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September 18, 2012 Leave a comment
Parodies are usually less slick than the original. One of the things I like about Saturday Night Live’s take on Clint Eastwood’s bizarre turn at the Republican National Convention is that they kept the crazy, and just gave it slicker packaging and better timing.
September 10, 2012 Leave a comment
It’s not a matter of individual speeches or strategic positioning. The Republican Party is where it is because that’s where the base is. You’ve watched that whole primary process. The Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.
- Paul Krugman on ABC News “This Week” (September 9, 2012)
SEE ALSO
Lioness: VIDEO: Clint Eastwood’s “Empty Chair Obama” Speech at the GOP Convention (Transcript, too!)
therileyreilly: The Real Empty Chair: Mitt Romney
August 31, 2012 4 Comments
RACHEL MADDOW: That was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen at a political convention in my entire life.
And in case you missed the original, ThinkProgress compiled a highlight reel…
December 29, 2011 1 Comment
I’ve been catching up on my holiday viewing. From 1988. (Fun fact: Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve and was released in Uruguay on Christmas Day, 1988.) And did you know it was already a sequel? Novelist Roderick Thorp had written the book, The Detective, Nothing Lasts Forever (1979), as a sequel to The Detective (1966), which was made into a 1968 film with Frank Sinatra.
