Clint Eastwood Gets Cut From Romney RNC Video

[trailmonkee]

Source: abc news

A video mash-up of speakers from last week’s Republican National Convention does not include an appearance from the “mystery RNC speaker,” Clint Eastwood.

The two-and-a-half minute video posted today to the Romney campaign’s YouTube account features former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, VP nominee Paul Ryan and of course, Romney himself, but it leaves out Eastwood’s controversial speech.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/clint-eastwood-gets-cut-from-romney-rnc-video/

[LoisB]

1. Wonder if the "Man with No Name" will continue to support Romney now.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Popular with Republicans, but ...

The Republicans think Clint has a new third career as comedian, but the rest of the country is wondering if the performance was a cartoon hologram:

[99th_Monkey]

26. LOL - the man with no name who talks to chairs. ~nt

[highplainsdem]

2. More Republican revisionism.

[SkyDaddy7]

6. That was an awesome comment!! nt.

[pepperbear]

3. OMG, who leaves EASTWOOD on the cutting room floor?

[Auggie]

7. DUZY!

[PearliePoo2]

11. !!

[Cha]

12. The rnc..

[sarge43]

18. They put him in the corner. n/t

[ZombieHorde]

4. Hahahahaha! nt

[SunSeeker]

8. And thus they admit Clint was a disaster. Point to that video if they say otherwise.

And what's really stupid about this attempt to revise history is that no one will watch or care about that video. But EVERYONE will remember Clint's spectacle in prime time.

[Cha]

13. Yeah, all that Raving about what a great

job he did and it gets CUT!?

Edited OUT?! Not even a line?!!!

[Beartracks]

21. Just like how they raved about Dubya...

... until he was out of office. Now the RNC/GOP likes to think we went straight from Clinton to Obama.

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[Coyotl]

30. Dubya is such a huge negative, they had to invent the Tea Party to rebrand the right

and now the Tea Party is such a huge negative, primary voters picked Mitt who then picks Ryan, a Tea Partier for his big tent

[lonestarnot]

47. Yeah ugh, straight from Clinton to Obama, that's basically their position.

[nichomachus]

45. I beg to differ -- Clint was a brilliant move

It's an idea they stole from the circus. At the big top, when a performer falls from a high wire or a trapeze, they don't stop the show. They send in the clowns. And the clowns run amok in the tent, distracting the customers from the tragedy in the center ring -- until they can get the main show back on track.

Clint was that clown -- whether they meant him to be or not.

No one paid any attention to the tragedies that were Ryan and Romney. All anyone is talking about it Clint. He did his job. Imagine if they had sent out someone sane to introduce Romney. People might have paid attention to his speech -- and even the party faithful might have realized they were empty words from an empty suit.

[SunSeeker]

50. Ya right. That's why they cut their "brilliant move" from the video.

[nichomachus]

51. Ya right back at you

They don't want him in the video -- but they didn't want you listening to Romney's speech. Once they accomplished that, they kicked Clint to the curb. But he did his job -- brilliantly. No one can tell you what Romney said.

[SunSeeker]

52. "They didn't want you listening to Romney's speech"?! Why'd they put it on the video?

[ailsagirl]

9. There are videos of it all over the place so it's not as if they're "erasing" it

People can still find the Eastwood performance

[PearliePoo2]

10. Hey Willard and crew, go ahead and pretend it never happened!

There's now this "thingie" called the Inter-tubes, doncha know!
Just cause YOU'RE stuck in the 50's doesn't mean everyone else is...nice try idiots.

[chknltl]

14. Rowdy Yates cut from the herd?

For those going "Huh?", Clint Eastwood in his early years when he was Rowdy Yates and the extended version of the song 'Rawhide', which opened the show.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=MSHr4ubuD64&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMSHr4ubuD64&gl=US

[xxqqqzme]

15. Wow! the rethugs

threw Clint Eastwood under the bus!

[barbtries]

16. that's funny.

their big surprise, the reason they ran their video bio of the wonder boy candidate run before the networks would be running it, and it doesn't even make the montage. hehehehehhe

[alfredo]

17. We all know Clint was just trying to sabotage Mitt.

At least this is what we want the Tea Baggers to believe.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. But there is footage of an empty podium

with the crowd booing every few seconds, and heckling "don't say that, Clint!"

[otohara]

20. Thrown Under The Chair

their only half-way decent actor/director Hollywood Republican is dead to the campaign. LOL

[Beartracks]

22. Just like Dubya has been conveniently "forgotten."

The RNC/GOP likes to think we went straight from Clinton to Obama.

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[Why Syzygy]

23. ewww

That video is creepy. I didn't watch the convention. Not a horror flick fan.

I only saw a bit of Eastwood on The Daily Show. It was sad; and I have refrained from posting any jokes circulating.
Stewart's was the only one I passed on. He made it about the party, and not the actor.

Jon Stewart has some class. Williard and the RNC. don't. They made it about the actor, and sullied themselves in
a brand new way.

[Hubert Flottz]

34. I never watched it either...

I'm not a big fan of fictional entertainment.

[mojo2012]

24. That's okay

Clint Eastwood is getting alot of attention elsewhere. Besides who would want to watch a You Tube video on the RNC. Once was enough.

[Odin2005]

25. LOL, this is so Pravda-esque it's pathetic.

It's like Stalin having his rivals edited out of photographs.

[SoapBox]

27. I was for Clint, before I was against Clint.

Etch-a-Sketched away.

[Coyotl]

28. This makes my day

[cordelia]

29. I am, I said .....

I am, I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

(Neil Diamond)

[mimi85]

38. Perfect!

HaHa! Do they think no one will remember? Typical.

[defacto7]

31. OK, where's that rug???

Oh there it is.... [sweep, sweep]

Ah, now it doesn't exist.

[calimary]

39. Welcome to DU, defacto7 and mimi85!

Glad you guys are here! We need you!




Now get to work.

[Javaman]

32. Clint gets thrown down the repuke memory hole! LOL

he has become a non-person. LOL That didn't take long! LOL

[Contrary1]

33. Lies! Clint is indeed in the Repub video...

He's invisible. They did that so only good true Conservatives can see him...kinda like Invisible Obama.

[sarcasmo]

35. Pretty sure they wish the guest would have been Hologram Raygun.

[tawadi]

36. Guess he's not feeling lucky now

[IMG][/IMG]

[bucolic_frolic]

37. Headline: "Gets Cut From"

I thought he was being paid royalties!

[Blanks]

40. Did the Christie portion of the video...

Show him pretending to eat the baby?

[Honeycombe8]

41. Oooooooh. They're dumping their #1 Fan in Hollywood. Wonder what Clint thinks of that.

I wonder what he thinks about all of the dissing since his speech. I also wonder if he'll still support his chosen party come November.

[tomm2thumbs]

42. I guess you could say 'they gave him the chair!'

Poor thing, he was their big bag of candy surprise! Ended up being moth balls...

[rks306]

43. Who would have guess

Clint look liked an idiot.

[jimlup]

44. Down the memory hole!

RNC has studied the works of Orwell well.

[lonestarnot]

46. Welp we can help them with that oversight.

[nolabear]

48. Well he is a union man. THey'd have to give him a royalty every time it ran.

[onecent]

49. chicken shits are not too proud of it

are they?