Film legend Clint Eastwood sat down this week for an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity to criticize President Barack Obama on Libya and praise GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whom he endorsed and memorably helped introduce at the Republican National Convention by giving a bizarre monologue directed at an empty chair.
In the interview, set to air Thursday at 9 p.m. EST, Eastwood Beats By Dre Cheap said he found himself feeling “resentful” of the administration’s handling of the Sept. 11 anniversary terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, but appeared to run into some difficulty putting his finger on exactly why.
“That’s been kind of a tragedy that should have never happened or it should have been an attempt. All you can ask when there’s a crisis like that is to make an attempt,” Eastwood said, going on to suggest that Obama showed his hand during the second presidential debate when he defended his administration’s actions. Eastwood called the move “suspicious.”
“If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, hey, you just very calmly present something,” he said. “But if you get in a tizzy over it, then all of a sudden, you go, ‘OK, I’m suspicious here.’”
Eastwood also told Hannity that he thought Romney would make a better president than Obama because of his “business background” and “several degrees from Harvard.” Obama has one Harvard degree, a J.D. from the university’s law school.
Asked to explain how he’d planned the strange empty chair speech at the RNC, Eastwood said that he’d done it on a whim after talking to a staffer backstage. He also admitted that he’d felt somewhat foolish for choosing to go through with it.
“So it was probably at the time I thought this is — this — that was really stupid. Why did I do that?” Eastwood said. “But then afterwards, I thought, you know, people started coming out and saying, ‘well, that was fun.’ And maybe a little fun was what I was looking for. I don’t know.”
Watch a preview of the interview below. Tune into Fox News at 9 p.m. for the full interview.
With a heap of Cheap Dr Dre Beats new campaign cash from the Republican Party, Republican Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin’s (Mo.) campaign released a new ad on Thursday featuring a rape survivor who says she had an abortion.
“The reasons I’m voting for Todd and that I’m so proud of him is because he defends the unborn,” says the survivor, a single mother and full-time student who identifies herself as “Kelly.” “He’s a kind man, a compassionate man, he has so much integrity.”
While the woman does not elaborate on her own situation, the ad is clearly meant to show that some rape victims support Akin, even in light of his controversial comment in August that victims of “legitimate rape” don’t need the option of abortion because they “rarely” become pregnant. While Republicans initially distanced themselves from Akin and demanded that he leave the race, the party has since decided to stand by him and has funneled $700,000 into his campaign.
Akin has made a big push for the support of conservative female voters in the months since the controversy, which included launching a “Women for Akin” bus tour with Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative activist largely known for her anti-feminist work. Akin’s new ad, in addition to featuring a rape victim, features a young female emigrant from Russia.
“I know Congressman Todd Akin knows what government’s job is, that is to protect life, not to control life like they did in Russia,” she said in the ad. “The reason why I’m supporting Todd Akin is because I love this nation. I love my freedoms. I don’t want to lose my freedoms.”
I think I get a lot of grief because I frustrate narratives that are told by pundits and journalists that don’t have a lot of grounding in objective reality,” he told Charlie Rose on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Silver took an even more audacious step, putting his money where his statistician’s mouth was. He must have spotted some tweets by Joe Scarborough, who has very publicly trashed Silver’s way of covering elections.
Scarborough wrote that Silver and right-leaning pollster Scott Rasmussen “stand alone in their certainty” about Cheap Dre Beats how the election is going to go.Silver spoke to the Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan, about the bet, which he called “half playful and half serious.”
“He’s been on a rant, calling me an idiot and a partisan, so I’m asking him to put some integrity behind it,” he said. “I don’t stand to gain anything from it; it’s for charity.”
Sullivan opined that Silver’s bet had been “a bad idea” and “inappropriate” because Silver was representing the Times and would reinforce conservative complaints about him.
“When he came to work at The Times, Mr. Silver gained a lot more visibility and the credibility associated with a prominent institution. But he lost something, too: the right to act like a free agent with responsibilities to nobody’s standards but his own,” she wrote.
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