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Clint Eastwood makes TV ad for Mitt Romney
Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood made Mitt Romney’s day Wednesday, urging Americans to join him in supporting the Republican White House challenger in a TV ad against President Barack Obama. The gruff-voiced “Dirty Harry” star said four more years of Obama would mean four more years of policies that have left…
Texas man takes down lynched chair, threatens media
The Texas man who attracted attention for lynching a chair in his yard took it down Friday while denying any racist intent behind it. “I’m not a racist,” Bud Johnson told KEYE-TV Friday while untying the chair from a tree. “I don’t dislike any race.” However, he confirmed that the…
Clint Eastwood: Romney campaign ‘dumb enough’ to ask me to speak
Clint Eastwood is continuing to stand behind a bizarre speech that the gave at the Republican National Convention last month and says if that if Mitt Romney’s campaign was “dumb enough” to ask him to speak then they deserve what they got. “People loved it or hated it, and that’s…
SNL’s Eastwood and Chair
The odds of the season opener of Saturday Night Live not including a bit on Clint Eastwood’s infamous RNC speech featuring an “invisible, irritated and foul-mouthed Barrack Obama” as an empty chair? A billion-to-one? On Saturday night, SNL cast member Bill Hader played the grouchy star on a post-convention road…
Clint Eastwood, citing old age, defends bizarre RNC performance
Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood, who stole the show on the final night of the Republican convention by debating an empty chair meant to signify President Obama, is now defending his performance by saying that in old age, “you don’t have to edit yourself.” In an interview with CNN, Eastwood said…
Fake news gets people to agree anything is true—except Clint Eastwood’s speech
A new original satire video from Jest’s comedy website proves that “people will believe anything about politics if you look like a news man and are holding a microphone.” The fake news caster runs around New York City proving typical idiocy by saying things that simply aren’t true — like that President…
Eastwood admits he ad-libbed chair speech
Clint Eastwood has admitted he winged it at the Republican National Convention, deciding only at the last minute to ad lib a conversation with an empty chair, in remarks published Friday. In his first public comment on the furor triggered by his eye-brow-raising routine, the Hollywood icon said he made…
Democratic Convention Diary Day 1: Michelle rocks the conventioneers and the gun show
Was there another speech last night? Does anyone else remember? What was going on last week in Tampa anyway, that was a lot of press to cover a tropical storm, right? And why was Clint Eastwood there again? The skies might have opened up over Charlotte before the main speeches…
Romney cuts Eastwood from RNC highlights as conservatives cheer empty chairs
A video released by the Romney campaign last weekend excluded Hollywood director Clint Eastwood from a selection of Republican National Convention (RNC) “highlights,” even as Romney’s supporters rallied Monday for what they called “National Empty Chair Day.” A clip of RNC highlights released Sunday by the Romney campaign emphasizes top…
Obama tweet mocking Eastwood was most shared GOP convention tweet
In a sign of just how much Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican convention overshadowed the rest of the party’s big nominating event, President Obama’s tweeted rebuttal to that speech was shared across Twitter more than any other message from the convention. Following Eastwood’s speech, in which the Hollywood icon…
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