Fuck Clint Eastwood

[Hugabear]

Fuck him. I don't care what he's done in the past, the fact that he would lend his support to the rethugs says it all.

I'm surprised they didn't trot our Dave Mustaine to play the anthem.

[liberallibral]

1. Nice...

I thought our side was supposed to be the "TOLERANT" side....

[Hugabear]

4. we're supposed to be tolerant of intolerant assholes?

We should tolerate a party that is racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, warmongering?

[liberallibral]

6. Yep - That's a nice attitude that's sure to sway the all-important independants our way!!

[Hugabear]

12. Your concern is touching

If you want to tolerate the party of racists, then feel free.

[malaise]

14. I'm not touched

but I'm heading to the flower shop

[liberallibral]

20. Ok...

I'll tolerate Clint Eastwood a little more than Che Guavara, thank you!

[PassingFair]

24. "Che Guavara"? You mean THIS guy?

[liberallibral]

30. Yeah, him too haha!!

[WinkyDink]

85. Oh, yes. The Bautista regime was just swell, wasn't it?

You know nothing, and you are no Democrat.

[Inspired]

33. Yeah, all the independents on the DU. Right.

[DainBramaged]

53. Half of the Americn public is too stupid to understand what is going on

that's the half that voted for Bush twice.


Fuck Clint Eastwood, Mitt Robme and Lyin Ryan.

[heaven05]

60. but,but

they are everything hugabear said and don't deserve to be respected for anything.

[WinkyDink]

84. Really? And 134 posts? (P.S. No "a" in "independents.")

You're fooling no-one here except yourself.

[blackspade]

86. Independents are not all important to the election.

[LanternWaste]

97. I don't think that laughing at an absurd performance will sway independents one way or the other.

I don't think that laughing at an absurd performance will sway independents one way or the other.

[abelenkpe]

59. No

I really can't see how anyone can support republicans and their proud open bigotry. Don't worry.

[JBoy]

11. "Our side"?

Don't you mean "you people"?

[Hugabear]

13. +1

Concern trolls are obvious trolls.

[liberallibral]

21. And Che Was a Marxist, Not A Democrat...

My concern has now shifted to YOU... But thanks!

[otohara]

29. He Was More Than A Marxist

but you chose to leave all the other stuff out.

Why?

[fascisthunter]

37. because the poster is a fraud

[USMCMustang]

55. Liar

He became a Marxist after the US fucked them over. Nice to know we can do business with China and Vietnam. You rethugs really have no morals or ethics. Lying is just what you do.

[randome]

40. Hey, I understand your anger.

But pulling out the 'troll' remark should be beneath us all.

[datasuspect]

19. it's amazing that you actually believe

that "we" don't see through your sophistry.

[MFM008]

23. maybe

thats why we keep getting our face shoved in the sand.

[fascisthunter]

36. who is "we"?

[fascisthunter]

35. our side? Hey mr. anonymous, I somehow doubt you are on "OUR SIDE"

and choosing Obama's avatar shows how stupid you really are in thinking people will somehow accept you as one of us.

[marmar]

46. "our side"

Uh huh.

[patrice]

47. Tolerance without truth is bullshit. Dr. King may not have said it quite that way, but I'm sure

he'd agree with that observation.

[awoke_in_2003]

50. Look at their official platform...

if someone supports that party, they are supporting homophobes and woman haters, plain and simple

[tama]

56. Careful there

That guilty by association thingy is way too easy to turn also against Democratic party voters. E.g. "if someone supports Democrats, they are supporting administrative power to murder anybody anywhere, plain and simple." Do you?

[awoke_in_2003]

66. Okay, good point...

I don't support that or the Patriot Act. I will now grudgingly accept my smack down

[Hugabear]

75. those aren't planks in the Democratic platform

There are plenty of things Obama has done that most of us don't support. But they aren't officially part of the party platform.

Unlike the GOP, which has officially included anti-woman, homophobic, racist policies as part of the GOP platform.

[Logical]

63. Wow, are you clueless.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

67. Oh, lookie....the "tolerant" meme

Jesus, it's like they issue you guys your own buzzword dictionary to hit us with.

[zentrum]

74. It's not that.

It's that he supports this platform. Appearing at their convention is a super endorsement of it and of tea baggery.

[rppper]

76. You've been here since '06 but...

You've managed to make all 133 of your posts within the last 90 days....interesting...sounds like a mooslim terror cell waiting to erupt...

Enjoy the pizza friend.....

[WinkyDink]

83. Ah, THAT old one. Try this: STUPIDITY AND LIES WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

[jeff47]

87. Your concern troll is duly noted. (nt)

[Cha]

2. There's that!

[spanone]

3. i'm with you. align with these lyin' racists? fuck him

his opinion means nothing to me. his perspective is skewed.

i have as much in common with clint as i do with mitt.

fuggem both

[flamingdem]

5. I didn't want to feel this

but you're right. What the 'ell is he doing there? If he's there

[Care Acutely]

22. Same here. Anyone who could support this anti-equality, racist, "I got mine"

"screw you" crop of healthcare-withholding, climate change deniers will no longer have any of my respect.

[flamingdem]

38. In the same way

I don't think that I could stand being friends with a Republican these days..

[heaven05]

49. don't forget

mkultras july 23-2012 contribution 'The gentlepersons guide to forum spies'. says a lot about contributors like liberallibral.

[Siwsan]

7. He's a good representative of the 'do as we say, not as we do' family value crowd

Admittedly, I've never been a fan - never understood the big appeal of his on or off screen work. Reading his bio, he seems to be a genuinely awful man when it comes to his personal life. So, I guess he's a perfect fit for the rethugs.

[chknltl]

8. Sorry not my type.

Just can't get excited about crotchety old underenlightened movie icons who squint too much.

Now if you happen to run across a bright eyed Seahawks Cheerleader willing to take pity on a smelly old hippy PLEASE DO get back to me ok?

[smirkymonkey]

25. He's always repulsed me, even before I knew he was a republican kiss-ass.

It's almost like I can see it in their faces.

[chknltl]

73. I know a Clint Eastwood lookalike.

Gonna have to ask him about his politics next time I see him.

Btw:
I clicked on your response expectin a Seahawks Cheereader. Well it COULDA happened! (big sigh....)

[opiate69]

94. here ya go, old friend! (do I know the lookalike you`re talking about?)

[chknltl]

95. YESINDEEDYBOB! Send her and her boots right on over!

Gonna have to pick up some booze....lotsa booze, oh and some soda pop for me....maybe a couple of Red Bulls too.

[opiate69]

100. shit; I cant afford booze anymore after the costco initiative...

The Mr Grinch card doesn`t have the same pull it used to lol

[chknltl]

105. Tell ya what, i'll hock everything i own...

.so booze is covered.

Fwiw, I am toiling away about 100 yards up the hill from Mr. Grinch's ol practice pad. My step daughters BF is renting the warehouse/shop just for his fancy shmancy stage building venture. He is away at Burning Man while the grunt (that'd be me) is cutting a path through a bunch of sticker bushes. If the Storage Box bldg. wasn't there, i'd be lookin right at the Metal Shop as I type this..

As to the Cheerleader, I'm thinking a retired one might be more my speed. My ticker wouldn't last five minutes with that gal in the photo, regardless of how much booze we poured into her.

[opiate69]

108. Cool lol

Shame that place is empty now... I'm guessing you got your housing situation straight? We need to hook up. I'm up in Tacoma every day.

[chknltl]

110. Housing situation: no.

I have to be out Sept 23. Won't have money to look for place for couple more weeks...yeah I know.

If you know of a sympathetic landlord, and you likely know my preferred job description,..

If you are in Tacoma down by the ol Metal Shop during the day, next week I will be down there toiling away. I have at least a weeks more work there. We are right behind the Storage Box building. (dont forget to bring retired chearleader, preferably a drunk one).

There is the New Frontier Club across the street, it hosts local bands btw....if you are in one I might be able to put a word in for ya.

Oh and Clint Eastwood sucks. (There now nobody can accuse us of thread hijack!).

Cool, daughter just showed up....gotta go.

[jsr]

9. Amen to that

He's firmly in the corner of Rmoney and Lyin' Ryan. Fuck him.

[NYC Liberal]

10. Probably using the Repubs for free promo for his movie that comes out in a few weeks.

Which, by the way, makes it worse not better.

[Cha]

17. We know he did the Chrysler Ad for

money..didn't believe a word of it. Whatever..he's going out like limp noodle.

[FarPoint]

27. Boycott the movie...

I bet the Hollywood majority will snub him a well.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I'm old, but I'm not THAT old.

[pipoman]

16. I believe he actually was playing himself in Grand Torino..

[ohnoyoudidnt]

18. Like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory or Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

When actors play themselves, they do an excellent job.

[bvar22]

26. Go Ahead.

Make his day!

[K8-EEE]

28. He's an excellent director and actor

I will always appreciate his films - wouldn't want to be his friend though, knowing he is shilling for fascist liars like Rmoney/Lyin'.

[randome]

43. Yeah. Some of us can separate the personality from the accomplishments.

I mean, it's not like any of us are likely to know him personally so...

[seabeyond]

31. "Fuck Clint Eastwood". too old. no thank you.

[shanti]

32. he's working on the angry white male demographic

lots of boomer men FLOVE clint and his movies.

[Lex]

34. the GOP *has* that demographic, they need to work on

other demographics

[shanti]

90. sorry

i meant that he was there to pump them up. clint wasn't there for the women - that was queen ann's job.

[murray hill farm]

39. Have you ever known a person...

even for a long time. Then one day they say or do something bigoted or gossip ugly or homophobic...anything just ugly, ugly. And at that moment everything changes for you. You have seen the ugly and mean side of this person and suddenly you want to be as far from them as possible. It sometimes even seems as if they are even suddenly physically ugly to match the the ugly that you have just seen that lives within them. Clint Eastwood is that person for me today. Yeah...fuck him! I have not heard him speak yet, but I have seen his ugly.

[Lex]

41. Yes. Usually the person makes a racist or homophobic remark and then

it's like "ICK" and if they see the look on my face, they might say, "just kidding," but I know that's only a reaction to me having a look of disgust.

[B Calm]

42. So the GOP has forgiven him for the Super Bowl

commercial?

[patrice]

44. This is his Xe interview for a position as security for those Archipelagians Matt Taibbi mentioned.

[MADem]

45. Why is this news to you? He was Ronald Reagan's friend. He ran as a Republican for mayor of Carmel

and won in a landslide.

He has always been a Republican who doesn't like the government telling him what to do with his property, and he doesn't like paying taxes.

[Honeycombe8]

48. Well, he IS Republican. Who did you think he'd support? He's probably making amends for the

Superbowl ad, which Republicans thought was supporting Obama or the Dems.

[Doc Holliday]

51. Before everybody gets

all "fuck Clint Eastwood", stop....take a breath....and remember that just because you enjoy his work doesn't mean that you get to feel some weird kind of betrayal when he turns out not to be a cop or a cowboy or a bounty hunter or a Secret Service agent or an investigative reporter or a boxing coach or a retired old fart or whatever you thought this actor really was. He's never been a Hollywood liberal, folks.

Remember: breathe in and breathe out...and ponder the wise words of Kevin Smith: "Fictional characters...fic-shun-ull....char-ac-ters!"

Besides, Nugent wants to do the Anthem.

[Raster]

54. Teddy-boy Shittypants?

[Blue Owl]

52. Eastwood has gone McCain on us...

Insane in the membrane...

[Marr]

57. I try not to let peoples' politics interfere with my enjoyment of their work.

And I love a lot of Clint Eastwood's work.

His political views interest me less than those of my neighbor, but I really enjoy his work.

[DocMac]

58. Clint sounds like he lost his mind. nt

[avebury]

61. Best response to his speech - boycott his movie that

is getting ready to come out.

[magic59]

62. Dirty Harry sold his soul for a fist full of dollars

may he rot in hell.

[kimbutgar]

64. He exemplifies the angry old white guy that 's bothered by change they don't like

[Dawson Leery]

69. They are the same people who scream about "freedom".

Yet this "freedom" only applies to their own kind.

[HarveyDarkey]

65. !!!

[Generic Other]

68. I missed it

Don't much care for celebrity endorsements.

[zentrum]

70. The issue is not just that he's a Republican

......reprehensible as that is. It's that to speak at this particular convention means he supports the most right wing, dishonest, racist and sexist platform in the history of the country. He's seen the world, should know something---and to throw his fame behind this republican party, now, with their four years of racism and baggery and obstructionism on jobs, is truly bottom of the barrel values.

In my eyes he's scum.

[FailureToCommunicate]

71. Eastwood's speech is even stranger and more despicable then I thought the Republicans

COULD go at their convention!

Worst appearance ever at a convention.

Edited to add: I never was a big fan. Now, I can't stand him.

[RoccoRyg]

72. Action stars

It's always the action stars that are conservative. Willis, Norris, Arnold, Hopper, Roarke, Eastwood, etc.

The dramatic actors are liberal, and the comedic ones seem to be split.

[Mnpaul]

77. Conservative Hollywood Elitists!!!!

Blah, blah, blah..... blah, blah, blah

[eallen]

78. Sigh. I have family and friends who support the GOP.

Mostly, not extreme wingnuts. Just ordinary folks who are suckered in by their subculture or religion or right-wing rhetoric.

Not all political differences are worth drawing a line in the sand. Fifty years from now, no one will remember that Eastwood gave a forgettable speech at the 2012 GOP convention.

I wish him the best. He's just wrong on this.

[Liberalman777]

79. OL' Clint Looked like an OLD Man!

Senile and talking to himself. Must be to switch parties with a bunch of a-holes..

[ErikJ]

80. Its halftime in America and Detroit is on its way back.

Its halftime in America and Detroit is on its way back.

Thanks Obama

--and NEVER FORGET! Mitt said we should let Detroit go broke.

[southerncrone]

81. Done w/him.

Use to be a big fan....I'll never watch another one of his films. I don't care HOW good they are lauded to be. Not any in which he acts, directs or produces...NONE.

Don't think he realizes what he's done. Doubt I'm alone.

[classof56]

82. Nope, I'm with ya.

No more watching "Bridges of Madison County" for me. Did not like the book, but something about the movie got to me. Doubtless it was the incomparable Meryl Streep. Anyway, will save my time from now on.

[beac]

88. Didn't like him as a young actor, didn't like him as a director,

don't like him as an bitter old nutjob.

[TexasBushwhacker]

89. Conservative Poster Boy - 2 wives, 7 children by 5 women

That's not counting talking Sondra Locke into 2 abortions and a tubal ligation.

[countmyvote4real]

91. Thank you for that. n/t

[Blue Owl]

92. And the chair he rode in on?

[Cha]

104. And, the chair he

rode in on!

Blue Owl

[slackmaster]

93. I understand the sentiment but I can't get on board with it

There are more important things in life than a person's political philosophy. To me, Clint Eastwood is defined much more by his art than by anything else.

[LanternWaste]

96. While I can laugh at last night's performance, I can also separate the art from artist

While I can laugh at last night's performance, I can also separate the art from artist when relevant. I'd be one pretty bored guy if I could not (or would not) do that.

[Paladin]

98. Try Posting That On The Next Roman Polanski Thread. (nt)

[Mimosa]

109. ^ Agree ^

The surest way to become disenchanted with (and maybe even dislike) any creative person is to read a biography. Frank Langella's book 'Dropping Names' comes to mind.

[blue moon 2012]

99. Fuck your filthy sewer mouth.

[Care Acutely]

101. oooooooooo!

[malaise]

106. Gone with the wind

[malaise]

102. Enjoy your stay

and let me know your favorite flowers

[Hugabear]

113. Oooh, looks like I got myself a couple of trolls in this thread

I haven't had a flytrap thread this effective in quite some time.

[NCTraveler]

103. Just a short ten years ago I would have. Today, not so much. nt.

[Jennicut]

107. Clint Eastwood has a lot of moderate views but backs Romney and

this includes the Repub platform. I don't care if he is 82. If he is tolerant on gay marriage and pro choice he should know better. I don't hate him, I just want to scratch my head. I don't mind poking some fun though, at his expense. I will continue to laugh at chair jokes from now until November.

[Zoeisright]

111. I've never liked him. I always thought he was an awful actor.

Now I despise him.

[pa28]

114. The actor and director Clint Eastwood is a favorite of mine.

The real life person who threatened to shoot Michael Moore and lectured an empty chair over Afghanistan is a fool.

[democrat2thecore]

115. The man is 82 years old. So many here have so little respect.

Do you not give a man of 82 a little leeway? A little room to do whatever the hell he pleases?

Are people not supposed to have different viewpoints than "ours?"
Are people not "allowed" to think differently than "us?"
And if they do, they are ostracized and put out to pasture?

This world is really screwed up. We demand everyone think like "us" or we cut them off. That's a world I don't care to live in.

My relatives lived under "no dissenting opinions" and "we're right - always," in Romania for over two decades.
It's no fun.

Please.

[Prometheus Bound]

116. I can't imagine why you would write that.

Are people not supposed to have different viewpoints than "ours?"
Are people not "allowed" to think differently than "us?"

Almost all the threads that go anywhere here are because of differences of opinion. What ever made you think that we all think the same!

[sibelian]

117. What a ridiculous comparison

Shrugging off Clint Eastwood = Romanian despotism...