Clint Eastwood

‘It was supposed to contrast all the scripted speeches’: Clint Eastwood explains THAT empty chair .

An unrepentant Clint Eastwood has struck back at the critics who mocked him for his performance at the Republican convention and declared that he was hoping to provoke exactly such a reaction.

‘President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,’ he told his local newspaper in California, The Carmel Pine Cone.’Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the Lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.’

Clint Eastwood: 'I may have irritated a lot of the Lefties, but I was  aiming for the middle' | Daily Mail Online

The 91-year-old star of ‘Dirty Harry’ and ‘The Good, the Bad and Ugly’ maintained his silence for nearly a week after his improvised 12-minute appearance in Tampa which he addressed an empty chair was lampooned and derided.

Clint Eastwood explains — and regrets — his speech to an empty chair - The  Washington Post

Speaking at his home to the Carmel Pine Cone’s Paul Miller, however, Eastwood said that it was all intentional. ‘“I had three points I wanted to make – that not everybody in Hollywood is on the Left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job.

Clint Eastwood Explains Empty Chair Speech at 2012 RNC

‘But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.Eastwood agreed to appear at the convention after a personal request from Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, shortly after the actor endorsed him at a fundraiser in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Eastwood tells paper speech critics are "on the left" | Reuters

It was only finalised, however, only in the week before the convention, when it was agree to build suspense by keeping it secret until the last moment.Romney aides asked for details about what Eastwood would say to the convention but the actor demurred. ‘They vet most of the people, but I told them, “You can’t do that with me, because I don’t know what I’m going to say”,’ Eastwood said.

He conceded that he had given few speeches and ‘I really don’t know how to’. In addition, he did not want to use a teleprompter and so elected to speak off the cuff.’It was supposed to be a contrast with all the scripted speeches, because I’m Joe Citizen,’ he said. ‘I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.”

Clint Eastwood's Bizarre RNC Speech: Hollywood Reacts – The Hollywood  Reporter

Eastwood says he is a liberal on social issues such as abortion rights and gay marriage but is a strong fiscal conservative. ‘Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff,’ he said.The actor and director said there was no shortage of tips about what to say. ‘Everybody had advice for me, except the janitor.’

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