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Clint Eastwood Dog Whistle

Prediction:  if Clint Eastwood is actually tonight’s mystery RNC speaker, look for Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, Toure, or a producer from ABC News to mouth off about how Clint Eastwood is a “white hero” with his support for Romney being a racist dog whistle to the party that supports George Zimmerman.  The pro-gun, pro-vigilante, pro-American party of xenophobes rallies around this gruff hero who must have been drawing on a reservoir of hate when he performed the following scenes.  Of course, back when we thought that Eastwood was shilling for Obama with his Super Bowl halftime ad everything was hunky dory.  And even if Eastwood himself was merely acting and holds no racist feelings, the fact that conservatives fantasize about being the characters in his movies means that the GOP is ginning up racial animosity.

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11 Responses to Clint Eastwood Dog Whistle

  1. Lara 08/30/2012 at 6:24 pm

    Grand Torino portrayed Asians very favorably.

  2. Heartiste 08/30/2012 at 6:42 pm

    gran torino was a most excellent PSA for the right to concealed carry.

  3. PA 08/30/2012 at 7:00 pm

    The Asians in Gran Torino were Hmong. Let’s just say that they aren’t considered a model minority like Koreans.

  4. anti-racist 08/30/2012 at 7:33 pm

    This will not be an issue for long

    People of Color have many children

    whites don’t have children

    whites will not exist in the near future so everything will turn out all right

  5. longtimereader 08/30/2012 at 8:14 pm

    This anti-racist guy is fascinating. I’ve seen him comment endlessly on other alt-right blogs.

    Has anyone concluded if he’s actually legitimate or some type of alt-right meta-troll?

  6. Nikos 08/30/2012 at 8:21 pm

    PA,

    The Asians in Gran Torino were Hmong. Let’s just say that they aren’t considered a model minority like Koreans.

    Yeah. But still considerably less problematic than blacks. We don’t see flash mobs of Hmongs beating up others, nor do we see the 72% out-of-wedlock birth rate that we see in blacks..

    Their women also have more tolerable looks than US black women. No obesity among Hmongs, vs. 80%+ among black women in the US.

    I find it funny that the most racist comment here (as with on any thread) is by the person called ‘anti-racist’.

    Lara,

    Grand Torino portrayed Asians very favorably..

    Since movies are earning more and more box-office revenues from Asia, a trend towards Asian actors, themes, etc. in Hollywood movies can only increase. There was a time when Asia might have been just 5% of a movie’s ticket sales. Now it might be 20%, and rising.

    A lot of that revenue will still flow to Hollywood (i.e. the US).

  7. Promoting Justice 08/30/2012 at 8:22 pm

    Anti-Racist speaks clear retoric. Salute Soldier.

  8. Promoting Justice 08/30/2012 at 8:24 pm

    Did you give white boy chuck your contact for me Brother?

  9. nick digger 08/30/2012 at 9:21 pm

    Gran Torino was disappointing. It had several good moments, but overall was too much of a lecture on Hmong immigrant culture, using actors barely qualified for a high school drama. “Ooohh so sorry, I didn’t know you’re not supposed to touch kids on the tops of their heads because you savages think it lets the devil eat their brains.” Nobody cares.

  10. jimmy conway 08/31/2012 at 1:40 am

    eastwood is married to a black/japanese/puerto-rican/white woman. in general, his politics are pretty interesting; mostly libertarian. very anti-war. he once described his politics as a mix between noam chomsky and milton friedman. in his rnc speech, he alluded to his opposition to the iraq war, and said obama should have ended the war in afghanistan, which is pretty a unpopular stance among republicans, as it’s almost the only obama policy they support. if i recall correctly, michael steele got canned in part for saying something similar.

  11. Gx1080 08/31/2012 at 6:32 am

    Ok, now we are after the speech. They aren’t even bothering with the “dog whistle” rethoric, Eastwood is a old white man so he’s senile and evil period.

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