Clint Eastwood is a genius!

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Hehe.. unlike Tesla-ites, I won't claim he is one of the greatest geniuses of all time, but yeah... I think he is a fucking genius.

OF ALL the RNC convention speeches, his was the most direct and focused attack on Obama and his failed policies. Eastwood called him out on everything from Afghanistan to trials terrorists in downtown NYC... to being a limousine liberal... and he made brilliant points, one of the best lines of the convention: We Own This Country!

Eastwood even got shots in on Biden.
"He's like a grin with a body behind it."

I thought he demonstrated his creative brilliance in using an empty chair to symbolize Obama. The added touch of giving the empty chair a teleprompter, shows why Eastwood is an American treasure. Who else could have pulled off such a great public condemnation of Obama and his policies? Today, it is the trending topic on Twitter and other social media, and in that regard, isn't that exactly what an ARTIST is supposed to do? The fact that people are talking about Eastwood's speech, whether it's good or bad, whether you thought he was a bumbling idiot, whether you're like me and thought it was a brilliant performance for an old guy without a script... it made you pay attention to it, it made you discuss it and talk about it... and for ART, that IS the purpose. True?
 
How to be dixie:

1.) Find an angle of an issue almost no one agrees on, or that any sentient being would come to the conclusion for -
2.) argue it with absolute fervor -
3.) be sure to not just take the opposising side, but to take it and then trump it up even higher to the nth degree

Examples:

Global Warming

"Global warming doesn't exist, in fact, not only does it not exist, but we are entering an ice age. What do you call SNOW? HELLO??!"

Evolution

"Not only is evolution not true, (it's just a theory), It's clear us existing is proof enough of a creator, do you think a watch just springs out of existence? No! It had a creator. A HUMAN IS more complicated than a watch! In fact, god probably created watches too!"

Riddles

"Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?"

....

"uh, no, my interpretation of that riddle isn't WRONG, 1/3rd isn't even REAL idiots, it's so obvious, if you divide 1 by 3 you will NEVER have 3 equal parts, it will always have a remainder!
 
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You are so transparent it's laughable.

Eastwood has done irreparable damage to an otherwise stellar career.

No surprise that you call him genius. :0)
 
He's an addled, bitter old man. That qualifies as "genius" in Greater Slapout.


He berated Obama for not learning from the Russian experience in invading Afghanistan.

It was George W Bush who ordered US troops into the country.


He suggested it was a bad idea for lawyers to become presidents.

Romney, like Obama, is a graduate of Harvard law school. Abraham Lincoln was also one.


"When somebody doesn't do the job, you've got to let them go," Eastwood said, drawing a finger across his throat.

A speech that was supposed to last five minutes lasted nearly 12.



Romney's camp defended Eastwood.

"He's an American icon," Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told CNN's Piers Morgan. "You can't look at him at through the same political lens that you would other politicians. He's Clint Eastwood."


And the Dix is the Dix.



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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug/31/clint-eastwood-chair-speech-romney
 
Grind said:
How to be dixie:

1.) Find an angle of an issue almost no one agrees on, or that any sentient being would come to the conclusion for -
2.) argue it with absolute fervor -
3.) be sure to not just take the opposising side, but to take it and then trump it up even higher to the nth degree

Examples:

Global Warming

"Global warming doesn't exist, in fact, not only does it not exist, but we are entering an ice age. What do you call SNOW? HELLO??!"

Evolution

"Not only is evolution not true, (it's just a theory), It's clear us existing is proof enough of a creator, do you think a watch just springs out of existence? No! It had a creator. A HUMAN IS more complicated than a watch! In fact, god probably created watches too!"

Riddles

"Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?"

....

"uh, no, my interpretation of that riddle isn't WRONG, 1/3rd isn't even REAL idiots, it's so obvious, if you divide 1 by 3 you will NEVER have 3 equal parts, it will always have a remainder!
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Nice rant dude!
 
blackascoal said:
You are so transparent it's laughable.

Eastwood has done irreparable damage to an otherwise stellar career.

No surprise that you call him genius. :0)
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OH come on! Eastwood has been a conservative ideologue all my life. This is Dirty Harry were talking about. Not Pope John Paull II. Trust me. No harmd one here.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
OH come on! Eastwood has been a conservative ideologue all my life. This is Dirty Harry were talking about. Not Pope John Paull II. Trust me. No harmd one here.
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Conservative ideologue? Would a conservative ideologue done that halftime commercial during the Super Bowl this year? Would a conservative ideologue have that great quote on gay marriage that those on the left on this board all loved? Clint is anything but an ideologue. In fact when people talk about wanting old school Republicans back instead of today's ideologues Clint Eastwood is the exact type of Republican they are talking about as he is anything but an ideologue.
 
Grind said:
How to be dixie:

1.) Find an angle of an issue almost no one agrees on, or that any sentient being would come to the conclusion for -
2.) argue it with absolute fervor -
3.) be sure to not just take the opposising side, but to take it and then trump it up even higher to the nth degree

Examples:

Global Warming

"Global warming doesn't exist, in fact, not only does it not exist, but we are entering an ice age. What do you call SNOW? HELLO??!"

Evolution

"Not only is evolution not true, (it's just a theory), It's clear us existing is proof enough of a creator, do you think a watch just springs out of existence? No! It had a creator. A HUMAN IS more complicated than a watch! In fact, god probably created watches too!"

Riddles

"Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?"

....

"uh, no, my interpretation of that riddle isn't WRONG, 1/3rd isn't even REAL idiots, it's so obvious, if you divide 1 by 3 you will NEVER have 3 equal parts, it will always have a remainder!
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:D Hilarious! Dead on target.
 
christiefan915 said:
:D Hilarious! Dead on target.
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To be an effective Dixie-clone, one must use random capitalization of key words, lots of exclamation points, and refer to others as "pinheads" at regular intervals...all without providing any verifiable evidence to support your contentions.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
OH come on! Eastwood has been a conservative ideologue all my life. This is Dirty Harry were talking about. Not Pope John Paull II. Trust me. No harmd one here.
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It's not that he's a conservative ideologue, but that he came off as an addled, long-winded geezer. Although you never know, maybe the whole thing was scripted to draw attention from Rmoney's vapidity.
 
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https://twitter.com/InvisibleObama
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Again, proving my point, the man is a genius. You are all still talking about him today. People who didn't see his convention speech are burning up YouTube to find it. Probably not since Andy Warhol, has an artist evoked such a passionate response to his work. If Eastwood had stood up there and delivered the typical prepared speech, nothing fancy, just routine talking points... people would have yawned and it would have all been a forgotten footnote of the convention by now. The fact that this has gone viral, and everyone continues to talk about it, is a testament to the sheer artistic brilliance only Clint Eastwood could have delivered.

Now, I am sure Clint, being the perfectionist he is, wishes he would have rehearsed his skit a little more instead of taking that nap before his appearance, but all in all, I think he did exactly what an artist is expected to do, he stirred your passions and made you take notice. You can't stop talking about it, as a matter of fact. The image of "Invisible Obama" lives on, and Eastwood did that.
 
Dixie said:
Again, proving my point, the man is a genius. You are all still talking about him today. People who didn't see his convention speech are burning up YouTube to find it. Probably not since Andy Warhol, has an artist evoked such a passionate response to his work. If Eastwood had stood up there and delivered the typical prepared speech, nothing fancy, just routine talking points... people would have yawned and it would have all been a forgotten footnote of the convention by now. The fact that this has gone viral, and everyone continues to talk about it, is a testament to the sheer artistic brilliance only Clint Eastwood could have delivered.

Now, I am sure Clint, being the perfectionist he is, wishes he would have rehearsed his skit a little more instead of taking that nap before his appearance, but all in all, I think he did exactly what an artist is expected to do, he stirred your passions and made you take notice. You can't stop talking about it, as a matter of fact. The image of "Invisible Obama" lives on, and Eastwood did that.
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Problem is, we're supposed to be talking about Rmoney and how he stirred us, but instead his own speech is only being discussed by fact checkers.
 
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