It's interesting to me how a meme gets started, and everyone joins in. I was out for awhile last night, and missed Eastwood's performance in realtime. I got home just in time to hear the MSNBC hosts discussing his "weird" performance. I had recorded it, so I found the spot, and watched. Was it weird? Probably for a convention. But not weird like Ionesco's The Chairs, right out of the Theater of the Absurd. But it was weird enough to get everyone involved in the vehicle, thus missing, and not reporting what he said. I have laughed until it hurt while reading some of the tweets. And not one says anything about the substance. While not necessarily factual, it was a pretty scathing indictment of the President. I pulled the following pieces of the transcript from Fox, so blame them for any errors.
23 million unemployed people in this country
Now that is something to cry for because that is a disgrace, a national disgrace, and we haven't done enough, obviously -- this administration hasn't done enough to cure that. Whenever interest they have is not strong enough, and I think possibly now it may be time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem.
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Well, I know even people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn't close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo -- why close that, we spent so much money on it.
OK, I thought maybe it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City.
I've got to to hand it to you. I have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that finally.
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I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that's okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the Russians to see how did it -- they did there for 10
years.
But we did it, and it is something to be thought about, and I think that, when we get to maybe -- I think you've mentioned something about having a target date for bringing everybody home. You gave that target date, and I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question, you know, he says, ``Why are you giving the date out now? Why don't you just bring them home tomorrow morning?''
The media failed again. Twice just this week. They reported on the many lies of Paul Ryan, and they didn't report on what Clint Eastwood said. This might just Make My Day.