Clint Eastwood spoke to a chair (or what happens when I forgot to hit publish on a post)

So it seems that the world is overlooking the obvious news coming out of the recent Republican National Convention. Items such as how Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan look like the most stereotypical gay power couple that the fashion/accounting/state of California could create. Nor was it addressed that Mitt Romney was fashioned from the balls of an illegal immigrant yet he wishes to build a wall blocking Mexico and deport every illegal immigrant his regime can find, beginning 90 days into his presidential term. The delegates themselves did not even rise up and demand that Mitt explain his record of never investing in the American economy during his former career.

What has been splashed across the banner of the collective online conscious known, as the Internet was that Clint Eastwood talked to a chair that was metaphorically occupied by Barack Obama. The speech/skit/evidence Clint has Alzheimer’s was long and bizarre. The media has questioned Clint's sanity and the Internet is filled with jokes and chatter about the reasoning behind this talk/sketch/ was as a set up to Clint's next movie "The Grey Haired Rambler". But what bothers me about this media moment is simple: "Why do I care" that phrase floats through my head like a cloud of cigarette smoke. Why do anyone of you reading this give a shit that the guy who said "It's a helluva thing, killin' a man.” “Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have." talked to a chair in front of a crowd of people who could be stereotypically described as wanting to own Obama rather than support his incredibly conservative presidential tenure. How does Dirty Harry making a horses’ ass of himself effect the economy or explain the fact that armies in a great deal of the world are beginning to train for combat in Africa (that last comment came from me getting drunk with some soldiers in a Red Roof inn on the road, so yes its legitimacy is slightly circumspect). Clint Eastwood probably has a movie coming out and what better way to get his face out there with out having to sit next Letterman or do a podcast than get everyone questioning his motivations and sanity after he lambasted a chair. Hence this “memorable” stunt not being political at all but more like a new type of advertising stunt.

I care about this incident not for political aspiration or motivations. I care because the media has hijacked our heads without reporting the policy being put forth by Mitt Romney and in the process ruining Dirty Harry forever. Yes I said it. Granted who knows what our own individual leaders actually believe or push as national or internal policy. But how are we to distract ourselves if/when an ultra religious President does seize power in the United States when the only movie that combines catchphrases and sweater vests will be tarnished by every friend you have indignantly responding to the idea of watching the movie with a line like “the guy with the chair, Naw he voted for the other guy”.

The Ultra right wing neo-conservative community in the United States can roll back civil liberties of minorities and homosexuals. They can spread fear from coast to coast in an effort to create alternative theatres of conflict. They can rewrite the country’s Bill of Rights in the name the founding fathers who would be so disappointed by what these current leaders have turned the country and the rest of the world into. But as a white, non-fiscally aware, Canadian ex-pat living in London, working as a free-lance comedian in order to make a career and a life spouting off crap into the ether via the written word; I will not sit here and allow them to tarnish the good name of the guy who said
“I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”
So listen dear reader so not sit there and watch the clips of Jon Stewart mull over Clint motioning towards the chair and please refrain from watching Jay Leno as a rule but in this case tattoo it on your hand that when that task is done watch A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Outlaw Josey Wales, In The Line of Fire, Dirty Harry, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The Unforgiven and Mystic River. When you are finished you will be able to take whatever the world throws at you in an intellectual or political manner because you will be in such a rage you will more than likely go on some sort of spree.

Enjoy the American Election
Humorous Wind-Bag
John Hastings