I kind of hope Clint was trying to bootleg a bit of bipartisan criticism into his speech at Romneyfest (on Afghanistan and Guantanamo), rather than just being an 82 year old man addressing an empty chair while making throat slitting gestures. Still, I see promise in the format and look forward to the Democrats featuring Barbara Streisand shouting at a bus stop or Oprah cackling to herself while poisoning next door's kittens or or Michael Martin Sheen not being quite sure why he's standing in the front garden after having definitively forgotten to put his trousers on, or Oliver Stone wandering the streets trying to identify the one person not responsible for assassinating Kennedy.
I believe it was Charlton Heston who pioneered this encroaching senility approach to celebrity endorsement. Was it really the case that he once addressed an audience of gun owners as 'my fellow Armenians' while fondling a Dushki? Sadly no: I just made that up.
Martin Sheen, maybe? Michael Sheen is the one who is either Tony Blair or Brian Clough. Martin Sheen went from a childhood of juvenile delinquency via MACV-SOG and a job in the airline industry to a successful term as US president.
I confused them myself once, embarrassingly.
Posted by: ajay | August 31, 2012 at 02:39 PM
So who's going senile then. huh.
Posted by: jamie | August 31, 2012 at 02:51 PM
Also, "while fondling a Dushki" leaves it entertainingly unclear whether you mean a Dushka or a Dushku...
Posted by: ajay | August 31, 2012 at 05:11 PM
Just recalled that Dushki was the Afgantsy term for Afghan insurgent, so I think I'll let it ride even if I did mean the machine gun.
Posted by: jamie | August 31, 2012 at 08:58 PM