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  • 2014-03-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Clint Eastwood's 'Twilight Years' (en)
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  • Anyone who has viewed Clint Eastwood's infamous empty chair monologue at the 2012 Republican National Convention likely has no illusions that the Academy Award-winning actor/director was a fan of President Barack Obama. However, a much-circulated piece about the realizations of one's twilight years which ends with a castigation of President Obama was not a reproduction of anything Clint Eastwood said or wrote: In typical urban legend-like fashion, the earliest appearances of this item (from September and October 2013) are simply postings of untitled and uncredited e-mails that made no mention of Clint Eastwood; not until about three months later did versions identifying this piece as Clint Eastwood's Twilight Years begin to appear. (A representative for Eastwood also told us that he had nothing to do with this item.) Clint Eastwood did express some thoughts on pending mortality during a January 2011 interview: He also offered some political comments in that interview which included a brief critical remark about President Obama, although one far less caustic in tone than the item reproduced above: A slightly revised version of the faux Eastwood essay made the social media rounds toward the end of the 2020 presidential campaign season, this time with Democratic nominee Joe Biden's name inserted into the text as the object of derision: (en)
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