“We Own This Country”

Remember back when Clint Eastwood made that Superbowl Commercial? Remember how Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda, aka the news media, lionized the award-winning actor and director as wise and powerful?

Remember how Left Blogistanis, who celebrate what unions and progressives have done to Detroit, hooted and danced like moonstruck loonies at a Burning Man Festival? 

Well, nothing makes the Obamedia and the hopium smoking left turn on you like blaspheming the Obamessiah. They’ve all now done a 180 and have anathematized Eastwood, casting him out and declaring him senile, irrelevant, and persona non grata. 

You see, artists, like blacks and Latinos, are supposed to march in lockstep with the progressive left or be branded traitors.

As if he cares. He’s Clint Eastwood! 

And the pantywaise bedwetters on the left can go to hell. They can’t make art like he can, and they have nowhere near his wisdom and insight, so they criticize, which is an easy thing to do and the only thing they know how to do, besides lap up DNC propaganda and dutifully regurgitate it.

Old, Stodgy Left unable to laugh at Non-State Sponsored Humor

Eastwood’s speech was funny and thoughtful, artsy, not intended to be a standard political speech, but the stultified, constipated lefties didn’t get it. If it doesn't involve a childish liberal smirking into the camera with a laugh track, how can it be humor? For those paying attention, Eastwood gave off a distinct vibe of “I don’t think much of republican politicians either.” But the angry left, who treats Colbert and Stewart like Moses descending Mount Sinai, worked themselves into a rabid frenzy, never pausing to analyze what he said.

The middle America rubes got it and the stodgy, constipated progressives did not. John Stewart, Rachel Madcow and the leftist propaganda vectors out in TV Land imagine they are the cool kids, telling everyone else what is funny and what isn’t. Well, I got news for them: They are not the cool kids anymore. They are yesterday. They have become angry, controlling beetle-browed plonkers unable to think for themselves or Lilith forbid, able to allow their fellow Americans to do so.

Mark Steyn had the best analysis, agreeing with John Hayward that Clint’s performance was a perfectly-calibrated message aimed at the apolitical undecideds, letting them know it’s OK to abandon Obama and vote for Romney. His point is proven by how the left went on a panicky, full-out jihad against the performance. If it really was an incoherent, shambolic ramble, why are they trying so hard to prove the obvious? No, this was a brilliant piece of theater:

The hair was a clue: No Hollywood icon goes out on stage like that unless he means to.

I’m not sure he could have pulled that off if he’d delivered a slick telepromptered pitch. As Mr. Hayward suggests, the hard lines packed more of a punch for being delivered in the midst of a Bob Newhart empty-chair shtick from the Dean Martin show circa 1968.

Indeed, they were some of the hardest lines of the convention and may well prove the take-home (“We own this country . . . Politicians are employees of ours . . . And when somebody does not do the job, we’ve got to let them go”), but they seemed more effective for appearing to emerge extemporaneously from the general shambles. (Mark Steyn)

Bill Maher got it, praising Eastwood (while still disagreeing with him politically), saying “He killed it.”

“As a performer, as a stand-up comedian for 30 years who knows how hard it is to get laughs, excuse me, he went up there … without a net, on a tightrope. There was no teleprompter. He did a bit with just an empty chair and killed,” Maher said. “He committed to it, it was consistent and it worked.” (Bill Maher)

Clint Said What Needed to Be Said

Obama's unemployment rate should make us all cry.  It's time to fire him and bring in somebody new, but you won't hear it from the state-approved performers in the press and on tv...

For four long years we've waited, hoped and prayed that some young comic would break free of the politically correct demands of The State and mock Obama the way all presidents and all people in power should be mocked. But for four long years (with a few exceptions) all we've seen instead are cowardly toadies of The State: Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Chris Rock, the cast of "Saturday Night Live"… (The Media Strikes Back)

John Nolte observes that the press is in full attack mode, defending their man:

This is why the media has already written 25 stories (5 from Politico) mocking Eastwood.

Had Eastwood said the things the media likes to hear with the same nervousness and hesitation, they would've called him wizened and seasoned. But because he mocked Their Precious One, suddenly he's some kind of embarrassment.

And now Politico, Ben Smith and CNN are all talking about how they intend to use Eastwood as way to overwhelm Mitt Romney's speech in the coming days. (The Media Strikes Back)

Real Pathetic Senility is on the Left

I think the real acts of pathetic senility happen when the poobahs in the press make Kronkite-esque pronouncements and pompously assume that brings finality to the issue. That really cracks me up! Do these progressive pontificators really believe their own BS? They take themselves so seriously, as if they believe that we do. We don’t. 

Also pathetic is MSDNC’s Soviet-style airbrushing out the minority speeches and anything else that didn’t fit the leftwing Potemkin Village they’ve built to cosset their small and peevishly sensitive leftwing audience.

Nolte sums it up by speaking for all right-thinking people:

All I can say in response is: Go to hell you Obama-shilling crybabies. Eastwood showed more grit and honestly in those few minutes than you water carriers have during your entire propaganda-for-the-collective careers.

What Eastwood did tonight was funnier, fresher, edgier, and braver than anything those comedy cowards Chris Rock, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert have done in 15 years.

82 years-old, and Dirty Harry is still pissing all the right people off.

My hero. (The Media Strikes Back)

Here's Clint, for those who want to see it again...

 


More Links:
Eastwood’s Political Theatrics no Surprise
Clint Eastwood Goes Unscripted
Amy Althouse
The Brilliance of Clint’s Empty Chair