In 2012, Clint Eastwood stood on stage at the convention, accompanied by naught but an empty chair. In real life, it seems Clint Eastwood has slowly morphed from the justice-loving “Dirty Harry” to his cranky old man character from “Gran Torino,” complaining about today’s generation and regretting the past, especially that speech to a chair. He pointed at said chair and announced, “So I’ve got Mr. Obama sitting here.” It was a speech that prompted The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri to actually write, “He and the chair discussed Guantanamo and Afghanistan. It’s worth a re-watch:Time called it “one of the most baffling and iconic moments of the 2012 election” in a story wondering where the chair ended up. Now, Eastwood has finally revealed what the heck was going on that night.

Source: Washington Post August 04, 2016 08:17 UTC