That was the good thing — it wasn’t. IN reality, it was funny, but meanspirited, and attacking, and fictional.
Nobody thinks Obama would be sitting their cursing or saying those things that Eastwood kept pretending his “Obama” was saying.
If ANY republican politician had implied those things, the media would have had a field day about how meanspirited we were.
But it was Clint Eastwood. An Icon, a Legend, a Hollywood figure. And an old guy. They couldn’t attack him — after all, just this year they were praising him and saying how he’d really helped Obama — because he narrated that Detroit thing for the Superbowl.
Now here he was, doing what they had hoped the republican speakers would have done so they could attack them. The world saw the attack, got to laugh at Obama, and the media really has no good attack. Sure, they could tear down Clint Eastwood — but how? And what good would it do?
They could fault the RNC for inviting him? How would that work when they know next week the DNC has speaker after speaker lined up to launch vile lies about the republicans?
It was a masterful stroke, using Clint Eastwood to send this message, in a way that was so unique and out there that it couldn’t be tied back to Romney, or upstage his speech.
I beg to differ. Humor works precisely because there is always a thread of truth and thats what makes it funny. Believe me, everyone in that convention center could easily imagine Odumbo telling Romney or Clint to go F themselves especially after the great performance Clint pulled off. Clint is a genius because he used Alinsky judo and turned the weapon of ridicule on the narcissist and chief to great effect! It will be remembered long after Odumbo is gone!Yeah, the ‘let’s you and him fight’ is the Grand Slam of political tactics- fight an icon no less.
Clean hands are best.
The media response has been more ‘fumbling’ than ‘nimble’.