Clint Eastwood does a Romney ad.

"In the last few years, America's been knocked down ..." It's reminiscent of Eastwood's Super Bowl ad. Remember? ...

Rasmussen polled of public opinion about Clint Eastwood.

Because the poll was conducted before and after his unusual performance at the convention, you get some insight: While Republican officials ...

"The right rallied on Labor Day to celebrate 'National Empty Chair Day'..."

"... a show of solidarity with Clint Eastwood after his infamous address to an invisible President Barack Obama at the Republican Natio...

"'I am,' I said/To no one there/And no one heard at all/Not even the chair."

A propos of the Clint Eastwood empty-chair performance, Palladian reminds us of that horrible Neil Diamond song. Click for the full lyrics,...

How the Democratic Convention should retaliate against the GOP's Clint Eastwood "empty chair" routine.

Get your own great American movie director who supports your side and knows how to be funny in a 1-man empty chair routine. Bring on Woody A...

Bill Maher defends Eastwood: "He went up there without a net, on a tightrope... he did a bit with just an empty chair and killed."

"He committed to it, it was consistent, and it worked." Maher is speaking as a standup comedian, knowing how hard it is. Halfway t...

"Empty-chair technique or chairwork is typically used in Gestalt therapy to explore patients' relationships with themselves or other people in their lives."

"The technique involves the client addressing the empty chair as if another person was in it, such as President Obama. They may also mo...

"Eastwooding" — the meme.

The term "Eastwooding" — referring to talking to an empty chair — popped up on Twitter and got retweeted — by Ana Marie Cox — with...

Why the criticism and mockery of Clint Eastwood will backfire.

Obama supporters are straining to nullify Clint Eastwood's GOP convention performance, but it's not going to work. Take, for exampl...

"MSNBC pundits said Clint Eastwood’s GOP convention speech Thursday night was a 'bizarre' and 'embarrassing' 'disaster'..."

Key word: MSNBC. “Clint Eastwood was a disaster,” Lawrence O’Donnell said. “I thought Clint Eastwood was bizarre,” Ed Schultz said. “It was ...

624 comments on the live-blogging thread last night.

Did the spam-bots find out I'd turned off word verification for commenting? I'll check it out . There's our liberal commenter Li...

Live-blogging Day 3 of the GOP Convention.

6:04: Settle in. It's going to be a long night. Are you looking forward to anything other than Rubio and Romney? 6:30: A Mormon invocati...

"I said, God this guy is too handsome to be governor but he does look like he could be president."

"As the years have gone by I'm beginning to think even more so that."

"I would take a Johnsonville brat from the hand of a Koch brother if it were offered with the proper condiments and a good beer."

Citizen Dave explains Wisconsin values. IN THE COMMENTS: The Farmer said: "Bravo, ex-Mayor Dave! And MadisonMan said: "Yes, Bravo ...

The man who says "marvelous," Part 2, the Clint Eastwood version.

Via EDH, in the comments to "Romney, the man who says 'marvelous,'" where we are talking about the extent to which it is ...

"I’ve been wondering for a while now when we were going to see an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema."

Writes J. Hoberman in a New York Review of Books blog post that begins with an analysis of the "Halftime in America" Super Bowl a...

"I think Eastwood got scammed. I think he got scammed."

"I think he got roped into doing something he thought was patriotic, and ended up being played. I do." Rush Limbaugh on the Clint ...

Clint Eastwood's "Halftime in America" Super Bowl commercial features the Wisconsin protests.

Click to jump to the exact part of the commercial: Say what you want about Eastwood's approval of the auto bailouts, I'm excited to ...

LIFE's sexiest photographs.

A nice collection. My favorite as a photograph is Jayne Mansfield. The sexiest, in my personal opinion, is "Clint Eastwood... bare-che...

Glancing at a picture of Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, both of us thought it was Rick Perry.

Here's the picture, on the front page of the NYT website: Scanning the page in my normal style and seeing that in this context... ... be...