Clint Eastwood's empty chair at RNC sparks Internet buzz

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Actor Clint Eastwood speaks Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.

The actor and director, 82, has sparked jokes, imitators, and more after his "invisible guest" speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. Here's a selection of the reactions online to Clint Eastwood.


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Clint Eastwood - just another angry, old, white male. Sad, but true.

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Reply#28 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:20 PM EDT

I don't think the people on here are giving Clint enough credit. Could this have been a parody of all the other Republican convention speeches using straw man arguments to attack Obama?

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Reply#29 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:21 PM EDT

No.

    #29.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:24 PM EDT

    "No" this is not a parody of all the other Republican straw man arguments or "no" we shouldn't give Clint the benefit of the doubt?

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    #29.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:36 PM EDT
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    You idiots will be drooling when the demodrone idiots start their speeches. You know, debbie "Blabbermouth" shultz. That should be real entertaining. Where is feisty?

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    Reply#30 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:21 PM EDT

    Ooh, sounds like someone needs a nap.

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    #30.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:27 PM EDT

    What's up with all the fools who love to hate Feisty? Hilarious!

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    #30.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:30 PM EDT

    up-the-riverman;

    OOOH! OUCH, AHHHH. Name-calling, is that all ya got. Just like your party, eh?

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    #30.3 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:38 PM EDT

    Dan: Romney is a good person as in, what?

      #30.4 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:41 PM EDT
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      Always liked Eastwood but was embarrassed for him last night. Looked like he jumped out of bed after a night out and threw on a suit. His comments were frequently meandering and sometimes incoherent. One of the themes of the convention was finding new ways to insult the president and Clint pandered to his racist audience.

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      Reply#31 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:22 PM EDT

      I agree, though I don't remember a racist comment. I was uncomfortable watching him. Obviously, his purpose was to bring star power to the convention, which is fine. I don't like Romney at all, but I didn't want to see Clint Eastwood make a fool of himself. He's built a reputation and this made him kind of a joke.

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      #31.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:40 PM EDT
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      Eastwood reminded all of us Obama needs to go in November....Romney---Ryan--2012.

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      Reply#32 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:23 PM EDT

      Well, actually, he reminded us that senior citizens really do need Obamacare! He also demonstrated the total lack of foresight in the planning of the convention. The Repubs might as well have asked Joe the Plumber to do the keynote speech. At least he would've been (relatively) coherent.

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      #32.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:26 PM EDT

      Or they could have asked you but didn't.....LOL

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      #32.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:31 PM EDT

      good point, socialized medicine is exactly what seniors need and want. "Oh you are x years old? Let's discus options, cremation or burial?"

        #32.3 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:33 PM EDT
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        Next on Fox Spews, Clint debates with refrigerator (and loses the debate), and John McCain yells at cloud.

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        Reply#33 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:23 PM EDT

        Talking to an empty chair did seem to me a little odd until I remembered that Peirs Morgan did the same thing last week. Guess there's kooks on both sides.

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        Reply#34 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:23 PM EDT

        This is why this works in sooo many ways. . .

        Morgan was interviewing a chair why?

        Oh that's right, the republican who said legitimate rape doesn't get a woman pregnant failed to show up for a schedueled interview because he didn't want to end up sounding like Clint.

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        #34.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:52 PM EDT

        Yeah, but they were both talking to empty chairs, which is crazy no matter how you look at it. OR maybe Eastwood was making fun of Morgan. Who knows? Big waste of network air time for both as far as I'm concerned.

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        #34.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:37 PM EDT
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        Clint has definitely "Jumped the Shark"

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          Reply#35 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:24 PM EDT

          I thought Al Sharpton's comment was the most insightful: "I suspect Clint Eastwood has talked to empty chairs before tonight!"

          Having the 82-year-old Eastwood speak (or whatever that was) during the last hour of the Convention, just before the candidate came on, was like asking Willie Horton to be the keynote speaker at the convention that nominated Kerry.

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          Reply#36 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:24 PM EDT

          OMG. You watched this on MSNBC?

          MSNBC = FOX News.

          Both are liars and shills for the left & right.

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          #36.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:45 PM EDT
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          Glenn Campbell. Nugent. Jenna Jameson. Now it's Clint going off the deep end. With friends like that, who needs enemies?

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          Reply#37 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:24 PM EDT

          That pretty much sums up the GOP at this point..Outdated, clueless, and lecturing to invisible people

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          Reply#38 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:27 PM EDT

          More like afraid anyone smarter than an empty chair would see right through the lie they tell.

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          #38.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:54 PM EDT
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          Lenny12Deleted

          Obama sits in a chair labeled "Fundraiser and Campainer". The chair labeled "President" has been empty for a long time.

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          Reply#40 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:30 PM EDT

          The chair wasn't actualy empty. It was occupied by the invisible man. You know.... George W. Bush.

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          Reply#41 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:30 PM EDT

          The only thing I found really inappropriate in his empty chair conversation was the bit in which he basically had the invisible president telling Romney to "Go f__— himself." And everyone knew that's what he was alluding to when he said "What? He can't do that to himself." Everyone knew it and laughed in shocked amazement. You'd think the right wing conservative Christians in the room would be appalled, but they found it hysterical. It made no sense.

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          Reply#42 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:30 PM EDT

          well maybe you can't paint all republicans with the same broad stroke. I don't think all democrats are misguided bleeding hearts and welfare recipients.

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          #42.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:37 PM EDT

          Good to know! And I agree.

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          #42.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:44 PM EDT
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          There are certain things that an 82-year old man should never try. One of them is talking to an imaginary friend in a political convention. This shtick called for a Bob Newhart or George Burns-type of an octogenerian, not Clint. At times I worried, as I was watching the spectacle, that the man was drifting into senility.

            Reply#43 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:35 PM EDT

            I saw a guy yelling at the bench at the bus stop on my to work this morning, I thought he was just a delusional crazy man. I had no idea Clint Eastwood rides the bus.

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            Reply#44 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:36 PM EDT

            Can't wait for Saturday Night Live.

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            Reply#45 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:36 PM EDT

            What a bunch of whining left wing losers. Yeah, I know you're upset because the election will mean the end of the era of obamloney. Guess y'all can't stand to see your hero (who condones one man suckling on another man's penis and/or one man ramming his penis up another man's anal track) getting trounced by a real man.

            If you're really concerned about the poor and the middle class you should encourage them to get off their lazy butts and go make a better life for themselves instead of encouraging them to simply live for welfare handouts from working people.

            Hey hey ho ho, BHO has got to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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            Reply#46 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:40 PM EDT

            Harley: Go sit in the chair in the corner!

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            #46.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:36 PM EDT

            sandy-2984954

            Ah whats the matter Sandy? Truth hurts doesn't it!

            Hey hey ho ho, BHO has got to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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            #46.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:55 PM EDT

            Your language is offensive to my Sunday school eyes!

              #46.3 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:37 PM EDT

              Damn right Harley, give them bus tickets to China where those jobs went and we can get them off welfare and, then, you can go sit in the corner.

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              #46.4 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:59 PM EDT
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              I used to have a massive amount of respect for Eastwood. He lost all credibility with that "old man yells at chair" speech. I even wanted to see his new movie, but I think I'll take the money I was going to spend on that, wipe my ass with it, and flush it down the toilet.

                Reply#47 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:42 PM EDT

                What is wrong with this country that we cannot do better than Romney and Obama, We are slowly becoming a third world country, This country needs to get out of other country's and fix this one. I am 69 years old and I have never seen so many lazy, and overweight people in my life. Every one seems to think the world owes them a living. get off your butts and go to work and fix the country. we have not had a good potitian of any kind in Years all they want to do is line there pockets and argue about what needs to be done but never fix anything. COME ON AMERICA GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!

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                Reply#48 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:44 PM EDT

                Remember, these are the children your generation created. For better or worse, this is where we have been led to.

                  #48.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:57 PM EDT
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                  And don't forget the Simpsons version

                  http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021239303

                    Reply#49 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:44 PM EDT

                    The lack of respect you people have when leaving comments is deplorable.

                    All of you have big balls on websites and no balls in person, another reason this country is going down.

                    Even that ugly woman from NBC has to say something stupid.Elect Obama again and watch the country go down another notch.

                      Reply#50 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:45 PM EDT

                      Duane, you rebuke others for being disrespectful and then in the same post call a woman ugly and stupid?

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                      #50.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:59 PM EDT

                      Forget it. Talking to Duane is like talking to an empty chair.

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                      #50.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:04 PM EDT

                      Duane M, You talk about respect, then you call a woman ugly. Your deplorable. People should not be judged by their looks. That's insulting. You must not have been raised to show respect for others. That finger you are pointing should be pointed be at yourself!

                        #50.3 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:01 PM EDT
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                        The backdrop of a silhouette of Clint Eastwood in his saner days, holding a weapon....ya right....just the impression we want to make with a little endorsement for the NRA while you're at it.

                        Cliint Eastwood made a total a$$ out of himself, and thus he belongs in the Republican Party. He seemed to "stray" in his speech, to put it politely. Is this this the best that the RNC/GOP could come up with for an endorsement? Weren't Bonnie and Clyde or Charles Manson available?

                        Clint Eastwood, Mitt Romney, Paul "Lyin'" Ryan....all out of touch with the 99%.

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                        Reply#51 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:47 PM EDT

                        Ha ha ha.... Yup, those Democrats are part of the 99%? Pelosi - billionaire, Reid, Obama - millionaires. Yup they sure feel our pain...or at least talk about it more. Get everyone against the successful rich people. Make success the enemy to get votes. Obama is dispicable, just like us having 29 million people unemployed while the government throws million dollar parties in the GSA, Veterns, etc.

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                        #51.1 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:01 PM EDT

                        Someone's been watching Fox (is not) News!

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                        #51.2 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:05 PM EDT
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                        I thought the entire evening was spectacular except for Clint Eastwood's speech. Clint's appearance was perhaps some needed comic relief, but also perhaps more of a distraction from the heartwarming and inspiring evening. Either way, last night left no doubt that Romney truly cares about people. America finally got to see into Romney's character, a sincere and thoughtful person. The testimonials from those lives he touched were very effective. I hope those on the fence watched it and finally saw for themselves the good person Romney is without having to rely on the negative ads and media that just don't understand.

                          Reply#52 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:55 PM EDT

                          The empty chair is a great metaphor - Obama is out fund-raising and no one is running the government. Real leadership. Clint had one line that will resonate with real America - We own this country and the government is employed by us. Fire this idiot and we will in 67 days...

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                          Reply#53 - Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:58 PM EDT

                          Fire this imposter,I am a registered democrat,watch Obama speak and when his lips move it doesnt match what comes out of his mouth,the devil

                            #53.1 - Mon Sep 3, 2012 2:27 PM EDT
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