did Eastwood punk the convention?

[mominatrix]

He's not exactly one of the truly conservative Hollywood actors...

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THU AUG 30, 2012 AT 09:56 PM PDT
Eastwood Punks Romney

It was inspired and brilliant! It's a moment you'll tell your grandchildren about! Clint Eastwood went behind enemy lines and sabotaged Romney's big night and twitter is ablaze with LOL comments.

Of all the fuck-ups the Romney campaign has produced, this took cake. Somehow they were duped into thinking Hollywood Liberal Clint Eastwood would endorse Romney with a convention speech. Instead, Eastwood, reprising his role from "Kelly's Heroes" infiltrated the RNC convention and blew it up.



For those who missed it, Eastwood went on stage, and in a novel piece of performance art rivaling Andy Kaufman at his best, began talking to an empty chair, pretending President Obama was sitting in it.

The convention is now in ruins. Mitt's big night is laying at the bottom of the Eastwood rubble, as it's the only thing people are talking about.

Well done, Mr. President. Well done. Once again, you out foxed all your opponents. Don Barzini is dead, so is Phillip Tattaglia -- Moe Greene -- Hyman Roth -- the RNC Convention; today you settled all family business. You truly are a ninja master.













www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/31/1126187/-Eastwood-Punks-Romney

[pamela]

I didn't see it and the text I'm sure wouldn't give the full picture. Some of my far right Facebook friends loved it though. Dunno what's up with that.

[EllieArroway]

Aug 31, 2012 11:49:24 GMT -5 pamela said:

I didn't see it and the text I'm sure wouldn't give the full picture. Some of my far right Facebook friends loved it though. Dunno what's up with that.

Mine too. I'm so confused.

[llama]

Pamela you should look up the text. Most of the transcripts I've seen have done a pretty good job of capturing the whole "stop and go," awkward phrasing, trailing off between sentences/midthought, and switching rapidly between different topics pretty well.

I can get rallying behind your party's convention and all, but I know more than a few conservatives who thought it was truly hilarious and obviously 100% off the cuff. I'm not sure that he was punking anyone, exactly, as appealing as that might be, but the speech itself was just beyond weird and awkward.

[pamela]

I saw the text, but it could be missing something. Maybe I'll watch later once things calm down.

[Michelle]

www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/30/transcript-clint-eastwood-speech-at-rnc/

This is the one I read. Did they clean it up because it's fox news? it was the first one that came up when I googled, "clint eastwood RNC transcript."

It's a mess, but his speech pattern has always been a mess requiring a lot of tolerance to get to the point.

Maybe I'm really tolerant... it really didn't bother me to read it and made sense, but I didn't have to listen to it.

[heyjude]

I don't think this will hurt Romney. It doesn't help him but it doesn't hurt him.

[llama]

Aug 31, 2012 12:28:28 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I don't think this will hurt Romney. It doesn't help him but it doesn't hurt him.

I don't think it will necessarily hurt him, but I think the build up the RNC gave to this speech on the same night as Romney's acceptance speech was a mistake. It makes them look foolish to have it turn into a national laughingstock and detracts from the purpose of the evening and Romney's spotlight.

[silva]

The comments from the conservative peeps in a local news article are raving about it. I'm scratching my head.

[MixedBerryJam]

Aug 31, 2012 12:22:46 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

I just don't get the go fuck yourself thing. i get that it is in reference to Biden or something, but so many people laughed at it right off that bat. Too many people that I wouldn't have expected to know the reference. hell i don't even know it.

please to be explainin

This confused me, too. Cheney was the one who publicly told someone to "go eff yourself". Biden's used the eff bomb on a hot mike, but it sounded to me like CE was confused here, and in many (read: all) other points in his performance. Weird.

I guessed it would be Eastwood once I started seeing promos for his new movie on the news channels during the day yesterday. Coincidence? I think Eastwood has a rockin' agent.

[dev22]

It is a good thing he didn't go on about his social views - considering he has been outspoken on gay rights before, and believe gay marriage should be legal. I believe he considers himself a libertarian, not an R. Could be wrong though.

[casmgn]

Aug 31, 2012 12:28:28 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I don't think this will hurt Romney. It doesn't help him but it doesn't hurt him.

I think it hurts him insomuch as people are mostly talking about Clint's speech instead of his.

[marie427]

Aug 31, 2012 12:28:28 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I don't think this will hurt Romney. It doesn't help him but it doesn't hurt him.

Agreed. Clint Eastwood will not affect what happens in November.

[dylanite]

Aug 31, 2012 13:47:13 GMT -5 marie427 said:

Aug 31, 2012 12:28:28 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I don't think this will hurt Romney. It doesn't help him but it doesn't hurt him.

Agreed. Clint Eastwood will not affect what happens in November.

I don't know. If it was confirmed by Clint himself that this was hilarious agenda, I can see it hurting Romney for making him look the fool.

[heyjude]

Aug 31, 2012 13:46:05 GMT -5 casmgn said:

Aug 31, 2012 12:28:28 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I don't think this will hurt Romney. It doesn't help him but it doesn't hurt him.

I think it hurts him insomuch as people are mostly talking about Clint's speech instead of his.

Liberal media strikes again!

[casmgn]

Aug 31, 2012 13:53:38 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Aug 31, 2012 13:46:05 GMT -5 casmgn said:

I think it hurts him insomuch as people are mostly talking about Clint's speech instead of his.

Liberal media strikes again!

Not even just the media though! Clint is much more interesting water cooler conversation.

[sunny]

those tweets are hilarious. I read the transcript and I can't even figure it out. it's weird, awkward, incoherent.

but all my old, conservative relatives on FB are raving about it. there are so many good jokes to be had, but I am refraining myself.

[ttt]

Well, everyone is talking about Clint instead of the fact that Paul Ryan is a lying liar who lies and even Fox News agrees, so I would say this is a plus for the Romney campaign.

[stephiehun]

Aug 31, 2012 14:00:50 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Aug 31, 2012 12:36:21 GMT -5 silva said:

The comments from the conservative peeps in a local news article are raving about it. I'm scratching my head.

United front. Repubs excel at it.

Yup - show no weakness.

[sunny]

Aug 31, 2012 19:14:49 GMT -5 stephiehun said:

Aug 31, 2012 14:00:50 GMT -5 cjoy said:

United front. Repubs excel at it.

Yup - show no weakness.

true. the democrats can't get their act together IMO. whereas the republicans are great at diverting, creating a message, and running it to the ground. they definitely seem to be better at this.