Our last remaining American icon has every right to be proud of how effective his now legendary appearance before the Republican convention has proven itself to be. First off, he made a complete fool of the elite media that spent the better part of four days running around like old, humorless, spinster hens clucking with phony well-I-never! indignation over Clint daring to mock The One.
Secondly, that mockery penetrated, drew blood, and is still drawing blood.
Thanks to Eastwood's hilarious and
unforgettable stagecraft with an empty chair standing in for President
Obama, overnight, Obama went from being an empty suit to, yes, an empty
chair. So perfect was this piece of theatre that earlier this week there
was a successful Empty Chair Day organized by the grassroots in New
Media and, throughout the remaining days of this election, the specter
of the "empty chair" will be synonymous with America's deflating
enthusiasm for Obama and his inability to command the crowds he once
did.
Today, Eastwood doubled down on how
awesome he is by granting his first post-convention interview -- not to
Diane Sawyer, not to "The Today Show, not to "60 Minutes" -- but to his
hometown newspaper, "The Carmel Pine Cone."
What a snub to the corrupt media. Just when you think you can't love this man any more, right?
Here are some highlights:
Eastwood’s appearance at the
convention came after a personal request from Romney in August, soon
after Eastwood endorsed the former Massachusetts governor at a
fundraiser in Sun Valley, Idaho. But it was finalized only in the last
week before the convention, along with an agreement to build suspense by
keeping it secret until the last moment.
Meanwhile, Romney’s campaign aides asked for details about what Eastwood would say to the convention.
“They vett 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 recalled.
And while the Hollywood superstar
has plenty of experience being adored by crowds, he said he hasn’t
given a lot of speeches and admitted that, “I really don’t know how to.”
He also hates using a teleprompter, so it was settled in his mind that
when he spoke to the 10,000 people in the convention hall, and the
millions more watching on television, he would do it extemporaneously.
“It was supposed to be a contrast
with all the scripted speeches, because I’m Joe Citizen,” Eastwood
said. “I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average
guy out there.”
Remember, it's the very same media that
constantly whines about how scripted these conventions are and always
tries to paint Romney as the cautious, buttoned-down, boring white guy
-- that refuses to give Romney credit for making the decision to put
Eastwood in primetime and to allow him to wing it.
Rather than credit Romney for this,
Obama's Media Palace Guards have attempted to use Eastwood as a club to
distract from Romney's convention speech (which was much better than
Obama's). Of course, this is an irony which will never penetrate the
elite media bubble.
More:
AFTER A week as topic No. 1 in
American politics, former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood said the
outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians
after his appearance at the Republican National Convention last
Thursday night, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter and in
the blogosphere, is all the proof anybody needs that his 12-minute
discourse achieved exactly what he intended it to.
“President Obama is the greatest
hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine
Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the
country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a
lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.” …
“I had three points I wanted to
make,” Eastwood said. “That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left,
that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office,
and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s
not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was
going to say until I said it.”
And make those points Clint Eastwood did.
The best part is that all the polls
show people loved Clint's appearance and you can bet that all the media
interest in his appearance drove a lot of people online to see it for
themselves (over a million YouTube hits alone). So a lot more people
heard Eastwood's message who otherwise might not have if the corrupt
media hadn't made such a stupid and phony fuss over it.
If anything illuminates how biased,
dishonest, and bubbled our elite media is, it's that the very same
talking heads who labeled Clint's performance an embarrassment are the
very same talking heads who were falling all over themselves last night
to praise Jennifer Granholm's hysterical buffoonery.
The media's manufactured Eastwood
kerfflufle proves once again that the media is not only disconnected
from reality, but are constantly trying to manufacture reality. But
they forget it's not 2008 anymore and that they can no longer say
something like "Eastwood flopped" and make it so. And here's why:
[Eastwood] had no idea that
overnight, a rebellion had erupted online against the media’s
condemnation of him, with thousands of bloggers, Twitterers and
commentators calling him, “a genius,” “1,000 times more brilliant than
the media,” and saying he’s “only gotten better with age.”
They also started posting their
own versions of Eastwood’s empty chair in droves (“eastwooding”), and,
on YouTube, replays of his remarks at the convention were being viewed
millions of times.
That's right, New Media had Eastwood's
back and the old, dying corrupt media wasn't able to get away with its
"manufactured reality" this time.
"Media's got to know its limitations."
