayshow
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To: BenLurkin
Either he doesn’t get it yet, or he is pretending to not get it.

Liberals consider themselves the ultimate arbiter of what is hip. They are the trend setters and they and only they can say when you have "it" and when you don't.

But when a megawatt celebrity like Eastwood turns the table on them, they look very irrelevant by comparison.

21 posted on 09/08/2012 7:29:37 AM PDT by oldbrowser (An empty chair attracts a stadium full of empty chairs.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

John Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Harwood roams clueless in the rat maze.


22 posted on 09/08/2012 7:30:00 AM PDT by JPG (Make it happen.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals are cowardly animals, usually preying on the weak and defenseless, striking out only when cornered.

Hardwood is such a creature, striking out when feeling threatened.

Eastwood has broken the bubble of ridicule that surrounds Obama, throwing his Alinsky rules right back at him.

The “palace guards” (media) is doing all they can to protect the “emperor”, but one you lose your grip, you’re going to slide on down that hill.

Thanks Clint, you’ve opened the door for Obama to leave through when we “let him go” in November.


23 posted on 09/08/2012 7:30:00 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well Harwood, Mr. Eastwood's "stunt" is still being talked about today, which means 0bama is still being mocked two weeks later.

Seems like Mr. Eastwood accomplished his purpose, right John?

5.56mm

24 posted on 09/08/2012 7:30:21 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Of course it was a big blunder.

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That is why the Media/Dems are still talking about it over a week later.

The only thing they have to talk about from the Dem Convention was the speech by former President and Impeached BJ Clinton.


25 posted on 09/08/2012 7:32:53 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The only people that I saw have a hissy fit over Eastwood was MSNBC. They really blew their top and that acted koo kOO over the whole thing.


26 posted on 09/08/2012 7:33:39 AM PDT by snowstorm12
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To: PeaRidge

You can buy them here:

http://www.cafepress.com/+empty-chair+bumper-stickers


27 posted on 09/08/2012 7:34:57 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Having watched only snippets of both conventions, as I suspect most folks did, no one sat through it all. I came away with only two standout (message) moments to easily recall,

1) I now equate our current president as an empty chair and can easily accept that analogy without having ever thought about it before, it rings true without requiring much convincing, even to a causal observer,

2) The other message is the DNC leaders ‘booed’ God and hate Jerusalem unless allah rules over it,

So who was it that really ‘blundered’ in getting their message heard, the RNC or DNC?


28 posted on 09/08/2012 7:36:11 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: PeaRidge

I love the picture going around the Internet showing a military helicopter with our heroes looking down at an empty chair dangling from the chopper. LOL


29 posted on 09/08/2012 7:36:36 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
“...the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as “a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney.”

Wow, he really got under their skin. Bravo, Clint!

30 posted on 09/08/2012 7:39:05 AM PDT by LaserJock
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To: SauronOfMordor
yep!

bulls eye!

liberals only squeal when you hit them dead on.

31 posted on 09/08/2012 7:40:38 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clint mocked obama as the nobody twerp communist that he is, and fired him. Thin skin obma is seething.


32 posted on 09/08/2012 7:41:37 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: captmar-vell

That sums it up well. I’m looking for a landslide come Nov. 6...


33 posted on 09/08/2012 7:42:16 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (I'm starting a business. Who's going to build it for me?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
When Nixon was elected, New York film critic Pauline Kael famously was shocked and sniffed, "No one I know voted for him!"

The elites truly believe that their arrogance and self-serving opinions trump reality.

34 posted on 09/08/2012 7:43:07 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Democrats - The Treasonous Pervert Party)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Translation: He hit a bullseye!

Pray for America


35 posted on 09/08/2012 7:44:48 AM PDT by bray (If you vote for a communist what does that make you?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clint seems to be very much alive and living in Harwood’s head. If it was such a blunder, he would have kept his mouth shut and let it go away.

Just proves that all lefties lie when they speak.


36 posted on 09/08/2012 7:47:11 AM PDT by Big Mack (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat VEGETABLES!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
So it's been over a week and the press is still obsessing on the empty chair speech trying to convince people it was a blunder. ROTF Every time the MSM mentions it, people search for the video, all they are doing is keeping the image in the minds of their viewers. I want them to keep talking about it. Empty Chair Pictures, Images and Photos
37 posted on 09/08/2012 7:48:04 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"political professionals"

there you go...

38 posted on 09/08/2012 7:53:57 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does anybody remember when Harwood went begging and crying to his Network not to publish the stories of his “Boinking” WA Dem. Senator Maria Cantwell?


39 posted on 09/08/2012 7:54:19 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What was so sweet about Clint Eastwoods’ performance is that he did indeed turn Alinsky’s rules against Obama for the first time. He ridiculed Obama in front of a national audience - something that up until then had not been done. The liberal DNC mouthpieces are to stupid to understand Clint’s approach. He ACTED the entire thing - secure in the knowledge that real Americans would understand what he was doing, but that the MSM would not and would go berserk. It was brilliant!


40 posted on 09/08/2012 7:54:22 AM PDT by astounded (Barack Obama is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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