It was inspired and brilliant! Clint Eastwood saboteur?

[UCmeNdc]

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.


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

[Biafran]

1. Of course

I really don't get why many comments on this forum are bashing Clint. I watched the entire speech and not once did he directly diss Obama.
In fact, he subliminally told Mitt to go fuck himself.
He was pretending to ask Obama questions, but even those questions were subliminal attacks on repugs: gas guzzling big planes, caring for other people etc.
He even told them to their face that they may be voting for someone they don't like. That Romney is begging for their votes and that they have a choice as Americans.
He reminded everyone that Bush went into Afghanistan recklessly and told them that lawyers shouldn't be running for presidency. Romney is a lawyer.
He was right in their face, making fun of them, making a mockery of their convention. One girl got the joke and dared him to "make my day". Look at his face when the girl said that!
He turned it back to the repugs and collectively told them all to make his day.
It was brilliant. If Team Obama wanted to plant a saboteur in the repug convention, they couldn't have done better. Which is why I agree with the article and Chris Rock's "job done" twitt.

[2pooped2pop]

5. nope

Clint has always been a repiglican. He just hasn't kept up on where his party went. He still thinks there's moderates in there.

He has simply become a doddering old fool.

And it was fucking fantastic-but not how he meant it to go off.

Did you catch the cut across Obama's throat when he said they have to get rid of him? Clint made a knife slicing move with his hand across his own throat.

He was not there as a saboteur. It just ended up that way because he has become nothing more than a doddering old fool.


and he deserves all of the humiliation he is feeling right about now. Fucking fool.

[Kalidurga]

2. I can't tell

I did get the part where he was telling Mitt to F himself. But, I can't tell if he knew that is what he was doing or not. If this was sabotage it really was brilliant. Kinda like that commercial for GM.

[babylonsister]

3. Since when is Eastwood a Hollywood liberal? nt

[jumptheshadow]

4. I thought it was a clear possibility

Come on, folks, Eastwood may not be a Hollywood liberal but he calls himself an "Eisenhower Republican" (the President who warned us about the military/industrial complex) and, in some ways, he is a social progressive ("I don't care who marries anybody else.&quot

He has a very dry sense of humor. His films are full of it. He got up before an adoring audience and criticized unemployment, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and Gitmo, all to the adulation of his audience. He "played" a doddering old man role to perfection, echoing the befuddled stance of the Republican party. But the man's best directed films have come during his senior years. Gran Torino is about a cranky, narrow-minded old man who grows as a human being by mentoring and protecting a young Hmong man. It's all about overcoming prejudice to find the empathetic human core in yourself...

He knew they were going to riff on the gun theme when he went on stage... But, in the guise of criticizing Obama, he aimed his shotgun at Republican sacred cows -- the wars, the war on terror, and, in the very first words out of his mouth, at the massive unemployment in this country. He talked about crying when Mr. Obama was elected president...

IMO, there's a very strong possibility that he intentionally was satirizing the current state of the Republican party...

[ck4829]

7. Which country? The Cayman Islands?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. .

[Brigid]

9. Anything's possible, but I don't think so.

I used to work in a nursing home, and I swear the clips I've seen of Clint's "speech" gave me flashbacks.

[UCmeNdc]

10. Clint Eastwood may have just gave his best stage performance yet.......

Either Clint Eastwood is a senile crazy old man or one crafty old actor that just played his best role yet. I can't tell. Either way he sure made the whole GOP look foolish and inept. Especially the Mitt Romney campaign people.

[Curtland1015]

11. I think people want to believe this is true simply because they enjoy his work so much.

It wasn't a "masterful" set up. I love Clint Eastwood's movies too and think he was a great actor... but that was just an out of touch moderate republican making a fool of himself.

[JoePhilly]

12. He seemed to be playing the angry right winger who blames an imaginary Obama

for things the actual Obama didn't do.

[Bad Thoughts]

13. Brilliant, but neither saboteur not crazy man

Eastwood did what he does best: understand what his audience wants to do. He crystalized the monologue the GOP and its voters have carried on for three and a half years. Where he failed is that by rendering the president into an invisible man in a empty chair, her held up a mirror to the GOP -- and they realized how crazy they all were acting.