Eastwood the racist: The ugly, the ugly and the ugly
Source: blogs.orlandoweekly.com - Friday, August 31, 2012
When Clint Eastwood pulled out his now-notorious empty chair at the RNC, I was lounging in front of the TV with my glasses off, resting my eyes after a long day of working on the computer. In my myopic stupor, I couldn’t tell what in the hell was going on; I had to ask my wife what sort of prop Eastwood was pretending to interact with. At first, I was desperately afraid it was some sort of toy monkey. That wouldn’t have been entirely surprising at a convention that had already seen two attendees bounced (or so we were promised) for pelting a CNN camerawoman with peanuts and insults , all for the simple sin of being black. But Eastwood’s choice of foil was worse than some wind-up, wide-eyed Mister Jiggs : The empty chair was the perfect metaphor for a campaign, and a party, that would like to see all record of the first African-American President disappear completely. And if they can’t have that, they’ll settle for replacing that record with their own profane, prejudiced caricature. “Invisible Obama” isn’t some innocuous morning-after joke about an addled 82-year-old’s ill-advised ad libs. “Eastwooding” isn’t the new planking. Rather, this is a tandem meme that sums up the attitude the modern-day GOP has toward an African-American who has shown the effrontery of acting like he’s the President, all because a majority of the voters ordained him so. Eastwood got to live out the Republicans’ most fervent dreams, first by making Obama Chomp-Inspired iOS 6 App Store Redesign Could Impact Long Tail Of App Developers
Source: 9to5mac.com - Friday, August 31, 2012
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