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Sep. 3, 2012 3:15pm

Clint Eastwood’s performance at the Republican National Convention last Thursday sparked a raft of conflicted reactions from the political commentariat. Many liberals sneered at the speech as a grotesque bit of exploitative theater – Dirty Harry meets Honey Boo Boo – while others, including Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, applauded the speech for its comedic timing. Conservatives, too, had mixed reactions, with some bemoaning the speech’s potential for distraction on a night that should have belonged to GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, while others found it hilarious and cutting in its unscripted genuineness.

However, whatever the reaction to the speech, one piece of it has endured as a political image – namely, the sight of Mr. Eastwood speaking to an empty chair as though he were interviewing President Barack Obama. This image not only inspired most of the derision by the Left, including the obligatory accusation of racism, but now it has also managed to hijack Twitter on Labor Day, as conservative tweeters have rechristened the beloved union-inspired holiday “Empty Chair Day.” And to celebrate, they have tweeted pictures of empty chairs. Without stopping.

Below are the five best pictures of empty chairs posted by these practical jokesters:

#5. President Obama pays a visit

Clint Eastwood Inspired Empty Chair Day Inspires Hilarious Labor Day Images on Twitter

Photo Credit: Instagram

#4. The incredible bowing chair

Clint Eastwood Inspired Empty Chair Day Inspires Hilarious Labor Day Images on Twitter

Photo Credit: Twitter

#3. President Obama on Mount Rushmore

Clint Eastwood Inspired Empty Chair Day Inspires Hilarious Labor Day Images on Twitter

Photo Credit: Twitter

#2. The faded poster meets the empty chair

Clint Eastwood Inspired Empty Chair Day Inspires Hilarious Labor Day Images on Twitter

Photo Credit: Gary Spencer

#1. Karl Marx meets President Obama

Clint Eastwood Inspired Empty Chair Day Inspires Hilarious Labor Day Images on Twitter

Photo Credit: Twitchy

Bonus: The empty chair as a poster

Clint Eastwood Inspired Empty Chair Day Inspires Hilarious Labor Day Images on Twitter

See more at Twitchy.

 

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  • knp
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:31pm

    this picture was recently posted and BY FAR the best IMO http://p.twimg.com/A15DauACUAAZMgW.jpg

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  • Mike Benton
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:30pm

    The Obama gang can talk to an empty work station.

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    • RANGER1965
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:51pm

      It’s funny that the rambling humor of Clint Eastwood that was so strange at the time, had members of the audience hanging their heads in sympathetic embarassment while he spoke.

      Yet as the days go by the unspoken but powerful message of an empty chair will likely be the most damaging attack Obama has ever faced. It is also equally likely that this will be the most memorable meme in convention. Unintentional or no, there is a certain genius in what he did, and it’s gonna last for quite some time.

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:37pm

      Creativity comes from a vision and Clint had a vision.

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      SCREW-WINDOWS  
    • BenInNY
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:58pm

      @Ranger It’s been so weird to me – out of my 1200-1300 person twitter feed we all loved it. It was my favorite part of the night. Then the next day I saw all these journalists from both sides panning it and wondered if they’d lost their senses of humor entirely.

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    • rosegrower
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:00am

      @Beninny
      I think it was actually too subtle for most people to grasp – the symbolism of an empty chair = to the reality of the empty suit that now is Commander in Chief. It was one of those soliloquies that took a while to sink in, but when it did it resonated loudly.And the leftists in the media (those who eventually “got it”) HATE it!

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  • 50Caliber
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:15pm

    An empty suit would have worked equally well.

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    • toto
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:32pm

      It may well be that the population that is happy to pay no taxes, has no talents, no morals, no integrity, and lacks the brains to recognize that they are forfeiting freedom for a free lunch, are, in fact, Obama’s favorite people. They may be beyond the reach of reason, patriotism, and personal responsibility after decades of being so well trained by the liberal elite, that freedom is not worth having to work.

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  • Z
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:13pm

    Hmm …no empty golf cart seats in those pics…Oh yeah that’s part of the reason the real seats are empty. Fore!

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  • BlessedONE333
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:02pm

    blaze you suck so badly

    5 chairs?

    how about post a link to HUNDREDS OF EMPTY CHAIR PHOTOS – that was sent to you last night?

    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3178719405567.104883.1793104758&type=1

    I know YOU didn’t organize it which is why you don’t even cover it like a decent American…. jealous much glenn?!

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    • yourpantsonfire
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:13pm

      The truth, and you can’t handle it… what an empty seat!

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    • Shasta
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:25pm

      i tried your link. Facebook says the content is unavailable. I would never dream that it might be a first amendment issue

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      Shasta  
    • BlessedONE333
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:35pm

      Shasta sign into your own facebook page – and then click my page link – IT’S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

      I DON’T HIDE FROM THE NWO idiots anymore..

      http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3178719405567.104883.1793104758&type=1

      THE LINK IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and has HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:56pm

      It is NOT “open to the public,” it is open to FACEBOOK USERS ONLY. I have NO DOUBT that this is why The Blaze offended you so greatly by not posting your link. Your outrage over this petty thing is really overblown. Get a grip, brother.

      FYI, in spite of what you think, not every red-blooded American citizen is a member of the fleecible flock known as Facebook. Some of us value our privacy and our individualism, and we choose not to prop up a company run by progressive jerks who take part in secretive pow-wows with the current administration.

      And, for the record, The Blaze got it right: Their choice for Number One is truly the best. I clicked on this story for the sole purpose of posting a link to that image of Marx and Obama in case it had been missed.

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    • lizaz
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:37pm

      That’s why we left Facebook…..”unavailable”….the link is “unavailable”……

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    • RetiredAmericanNavyTaxpayer
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:25pm

      Please note that the title at the top of the article says FIVE BEST.

      Thank you for your attention.

      NOBAMA
      **2012**

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    • freedom4ever
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:09pm

      is it still up? i can’t get on it!

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    • BlessedONE333
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:18pm

      RetiredAmericanNavyTaxpayer if you REALLY THINK THESE PATHETIC PICS ARE THE BEST OF THE DAY – you havent seen NOTHING yet

      1000+ photos – yes you have to have a facebook account – dang – wake up – it’s not like they can come for 300+ million of us all on the same day – grow a pair

      https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3178719405567.104883.1793104758&type=1

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:32pm

      Clever way to get page hits do you want us to hit the like button also ?

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    • BlessedONE333
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:21am

      BEST VIDEO ON EMPTY CHAIR DAY YET
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12_RHOTXU4M

      EASTWOOD in a ‘new movie’ hee hee

      you have to watch this one – it’s the funniest one of all so far

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    • BlessedONE333
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:24am

      SCREW-WINDOWS no – I want you to enjoy the collection of AMERICAN VOICES who are speaking out in the most incredibly sharp GRASSROOTS movement, doing it in a uniquely American way. WITH FREE SPEECH.

      don’t want you to pay attention to me – LOOK AT THE DATA, THE PEOPLE ARE ORGANIZING and we are taking our nation back, one day at a time.

      now… GO HERE… SCREW-WINDOWS BEST VIDEO ON EMPTY CHAIR DAY YET
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12_RHOTXU4M

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    • Kenszen
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:53am

      Blessedone333, that video was HILARIOUS!!! Thanks!

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      Kenszen  
    • debeug
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:26am

      Oooh no, they took it down!

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      debeug  
    • paulrogers
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:12pm

      From what hole did you climb out? The Blaze covers the news while the rest of the “media” cover for Obama. Get real or get lost!

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    • remnantofthe-D
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 4:56pm

      well, that link doesn’t work either? Perhaps your not hiding it – but facebook has decided to hide you?

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      remnantofthe-D  
  • theonounser
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:00pm

    When it comes to solving America’s problems this president’s Chair has been empty most of his term do to Vacations, Islamic affairs, golf outings, basket ball, and many other side show time wasters. Every unelected cabinet pick he has made was the worst pick a leader could have made for the future of the U.S.A.. Trying to buy votes with tax payer money this is appealing to social prostitutes and they can be bought. They’re like blind zombies with their mouth and hands open wide all for a vote.

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  • ambrosia
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:55pm

    Very clever, America !

    Somehow,
    the combination of Clint’s “Conversation with an Empty Chair”
    and Oblameo’s “You didn’t build that” rant
    has put the final stake,
    in the heart of this blood-sucking Vampire administration.

    The beautiful Clint Eastwood reminded America-
    ALL of America, regardless of your political persuasion,
    “When someone is not doing their job, you’ve GOT to let him go ” !

    Tough Love-
    but reality, eventually sets in-
    the guy
    who took you to the prom,
    abandoned you, in the middle of the dance floor
    & forced you to call your parents
    for the long, silent, heartbreaking ride home.

    Fool me once, shame on you-
    fool me twice, shame on me !

    When one comes to grip with reality,
    like Clint said, cut your loss & move on.
    Put the superficial genie back into the bottle-
    do it for your country, do it for yourself…before it’s TOO late !

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:53pm

      Yeah!!!

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    • Moozmom
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:32am

      The consequence of “not building that” is that “we don’t own that”. It would be the final nail in the coffin of America’s freedom to own property. Obama is a true communist. Russia knew he was being groomed for the presidency in 1992. Please google Tom Fife.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:50pm

    Leave it to oblablah to allow the flag to touch the ground in the #5 picture, since he has no love for OUR flag!

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    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:12pm

      Are you insane? Obama didn’t make that picture some person on the Internet did, please tell me you’re playing some kind of joke.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:49pm

    THANK YOU SO MUCH, PATRIOTS, for JOY once again!
    Somebody make posters of these and let’s sell them to help pay off our national debt.
    YES!!!!

    GOD BLESS YOU, AMERICA AND AMERICANS!
    In JESUS’ SWEET AND MIGHTY NAME, amen.

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  • CatB
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:48pm

    https://twitter.com/TheRightTweets/status/242626587940515840/photo/1

    From earlier today.

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  • stotlaat
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:38pm

    Dope and Mange

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  • Mojoron
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:35pm

    Not only an empty chair but an empty suit.

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  • Mike McNally
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:33pm

    A credit would be nice (for number 3)

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    Mike McNally  
  • GlennaBeckski
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:33pm

    Love that “bowing” chair! Hahahahahahahahah

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  • vic138
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:32pm

    I thought these were brilliant as is the page: http://didntbuildthat.com/

    Comedians are completely missing out on one of the best times to make fun of a sitting (or not) president in our lives.

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    • hi
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:10pm

      I love it!

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      hi  
    • RightThinking1
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:12pm

      I liked the one with Obama hold a ‘neuralizer’, the device that the Men In Black used to erase peoples memory. Presumably, Obama will try that trick at the DNC convention, where, by the way, they are giving away tickets to the public, desperately trying to fill seats.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:31pm

    Very very well done! All are excellent and each brings home a part of NoBama’s follies.

    NoBama > MoBama

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    Micmac  
  • paulwbrown
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:31pm

    Very creative photos. I also see an empty suit in the empty chair.

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  • drhunt
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:30pm

    The movement, IMHO, will continue to grow…and it will last longer then just today, Labor day. Clint has inspired a multitude of frustrated Americans, and he was the only civilian to speak that day at the RNC. Great stuff…thanks Clint. Not even Chris Wallace dared to comment on Clint’s performance after Romney’s speech, but Lawrence O’Donnell did…and he’s going to be scrapping egg off his face for years to come.

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  • floridareader
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:30pm

    Whether Liberals accept it or not, Dirty Harry nailed it!

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  • Watermain
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:27pm

    The empty chair in my front yard isn’t funny…it’s pathetic that it represents my respect level for the president of our great country.

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    • CatB
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Mine also .. (mine is red and it folds .. like Obama)

      but I also have a Romney/Ryan 2012 sign in my yard.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:12pm

      CATB, then tip that chair over directly in front of your Romney sign. It will look as though he is bowing.

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  • db321
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:27pm

    These are some of the best I seen!

    This is very rear in Marketing and Politics – where a statement or campaign takes a life of it’s own. If Clint wanted to stop this, he would not know where to go or who to go see. Congratulation Clint, for a man of few words, you sure said a lot.

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  • Optimist4now
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:27pm

    Fantastic creativity! Though not as ingenious, my empty chair will remain ’til after the elections — that is unless some one decides to help themself to my property.

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  • ColdDeadHands
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:25pm

    Very creative folks. Love them all…

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  • Watermain
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:25pm

    My empty chair in the front yard isn’t funny…it’s pathetic that an empty chair equals my respect for the president of our country.

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    Watermain  
  • kapnkd
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:21pm

    Could add one more of a toilet seat! ….After all, Obozocommie is sooooo very full of it – that perhaps it is his most befitting “throne”!!!

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    • Micmac
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:34pm

      That would be the one seat you could see him on as he is dishing it out, albeit through his petard.

      NoBama > MoBama

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      Micmac  
    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:14pm

      The incoherent ramblings of mad men.

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