Video: Twitter mocks Eastwood speech

>>> back to politics and hashtag eastwooding, what people are calling clint eastwood 's stunt before governor romney 's acceptance speech last night. moments after clint eastwood 's speech, even ann romney referred to it as, quote, unique. twitter exploded with users mocking him by tweeting pictures of people with empty chairs. the obama campaign also did a little eastwooding of its own, tweeting this picture of the president with a caption that reads, this seat's taken. eastwood's so-called obama has its own twitter page. let's bring jimmy and chip back in. we know right after that speech, the campaign came out and said he was ad libbing and there's no way we should see him through the same lens as politicians even though he has a political background, mayor of carmel. we know that. please be honest, chip. what did you think of that moment yesterday? i'm begging you for honesty here.

>> i'm always honest on your show. this is going to shock you. i was speechless after that. i didn't know what to say. i grew up watching every clint eastwood movie. he's an icon. he's a legend. you're never going to hear me say anything bad about clint eastwood because i'm such a huge fan. last night may have not been the best position for him to be in the convention. i think i'm going to agree with ann romney on this and say unique and let jimmy go from there.

>> because he's 82 years old. and steve schmidt said, he's 82, feel sorry for him. people take issue with that because they say you need to be responsible for what you say. but who mishandled that? as i understand it, no one saw the speech. it was ad libbed. shouldn't that have been more controlled, especially on such an important night for governor romney ?

>> it's interesting. i was thinking about if i was the convention director and i have had no president in telling presidents or candidates what they should or shouldn't do. i would have had a hard time telling clint eastwood what to do. chuck norris helped us in the huckabee campaign and i had a hard time telling him what to do.

>> you were starstruck? are you confessing people behind the scenes might have been a little bit woozy on the celebrity booze?

>> it's possible. the first time i met chuck norris , i was star-struck. i would probably freeze up and say, empty chair? perfect, go for it.

>> it's easy for some people to make fun and laugh at this. but there are folks who took great offense to the tone of it, the nature of it and the lack of, i guess, decorum from this person that is in his world an icon.

>> i said to a friend this morning, the only way that could have been worse is if they two-packed or hologramed president obama into the chair. when you're offensive and weird at the same time, you've really struck out. that was bizarre to an extreme. i watched it again this morning. it's bizarre even more at this hour than it was last night. i don't understand it. and i don't know what people were thinking. and i don't buy the whole star-struck thing. clint eastwood is an icon, a fabulous actor. but you put somebody up on the stage where you have 20 million people watching . he's supposed to be making the case why mitt romney needs to replace the current president and that was a complete whiff of the ball.

>> who is he supposed to appeal?

>> apparently no one in the chair because there's nobody in the chair.

>> we know that romney 's doing well with women, latinos, with white males, certain age groups --

>> he's got the white males.

>> who is clint eastwood designed to appeal to?

>> maybe it seemed too cute by an inch -- i don't know. i'll go home this weekend on my way to charlotte and i'll ask people, what did you think of the clint eastwood thing?

>> you don't have to ask people that. go online.

>> my people in south carolina don't know what online is.

>> you're meaning your family.

>> yeah. i'll ask my brother. he'll probably say, it was pretty damn weird. it was weird. i don't get it.

>> michael moore said, clint eastwood drove home to tens of millions of viewers the central message of this year's republican national convention , we are delusional and detached from reality, vote for us. i tease that there was at least one celebrity, chip, who praised this speech. can you guess who that celebrity was that sent out the tweet -- the tweet says, i loved watching clint eastwood last night, he was terrific.

>> i have no idea.

>> it was donald trump .

>> makes sense now. i will say this. jimmy talked about how it was weird. i know you shouldn't text and drive. you shouldn't drive and watch tv --

>> yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> for the viewers. but he did say some interesting things in there that i think hopefully got through. this is our country and that politicians work for us. he made some really good points within the odd format. but i think clint eastwood , at the end of the day , a lot of people, especially democrat, want to talk about it because it took away from what was a great night.

>> the reality, as you know, straight-shoot it, everyone's talking about that moment.

>> it's certainly fun to talk about.

>> except for clint eastwood .

>> he's probably asleep.

>> jimmy, thank you very much. chip, thank you as well.

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