[VIDEO] Clint Eastwood chats about RNC speech and libertarianism (Ellen DeGeneres Show)

[Constitutional Paulicy]

Eastwood visited with Ellen DeGeneres yesterday to discuss his new movie, but also some of the reaction to his speech at the RNC, libertarianism, and his view on gay marriage.

The relevant part is within the first three minutes of the video. It was great to hear the reaction from the audience after Eastwood described libertarianism, the political philosophy to which he subscribes:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mIC8Nw7LqI&feature=player_embedded#!

more here..... http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/11270-clint-eastwood-chats-about-rnc-speech-libertarianism-and-gay-marriage

[QuickZ06]

Our country is on the brink of an economic collapse and we are still bringing up gay marriage...........

Screw the state, go get married, and live your dang life and focus on the IMPORTANT issues.

[aGameOfThrones]

Our country is on the brink of an economic collapse and we are still bringing up gay marriage...........

Screw the state, go get married, and live your dang life and focus on the IMPORTANT issues.

How are people to do that without permission from the government? Not everyone can live in your la la land.

[QuickZ06]

How are people to do that without permission from the government? Not everyone can live in your la la land.

Why get permission?

[aGameOfThrones]

Why get permission?

Because you need permission to get married. You think you can just go and have a religious ceremony and call that a marriage without telling the government?

[QuickZ06]

aGameOfThrones, you do realize same sex couples suffer from the current tax code? All they need to do is get married (in secret) and never tell the state, thats it.

[QuickZ06]

Because you need permission to get married. You think you can just go and have a religious ceremony and call that a marriage without telling the government?

LOL OK!

[QuickZ06]

Guess I should get permission to put certain things in my body as well (like that would even work)? What else should we mundane get permission for?

[aGameOfThrones]

Guess I should get permission to put certain things in my body as well (like that would even work)? What else should we mundane get permission for?

Everything the government has made a statute for(there must have been a very good reason for the statute).

[afwjam]

love clint.

[QuickZ06]

Everything the government has made a statute for(there must have been a very good reason for the statute).

WTF

[The Free Hornet]

Eastwood a libertarian? I just don't buy it. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/clint-eastwood-endorses-romneys-presidential-bid/2012/08/03/496f8190-ddc4-11e1-9ff9-1dcd8858ad02_blog.html) Maybe he's a "Glenn Beck 'libertarian'", never in the foxhole but always after TPTB have stopped their suppresion fire.

[AGRP]

How are people to do that without permission from the government? Not everyone can live in your la la land.


Why get permission?


Because you need permission to get married. You think you can just go and have a religious ceremony and call that a marriage without telling the government?

This conversation is so beyond the average american mind. The chances you would run into another person who thinks like this in person is next to none which means there is a lot of education to do.

[Keith and stuff]

I loved it. I've loved Eastwood for maybe a decade now. He rocks!

[QuickZ06]

This conversation is so beyond the average american mind. The chances you would run into another person who thinks like this in person is next to none which means there is a lot of education to do.

Thats why we are on here in the first place, most seem to just get it. This is a place where people can go to actually feel sane sometimes.

[puppetmaster]

Because you need permission to get married. You think you can just go and have a religious ceremony and call that a marriage without telling the government?. Yea I did and it was easy.

[Indy Vidual]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mIC8Nw7LqI&feature=player_embedded#!

more here..... http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/11270-clint-eastwood-chats-about-rnc-speech-libertarianism-and-gay-marriage

This makes it clear what he was doing in his convention speech. :)

[Agorism]

I think there should be gay marriage.

However, I never liked "cultural conservatives" anyways. These people tend to believe in populism and very liberal ideas and protectionism, but they demand to regular drugs, porn, marriage, and culture.

Basically, I find them annoying so whatever they are supporting, I'm generally against.

[aGameOfThrones]

. Yea I did and it was easy.

I hope you're not calling what you did a marriage... because it's not.

[aGameOfThrones]

I went fishing in this thread....


http://www.woophotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Catching-big-fish.gif

[Kords21]

Clint Eastwood should play Ron Paul in a movie, that'd be cool.

[QuickZ06]

I hope you're not calling what you did a marriage... because it's not.

So you really think marriage is defined by the GOVERNMENT and they should have a say in it?

[aGameOfThrones]

So you really think marriage is defined by the GOVERNMENT and they should have a say in it?

Government is the only institution that can take a religious ceremony like marriage, and make it worth something by defining IT.

[Brian4Liberty]

Clint Eastwood should play Ron Paul in a movie, that'd be cool.

Now that's an interesting idea.

[trey4sports]

Clint Eastwood should play Ron Paul in a movie, that'd be cool.





pretty sure that John Mahoney would be best suited to be the good doc.

http://www.bing.com/th?id=Ag2FzVjWd8RrqxA306x306&bn=SANGAM&pid=13.1

http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/in-treatment/character/walter-1024.jpg

[DavidK]

You don't need permission from the government to get married -- that's the biggest sack of shit I've ever heard. What are you even doing on a Liberty forum if you're here preaching pro-big government jarg?

[Kords21]

pretty sure that John Mahoney would be best suited to be the good doc.

http://www.bing.com/th?id=Ag2FzVjWd8RrqxA306x306&bn=SANGAM&pid=13.1
That'd be a good choice too. Loved him in Frasier

[aGameOfThrones]

You don't need permission from the government to get married -- that's the biggest sack of shit I've ever heard. What are you even doing on a Liberty forum if you're hear preaching pro-big government jarg?











Filling in for the lack of apologist and pro-tyranny members.

[acptulsa]

Filling in for the lack of apologist and pro-tyranny members.

Designated troll of the day?

[jmdrake]

Filling in for the lack of apologist and pro-tyranny members.

Broken sarcasm meter is broken.

[Origanalist]

Designated troll of the day?

And doing a dam good job. It takes talent to play the dumb blond.

[aGameOfThrones]

Government is the only institution that can take a religious ceremony like marriage, and make it worth something by defining IT.

I took that ^ from this...

"Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink."~Ludwig von Mises

LOL

[KMX]

He would have voted Ron Paul for sure.

[trey4sports]

Not to be a downer but i think Clint has lost his marbles.

[DaninPA]

How are people to do that without permission from the government? Not everyone can live in your la la land.

You guys must be off your game today. I caught the /s on his first post. :cool:

[QuickZ06]

Good god I'm a F tard. How the freak did I not catch on to that........I thought you went full retard.

[nobody's_hero]

Everything the government has made a statute for(there must have been a very good reason for the statute).

http://lolibattlemachine.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/not_sure_if_serious.jpg?w=630

EDIT:
I went fishing in this thread....

Oh, good. Had me going there!

[angelatc]

Gay marriage kills another thread. Liberalism really is a mental disease.

[ronpaulfollower999]

Not wanting the state to sanction marriage is a liberal idea? Then I guess I'm a liberal.

[nobody's_hero]

Eastwood a libertarian? I just don't buy it. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/clint-eastwood-endorses-romneys-presidential-bid/2012/08/03/496f8190-ddc4-11e1-9ff9-1dcd8858ad02_blog.html) Maybe he's a "Glenn Beck 'libertarian'", never in the foxhole but always after TPTB have stopped their suppresion fire.

You know. I'm not going to accuse you of demanding purity. I can understand why you don't want libertarianism to get 'watered down'. But Eastwood doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who is looking to profit or increase his political standing by adopting libertarianism (in which case, we should certainly be skeptical). Frankly, when he said, libertarianism is basically a philosophy of 'leave everybody alone', I think he gets it. At least, he's off to a good start.

[acptulsa]

Not wanting the state to sanction marriage is a liberal idea? Then I guess I'm a liberal.

Classic. Or, rather, classical.


Not to be a downer but i think Clint has lost his marbles.

I still say that the delicious satire that came out of his mouth at the convention cannot be created by a senile mind.

[July]

I still say that the delicious satire that came out of his mouth at the convention cannot be created by a senile mind.

I agree, I liked his RNC speech. I caught part of it live while it was airing and at first thought the same thing. Then I went back and watched the whole clip. Judging by the media reaction afterwords, both on conservative talk shows and left wing, I'm guessing he either went off script a little bit, or some of what he said was felt to be a little subversive.

Anyway it's great to see him out talking about libertariansim. I think there are more celebrities who lean libertarian or conservative, but there is so much pressure not to be open about it....just look at what happened to Kelly Clarkson, just for expressing mild support for Ron Paul.

[acptulsa]

I agree, I liked his RNC speech. I caught part of it live while it was airing and at first thought the same thing. Then I went back and watched the whole clip. Judging by the media reaction afterwords, both on conservative talk shows and left wing, I'm guessing he either went off script a little bit, or some of what he said what felt to be a little subversive.

I completely disagree. I think he went off script a whole lot. AND it was felt to be subversive.

I was never so much of an Eastwood fan as I am now.

[July]

I completely disagree. I think he went off script a whole lot. AND it was felt to be subversive.

I was never so much of an Eastwood fan as I am now.

Well ok, you might be right...a lot off script and a lot subversive. :p

Anyway I liked Ron's reaction to it on Jay Leno too. I think he was amused.

[Madison320]

You know. I'm not going to accuse you of demanding purity. I can understand why you don't want libertarianism to get 'watered down'. But Eastwood doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who is looking to profit or increase his political standing by adopting libertarianism (in which case, we should certainly be skeptical). Frankly, when he said, libertarianism is basically a philosophy of 'leave everybody alone', I think he gets it. At least, he's off to a good start.

I'm pretty sure Eastwood has been a libertarian for most of his life. It's not some new thing he's just discovering.

[nobody's_hero]

I'm pretty sure Eastwood has been a libertarian for most of his life. It's not some new thing he's just discovering.

I was not clear. I didn't mean to imply that Eastwood suddenly made the switch. I said "adopting libertarianism" in reference to someone like Glenn Beck's 'awakening' because Beck just wanted to tap that audience and ride the anti- gov. wave to sell books and stuff. People like Glenn Beck are opportunists. But I don't believe Clint Eastwood is.

Eastwood is already a successful movie star, and he served one term as a mayor in a small town back in the 80s. So at this point, I think whatever he says is just what's on his mind, not necessarily something he's saying for personal gain.