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*Clint Eastwood has taken a lot of heat for his empty chair routine at the Republican National Convention, but Denzel Washington still has love for the star. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “I have the utmost respect for him as an actor and as a director,” Washington said. “He’s my hero.” Although Washington supported Obama [...]
*A man in Texas decided to make a statement against President Obama by hanging an empty chair from a tree in front of his Northwest Austin home. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] A fold-up chair, with an American flag attached to it, was hung from a tree in front of Bud Johnson’s home in the [...]
*In an interview with Esquire magazine, Clint Eastwood said he believes President Obama is power hungry and is taking too much credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “There are two kinds of people in this world,” Eastwood told the publication a month before his “empty chair” speech at [...]
*Actor Clint Eastwood took the Invisible Man reference to another level last week at the Republican National Convention. Although his presence confirmed his support for the RNC his speech did more to confuse rather than to convince me of that party’s political stance. And I thought his portrayal of a cantankerous old timer in the [...]
*Of course, Rush Limbaugh thought Clint Eastwood’s empty chair ramblings at the Republican National Convention was “bold” and “a great bit.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The conservative talk show host discussed it on his radio show today, adding that backlash from the left about the skit is “predictable.” “They’re destroying Eastwood,” Limbaugh said. “Because [...]
*As we reported, some attendees at the Republican National Convention found it hard to contain their true feelings and pelted an African American camerawoman from CNN with peanuts while snickering, “This is how we feed the animals.” “I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all,” CNN camerawoman, Patricia Carroll, told Journal-isms. “This [...]
*It didn’t take long for the Internet – and President Barack Obama himself – to respond to Clint Eastwood’s “empty chair” stunt at the Republican National Convention. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Shortly after the actor/director’s rambling 10-minute speech, where he addressed an empty chair pretending that President Obama was actually sitting in it, the [...]
*Condoleezza Rice may be earning good reviews for her speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention Wednesday night, but some folks on Twitter instead chose to focus on her unfortunate makeup malfunction. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Some viewers couldn’t help but notice that the former secretary of state had lipstick on her two front [...]
*Michelle Obama appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” last night and chatted about her daughters’ sleep-away camp, dispensed parenting tips, the taste of Kale chips – and whether or not she is watching the Republican National Convention. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “You know, no,” she admitted to Letterman as the audience laughed. [...]
*Yahoo News fired its Washington bureau chief on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was caught on an open microphone saying that Mitt Romney and his wife, at the GOP convention in Florida while Hurricane Isaac threatened Louisiana, were “happy to have a party with black people drowning.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] [...]
*The Republican Party has responded to an incident Tuesday in which two attendees at the GOP’s Tampa convention threw nuts at a female African-American CNN camera operator and said, “This is how we feed animals.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The RNC released a statement today which reads: “Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their [...]
*Police in Tampa kept a dozen anti-war protesters from bum-rushing an event attended by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after the group said it intended to arrest her for war crimes. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Toting handcuffs, protesters from Code Pink tried to enter a performing arts center on Tuesday, where Rice was [...]
*An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said “This is how we feed animals” before being tossed from the building. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The CNN official declined to provide specific details, but confirmed the incident to Taking Points [...]
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