# Eastwood defends RNC speech, calls Obama ‘greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people’ **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 7, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026 "2012-09-07T19:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![moonshot925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@moonshot925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonshot925)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/1 "2012-09-07T19:10:01Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-165353745--election.html](http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-165353745--election.html) > [@](#): > > In a lengthy interview with his hometown paper, Clint Eastwood defended his speech at the Republican National Convention, saying his unconventional performance was a spontaneous decision. > > The former mayor of Carmel, Calif., gave an interview to The Pine Cone; the story was published Friday. > > “President [Barack] Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told the paper. “[Mitt] Romney and [Paul] Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/2 "2012-09-07T19:11:41Z")
What does Charlie Sheen think? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/3 "2012-09-07T19:12:58Z")
_Angry old man believes nonsense_. Color me surprised. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/4 "2012-09-07T19:13:49Z")
Please, please keep talking, Clint. Maybe you and the chair can go on an old, vaudeville-style roadshow? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/5 "2012-09-07T19:18:53Z")
Eastwood defends his “speech?” Good for him. Even better for Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/6 "2012-09-07T19:24:35Z")
He still doesn’t get it. He didn’t irritate anyone–he made them laugh or cringe, depending on their politics. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/7 "2012-09-07T19:29:43Z")
I don’t understand the use of the word “Hoax” here. If someone has different policies than you support, he is a “hoax?” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/8 "2012-09-07T19:34:42Z")
His aim used to be a lot better! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/9 "2012-09-07T19:36:56Z")
> [@](#): > > In a lengthy interview with his hometown paper, Clint Eastwood defended his speech at the Republican National Convention, saying his unconventional performance was a spontaneous decision. It showed. Not that we didn’t know this anyway; Romney’s people went out of their way to say that Eastwood’s performance was totally his own idea that his remarks were not prepared or approved by anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/10 "2012-09-07T19:40:05Z")
Is the word “hoax” a dog whistle to the Birthers? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/11 "2012-09-07T19:41:19Z")
> [@](#): > > . . . saying his unconventional performance was a spontaneous decision. Some actors just can’t handle improv. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/12 "2012-09-07T19:43:26Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > What does Charlie Sheen think? That his Dad is still President. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/13 "2012-09-07T19:46:18Z")
It sounds like he’s angry that he was fooled into believing Obama really was sitting in that chair. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/14 "2012-09-07T19:49:35Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > _Angry old man believes nonsense_. Color me surprised. _Angry old man believes nonsense Still thinks he’s right Makes nonsensical statement about a person being a hoax_. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/15 "2012-09-07T19:50:48Z")
Clint! Get back home! I hear there are some kids on your lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/16 "2012-09-07T19:54:10Z")
Hoax? Huh? WTF? Hoax: A humorous or malicious deception. OK, I’m guessing the ‘malicious deception’ is what Mr. Eastwood is whining about. I just don’t get it. We lived with 8 years of a cowboy lying to us about a war where thousands of people got killed and Eastwood has the brass to call out Mr. Obama? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/17 "2012-09-07T19:55:54Z")
The ‘greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people’? Where do WMD’s in Iraq fall on that scale? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/18 "2012-09-07T19:59:40Z")
That joke wasn’t on Americans, it was humor aimed at the Iraqis. And it _killed_ 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/19 "2012-09-07T20:01:17Z")
“Clint Eastwood defended his speech at the Republican National Convention, saying his unconventional performance was a spontaneous decision.” Yeah, no shit, Clint. Nobody thought that trainwreck of speech was put down on paper first. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026/20 "2012-09-07T20:24:32Z")
I think _Invisible Obama_ might be a hoax. Maybe that’s what he’s saying. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-defends-rnc-speech-calls-obama-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-the-american-people/634026.md?page=2)