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Clint Eastwood explains some

EmmaZahn — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:41:48 +0000

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Clint Eastwood explains some more about Tampa:

“If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re gonna have to take what they get.”

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Not that it tells whether or

EmmaZahn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:41:41 +0000

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Not that it tells whether or not Clint succeeded in moving votes but this Economist article links to an interesting infographic that tracked after quotes from the RNC in social media:

The Economist: A new media communications agency in Washington, DC, has produced an interactive map of the most memorable moments of the Republican Party convention. The maps plots the most popular phrases from the main speakers. Mousing over a tile reveals the sentence, the number of mentions and its percentage relative to the overall popularity of one-linershttp ://econ.st/OVcB3b

I thought spaghetti westerns

EmmaZahn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:32:27 +0000

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I thought spaghetti westerns ranked right up there in the big hoax department.

I was late for a meeting and

EmmaZahn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:31:00 +0000

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I was late for a meeting and forgot to thank Jim Galloway @ Political Insider for the find. Glad you liked it.

Thanks for posting, EZ A

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:58:14 +0000

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Thanks for posting, EZ

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

And so he is helping people get the wool pulled over their eyes by Romney/Ryan. Thanks, Clint--a real public service you're performing there (oh wait, I'm talking to an empty chair now, aren't I?).

His reactions are just those of the average citizen out there. Right. The average citizen who doesn't need SS or Medicare, for starters. How presumptuous of him.

I think kgb, who I respect, was making Clint's argument: if the politicians "don't deliver", fire them. That assumes you can't do worse with the alternative, which is a silly, unthoughtful view. His view assumes we would not be in worse shape had the stimulus not been enacted, and that the right conclusion is that stimulus is a dumb idea. Well, that's one conclusion.

Whatever--blah blah blah. As I wrote before when DD was offering his take, the bottom line on this is that, regardless of anyone's "take" on what he did, and his own intent as stated in the interview, whether he succeeded or not in moving votes is an empirical question. It might be possible to find out, at some point, whether he was effective in achieving what he says he wanted to, or not. He is of course entitled to his opinions, and is fortunate in being able to enjoy a platform very few average citizens could ever dream of to offer them, at least somewhat more coherently in this interview than he did on stage the other night.

I don't object to Hollywood stars exercising their free speech rights. I'd like it if more of them were thoughtful in what they say--of whatever political persuasion they happen to be. I've certainly heard plenty of junk spouted from the mouths of Hollywood liberals.

?President Obama is the

cmaukonen — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:27:44 +0000

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“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week.

Oh no. Ronald Reagan beats him by a mile. But then nearly everyone since Nixon has been a hoax. In fact the last "real" candidates were Barry Goldwater and George McGovern.

Both laid out exactly what they would do and both got severely trounced.

Goes to show how far being honest and open gets you running for president.

I may have irritated a lot of

cmaukonen — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:06:21 +0000

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I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”

Oh...you were meaning to irritate the people in the middle as well.

Thanks for the catch! Since

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:34:32 +0000

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Thanks for the catch! Since it's become a major cultural story that's not going to go away for quite some time, I was hoping (but not fully expecting,) to eventually get some elaboration like this from the horse's mouth.