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Clint Eastwood has just done his first TV interview with CNN since his disastrous speech at the Republican Convention, explaining, at least indirectly, why he’s a Romney supporter. They both share the same trait, evidently: when you do something stupid, disastrous or both, DOUBLE DOWN. (Being wrong is a sign of weakness, rather than the sign of a mature and equitable mind, I guess.)
In CNN interview, Eastwood stands by RNC speech
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CNN Political Unit
September 15th, 2012
2 hours ago(CNN) - Actor Clint Eastwood says he does not care about the reaction to his stand up routine at the Republican convention, which drew more attention on the night Mitt Romney accepted the presidential nomination.
Eastwood spoke to CNN in his first television interview since the convention.
“One advantage of being my age is that you know what can they do to ya?” said Eastwood, 82. “You just have fun and do what you think and then you can say what you think, you don’t have to edit yourself.” [...]
Really, Clint?
Then why have you been in media hiding for the past two weeks, only pausing to give a self-justifying interview to that Grand Repository of Pulitzeresque Journalism and Truthiness, The Carmel Pine Cone? (I am not making this up.)
If you’re not ACTUALLY a pussy and hiding in embarrassment, why the long silence between August 30 and today?
(Complete transcript of the speech).
Sixteen days of virtual seclusion except for a completely controlled interview in a small town newspaper is NOT generally the heroic action of a macho action film star who’s sure that he hit it out of the ballpark. By their fruitiness ye shall know them.
There’s a difference between sleaziness and senescence. Your honesty and credibility do NOT depend on Depends®.
And I think you know that, Mr. In Full Command of Your Faculties.
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“[A] man’s got to know his limitations*,” Clint, and I think you forgot yours.
Courage.
[*Clint's failed Dirty Harry "tag" line from Magnum Force (1973)]
It’s a shame seeing such an iconic figure losing it on a national stage as he has, but, we’ve got to remember he IS a republican, and that’s what they do when they screw up, double down. He’s also attempting to get off the hook with the age gambit, that when you get that old you’re ENTITLED to speak your mind. I thought that was one of the main things republicans hated,. “ENTITLEMENTS”, for everyone else, but not themselves. Yep, sounds normal.
Yeah. Actors strive for a moment of “truth,” and this is so clearly NOT such a moment that it violates the First Law of Holes: When you realize you’re in a hole, STOP digging.
Maybe everyone is reading too much into what he did, he’s smart, and he’s got another new movie coming out very soon and it’s getting a lot of promo ads I’ve noticed since his speech. Crafty old devil got a lot of free publicity, or it could be just typical celebrity, republican arrogance. Anyway it’s spun, he lost a lot of respect..
It was a straight up screw-up.
Trying to read anything else into it is disingenuous. I don’t think he’s senile, but I wouldn’t enter this as evidence in a court hearing on it.
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I respect, and love Clint Eastwood the actor but Clint Eastwood the person, I don’t care for he showed his true colors.
Pretty much my feelings. I know this: me and a lot of other people aren’t going to go see his movie, no matter how “great” it is. He insults me, I don’t patronize him.
What really did it for me was when he said he hates lawyers running government. DUMBASS: Mitt and Barack BOTH graduated from Harvard Law School, except Mitt never made the law review. Just an angry old prick without a clue.