Republicans haunted by Invisible Obama

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1. Tom 1

   4 September 2012 at 12:49 pm

   Was Eastwood undermining Romney ?
   • Morrissey 1.1

     4 September 2012 at 12:54 pm

     I don’t know if he undermined Romney, but he certainly destroyed his own reputation.
2. shorts 2

   4 September 2012 at 1:35 pm

   twitter went mental as Eastwood’s speech took off – many laughs

   and in quick time this ghost account appeared

   Invisible Obama
   @InvisibleObama
   Send me requests for an invisible Reddit AMA at invisibleobama2012@gmail.com.
   Stage left of Clint Eastwood · https://www.facebook.com/TheRealInvisibleObama
   • Morrissey 2.1

     4 September 2012 at 1:46 pm

     twitter went mental as Eastwood’s speech took off – many laughs

     The silly old fool is now the laughing stock of the world.
3. TheContrarian 3

   4 September 2012 at 1:47 pm

   I was at the office so listening to the RNC instead of watching it…for the first 5 minutes.

   Then I got confused about who he was talking to so switched on video and was profoundly befuddled by Eastwood’s performance. 
   • Morrissey 3.1

     4 September 2012 at 1:52 pm

     Then I got confused about who he was talking to so switched on video and was profoundly befuddled by Eastwood’s performance.

     You were simply shocked and amazed. It is poor old Clint Eastwood that is confused and befuddled.
     • TheContrarian 3.1.1

       4 September 2012 at 1:55 pm

       Ahhh yes, good point.
       • Tiger Mountain 3.1.1.1

         4 September 2012 at 2:10 pm

         Clint’s Charlie Sheen moment. Obviously not suited to public appearances anymore. His last acting role in “Gran Torino” was not bad actually. And he seemingly tried to make ammends for his life long RWNJobery with his two WWII movies.

         My son trying to be funny sent me the first four Dirty Harry movies last week. Watched “Sudden Impact”, grainy out of focus hand cannon mayhem galore in San Francisco and small California beach towns.
4. SHG 4

   4 September 2012 at 2:09 pm

   I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Clint Eastwood morphed into Grandpa Simpson before our very eyes.
5. tc 5

   4 September 2012 at 2:29 pm

   Ouch ! Love the line that ‘..it’s the president that only the republicans see..’
   Bill maher was on the money… I knew he was republican but I thought he was old school not a hard out right wing asshole.
6. QoT 6

   4 September 2012 at 3:31 pm

   Absolutely worth the click-through. Laughed till I cried when I watched it last night, especially when Eastwood tries to berate Invisible Obama for getting them into Afghanistan …
   • Colonial Viper 6.1

     4 September 2012 at 3:38 pm

     I had to turn it off after a couple of minutes it was so painful. You have to think though…who the hell on the Convention organising team OK’d this!
     • QoT 6.1.1

       4 September 2012 at 3:41 pm

       The only explanation is that they’ve bought so much into their own propaganda that they seriously couldn’t even consider that Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair might go down poorly.

       On the other hand, if we consider that they don’t actually care if something looks stupid to liberals as long as their own base thinks it’s tremendously funny, it starts to make some kind of sense. Then they can just focus on legislating votes away from people of colour and finding ways to sue over unfavourable results the day after the election.
     • Jim Nald 6.1.2

       4 September 2012 at 3:47 pm

       “For all the finger-pointing about Clint Eastwood’s rambling conversation with an empty chair on Thursday night, the most bizarre, head-scratching 12 minutes in recent political convention history were set in motion by Mitt Romney himself and made possible by his aides, who had shrouded the actor’s appearance in secrecy.”

       http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/us/politics/romney-aides-scratch-their-heads-over-eastwoods-speech.html?pagewanted=all
     • SHG 6.1.3

       4 September 2012 at 5:54 pm

       I find the notion that CV and I share a common opinion hard to swallow, but that was my reaction too. I couldn’t watch the 12 minutes all the way through. It was that painful.

       Apparently the Romney team is experiencing some “internal disagreements” about who exactly approved the appearance:

       http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/scocca/2012/08/clint_eastwood_gop_convention_the_romney_campaign_sells_out_its_surprise_speaker_.html
       • mike 6.1.3.1

         4 September 2012 at 7:05 pm

         I’d quite like to juxtapose this from Jim’s link:

         “Romney advisers so trusted Mr. Eastwood, 82, that unlike with other speakers, they said they did not conduct rehearsals or insist on a script or communicate guidelines for the style or format of his remarks.”

         With this from SHG’s:

         ““Not me,” said an exasperated-looking senior adviser, when asked who was responsible for Mr. Eastwood’s speech.”

         “In 1988, George Bush briefly considered choosing him [Eastwood] as his running mate; he picked Dan Quayle instead.”

         Romney would have been better off calling Dan Quayle, which shows you how bad Dirty Harry was. (Geez can anyone picture Clint as VP?)
         • felix 6.1.3.1.1

           5 September 2012 at 12:15 am

           Yeah, I can. But in a world of Sonny Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Ronald Reagan there’s not that many surprises.
7. Foreign Waka 7

   4 September 2012 at 5:28 pm

   This performance surely has two parties loosing face and dignity – Mr Romney and Mr Eastwood. The first for living in lala land and the second who made it clear to us all.
   • mike e 7.1

     4 September 2012 at 5:35 pm

     He shot the republicans in the foot so many times denegrating lawyers in the whitehouse Romney is a law graduate.
     Along with his endorsement of Obamas Detroit rescue of the motor industry maybe this was Eastwood making Obama’s day!
     The right have very little imagination as they are always focused on the bottom line.
8. felix 8

   4 September 2012 at 6:11 pm

   I’ve been wanting to pass comment on this for a couple of days, but I found the whole thing so surreal I’ve been at a loss to know where to start.

   That’s what Stewart is so good at though, eh? Interpreting the insanity of it all.

   I think what I found most bizarre was the reaction of the audience, cheering and applauding as if it were a real debate and Clint was actually scoring mad points outwitting the imaginary man in the chair.
   • Anne 8.1

     4 September 2012 at 6:41 pm

     That’s American audiences for you. They scream and cheer and anything. Especially if they’re Republican. Quite mad.
     • Pascal's bookie 8.1.1

       4 September 2012 at 7:04 pm

       Pro wrestling.

       That is all.
       • Morrissey 8.1.1.1

         4 September 2012 at 7:33 pm

         Pro wrestling.

         That is all.

         Actually, pro wrestlers only PRETEND to be insane.
       • QoT 8.1.1.2

         4 September 2012 at 7:34 pm

         Pro wrestling is like the circus. You can appreciate the showmanship while knowing that they’ve done some planning.

         An RNC audience, on the other hand, is probably responding to the gigantic carefully-out-of-camera-sight APPLAUSE signs.
         • Morrissey 8.1.1.2.1

           4 September 2012 at 7:37 pm

           And who holds up the LOOK VACANT and BREATHE THROUGH YOUR MOUTH signs?
           • QoT 8.1.1.2.1.1

             4 September 2012 at 7:38 pm

             Republican crowd. Some things don’t need to be prompted.
     • Morrissey 8.1.2

       4 September 2012 at 7:30 pm

       That’s American audiences for you. They scream and cheer and anything. Especially if they’re Republican.

       To be fair, however, you have to acknowledge that, four years ago, plenty of Democrats were screaming and cheering for that fraud Obama and his empty “hope and change” rhetoric.

       And that mindless old fool Clint Eastwood was no doubt one of the most avid worshippers.
       • felix 8.1.2.1

         4 September 2012 at 7:36 pm

         Dude. There was no one in the chair.

         It’s not the same thing.
         • Morrissey 8.1.2.1.1

           4 September 2012 at 7:39 pm

           If Detective Callahan says there was someone in the chair, there was someone in the freaking chair!
           • felix 8.1.2.1.1.1

             4 September 2012 at 7:41 pm

             lolz
   • mike 8.2

     4 September 2012 at 7:13 pm

     Nothing new there, I still feel like puking just from the memory of Dubya Bush getting three standing ovations per minute for his “I like good things, I don’t like bad things.” speeches.
     • Tiger Mountain 8.2.1

       4 September 2012 at 8:21 pm

       Sure, but the Republicans cannot be “miss-underestimated”, ‘Dirty Harry’ debacle notwithstanding given the technical vote rigging/disenfranchisement and other jiggery pokery going on in the land of the free.
9. Te Reo Putake 9

   4 September 2012 at 8:24 pm

   Eastwooding, folks! Won’t be long before Max Key shows Dad how to do it.
    
    
10. North 10

    4 September 2012 at 9:12 pm

    Oh TRP you’re such a mongrel ! How dare you mention the boy. That’s off-limits talk. You can’t mention the kids. Never mind that Fat-uous (I refer to what passes for the mind) Bennett inferentially mentions the kids all the time……you know the kids who don’t matter……the ones who slip in and out of poverty every other week. Like ergo it doesn’t matter. After all, their parents are dirty beneficiaries (like her own overpaid bus-sized arse wasn’t ?).
    • Te Reo Putake 10.1

      4 September 2012 at 9:40 pm

      It’s PC gone mad!
11. r0b 11

    4 September 2012 at 9:48 pm

    Some brilliant stuff coming out of this:

    http://mashable.com/2012/08/30/clint-eastwood-chair-meme/

    

    
12. Ross 12

    5 September 2012 at 11:16 am

    I hear that John Campbell fromTV3 was impressed with Clint’s performance. I mean Campbell loves the whole empty chair interview schtick.

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