Hollywood Icon Clint Eastwood Makes Surprise Bloomberg Endorsement
Clint Eastwood Makes Shock 2020 Endorsement... It's NOT Trump
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By Erin Coates
Published February 22, 2020 at 10:25am
Clint Eastwood has made a surprising endorsement of former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, despite the former mayors poor performance at the Democratic debate this week.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the movie maker said that the politics has gotten so ornery.
He told The Journal that he approves of certain things that Trumps done but wishes he would act in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names. I would personally like for him to not bring himself to that level.
And then Eastwood made his shocking endorsement: The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there.
Bloomberg has just come off a week of poor reviews after his Wednesday performance at the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate debate in Las Vegas.
Bloomberg took a beatingfrom his fellow Democrats on the debate stage and was criticized for his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk policy and the millions of dollars he has spent on his campaign.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren perhaps had the harshest words about Bloomberg.
Id like to talk about who were running against: a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians, she said. No, Im not talking about Donald Trump.
Im talking about Mayor Bloomberg. Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women and supporting racist policies like redlining and stop-and-frisk, Warren argued.
Eastwood has traditionally leaned to the right on the political spectrum and served as the Republican mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
However, Eastwood told Ellen DeGeneres in an interview that he preferred the libertarian point of view, Reason reported.
This is part of the libertarian idea: Leave everybody alone. Leave everybody alone, he said.
He famously criticized former President Barack Obama in a speech in which he traded dialogue with a chair he pretended Obama was sitting on.
The director also said that given the choice between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016, he would vote for Trump, Reuters reported.
Thats a tough one, isnt it? Id have to go for Trump you know, cause shes declared that shes gonna follow in Obamas footsteps, he said at the Republican National Convention.
In his interview with The Wall Street Journal, Eastwood defended his stance on the controversy created by his latest filmThe Ballad of Richard Jewell because of its depiction of Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs
The paper called the depiction entirely false and malicious, and extremely defamatory and damaging in a letter to Warner Bros.
Eastwood said that they just changed the story a little when Scruggs was portrayed sleeping with a Federal Bureau of Investigation source to get the scoop.
Well, she hung out at a little bar in town, where mostly police officers went, he said. And she had a boyfriend that was a police officer. Well, we just changed it in the story. We made it a federal police officer instead of a local.
Poster Comment:
We must ask if Clint has been smoking something funny?
#1: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#0)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-23 07:16:24 Reply Private Reply
#2: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed, BTP Holdings (#1)
From time to time in my life I've needed a plumber, an electrician, a doctor, and even a lawyer. But I've never needed an entertainer.
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-23 09:29:51 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#2)
So true. I need a lawyer now so I get rid of that woman at court house. She keeps screwing me over. If I get letter from my doctor that says I can handle my own finances, then Legal Aid will send me one for free to help me out. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-23 09:43:47 Reply Private Reply
#4: noone222 To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Bloomberg a libertarian - and I am Pope Pedophile the 13th !
Eastwood is senile !
noone222 posted on 2020-02-23 10:07:22 Reply Private Reply
#5: BTP Holdings To: noone222 (#4)
That crossed my mind too. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-23 10:10:01 Reply Private Reply
#6: randge To: noone222 (#4)
Senile or making nice with the corporate democrat establishment that he feels he has to kiss up to.
Bloombergstein will dredge up a lot of odd flotsam and jetsam in its wake before this trip is over.
Bon voyage.
randge posted on 2020-02-23 12:11:50 Reply Private Reply
#7: BTP Holdings To: randge (#6)
They were a thrash metal band we worked in Chicago back in the day. Not my cup of tea and there were the usual number of jerks to deal with. ;)
en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Flotsam_and_Jetsam_(band)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-23 12:36:01 Reply Private Reply
#8: randge To: BTP Holdings (#7)
Didn't know there was such a thing. Born in the wrong century, I guess.
Just wow.
randge posted on 2020-02-23 13:59:10 Reply Private Reply
#9: BTP Holdings To: randge (#8)
Does your old lady keep you tied to a post all day or what?
You really need some exposure to real life. LOL
I am really lucky to recall these things because of my illness. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-23 14:26:19 Reply Private Reply
#10: Bill D Berger To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Emmanuel GoldsteinClint Eatswood and his followers, to openly and loudly express hatred for him.it would be amusing if it wasn't so pathetic.
Bill D Berger posted on 2020-02-23 17:02:02 Reply Private Reply
#11: randge To: BTP Holdings (#9)
Shit.
I lived through whole movies scenes: end-of 60s, the 70's, the 80s, etc., etc.
Singularly unimpressed for the most part.
Better half & I do go out country dancin' from time to time. Cheers.
randge posted on 2020-02-23 17:15:25 Reply Private Reply
#12: BTP Holdings To: randge (#11)
I could really cut a rug back when I lived in Illinois and went to Country Music Inn (closed long ago).
I had call forwarding when I lived in Wheeling. I was on call for snow and ice and decided to go out. I walked into CMI and paid the cover at the door. I had not even gotten to order a beer and a call came in at the bar and they were paging me.
I got on the line and told the boss I had just got there and not even ordered a beer, and that if I had a few in me I would tell them to call my back up.
So I told the doorman I would be back in a couple hours. I went to the yard and grabbed a truck and took care of the icing complaint and went back to CMI after I parked the truck. Took about 2 hours like I said.
I was there the night it closed for good. I wanted to grab the steer horns above the back door, but the bartender told me, "Leave them there."
Oh well, some guys have all the luck. ;-/
There is a UPS store on the corner where it used to sit. It was like a lot of places. The property was worth more than the annual revenues, It was the same way for Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago.
At Riverview you could shoot .22 shorts at the shooting gallery. I think that was the last place around you could do that. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-23 17:41:04 Reply Private Reply
#13: randge To: BTP Holdings (#12)
randge posted on 2020-02-23 18:57:58 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: randge (#13)
One night I was in CMI and there were these three guys there who were from South Africa.
They said they did not understand how the U.S. came to be from coast to coast.
We were using my body as a map. Left side was east coast and right was west coast. In the middle was Mid-West.
One of them points below my belt and says, "What's down there?"
I said, "That's Mexico. We don't go there." ROTFLMAO!
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-23 19:02:17 Reply Private Reply
#15: randge To: BTP Holdings (#14)
There's an immigration checkpoint coming north from Brownsville where the guy in uniform stops your car and asks for your citizenship.
"South Africa."
"Passport, please."
Oh oh. She and her friends forgot their papers. That was a five hour drive with the passports to get them out of a jam. We did teach her to drive. She went through the neighbors' garage door.
It's always interesting and instructive to have folks around from other places.
randge posted on 2020-02-23 19:16:35 Reply Private Reply
#16: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#2)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-23 19:18:39 Reply Private Reply
#17: BTP Holdings To: randge (#15)
I knew this Swedish girl named Sandy when I lived in suburban Palatine. She was a Nanny. She stayed past her Visa. They caught her and sent her back to Sweden.
I always said, "Swedish Sandy had lips like cotton candy." ROTFLOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-23 19:36:14 Reply Private Reply
#18: NeoconsNailed To: noone222 (#4)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-23 19:38:42 Reply Private Reply
#19: IRTorqued To: Bill D Berger (#10)
it interrupts the daily trump praise and worship service, don't you know.
IRTorqued posted on 2020-02-23 21:23:20 Reply Private Reply
#20: randge To: IRTorqued (#19)
Heh heh.
I never once watched the man's TV show. But one thing I've gotten to enjoy about him immensely is the way that he so thoroughly pisses certain people off.
randge posted on 2020-02-24 08:21:09 Reply Private Reply