Eastwood: Convention speech only irritated 'lefties'
Clint Eastwood says he achieved what he sought to do when he appeared at the Republican National Convention last week and talked to an empty chair that he said represented President Barack Obama. The actor’s speech was widely mocked.
In an interview published today in the Carmel Pine Cone, a small California newspaper, the 82-year-old actor said he did not know what he was going to say until he said it.
He told the paper he wanted to make three points, including that Obama had broken promises he made when he took office.
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The 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.”
Eastwood’s peculiar, sometimes rambling conversation with an imaginary Obama set social media ablaze.
Eastwood was at the convention to show his support for Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney.
