Who reveals one of the reasons he made his new flick Invictus.
It just seems like we’re making a lot of mistakes on this whole calling everybody racist. Everybody’s calling everybody morons and nuts. We’re becoming more juvenile as a nation. The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
Of course, the interviewer abruptly tries to use Mandela’s suffering in the film (and protests against him by whites) as symbolism of America in 2009 and people shouting “we want our country back.” Is that missing the point or making the point?
Whatever it was, Clint retorts a couple questions later.
Do you hope that people will look at this movie and learn anything?
Well, they’ll take it on a lot of levels. It seems like we’re stepping on our dicks all the time. Jimmy Carter accusing people who disagree with the president of being racist. The president sides with the black professor rather than the policeman. Everybody just ready to jump down everybody else’s throat. You know, sure, that was a mistake, because [Obama] started out perfectly: “I don’t have the facts.” That was time to stop. Carter is just kind of a senile old guy, I guess, and it’s something about being an old guilty southerner that makes you want to be perceived as doing penance for all the years you probably cast a lot of aspersions on black people when you were younger, or something like that. I don’t know. Maybe that’s not a fair judgment, but it just seems like what we’re doing. Those are just two examples.
Clint points out the rather rough discourse on Fox and MSNBC and states his bona fides as a social libertarian.
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A sterling chap…good on him.
I can see and hear him saying the above quotes with his teeth clenched.
“Man of the Year”? Cover I saw today had Bad-Ass of the Year. I like that better.
Senile old Jimmy Carter…heh
Ah, that makes me happy. It really does. Politics notwithstanding, I’ve always hated Carter, and Clint’s one of my heroes. Seeing a hero rag on an enemy is always hillarious.
This is why there is a 4 foot by 4 foot Clint Eastwood painting on my wall. Bad ass indeed.
Carter is the longest reigning ex President in history…29 years come 1/20/10.The ugly little ape has never gotten over 1980…
I was not surprised at GQ going after Beck but they won the undying loathing of my other fav. writer, Brad Thor when they did that. He of course like Clint could be a GQ cover and there’d be no hint of Metrosexuality involved.
One has to wonder when Clint went after Carter like that what the interviewer said later about it. Its funny I think when people get to be as old as Clint, they just don’t give a shite anymore and say what they think. He has earned that right. I wish younger people were that down to earth. God love him.
I was glad to read the interview. INVICTUS and him making the movie, wasn’t adding up.
I am not gonna see it though. I despise Nelson Mandela and Im Matt Damon and his faux South African accent is vomit worthy. Its an Oscar bait machine. THats all. Giving Mandela any kudos is ridiculous. He has never said one good thing about the USA or ever offered anything worthy besides being a member of the African National Congress which was if I remember right a communuist organization. Damn is a tool of the most toolish kind.
Yay!! I can see Clint Eastwood movies without worry. dr zoon will be so thrilled.