Obama Camp On Eastwood: ‘Referring All Questions On This To Salvador Dali’

[ProSense]

Obama Camp On Eastwood: ‘Referring All Questions On This To Salvador Dali’

Reached by Politico for a response to Clint Eastwood's bizarre, offbeat speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt declined to delve into specifics, but instead deferred to a late Spanish painter known for his surrealist work.

"Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dali," LaBolt told Politico via email.

Watch highlights from Eastwood's speech:

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-camp-on-eastwood-referring-all-questions-on

Mitt, upstaged by an empty chair!

[hatrack]

1. ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

Oh, and

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Bwah!

[ibegurpard]

3. holy shit that's funny!

[cali]

4. oh man, that is the PERFECT response.

[nolabear]

5. Damned intellectual elite response. Bwahahahahaaa!!

[freshwest]

10. I know! I LOVE IT!

[SaveAmerica]

38. So happy to be on the side of the smart people

You know, the ones who would never allow a guy go up on stage at the most important time of my campaign and argue with a chair!!

[JaneyVee]

6. An empty chair upstaged an empty suit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. "An empty chair upstaged an empty suit" -- that one should be shopped around! Good.

[pnwmom]

33. LOL. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Too bad the Republicans won't get the joke.

Surreal.

[Zalatix]

8. I'm not getting the joke, either. But I'm a quick learner!

[lunatica]

13. Really?

You don't get it?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

27. Not everyone is into art.

I wouldn't have known if I'd not used it to sooth my soul years ago.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. Maybe this will help-- Dali's most famous work

[Baitball Blogger]

31. It was a double reference. He also has a work of art called The Chair.

Maybe someone can post a picture. I'm not familiar with what it looks like.

[caraher]

34. Here ya go

[reACTIONary]

74. That is GREAT! Thanks...

I'd never seen that one before. Its a picture of Galia. If you cross your eyes and let the two images merge into one in the center, its in 3D.

[Oddman]

43. indeed

[Fawke Em]

21. Because both Dali and Eastman's "speech" were surreal.

Hope that helps!

[Zalatix]

47. Not in the same way, though. Clint Eastwood is surreal in a very inept and nutjob way.

[lunasun]

19. sigh yes some of the base will wonder if that is some illegal worker the Obama team hired....

[hifiguy]

9. Dali's dead but maybe the imaginary bear Eastwood was wrestling

can be reached for comment.

[spanone]

11. Bwhahahahahaaa Bwahahahaaa

[proud patriot]

12. ROFLMAO ! ! ! !

[Flatpicker]

14. I say

That Invisible Obama get 5 mins of DNC airtime for a rebuttal.

[Amonester]

45. hehehe

tsk, tsk, the empty suit will whine and accuse the Dems of 'dividin' you people he wants to lohhhhh-ve all of his lies and lack of plans (retroactively).

[Cha]

15. Whatever else could they say!?!

ROFLMAOFF!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. OMG. Perfect!

I didn't watch it, and thought those clips were an edited joke. Nope. A spot of surfing and I see they're real!

Wow, bad theater. And, that was their highlight.

[lunasun]

17. Was more Magritte than Dali to me but I get where they are coming from with that referral!

[hifiguy]

23. Naw, It was more Marcel Duchamp.

He was the one who hung a urinal on the wall and called it a fountain. The 'pigs topped him. They pulled a Jackass stunt and crapped in a toilet that wasn't hooked up to anything right out in the open for everyone to see.

[GReedDiamond]

32. Yeah, maybe more dada than surrealist...

...and Duchamp is the Grand Dada-ist of all time, amongst other things.

[CTyankee]

55. My thought, too. Magritte was full of "empty suits" and had that wonderful Madame Recamier

chaise transformed into a coffin...

[lunasun]

56. the suits but one called The Therapist came to mind

Dadaists were so anti nationalist anti establishmentand anti war so although thats a good one too I didn't relate to GOP...
..... but then the GOP ticket could be considered anti candidates so now I see that too

.

[CTyankee]

57. I'm going to be visiting his museum in Brussels in October. I can't wait!

I have this "thing" for his art...

[lunasun]

59. My brother lived in Brussels for a few yrs-great place

you are going at a nice time of the year -enjoy

[CTyankee]

61. I was there many years ago at age 16 and I don't remember it at all.

Hoping for the nice weather...I was in Amsterdam and other towns in Holland last October and we had some nice, some rotten weather...I'll also be in Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, all of it art related...

[lunasun]

77. Wow have a good time and dont get Stendhal syndrome

(joke)
The history behind Michelangelo's marble sculpture Madonna and Child there in bruges is interesting

[CTyankee]

78. Ah, yes, stendhalismo as they call it in Florence...

it almost happened to me in Amsterdam after a 9 day art intensive winding up in the Van Gogh Museum standing in front of one of his wheat fields with crows...I had a quietly tearful melt down...

I do know that the Bruges Madonna had been hauled away by the German army shortly before one of the Allies Monument Men raced into the church...they were too late, but of course it was later recovered...what a story...

[Poll_Blind]

20. That very well may have been the most perfect response for them to give, possible.

PB

[SunSeeker]

22. Wasn't it great when Imaginary Obama told Eastwood to go fuck himself?

[Chorophyll]

24. Aaahhh! That's fabulous!

[ismnotwasm]

25. Bwahahaha

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. They can't even be bothered to set up a straw man to knock down. Just empty air. nt

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

29. The page loads, but the video doesn't play on my Mac

When I hit the arrow to have it play it seems to be on pause and loading, but hitting the arrows below or in the center of the screen, nothing happens.

That was in Safari, I'll try it in firefox. Same, doesn't play. The loading line at the bottom of the page says "waiting for events.realgravity.com..." then something about 'ping' then 'done' but it hasn't played.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

40. I watched the whole thing here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clint-eastwood-speaks-at-the-2012-republican-national-convention/2012/08/30/39108924-f314-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_video.html

That was strange. The "You Own It" remark sure brought a cheer, but then he seems to change the focus and mentions democrats and independents, as if they are Americans too...

[Segami]

30. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I love Dali!

[Whisp]

35. o goodness. Never thought I could enjoy a RNC so much.

[flamingdem]

36. That was too kind Ben, you must be an Eastwood fan! nt

[Iceberg Louie]

37. If the Obama team keeps it sassy yet classy like this

and keeps hammering Romney on his weak points (tax returns, shady business history, flip-flopping, etc.) like they have been, Mittens's chances will wither faster than a flower blooming in the desert.

[chknltl]

39. Stop it. Harvey was in that chair.

Ok, so Harvey is old and senile too but it is a little known fact that he and Clint have been pallin around for years.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. Oh great,...Clint is pallin' around with chairs?

[NBachers]

41. The Ovisible Inbama

[Historic NY]

44. "H e l l o C h a i r", my name is Clint.

[Tx4obama]

46. An FYI for everyone

If folks do a Yahoo image search for: Salvador Dali Chair

you'll get more of his chairs than if you do a google

[Snotcicles]

48. I can just hear the crowds chanting at Obama rallies...Four More Chairs, Four More Chairs.

[ProSense]

53. LOL! n/t

[Ship of Fools]

49. The.Funniest.Thing.EVA.

[Motown_Johnny]

50. Well, they have been running against an imaginary Obama so an invisible one seems

like the next logical step.

[tclambert]

51. At the DNC, some celebrity should debate an empty suit hanging from a coat rack.

. . . a current, witty celebrity, preferably a stand-up comedian.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

52. They invited the man on the left (pic) but ...

[JoePhilly]

54. Empty suit upstaged by empty chair!!

[Odin2005]

58. Damn librul elitist!!!

I bet those baggers don't even know who Dali is!

[yodermon]

60. there's also a Dali museum right there in Tampa,

I was there back in April, cool place.

[daligirl519]

62. Very appropriate! n/t

[librechik]

63. great answer

[DefenseLawyer]

64. Typical Obama, always deferring to Europeans!

Gotta love seeing a campaign run by smart people for a change. Somehow I can't see Bob Shrum ever throwing out a comeback like that.

[stevenleser]

65. I...can't...breathe...

[Arkana]

66. Fucking brilliant.

[The Wielding Truth]

67. +1. I still like Eastwood even though his stunt was so wrong. He must be so weird in his real life.

People of this magnitude of foggy thinking should not be the source of wisdom to lead a democracy.

[PlanetBev]

68. Most of those yahoos at the RNC wouldn't know Salvador Dali

if he sat on their face.

[KurtNYC]

70. and yet this dog does an impersonation...

[awoke_in_2003]

75. Today's ear worm...

http://m.

[malaise]

69. Damn that's a brilliant response

[ailsagirl]

71. Empty chair much preferred over him

Love the allusion to Dali.

Most repugs: "Who's that?"

[amuse bouche]

72. Gawd I can't wait for next week

to see and hear people I love and wash my brain of these soulless tools

[Utopian Leftist]

73. What happened to "It's halftime in America"?

That was THIS YEAR, right? What caused him to do a 180-degree spin?

I think it's halftime in his brain.

[DemzRock]

76. I prefer Magritte!

He has a better sense of humor for a surrealist! And a slightly Monty Python feeling!


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