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Clint Eastwood blasts the “kiss-ass generation”, and admits a vote for Trump despite “some dumb things”

Friday, August 5th 2016 - 13:18 UTC
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Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend. He's been a movie icon for decades, the star of the famed “Man With No Name” Spaghetti Westerns and Dirty Harry movies. The 86-year-old Oscar winner is also one of the highest-profile conservatives in the movie business. Or maybe he's one of the highest-profile libertarians but he's not sure which ideological descriptor fits for him anymore. Read full article

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  • Lord Lucan

    Senility has set in.

    Aug 05th, 2016 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    ” I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician”.
    What dough...? He was a bit part player, didn't he play second fiddle to a monkey..

    Was it Clint that did that embarrassing episode pretending he was speaking to Obama...cringeworthy...
    Silly old duffer...

    Aug 05th, 2016 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Make my day, punk.
    lol.

    Aug 05th, 2016 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Kanye

    Clints message has always been, don't abandon your principles and don't take any bs.

    I don't k ow how you can criticise that.

    Aug 05th, 2016 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

    America has gone tits up because of political correctness!!

    One can't shoot no bloody Negro nomore without being called Racist!!

    Aug 05th, 2016 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    There speaks a SA racist.

    Aug 05th, 2016 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Englander

    Where did all the AfroArgies go?

    Aug 05th, 2016 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #4
    It depends what your principles are.
    The trouble with a “kick ass” mentality is that it escalates and festers.
    At a country level, this could lead to a nuclear war if a state dictator such as our N.Korean looney loses the plot and decides on Armageddon.

    Aug 06th, 2016 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Kanye

    That is one of the greatest fears about Trump.

    I would like to see the original Esquire article.

    Esquire tells us that Eastwood does not agree with either candidate.
    Hilary is too PC and Trump says a lot of “dumb things”.

    He makes it very clear that's his dilemma.

    It's a “tough one”.

    Same as for every American.

    Aug 06th, 2016 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    However unlikeable Hillary is I think the idea of someone as thin-skinned and revengeful as Trump as the Commander in Chief makes it a no-brainer for the majority. But there is a long way to go until the election and people have short memories.

    Aug 06th, 2016 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Kanye

    Scares the bejesus outta me, Ms. B

    Aug 06th, 2016 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    spaghetti western films king

    hahahahaha

    Aug 06th, 2016 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Brasso's back!

    The Brazil Nuts already had a trump, it's name was Lula, soon to be prisoner xxx Lula.

    As I have said many times: the ONLY election that counts is the one the citizens vote in.

    Given the circumstances for the working man and woman since 2008 I for one would be surprised if The Donald doesn't scrape in.

    It's better than a movie! A horror movie.

    Aug 06th, 2016 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    I have seen him cuddling up to Apes with bad hair in films. Now he is doing it for real!

    Aug 07th, 2016 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

    Clint is right!!

    America has gone tits up because of political correctness!!

    One can't label all bloody Mexicans as criminas and rapists nomore without being called a Racist!!

    Aug 07th, 2016 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Enough of all this politically correct crap....I'd vote for Clint, not Hillarious Klintorious...

    Aug 07th, 2016 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Yeahhhhhhhh!!
    Dirty Harry is right!!
    America has gone tits up because of political correctness!!

    One can't shoot no 49 bloody Gaytinos in Orlando without being called a poofter hater!!

    Aug 07th, 2016 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Heisenbergcontext

    Clint Eastwood has made a lot of interesting films and often has thoughtful things to say about them. He was, by all accounts, a competent mayor of Carmel ( pop 3 842 ). On the subject of Federal politics though, he isn't any more articulate, or insightful, than he was four years ago.

    Improvisation has never been his strongest suit.

    Aug 07th, 2016 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    The public are bucking the trend,

    if this is so,
    Trump will, it seems, will win.

    Unless of course, Hillary wins.

    Aug 07th, 2016 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • darragh

    Famous (allegedly) clairvoyant (allegedly) Tony Morris has predicted that Hilary will win.

    Mind you he has also predicted a great surge in world peace in 2016/17 and a move towards serious gun control in 2016.

    That's Hilary stuffed then.

    Aug 08th, 2016 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 20 darragh
    “That's Hilary stuffed then.”

    You can have my go with pleasure! :o)

    Anybody seen Monica? Looks like she has had a head transplant, so much better looking than Hilarious. However the back end of a bus is better looking than her.

    Aug 08th, 2016 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • :o))

    “SOME (?) dumb things” is an understatement!

    Aug 12th, 2016 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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