September 1, 2012
THE CLOTHES HAVE NO EMPEROR:
The Man in the Empty Chair (LAWRENCE DOWNES, 9/01/12, NY Times)
Personally, I'd have just hung a blue suit on a coat rack....Who thinks Clint Eastwood did a fine job?I do.Go ahead and snicker about how last night's eagerly awaited surprise convention speech by a Hollywood legend turned out to be an 11-minute ramble by a rumple-haired guy, 82 years old, talking without notes to an imaginary Barack Obama in an empty chair.An imaginary Barack who tells Mr. Eastwood several times to shut up, then tells him and Mitt Romney to do an unspeakable thing to themselves.Yes, it was very unexpected. But memorable! And the perfect distillation of the Republican campaign.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 1, 2012 5:29 AM
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