Clint Eastwood Explains His empty Chair Speech At GOP This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, pic.twitter.com/jgGZTb02
Eastwood’s conversation with chair was unrehearsed surprise
At last month’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood gave an intriguing speech.
The improvised speech featured an empty chair with which Eastwood pretended to have a conversation. The chair was meant to represent current President Barak Obama.
“I got Mr. Obama sitting here and I was gonna ask him a couple questions,” Eastwood said, turning his head toward the bare stool.
“Mr. President, how do you handle promises you made when you were running for election?” he asked. “What do you say to people?”
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But Eastwood cut off the interviewee: “I’m not gonna shut up. It’s my turn,” he said.
And then, again, to the chair: “What do you want me to tell Mr. Romney?”
“I can’t tell him to do that,” Eastwood responded. “He can’t do that to himself. You’re absolutely crazy. You’re getting as bad as Biden!”
In the only interview since his appearance, Eastwood said that his speech was not vetted by the Romney and Ryan campaign, like most other speeches. Eastwood told staffers that they could not vet the speech because he said “I don’t know what I’m going to say.”
Eastwood continued, expressing the point that the idea of the chair did not occur to him until just before he was set to appear. A staffer asked him if he wanted to sit and he thought “I’ll just put the chair out there and talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made.”
Clint that outrageous speech was disrespectful, I lost respect for you when I heard you.Obama is the greatest, respectful, considerate, thoughtful and loving. He will do the best for the USA . Bill Clinton is the one to learn from as far as speeches go. Stick to acting Clint. I think you are becoming demented.
Advice to Clint: If you’re going to address the nation with an important speech, its probably best to give some thought to what you’re going to say before hand. The idea that he would just stand there and make up something is absurd.
That would have worked much better if the sitting President had been Reagan, because Reagan had nothing in his brain by the end of his first term.
At best the stunt will mystify people. At worst, it will convince them that like another famous right-winger, Charlton Heston, Eastwood has lost his marbles. Please keep on giving your empty-chair talks, Clint. You are one of the best assets the Democrqatic ticket has!
Finally someone calls it the way it is less the fuss and fan fare and all the left wing nuts take offense. Finally a proven businessman has offered to step up to the plate and run the country where he can provide hope rather than empty promises and a welfare state. Romney can make 50 times what he would make as a President in private practice, yet he is willing to give that all up to try and save America. His original partners are worth three times as much as he because of his commitment as governor, where he never took a salary, and other government commitments. This is not to mention the millions he has donated to charity over the years, which amounted to 2.6 million last year alone. All the left wing can do now is attack him on his wealth, and demonize him for being successful. Wow, most of us commit ourselves to doing well and when our children succeed, we are proud. However, be careful if 51 percent of the people are on some kind of social program, they of course will vote to get more hand outs rather than a job.
I believe The President is a good man, likely a great husband, and father: Just a BAD president. If he is voted in on social issues our future economically is at serious risk, and if America goes down, Canada will follow. Our only hope is Romney a proven leader verses a proven failure; the current President Obama.
Hey Skywalker, who do you think put the U.S. into a welfare estate? Obama inherited the mess the republicans made in the previous eight years capped off by the corporate american greed mongers that preyed on the pensioners, the middle class and bilked them out of their savings, their pensions and their homes. But you really lost me at ‘Canada will follow’. Sorry but the american demise has nothing to do with Canada – we did quite alright during the past five years compared to the US and alot of other countries. Let the right man clean up this mess in the USA – that’s Barack Obama, it’s a tough job and he’s the most honest person I have seen in politics for a very long time.
Frequently, politicians, and members of the
Press will “talk to”, or rather “down to”
somebody, without that somebody physically
present, able to respond… Example, President
REagan addressing an audience of strangers
(with Gorbachev not physically present) in Berlin,
saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”…
That said, Eastwood’s “sketch” reminded me of a scene
from the movie ‘They Live’ (Rotton Rowdy Piper) :
One guy says to another, “I don’t like it when some
guy is following me”.. And the other guy replies,
“Well, I don’t join up with a guy until I see where
he is going”… Eastwood kept looking over his
shoulder during the sketch, as if he was being
followed, or to see if he was being followed…
Seemed to have lost the audience… Improv can be
brutal.
Sometimes, hearing is seeing.
Canada will folow? Damn right Canada will follow if the USA falls. People who live in Canada for the most part demonize Americans and take a holier than thou stance with regards to so much that happens south of the border without taking a moment to realize where our livlihood comes from. Not all Canadians feel this way, however they are unfortunately the most vocal of all Canadians and like to hear themselves (or read themselves). Go Romney and the GOP! Hopefully you can right the ship USA and help to get the worlds economy back online!
I am neither anti-american or holier than thou. I believe the US needs to recover and get their economy on track but Canada is not circling the drain while waiting for that to happen. Obama remains their best bet to get this right and develop a long term plan to lead his country into the future. Romney is proposing quick fixes that will soon fizzle and leave a future democratic leader to fix.