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Like he gives a flying intercourse. He's one of the most successful people in his industry, as an actor and a filmmaker. His list of cinematic achievements rivals that of anyone who has ever lived. If he never works again he will be in the top 10 in Hollywood for at least the next 1500 years.
And that is what the leftists really hate. Why. Because ENVY is what makes a leftist tick, and they hate achievement and excellence. And who else in Hollywood has as long a history as Clint with respect to achievements and excellence? Very few indeed.
Oh and anyone who missed Gran Torino: What a great movie! Watch it. Even the dopiest liberal can enjoy that achievement.
Remember this is the same Hollywood who still supports Roman Polanski despite raping a 13 year old girl and Woody Allen who had sex with his underage stepdaughter.
But they probably think someone should be denounced for their political views, provided they're conservative, of course.
And for the record, I despise Trump and will never support him under any circumstances. But it's still a free country and Eastwood is still allowed to say whatever he wants.
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Originally Posted by rugrats2001
Perhaps you should spend some time reading about Roman Polanski's youth and young adulthood before you condemn him for not following your personal code of conduct. And the term is statutory rape, not just 'rape'.
Like all good liberals, you just have to twist other people's words to suit your own point of view.
She comments on the hypocrisy of Hollywood for embracing sex offenders while shunning those with simple conservative views.
Polanski did survive the Warsaw Ghetto, and saw horrible things as a youth. So did thousands of others. It doesn't excuse him, at the age of 44, having sex with a 13 year old. While you are stuck on semantics, it is of little importance to the conversation of this thread that he plead guilty to statutory rape, not rape. That is you trying to act like you know more than anybody else here. We are not impressed.
I join carny gal in her belief that those adults who have sex with 13 yr olds offend our personal code of conduct. Obviously, you feel different. That is why this is a great country. Even people like you who apparently support sexual predators have the right to air their disgusting views. I wonder if you would feel differently if the victim was a family member of yours?
I just read the Clint Eastwood statement. I didn't see anything wrong with it. He was saying that we should ignore Trumps racism and 'just get over it'.. What's wrong with that.
Often the conservatives are very anti-woman. They think that women should be barefoot and pregnant. That goes along with the conservative religions. Nobody raises much of a stink about misogynism. That one is a deal breaker for me. I don't care about the politics as much as the attitude. There is no candidate who can fix the problems. It's a lose lose.
I didn't think that Clint was out of line. That was his opinion and he did not agree with the racism. He just said to get over it and vote for the candidate who can best serve the country. That was a paraphrase but that is what he was saying.
He used to be Mayor of some town in California so he is not politically ignorant.
I disagree with Eastwood but isn't this country founded on the principle of free speech? There is a reason why it's the *first* amendment. And I hope that someone would rise to defend my occasionally quirky opinions even though I'm not a Hollywood star.
Clint Eastwood could not care less about political correctness. He is old and rich and is not dependent upon others if he chooses to keep working.
I heard that Antonio Sabato was getting blow back from appearing at the RNC convention. Nobody I know really stifles what they say about things, so this issue is media driven...the outrage du jour.
Whether you agree with Mr. Eastwood's remarks or not, you must realize that this is not a freedom of speech issue. The First Amendment applies only to governmental actions regarding speech, not private industry. Indeed, some of you may awake in the morning to find your comments deleted for not following the rules of this subforum. And we all may awaken to find the thread has been closed for the same reason.
This one get's a little grey though.
Meaning, what if the people in power use that power to help their friends and in exchange their friends help to punish their enemies and rivals? At that point, it IS a free-speech issue the mechanism however is not a direct government action but a subtle indirect move.
If you're a chummy, big-time Clinton donor and you were to start black-balling someone like Eastwood....it's a very fair discussion to question whether or not it's a free speech issue.
P.S. Lots of countries have had trouble with government\media lines being blurred and how the media is run by their allies.
I will add more. I've considered some of Trump's rhetoric. He will even go at Blacks. I'm Black. I feel like if he would do things like that, he might want to do things to me. I don't trust him. This is the same person who retweeted a Neo-Nazi tweet regarding Blacks, then claimed "I don't check my sources". The fact that Clint Eastwood is defending Trump tells me this: Eastwood most likely shares those views. Anyone who shares bigoted views scares me. Why?
If you are thinking those things, you could do those things. I have to look out for my personal interests. Eastwood say "when I was young, we didn't call those things racist". Of course not. He was born in 1930. Last I checked, Jim Crow was alive and well back then. Lynchings took place back then. As someone who is know to find many females outside of my race attractive, Clint Eastwood's youth would have been a horrible time for me. Trump is scary to me, but his supporters scare me more. This is not about political correctness for me. This is about who I can trust. This is about looking out for me.
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