Reply #103: What's more, Eastwood is now anti-right wing...

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He was a Repug back when he was mayor of Carmel, but over the years he's described himself as more of a libertarian.

He publicly supported Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon when the National Baseball Hall of Fame cancelled their appearance (tied in with a screening of the film "Bull Durham") because of their opposition to the Iraq invasion.

At the time, Eastwood said of the Hall's decision to snub Robbins and Sarandon, "How dare they!"

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2003/nf20030417_9673_db009.htm
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And in the most eggregious assault on the rights of red-blooded Americans to speak their piece, Dale Petroskey, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., cancels an Apr. 26 celebration of the ballpark classic Bull Durham because the film stars antiwar activist Tim Robbins and wife Sarandon.

That caused Hollywood celebrities to rally round Robbins and Sarandon, with even Clint Eastwood telling Variety's Amy Acherd that the pair has the right "to say what they want to say, when they want to say it."

Petroskey's heavy-handedness also prompted the reknowned baseball writer Roger Kahn to cancel a scheduled appearance at the Hall of Fame in August. In a letter to Petroskey, Kahn wrote: "By canceling the Hall of Fame anniversary celebration of Bull Durham for political reasons, you are, far from supporting our troops, defying the noblest of the American spirit. You are choking freedom of dissent."
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