"The footage of Eastwood rambling and mumbling to his "Harvey" - President Obama - will be played to audiences a hundred years from now as the Most Bizarre Convention Moment Ever."
Actor Clint Eastwood speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., 08/31/12. (photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Creepy Clint Made Our Day
31 August 12
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peaking to Invisible Obama last night, in a performance that seemed to have been written by Timothy Leary and performed by Cheech & Chong, Clint Eastwood� was able to drive home to tens of millions of viewers the central message of this year's Republican National Convention: "We Are Delusional and Detached from Reality. Vote for Us!"
The footage of Eastwood rambling and mumbling to his "Harvey" - President Obama - will be played to audiences a hundred years from now as the Most Bizarre Convention Moment Ever. The people of the future will know nothing about Dirty Harry or Josey Wales or a Million Dollar Baby. They WILL know about the night a crazy old man hijacked a national party's most important gathering so he could tell the President to literally go do something to himself (i.e. fuck� himself). In those few moments (and these days, it only takes a few moments - see Anthony Weiner), he completely upended and redefined how he'll be remembered by younger and future generations.
�A few years ago, at the annual National Board of Review film awards held at Tavern on the Green in New York, I was there to hand out one of the honors. When it came time for Eastwood to accept his, he went up to the microphone and growled to me in front of the audience, "If you ever show up at my house with that camera, I'll shoot you on sight." The audience laughed, I laughed, but the person who issued the threat wasn't laughing. That creeped me out a bit.� I made sure never to go stand on Clint Eastwood's lawn.
But as I said, the best outcome from the incident last night was that it showed just how out of touch Republicans are these days. It's as if they want a divorce from us, the American mainstream, so they can go live in the land of legitimate rapes and ice caps that don't melt. Most Americans don't live there on Planet Koo-koo, and I don't suspect many will be visiting there any time soon.
Thanks, Clint: you made our day!
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The 2000 presidential election where G.W. Bush (with the help of his brother, Jeb Bush) and the Republican Party openly stole the presidency should have been a major wake-up call.
You had the phony felon list produced by a data-base company at the behest of Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris in Florida illegally nullifying the voting rights of almost 90,000 Afro-Americans. You had the police in Florida strategically stationed at minority polling precincts harassing and threatening minority voters attempting to enter the polling precincts to vote, and these were just some of the voter suppression techniques used by Jeb Bush to steal Florida from Al Gore.
The NAACP at the time took both Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris to court, mainly on the phony felon database, and the NAACP won. The NAACP held a huge towhhall meeting in which it investigated all of the illegalities that took place that voting day with hundreds of witnesses giving testimony.
So, one might ask the question as to what all was accomplished from this then and now. The answer is simply nothing. The 2000 election in Florida should have been nullified and held again, but it wasn't, and Al Gore should've fought the illegal decision made by SCOTUS to stop the Florida recount, but he didn't. HAVA was then passed when Bush was president and now we're all screwed.
After all the world has changed around them but they still live and hang out in Washington DC.
Please note that the work work does not appear in the previous statement.
Washington and the ruling elite has no interest in anything other than keeping you marginalized.