Clint Eastwood basks in the warm, truthy glow of Sarah Palin's debate performance

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10072008/gossip/pagesix/clint_almost_in_sarahs_corner_132434.htm

October 7, 2008 --

CLINT Eastwood made it clear who won last week's vice-presidential debate in an interview he did Saturday as part of The New Yorker Festival with the magazine's legendary Lillian Ross.

"One of the candidates the other night seemed more prone to telling the truth than the other," Eastwood said. The cheese-and-Chardonnay crowd laughed, presumably because they thought he meant Joe Biden.

But the laughs among the 300 worshipful movie buffs at the Directors Guild theater dried up when Ross interjected, "I liked her, too!"

Eastwood went on to talk about how well "she" did, although he stopped short of a ringing endorsement.

The Post's Kyle Smith asked Eastwood, who describes himself as a libertarian, what qualities he believed would be ideal in a presidential candidate.

Eastwood, a former mayor of Carmel, Calif., quoted James Cagney as saying, "Plant your feet, and tell the truth."

The Oscar winner complained politics was "such a smoke-and-mirrors kind of thing these days . . . They all have the BS factor because that's the nature of politics . . . I don't know when this all started, but it's promising, 'What can we give you? If I get in, I'm gonna give you a check.' And people think that's great, but what's gonna happen on the other end?"

Eastwood also said he recently met John McCain at a social event and joked to the GOP candidate: "Don't even ask it - I will not be a vice-presidential candidate." He later said, more seriously, "You have to sell your soul" to be vice president, calling it "the least appealing job."

The "Dirty Harry" icon's latest movie, the feminist period drama "Changeling," with Angelina Jolie, opens this month. In December comes "Gran Torino," in which Eastwood reappears as an actor, playing "a total racist."

[CatWoman]

1. I read that yesterday

*sigh*

Damn, Clint...........

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Not sure if Clint "cannot" read or "simply chooses not to"...

...otherwise, he might have read Matt Taibbi's "The Truth About Sarah Palin" in Rolling Stone...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23140513/the_truth_about_sarah_pa

...BEFORE swooning over how well she did at the debate.

Oh well...

:patriot:

[CatWoman]

11. heh

Now when I watch "The Good, the bad and the ugly", I might root for the Bad :)

[grannie4peace]

2. that's his smoke & mirrors personality that is reflecting onto the world!!!!

[azmouse]

3. He must be getting senile.

[elkston]

4. Eastwood is a big supporter of Jazz, so I respect him for that.

...but he better not vote for the ReTHUGs this time.

[RagAss]

6. Clint...you're an old fuck...and your time has come and gone....

[muntrv]

7. Smoke & mirrors? Well Clint, your fellow repukes are the ones who started it.

[TheCML]

8. McCain and Eastwood are really close.

So this doesnt suprise me, but I always pictured Clint as more of a badass gun toting individual rights type Republican. The McCain campaign doesnt represent that at all.

[ChiciB1]

13. AND, Eastwood Has Always Been Known To Be A Repuke! If I'm Not

mistaken that's the party he ran on when he was elected Mayor of some place in CA! Sorry, forgot the place.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. Carmel

http://www.carmelcalifornia.com/

[Youphemism]

9. "And speaking of whaleshit, McCain isn't bad either."

For those who aren't "Dirty Harry" watchers, apologies for the obscure reference.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. Not obscure at all...recognized it immediately.

:toast:

[Waiting For Everyman]

10. He should know better. I used to think he had a brain.

And Palin DID give out checks! That's exactly what she did.

[Forkboy]

12. Great director, cool actor, dipshit in everything else.

[ej510]

16. At least Tom Hanks has the intelligence to support Obama.

I'm shamed to come from the city as that prick. Tom Hanks makes us proud. As a native son from Oakland.

[Cha]

22. Tom hanks gets it..he's brilliant too.

Clint Eastwood started some shit with Spike Lee awhile back but Spike gave it right to him.

"Eastwood: Spike Lee should shut his face"

UPDATE:
"First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either," Spike Lee told ABCNEWS.com about Clint Eastwood. "He's a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn't personally attack him. And a comment like 'a guy like that should shut his face' -- come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there."

"If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I'd like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist," he said. "I'm not making this up. I know history. I'm a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II."

"Not everything was John Wayne, baby..."

"I never said he should show one of the other guys holding up the flag as black. I said that African-Americans played a significant part in Iwo Jima," he said. "For him to insinuate that I'm rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black ... no one said that. It's just that there's not one black in either film. And because I know my history, that's why I made that observation."


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/05/clint-eastwood-spike-lee_n_105584.html

[Forkboy]

24. And a fine damn actor to boot.

Who would've guessed after Bosom Buddies? :shrug:

[Cha]

17. Whatever..I have no time or patience for

anyone who doesn't understand the danger palin and mccain are to our country.

[Olney Blue]

18. Clint, how could you like that phony?

[jillan]

19. Shocked. Absolutely shocked.

But then again I say that about anybody that likes Palin.

[juno jones]

20. Fuck Eastwood (a true story)

Many years ago, at the start of the Reagan Revolution, I worked as a dishwasher and busboy in a fancy restaurant owned by a guy from Carmel. He wasn't a bad person, but he was a social climber. His rich wife owned the restaurant and he tried to schmooze with up and coming politicos. Especially those from Eastwood's clique in Carmel. Clint never put in an appearance, but his cronies certainly came around for the cheap (free?) gourmet eats. I had to listen to those bastards bashing Thomas Jefferson, laughing about catsup becoming a vegetable and bitching about how stupid and greedy poor people were for wanting minimum wage. I heard shit that would make your hair burn. Spoken openly right in front of me. Of course, it wasn't like a dishwasher would be going to college and taking political science would it?
I've had a cold steely hate for republicans, and Clint and his cronies in particular ever since. Made it damn hard to watch his movies, let me tell ya.
I'm convinced that they seem to want disposable hired help with no english skills to clean up after them because they don't want Americans to hear what they have planned.

[Cha]

23. Thanks, I appreciate your

personal story. It makes it easier to understand how some otherwise brilliant people can be so dense.

Please see post #22 for further Eastwood boneheaded moves.

[still_one]

21. His politics have always been right wing, no surprise there /nt