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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 11:24 AM Aug 2012

LOL! Mittens bumped a bio video of himself to present CLINT EASTWOOD!

It's a toss-up whether the funnier part of Clint Eastwood's speech last night was the part where he mumbled at an empty chair, or the part where the Romney campaign bumped its well-produced, reasonably effective bio video off network television to show Clint mumbling. But whichever it is, here we are the next morning, still laughing about it. Twitter was, of course, a steady stream of mockery, and still is. But just as entertaining was watching traditional media types who feel they need to be dignified and neutral trying to contain their shock and come up with ways to describe what they'd just seen.

Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell were a delight, of course. Then there's New York Times' Michael Shear and Michael Barbaro:


The actor, in one of the more unusual moments in Republican convention history, offered a speech in which he pretended to have an off-color conversation with an imaginary President Obama sitting by his side in an empty chair.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/31/1126289/-Romney-campaign-struggles-to-move-past-the-Clint-Eastwood-debacle-while-everyone-else-just-laughs

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LOL! Mittens bumped a bio video of himself to present CLINT EASTWOOD! (Original Post) WI_DEM Aug 2012 OP
News Flash; andrea greenspan could never be considered russspeakeasy Aug 2012 #1
Oh, this moment was fun... jberryhill Aug 2012 #2
Look, I see an oval shaped object full of nothing but air! Also a balloon. 11 Bravo Aug 2012 #4
Someone decided that an empty wooden chair would prove to be more compelling than Mitt's bio. 11 Bravo Aug 2012 #3
That's OK - the Daily Show aired the Romney bio Retrograde Aug 2012 #5

11 Bravo

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3. Someone decided that an empty wooden chair would prove to be more compelling than Mitt's bio.
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 12:30 PM
Aug 2012

Hell, I think that was probably a pretty good call!

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