Eastwood redeems himself..."somewhat".

[cgCali]

"If somebody is dumb enough to ask me to go to political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get."

-- Clint Eastwood, quoted by TMZ, responding to criticisms of his speech at the Republican convention.

http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/18/clint-eastwood-republican-national-convention-speech-barack-obama/

(underline mine)


LOL!!!

 

[JuliefromOhio]

good for Clint.

he also went on the Ellen DeGeneres show, said he supported same-sex marriage, and clarified that he was a Libertarian.

 

[cgCali]

good for Clint.

he also went on the Ellen DeGeneres show, said he supported same-sex marriage, and clarified that he was a Libertarian.

I'm thinking a lot of it has to do with the fact that when he did his little "improv", he was "playing to the crowd", and wasn't thinking about his new movie that was about to come out.

Yeah, he's an old dude that can basically say and do whatever the hell he wants, but Hollywood is Hollywood. When you make a movie, you gotta go out there and promote it. There absolutely HAD to be some of the movie backers that weren't too happy with his insulting the President.

He's trying to "even things out", a bit.

 

[Mytzlplk]

it's a good and valid point he made, but like you, I don't think it washes his hands completely clean.

 

[cgCali]

it's a good and valid point he made, but like you, I don't think it washes his hands completely clean.

Absolutely stupe, his hands aren't "completely clean". What's he's doing "sounds good", but I think it has to do with "business".

 

[Mytzlplk]

you could be on the right track with that cg. If nothing else I'm sure he wouldn't want to lose ticket sales, or allies in Hollywood as you noted.