Clint Eastwood on Michael Moore and Bill Maher "They’re Right’

[underpants]

After Moore hit Eastwood for getting “Vietnam and Iraq confused in his storytelling” and having his characters call Iraqis “savages” throughout the film and Maher said it was nothing but the story of a “psychopath patriot,” a reporter from TMZ asked the director for his reaction.

“They’re right,” he said succinctly, before closing the door to his car and driving away.

Previously, Eastwood defended American Sniper’s message by saying “the biggest antiwar statement any film” can make is to show “the fact of what [war] does to the family and the people who have to go back into civilian life like Chris Kyle did.”


http://www.mediaite.com/online/eastwood-reacts-to-michael-moore-bill-mahers-american-sniper-criticism/

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. GOOD FOR HIM TO SAY

I might go see his movies again

[billhicks76]

23. Wow...YES!!!!

Its time for a full frontal attack on FOX News...they are below vermin and scum and have way too big an influence on average Americans. I bet they aren't reporting this story even though their hero said it. Why? Because they are just a tool of the corporate war state. They also didn't care when an American ISIS hostage died because she was a liberal. These type of fake patriots deserve to have enforced lobotomies.

[arcane1]

2. Wouldn't “the biggest antiwar statement" show what happens to those who live in the war zone?

Once again, our wars of choice are presented as a crime committed against us by the people we invade and kill.

“Vietnam and Iraq confused in his storytelling” indeed!

[Hoyt]

4. I know what you are saying, but a lot of war mongers wanted more innocents killed.

[arcane1]

5. Yeah, that's a good point. It would've been like porn to them.

Sad but true

[MADem]

24. No, because plenty of people who tune in to Fauxnoose would say that those "others"

deserved what they got. Their selfish nature will only allow them to appreciate the effects that war has on people who look and sound like them.

It's a riff on "All Politics Is Local."

Eastwood has rehabilitated himself somewhat with his remarks.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. He could also have meant

"their right," as in it's their right to say whatever they want.

[sendero]

7. Good catch..

.... and probably what he actually said IMHO.

We'll never know unless he elaborates in the future.

[localroger]

8. Seems unlikely

I would imagine Eastwood expressing that idea more along the lines of "they can say what they want." "They're right" is a sentence. I find it hard to hear Eastwood saying "their right" without at least a "that's" in front of it.

[C Moon]

14. +1

[arthritisR_US]

16. Ditto. nt

[Auggie]

9. Considering that stunt he pulled at the GOP convention ...

I'd believe "their right."

[wheniwasincongress]

10. Good point

I didn't catch it...

[Raine1967]

12. Hard to tell watching the video.

You do make a thought provoking premise.

[Tom_Foolery]

18. After watching the video...

I believe you are correct. Good deduction!

[freshwest]

11. True. Wars are fought more to transform the population waging them than anything else.

[C Moon]

13. I'm guessing "They're right" was more of an "ef off" statement.

[Hulk]

17. clint eastwood is a senile, crazy bastard

I wouldn't bother giving him a "thank you" if he saved my life. What a dumb ass. After his performance of senility at the gop national convention last time around, I have totally given this butt hole the big FU for life. I wouldn't bother watching his movies if I believed one cent was going into the pocket of this embarrassment to the movie industry. FU clint, you douchebag! Make my day, and simply vanish from this earth.

[AndreaCG]

19. Maybe not technically senile

But batshit crazy yes. I tried to watch a documentary about Tony Bennett but he was in it. I turned it off immediately. Couldnt bear to see even a minute of Eastwood.

[Hulk]

21. OK, maybe not senile; I'll give you that.

But he could have fooled the entire world at the GOP convention. Talking to a chair; really?

[Aerows]

20. Clint Eastwood

has a pretty unique outlook on life. One of the things he's said is this:

"Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."

He may not sit well with a lot of people, but he has his own ideas.

[blkmusclmachine]

22. Clint still talking to empty chairs...

[ARMYofONE]

25. *Their* Right.

Come on, people.

[RoccoR5955]

26. Good!

That should now set the record straight!
I am glad that he said that.