Clint Eastwood defends ‘empty chair’ RNC speech, calls Obama ‘greatest hoax ever’
Academy Award winning Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood has finally spoken out about his widely-panned performance at the Republican National Convention. Eastwood infamously pretended to be lecturing an imaginary President Obama in a chair seated to his left, and even went so far as the pretend that the president was hurling vulgar language his way.
In his first interview since the speech, Eastwood said he has no regrets and admitted that the “empty chair” routine originated backstage in the green room moments before he delivered his address.
“There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” he told his local newspaper Carmel Pine Cone. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.”
In this same interview Eastwood said he didn’t plan his remarks or collaborate with the Romney campaign on his speech.
“They vet most of the people, but I told them, ‘You can’t do that with me, because I don’t know what I’m going to say,’” Eastwood said.
Yet, he says the GOP ticket was very pleased when they greeted him afterwards.
“[Romney and Ryan] were very enthusiastic, and we were all laughing,” said Eastwood.
And the acclaimed filmmaker isn’t done lashing out at the president. He calls Obama “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
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Clint Eastwood defends 'empty chair' RNC speech, calls Obama 'greatest hoax ever'
This is a very 1950s kind of thing to say about Obama.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_EastwoodClinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a ...
end quote from wikipedia.As you can see Clint Eastwood was 20 years old in 1950 so to say that he has a 1950s point of view is not at all surprising. My father and grandfather reminded me a lot of "Dirty Harry" too. And no one EVER accused them of being politically correct.Unfortunately, people who live in the 1950s tend to see racism as a natural part of living in the 1950s just like the birthers.So, for a man of 82 I think he deserves some slack. He is now a legend after all.
But, for ANYONE to say that Obama is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people is not a racist thing to say is actually still living in the 1950s right now. And unfortunately, many people I have met over about 50 years of age still do live in the 1950s right now here today.
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