Who shot who in the what now?
He’s 82 years old. Sure, some people hit that age and are sharp as a tack. Most people lose a bit by then.
I am left as left can be, but I can’t be mad at Clint Eastwood. If anything, blame the RNC for letting that happen in the first place. “82 year old man? Unscripted? What could go wrong?” Brilliant!
I personally think that Clint Eastwood’s Second City routine was highly effective and I encourage him to keep doing again and again until election day, preferably with Mitt Romney by his side.
Replace ‘Clinton’ with ‘Clint’ and in that first sentence and it makes a whole lot more sense.
yes, that. :o
My guess is that he means the American people elected an empty suit after being persuaded that this was a man of substance. In other words they were sold a bill of goods.
Just to be clear, you honestly think that’s what Clint Eastwood was refering to as "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people’?
I anticipate a skit of him moderating a debate between two chairs.
His character-image, at any rate, is not what you’d call civil-libertarian.
He was scripted. But he threw away the script. Republicans don’t seem to do well with stuff that doesn’t go according to plan. The economy, for instance. Or that the Iraqi people didn’t quite universally greet us as liberators.
If there was someone competent running that show, there would have been an unexpected power failure on stage pretty soon into that bit.
BTW, please tell me that Clint doesn’t drive, or else I’ll never go to Carmel again. He might swerve into me avoiding an invisible truck.
Cite? According to his interview linked above, he never gave a script to the Romney campaign, and told them he planned to ad-lib. His bit was meant to be unscripted.
If not that particular example, it’s the sort of thing that would be perfectly in keeping with his stated politics.
Given he has explicitly called himself “libertarian” and “liberal on civil rights” in the past, along with a whole lot of synonyms, you’re pretty much flat-out wrong.
Well, hey, Dirty Hairy says “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?”
Now, note the word “punk”. Another pejorative for a black suspect at the point of a gun fairly leaps to mind. Yet the “n-word” is conspicuous by its absence. We are therefore at liberty to believe that Inspector Callahan was judicious in his word choice, due to his advanced social and racial views.
True, but Andy Robinson is white.
By “character-image,” I meant Dirty Harry, etc., etc. The guy he always plays in the movies. No civil libertarian.
These days, we prefer our libertarians to be as uncivil as possible.
The first guy he says it to, the bank robber, is black.
Turns out Eastwood is a fucking moron.
He can call himself whatever he wants. Doesn’t make him so.
Hey, look at me–I’m Batman. See how that works?