Clint Eastwood: "Somebody Dumb Enough to Ask Me to Their Convention Is Going to Take What They Get"

Categories: RNC
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Remember when Clint Eastwood got on stage at the RNC and started berating a chair? That was fun.

In an interview with Extra during a junket for his new film, Clint was asked about the speech and how it's still a relevant thing.

And in true grizzled-old-guy fashion, he gave the old "you'll take what you get and LIKE IT" line, suggesting that the Republicans were kinda not smart to even ask him to speak in the first place.

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"If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something," Eastwood says in the interview, "they're gonna have to take what they get."

Everyone wanted Grandpa to speak; well, now everyone's gonna watch Grandpa yell at furniture. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, PUNK?


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Clint Eastwood Talking to a Chair Is the Most Old-Person Thing to Ever Happen in Florida

Categories: RNC
eastwood chair.jpg

There was a lot speculation on who the big supersecret "surprise" speaker at the RNC would be.

Would it be Sarah Palin?

Tim Tebow?

A hologram of Ronald Reagan?

Perhaps a James Polk puppet?

WRONG.

Because, as it turns out, the big secret surprise guest that got all the GOPers in a tizzy was a chair.

Oh, and Clint Eastwood.

But, mostly, a chair.

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