Weird Willard was laughing at Clint?

[ProSense]

Aide: Romney found Eastwood speech "funny"

By Sarah Huisenga

(CBS News) KENNER, La. -- A senior adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign acknowledged on Friday that actor/director Clint Eastwood veered off previously discussed talking points in his controversial Republican National Convention address, but said the Republican nominee enjoyed the speech and found it "funny."

"I was backstage with him and he was laughing," said the adviser, Stuart Stevens, speaking to reporters aboard Romney's charter flight in the New Orleans metropolitan area.

The New York Times, quoting unnamed aides, said Eastwood's speech seemed to startle and unsettle the Romney campaign, and that several of them took pains to distance themselves from the decision to put him onstage without a script that had been rehearsed like virtually all other prime-time convention addresses.

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"I never discussed, I mean, about a chair. Don't know," said Stevens. "This was an idea, a moment that moved him, I would say, and he went with it."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57504721-503544/aide-romney-found-eastwood-speech-funny/

Romney Aides Call Eastwood Speech ‘Strange,’ ‘Weird,’ ‘Theater Of The Absurd’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021242791

[Whisp]

1. ‘Strange,’ ‘Weird,’ ‘Theater Of The Absurd’

is describing Romney

[ProSense]

4. .

[Arctic Dave]

2. Yes, willard was laughing. Seeing what little bit of oppurtunity he had disappear.

Then he started crying. Then he laid down, curled up into a ball and started sucking his thumb.

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. Yeah, well... just consider that Stuart Stevens is likely the guy who signed off

on bumping the slick video out of network primetime in favor of the wackadoo Eastwood bit. So, of course he's going to defend it & say that the candidate laughed.

More about Stuart Stevens: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/politics/stuart-stevens-redefining-romneys-presidential-run.html?pagewanted=all

Reading this piece makes me think the whole thing was Stevens' idea.

[MADem]

5. Well, he thought a dog on the roof shitting itself in terror was hilarity... nt

[Tx4obama]

6. Romney also thought that when he cut off the hair of that college student ...

that was pinned down by his gang of thugs was a funny prank, when in fact it was ASSAULT.

Romney has a very strange sense of humor.

[Marie Marie]

10. Let's not forget what a knee slapper it was when he walked that blind professor into a door.

I'll go you one further and say that he has a sick sense of humor. Petty and cruel.

[karynnj]

7. In that case, he owes Obama an apology

This was absolutely tasteless and disrespectful to a sitting President ("in a time of war" - no less to use the RW line when the President was Bush.)

[formercia]

8. Willard hasn't a clue

Clint got ahead of the narrative and Mitt didn't even realize it.

It was precious.

[BlueStreak]

9. He does that laugh whenever he feels like he is caught in a trap.

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Which is pretty frequently, it seems.

[lonestarnot]

11. Nervous richie rich felon manager taxivader. Pencil you out of your eye teeth. He's a lawyer too.