Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation Opines Eastwood’s Unscripted Monologue is Cultural Phenomenon.

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The Eastwood moment.
Posted by Judson Phillips on August 31, 2012 at 3:10pm in Tea Party Nation Forum

The highlight of the Republican National Convention had to be Clint Eastwood’s unscripted monologue that has quickly worked its way into a cultural phenomenon.

From Newsday:

Political conventions are TV shows, only TV shows, and the one from Tampa last night starred a silver-maned screen icon named Clint Eastwood who drifted wildly off-script, addressed an empty chair, put words in the mouth of an invisible “president” that were vaguely — no, very distinctly — scatological, rambled for 11 minutes, drove event organizers to drink and in the process totally, irrevocably heisted the entire week.

It doesn't matter what stripe your politics are, or whether you thought last night was a victory or disaster, Eastwood stole the night. He stole it with the expertise and facility of a veteran actor who knew exactly what he was doing — stealing a scene, and stealing it with utter conviction.

There is but one thing anyone will remember from this week — one thing and one thing only: The sight of Dirty Harry addressing an empty chair.

But wait! What about us? The viewer — the ones sitting at home, drifting off to sleep, wondering when we'd hear yet another speaker talk about yet another mother who had to drive 130 miles to work, while the kids at home were burning the pancakes? The ones watching Taylor Hicks and saying “I voted for THAT guy!?"

Instead, we got Clint and it was electrifying — a glorious, bizarre, fun, wild, weird, kooky, incendiary moment that threatened to throw the entire convention into a complete tailspin — and just before the nominee spoke.

Eastwood took the scripted convention off script and stole the show in doing so. He did through ridicule what no one else had been able to do. Today even the most apolitical know that Obama is an empty suit.

Saul Alinsky wrote that ridicule is the most powerful weapon. Eastwood mocked Obama. In fact, the mocking was so bad; team Obama felt the need to respond via Twitter today. The fact they had to respond shows they know how bad it was. The media tried to portray Eastwood as some nutty old actor, rambling incoherently all over the place. That meme is failing so badly it is being dropped. The media is going to try and make everyone forget about what Clint Eastwood did.

That probably won’t happen.

Last night was so bad Obama’s team had to respond. They did so and that is not a good sign for them.

But I bet it made Clint Eastwood’s day.

[riderinthestorm]

1. snort! small giggle.... dream on Judson!

Your side is so dumb they don't even know where to place what happened last night into their rigid little minds. It was so wildly out of context for them they're still wrestling with trying to figure out if the empty chair was a good thing or a stupid thing.


"Today even the most apolitical know that Obama is an empty suit. "

Today the most apolitical are going to watch a bunch of comedians mock Eastwood. THAT'S what the apolitical are going to take away from this.

You're going to have to try harder to spin this away.

Xemasab's take on this may be correct - that this was subversive genius. But even so, that's not good for your side....

[XemaSab]

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[renie408]

2. Gosh, that is SO not my take on that whole thing. n/t

[GodlessBiker]

3. This guy is delusional.

[pinboy3niner]

5. It's a highlight like the iceberg was the highlight of the Titanic's voyage

[Cha]

6. What are these bogus prigs gonna

say? They're not any smarter than Eastwood..look at Akin.. and all the other used teabags.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Judson Phillips, have you paid you outstanding bill yet?

Judge: Tea Party Nation must pay $748k Las Vegas hotel bill

A judge has ordered Tea Party Nation* to pay a six-figure hotel bill for a large number of rooms he booked for a tea party rally, which he later cancelled when the event failed to draw enough attendees.

Tea Party Nation is a corporation created by Judson Phillips.

The Venetian Las Vegas Casino Resort alleged that Tea Party Nation had reserved 1,637 rooms for the July 2010 event, and then cancelled the reservations just a few weeks before the scheduled date. The rooms were not paid for.

In a court order last month, which The Tennessean reported Thursday, a judge ruled that Tea Party Nation owed the resort $748,000, including the $554,000 hotel bill and $194,300 in accrued interest.

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http://news.yahoo.com/judge-tea-party-nation-founder-must-pay-748k-153404637.html

[Raine]

8. "the most apolitical know that Obama is an empty suit " oh so THAT is what the meaning

was supposed to be. I thought maybe Obama had been asked to speak at the convention but refused, that's most always when an empty chair is the center of attention. Either that or I "opined" that Eastwood was showing signs of dementia.

[Jennicut]

9. Ridicule is indeed powerful. But it was the Repubs getting ridiculed last night.

I take it this guy does not know about Twitter.

[winstars]

10. Saul Alinsky, I would not have ever heard of him if not for the pugs... What assholes!!! n/t

So hung up about shit that is not important, why am I not surprised...

[Ikonoklast]

11. Desperately trying to polish a wet, steaming turd.

Tea Bagger grifter seeing the gravy train slipping away, and pretending it isn't happening.

[Emit]

13. The key word being desperate.

[Paladin]

12. Talk About Some Delusional Wishful Thinking.

O.Judson needs to provide Ann Romney with this ray of sunshine outlook---it's pretty obvious from subsequent interviews that she is very unhappy with Eastwood's drooling monologue. Thanks again, Clint.......