Clint Eastwood screwed up. That’s all there is to it. But, in the post-reality world of Republican politics, no mistake can be admitted, no error not turned into a brilliant moment misunderstood, no stunning defeat NOT turned into a glorious victory.
And, thus, to additionally insult Labor Day, the brownshirts of the Rightie Blogosmear™ have turned this into “empty chair day.” I keeds you not.
Er, yeah.
Just think of it, the most “brilliant” pens in the blogosmear, from the “Ground Zero Mosque” bigot Pamela Geller to hatey hatey William A. Jacobson — who is actually a law professor at a university with evidently low intellectual standards — running around taking pictures and publishing pictures of … empty chairs? Genius.
(No mention of the empty suits they purport to represent, however.)
This kind of juvenalia is to be expected, of course, but to Joseph N. Welch’s famous question to Sen. Joe McCarthy (0f “McCarthyism” fame) “You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” their answer seems indubitably to be from Rain Man:
Raymond: Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart.
Charlie: [Pulls over, gets out of the car and yells] WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHERE YOU BUY UNDERWEAR? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? UNDERWEAR IS UNDERWEAR! IT IS UNDERWEAR WHEREVER YOU BUY IT! IN CINCINNATI OR WHEREVER!
Raymond: K-Mart!
Charlie: You know what I think, Ray? I think this autism is a bunch of shit! Because you can’t tell me that you’re not in there somewhere!
Raymond: Boxer shorts. K-Mart!
Or, as Politico puts it:
Right rallies for ‘Empty Chair Day’
The right rallied on Labor Day to celebrate “National Empty Chair Day,” a show of solidarity with Clint Eastwood after his rambling address to an invisible President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention last week….
Solidarity?
Solidarnosc (“solidarity”)
Isn’t that socialist?
Boxer shorts. K-Mart!
Courage.
UPDATE: Equal time …
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The more I see and think about clints spiel the more offended I get, so f%@k clint and the horse he,s riding out on.
Evidently, if you take enough methadrine, after 24 hours, it becomes “brilliant” and amazing reasons for WHY it’s so brilliant begin to appear in your brain. Then you start talking to the people in the fan blades.
I’m not sure what it ultimately means that I thought “Empty Chair Day” was a great idea until I read carefully and explored the fact that it was thought up by tighty-righties.
Maybe I’m too much a product of the media culture. I don’t know.
Self-deprogramming is TOUGH, tellyawhut.
I guess when your head is that far up your ass, everything about your position looks GREAT to you.
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These people get me sick and if Romney wins they will have a lot more to celebrate. No more Medicare….senior death day! Shut down the EPA….poison air and water day! No more food stamps…..starving in the streets day! Every day will be a celebration. They are delusional and it is frightening to live in the same country with such stupidity.
Cruelty and intolerance have seldom been so nakedly sold as this year. Hopefully there aren’t enough masochists in the nation for it to work.
Hart, are you forgetting how many people returned “dumbya” to office in ’04, and how many added all those “tea baggers” in 2010, There seems to be an excess of people who love hurting themselves and everyone else too. I guess they really embrace that old saying that “misery loves company”.
You can only fool the people for so long, Bill. And as I recall, Kerry WON that election, by taking Ohio, where 100,000 votes “suddenly” appeared in a neck-and-neck battle, marred by thousands of voters being sent to the wrong precinct (on purpose), no voting machines in Democratic precincts, and provisional ballots being thrown out wholesale. Bush didn’t win.