{"id":719,"date":"2012-09-03T20:07:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T02:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petesworld.us\/?p=719"},"modified":"2012-09-03T20:07:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T02:07:33","slug":"politico-trying-to-make-lemonade-out-of-empty-chair-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotbone.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Politico trying to make lemonade out of Empty Chair lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0912\/80591.html\">Too funny, and of course not a bit surprising<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Politico is well known as the Washington Post&#8217;s overt political arm where they can take all the political potshots at the right that are too blatant even for WaPo&#8217;s tainted Left election machine. Today they tried explain the runaway Empty Chair phenomenon, which I predict will become as much a part of the 2012 election lexicon as &#8220;you didn&#8217;t build that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lead paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe right rallied on Labor Day to celebrate \u201cNational Empty Chair Day,\u201d a show of solidarity with Clint Eastwood after his rambling address to an invisible President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So according to these clowns Tim Mak and Juana Summers, the Online Right is only doing this to give some cover for poor old doddering Clint Eastwood. Wouldn&#8217;t have anything to do with:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s frickin&#8217; hilarious<\/li>\n<li>it speaks truth to power (or perhaps mockery to power)<\/li>\n<li>Clint Eastwood doesn&#8217;t need protecting. And you just might want go get off his lawn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It does rather seem that these Lefties online, who are supposed to be both devilishly clever and all-powerful, are having trouble getting out from under <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2012\/08\/31\/in-the-line-of-fire-the-clint-eastwood-train-wreck\/\">one 10-minute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2012\/08\/31\/rambling_old_dude_a_train_wreck_for_gop_288954.html\">rambling, ineffective speech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/08\/31\/michael-moore-on-clint-eastwood-s-delusional-and-detached-from-reality-speech-at-the-republican-national-convention.html\">from a crusty old nobody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article suggests that the Democrats, those good sports, have joined in on the joke. It tells that this morning the AFSCME (a creepy-stalker public sector union like SIEU) president gave a &#8220;fiery speech&#8221; this morning to the Wisconsin delegation at the DNC (what would that be, 100-200 delegates?) in which he brought up an empty chair which is supposed to be Clint Eastwood&#8217;s presence. He exchanged words with it, and apparently upon losing the debate, he kicked the chair off stage (also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rosiegray\/labor-brings-its-frustrations-to-charlotte\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Now THAT was a clever bit, yes?<\/p>\n<p>These people are going to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too funny, and of course not a bit surprising: Politico is well known as the Washington Post&#8217;s overt political arm where they can take all the political potshots at the right that are too blatant even for WaPo&#8217;s tainted Left election machine. 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