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  • 2018-11-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Clint Eastwood Say Obama Was the Biggest Fraud Ever Perpetrated on the American People? (en)
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  • Actor and director Clint Eastwood has long been critical of the left in American politics, and is considered as an icon by some on the right for being one of the rare outspoken political conservatives in Hollywood. As a result, his words (or at least close approximations of them) often appear on pro-Trump Facebook pages. One entry from the close approximation camp is found in a meme posted the Facebook group Donald Trump for President 2020!!!!!! that purportedly reproduced an Eastwood comment about President Obama: Although Clint Eastwood did not say these words exactly as stated in the meme, they appear to be a reasonably close paraphrase of comments he gave to the Carmel Pine Cone (the local newspaper of the California town for which Eastwood once served as mayor) following his controversial and meandering improvised empty chair speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention. In that article, Eastwood reflected on the criticism of his speech (emphasis ours): Although the meme added some text and replaced hoax with fraud and the Obama presidency with President Obama, the primary meaning remained unchanged. (en)
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