NYT vid version cuts from Clint b4 he makes throat-slashing gesture when saying US should fire Obama

[flamingdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/08/30/us/politics/100000001752472/clint-eastwoods-rnc-speech.html

This video is excellent quality however if you missed it, but make sure to watch the throat slashing elsewhere, that was very ugly of Eastwood, truly.

I was a fan

UPDATE: here's the throat slashing video if you missed it

[Lucy Goosey]

1. I actually didn't catch the throat slashing gesture...

...but I'll be sure to find a version that has it, now. That's sick of him.

[flamingdem]

2. Here's a shorter segment with the throat slashing moment .. yeesh

[RedStateLiberal]

6. Disturbing.

I missed that when watching live. Thanks for posting.

What the fuck was he thinking?

[flamingdem]

8. That's some nasty business

but the media is censoring it -- at least here they are -- and it's not being discussed on cable so far

[Tom Ripley]

3. I thought the throat-slashing was a nod to the Mormons. That silly hand jive is one of the many...

things that Grifter Smith lifted from the Freemasons.

[flamingdem]

4. Wow, that's interesting. I'll have to read up on Grifter Smith

I've just learned how many of the founding fathers and other prominent politicos of yore were Masons including my great great great grandfathers who fought the brits and the south.

[Zoeisright]

5. Fuck you, Eastwood.

That's a threat.

[flamingdem]

7. The MSM is avoiding calling this out

They want to wink wink and not point out how ugly that was, as you said what a threat it represents, because it's Eastwood. Eastwood and the other 1% ers don't have to worry I guess?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. I admit I skimmed a bunch of the video.

I didn't see that until your post.

Damn, now I'm regretting my post hating on Romney for exploiting the old guy.

[Cha]

9. "Throat slashing"? This is the first I've heard

of that in reading comments from those who have seen it.

Vile Vicious old Coot.

I never thought I'd be thinking about Clint Eastwood this way..I remember when I saw him on tv in Rowdy Yates. It was like "be still my beating heart". He's not Clint Eastwood anymore.

[Prometheus Bound]

11. Clint's a bum.

He deserves the republicans; they deserve him.

How wonderful it is to see him and them embarrass themselves like this.

[Oilwellian]

12. In.credible

I grew up thinking of Eastwood as always getting the bad guy, in a dickish way. Now he IS the bad guy. What a pitiful end to his career.

[exboyfil]

13. Isn't this gesture pretty common in the entertainment

industry to indicate it is time to cut someone off (in this case referring to Obama as president)? I did not view it with its more sinister meaning (that used by professional football players after they crush another player).

Give Eastwood a break on that one.

[flamingdem]

14. You don't get that it was ugly and for that reason the New York Times cut it out

This is an aggressive group of people who use imagery like dragging the guy out of the bar (Boehner) and worse

[cali]

15. that's just silly.

the nyt has been consistent in its harsh criticism of romney. And here's the article posted about Clint's speech with the entire vid of his speech embedded.

TAMPA, Fla.—Clint Eastwood’s rambling, head-scratching endorsement of Mitt Romney on Thursday set off immediate questions and finger-pointing among Romney supporters: Who booked Mr. Eastwood? Did anyone have an idea of what he was going to say? Did anyone read his remarks before they were broadcast?

The actor, in one of the more unusual moments in Republican convention history, offered a speech in which he pretended to have an off-color conversation with an imaginary President Obama sitting by his side in an empty chair.
Clint Eastwood offered an eccentric endorsement.

“Mr. President, how do you handle promises that you made when you were running for election?” the onetime Dirty Harry said, mumbling to a befuddled crowd of thousands in the convention hall and millions of television viewers.

As thousands of “OMG!” tweets started flying, Mr. Eastwood, 82, asked the invisible Mr. Obama why he had not closed the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

<snip>

“I can’t tell him that. He can’t do that to himself,” Mr. Eastwood said. “You’re getting as bad as Biden.”

On Twitter, one person said, “If Romney is elected, Clint Eastwood will be named Secretary of BlargleflagglemurplePANCAKES!!!”


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/surprise-speaker-delivers-the-unexpected/

yeah, yeah. The Times is really working to protect rMoney and Crazy Clint. Lol.

Oops, meant to respond to your op.

[flamingdem]

16. I didn't say they were holding Romney's water

I said that this action is being swept under the carpet by the MSM. The New York Times is not above a little avoidance of the hard issues, like disrespect for the President, since I'm sure they don't want to jump too hard down poor old Clint's throat. I think he should be called out -- and so did the chattering classes on twitter which is where I saw this information. I'm guessing they responded to the criticism and stopped cutting the end of the video.