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What Clint Eastwood Did Last Night
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by Albert Milliron | August 31, 2012 at 10:46 am
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By Kevin Williams, Director/Co-Producer, FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN
As a Filmmaker who happens to be Republican, I want to share a few thoughts about Clint Eastwood’s speaking at the Republican National Convention last night. Clint is an artist and if you don’t know, one who changed the Hollywood system when he became one of the first Actors to become a Director with PLAY MISTY FOR ME (1971). Working in the film industry myself, I feel a great kinship with Clint as a fellow filmmaker and as someone who is politically active on a local level. And like millions of other Americans, I was very curious and being a Republican and a Filmmaker – very pumped to hear what he would say about this current Election.
Needless to say, Clint exceeded my expectations in ways I didn’t consider before I turned on my TV last night. I expected him a take on his now infamous Super Bowl Car Commercial from this past February. Wrong! Clint would just trot out, give an enhanced Oscar speech with a few great lines punched up with a Dirty Harry reference or mention that being the Mayor of Carmel, CA was more Executive experience than our President had. Wrong! I thought he would take back his “It’s Halftime” line from said Super Bowl commercial and say something like “Now this here in Tampa… this is Halftime” in his great, gravelly voice. Wrong! Finally, I thought “well, he has TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE coming out next month and won’t do anything to hurt his movie or his chances for one last Best Actor Nomination (lots of buzz on this). Wrong Again!
What Clint did last night was nothing less than extraordinary and a great, self-less sacrifice for his Country and his fellow Americans. By taking the stage last night and employing the empty-chair prop, Clint did what no other Republican or Mitt Romney could ever do… make it okay to make fun of the President and humanize him for his decisions, his choice of focus and most importantly, his choice of who he represents. Clint humanized the President and brought him down from the self-created (and self-restricting) lofty heights of the “untouchable” to the human level of “touchable.” In my opinion, the President’s Media and Campaign Guard have built an artificial castle wall around the President to his detriment. If President Obama and his Party play it smart and humble, we may find that Clint’s empty chair may help Obama 2012 because of such humanization. However, that isn’t likely and I think Clint probably took this possibility into account before last night.
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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)at 11:48 on August 31st, 2012
While all you say may have been considered, I think you have over thought and unnecessarily complicated Clint Eastwood's performance last night. Clint is an extraordinary film director and actor. He used this experience to full effect during his presence on the GOP Convention stage. It was obvious to most people that he was "acting" out a message that should resonate [as he stated] with Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, and those Republicans on the convention floor and viewing from home.
Judging by the immediate character attacks on Clint by the alphabet media, Clint's message of truth that it is "you, we Americans who own this country" was not best received by the pro-Obama statist's. Never mind the idea that a President who has failed the people in promise and policy should be fired by those "owners" {Republic} who employ him to see to the nations interests. Probably, and IMO the most salient part of the one man play was the rhetorical, " No, I can't tell Mitt Romney to do that to himself.... and I can't do that to myself either." We have been unwillingly doing that, f.... ourselves for the last four years, and no joy!
“I think possibly now it may be time for another person to come along and solve the problems” Clint Eastwood 2012 RNC Convention