Fact Checking Clint Eastwood
Over at Breitbart.com, the great writer Ned Rice has a very funny take on Eastwood's speech, and the left-wing media's obsession with what they call "fact checking." Here's a snippet:
Those Republicans are at it again. Here are just a few of the distortions, half-truths, and outright lies in the remarks actor Clint Eastwood made during the Republican National Convention last night.
“I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, 'what’s a movie tradesman doing out here?'”
Mr. Eastwood did not, in fact, know what we were all thinking.
“So I -- so I’ve got Mr. Obama sitting here.”
Numerous reviews of the videotape have confirmed that President Obama was not, in fact, sitting in the chair during Mr. Eastwood’s remarks.
“I was even crying. And then finally -- and I haven’t cried that hard since I found out that there is 23 million unemployed people in this country."
The number of unemployed Americans did not reach 23 million until after President Obama’s inauguration so Eastwood’s statement makes no sense chronologically.
“But, I thought maybe as an excuse -- what do you mean shut up?” (LAUGHTER)
Eastwood was suggesting that someone in the chair had just told him to shut up when, as has been noted, there was clearly no one in the chair.
As they say, read the whole thing.
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Nov '10
Re: Fact Checking Clint Eastwood
Love this. Wonder what my FB friends would make of it. It's been nonstop "fact checkers" over there.
I have now figured out that the liberal line for the year is going to be this: the Republicans are lying. Did you all catch the Times editorial today? "Mr. Romney Reinvents History"? I think they had their title all worked out--heck, they'd probably written half the editorial in advance--and got stuck when Romney's speech didn't contain any facts that they could pretend were false.
Nov '11
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I think Clint Eastwood's speech was a great success.
Probably the only time any of the viewers had ever seen something amusing and entertaining at a party convention.
(Except for we oldtimers who remember the 1968 Democrat convention)
Jul '11
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oops
Edited on September 1, 2012 at 4:08amJul '11
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How silly are these gray area manipulative fact checkers who have now begun the new age of fact checking the fact checkers.
Jun '12
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I am beginning to believe that Clint's schtick was actually a brilliant gambit in what I and some of my Army buddies used to call the "bright, shiny, red object" theory of distraction. We would use it or look for its use during interminable briefings while deployed overseas. It is essentially a gambit by which you set up an alluring but utterly superfluous topic or subject in order to distract an opponent from what your actual agenda or objective is. Since we will never know for sure, I will choose to believe that Clint's schtick was the bright, shiny, red object which put the unhinged left in apoplexy while the rest of the country listened to and was impressed with Mr. Romeny's acceptance speech. But actually its better than that, because Clint's schtick actually had substantive truth value too.
Edited on September 1, 2012 at 4:38amJul '10
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When you have nothing of your own achievement to talk about, the tendency is to try to deconstruct the other side.
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These two lines say it all.
Nov '11
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You can't make this stuff up. Someone actually did fact-check Eastwood.
Nov '10
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Unbelievable.