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Texas man lynches chair with invisible Obama
A Republican man in Austin, Texas this week lynched a chair which many are interpreting to be a threat against President Barack Obama because of Clint Eastwood’s bizarre speech at the Republican National Convention last month. “We have a sad and awful history of white people lynching African-Americans in Texas,…
Akin urges lady Republicans to declare: ‘I’m a women’
Update (below): ‘Women for Akin’ site vanishes Second update: Akin spokesperson calls entire ‘Women for Akin’ site ‘a glitch’ A relaunched website and television ad campaign paid for by Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R) urges lady Missourians to declare, “I’m a women and I support Todd!” Yes, you read…
Last-minute scramble on Romney acceptance speech cut Afghanistan, added Eastwood
In a new report looking at the inside of the Romney campaign, aides reveal that the Romney campaign scrapped a much-belabored acceptance speech from a longtime Republican speechwriter just eight days before the Republican National Convention began. Top campaign strategist Stuart Stevens brought Peter Wehner, a veteran of three previous…
Krugman: Republican base is ‘elderly white people arguing with empty chairs’
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says that the Republican Party has adopted extreme anti-immigrant positions to appeal to their base, “which is, by and large, elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.” During a Sunday panel segment on ABC News, Krugman pointed out that Clint Eastwood’s bizarre conversation with…
Ann Romney flip-flops: ‘We have not had a financial struggle in our lives’
During her Republican National Convention speech last month, Ann Romney suggested that she and her husband had once been so poor that they “ate a lot of pasta and Tuna fish” and their “dining room table was a fold down ironing board.” In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC,…
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…
Villaraigosa: Republicans running on ‘platform of 1812′
After a week of watching the Republican National Convention, the Democratic convention chair has decided that the GOP 2012 platform looks more like the “platform of 1812.” “If you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it’s from another century — maybe even two,” Los Angeles Mayor…
In a Friday night special, Jon Stewart celebrates Clint Eastwood’s ‘fistful of awesome’
In a special Friday night Republican National Convention edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took on Clint Eastwood and the now-infamous empty chair. As they say in the circus, just watch: —– Video above originally uploaded by Mediate on August 31, 2012.…
Ann Romney: Clint Eastwood ‘did a unique thing’
Ann Romney says she appreciates the support of actor Clint Eastwood and the “unique thing” he did during his Thursday speech at the Republican National Convention, but she would have rather seen a video praising her husband, Mitt Romney. During surprise, rambling speech in which Eastwood interviewed an invisible Barack…
The Republican National Convention week in review: A GIF guide
If you felt so overwhelmed with Republican National Convention coverage this week that you just did the mental equivalent of hitting “ignore,” we don’t blame you. With literally thousands of reporters descending on Tampa this week, The Atlantic‘s Molly Ball admitted, “Sure, the conventions are a manufactured event, more infomercial…
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