On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:54 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > > (Clint, Mitt is a lawyer, and there are a lot of middle class > > people who need loans to go to college). > > Without knowing the specifics of what Dirty Harry had to say to the > empty chair, I do know one of the latest GOP ideals is to devalue the > role of education, especially higher education, so if he spoke out > against financial aid, it would be in keeping with their ideology > Well, poor Clint was so incoherent and rambling that I don't think we can attribute much of what he said to any part of the Convention script. He was not using a teleprompter, went 5 minutes over (which, in the context of the tightly orchestrated 60 minutes of prime time they had to get both Rubio and Romney in front of the national audience was a huge over run - he basically wasted 8% of their free primetime, and not in a good way. It actually was a fairly stunning performance - I can't think of an speech by any person, Republican or Democrat, in anything like the same high profile political spotlight that was even close to being as bad. It was most similar to some of those rambling acceptance speeches given by some old fart actor for some kind of lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. It was worse than anything Sarah Palin ever did, that's for sure - though of course old man Eastwood is not running for any office himself. Bill Clinton is remembered for giving a horribly long and wonky keynote speech in I think 1988, but that only made him look really smart and really narcissistic (both valid insights into the man it turned out) and of course while it did not help Dukakis, it did help him. I hope Dina took him to the ER to get checked out later that night; I have never been a fan of his politics, but I am a big fan of his movies (the Italian westerns, and the films he has directed, not so much the Harry films). I hope he is okay. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
