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Well, the problem for

tmccarthy0 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:31:21 +0000

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Well, the problem for Eastwood is, he took Ellison's book and made it real, and came off as an out of touch jackhole.

Considering the audience, not

Aunt Sam — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:16:59 +0000

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Considering the audience, not so bizarre.

Gran Torino gave us a moment

Peter Schwartz — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:06:04 +0000

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Gran Torino gave us a moment to believe we could be the man with poncho and half smoked cigar in this life and still have dignity. Tonight showed that wasn't true.

Try to put this delicately...

In Gran Torino, he had a scriptwriter...and lines to say...and a director to follow (even if it was himself)...and a whole crew and budget to keep him on track.

Sans all that, he's just a guy who's getting old and maybe believes his own press a bit too much.

Ironically, Eastwood was there as the anti-Romney...his perceived strength an equal measure of Romney's perceived weakness...to show that deep inside that milquetoast of a soulless, ball-less vulture raider...beats the heart of an outsider, a gunslinger come to town to save the towns folk from the "bad guys."

The ones in black hats wearing black skin.

You make an excellent point

Verified Atheist — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:54:11 +0000

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You make an excellent point that he apparently had the audience eating out of his hand, however bizarre that might seem to us.

I feel that the DNC needs to

Verified Atheist — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:52:38 +0000

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I feel that the DNC needs to respond by having Charlie Sheen speak, preferably in his drug-addled state. (Has he gotten better yet?)

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Elusive Trope — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:47:15 +0000

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P.S. the importantly bad but

A Guy Called LULU — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:34:32 +0000

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P.S. the importantly bad but well accepted speech, important because it was well accepted on all sides I've seen, was Condie Rice's.

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Elusive Trope — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:27:43 +0000

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I think you should make a

A Guy Called LULU — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:18:49 +0000

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I think you should make a definite attempt to separate the contrived fiction of an armchair adrenalin junkie movie from reality. Whatever the hell reality is. I just say this in confidence that Hollywood does not know either what reality is, except that they think it is boring, and so no idea of the shape of the world should depend too much on contrived scenes. Ya see, Clint never was the man with no eyes. Not really. But those exciting fictions do affect our culture. IMO. And that is why I think Eastwood made an affective speech. People love that stuff.

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Elusive Trope — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:06:43 +0000

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