Clint Eastwood: Khizr Khan is ‘some poor slob’ being ‘exploited’ by Democrats
Fresh off of his absolutely idiotic Esquire interview, Clint Eastwood has more words. Bad words. Words that absolutely need to stop. Clint was stopped by a TMZ videographer somewhere in LA this week. It looked like Clint and a lady friend were exiting a restaurant, I guess. Clint rolled down his window and chatted with the TMZ guy in what seemed like TMZ’s genuine stab at investigative journalism. TMZ asked Clint about the Khan family, the gold-star family of a solider that died in combat in Iraq in 2004. Khizr Khan, the father, gave the best speech of the DNC last week, and ever since then, Donald Trump, Trump’s surrogates and the worst of conservative media have been insulting, denigrating and misrepresenting the Khan family. So what does Clint think about all of that?
TMZ: What do you think of Trump getting into it with the Khan family, the slain veteran’s family?
Eastwood: “Ah… I don’t know, I know nothing about it. I think he made a mistake by making fun of the guy’s dead son but, you know, that’s his business.”
TMZ: Do you think Trump should stop saying inflammatory things, or is it a bad thing to be too PC?
Eastwood: “I think it is bad to be too PC, but I think there is a limit. You don’t have to be rude to somebody. But also, the other guy was being exploited by a political party. That’s no good either. Whether either party does it, exploitation, they shouldn’t take advantage of some poor slob.”
[Transcribed from video]
“Some poor slob” = the father of a slain American soldier. “The other guy was being exploited by a political party” = the Clinton campaign asked Khizr Khan, a Harvard-educated immigration lawyer, if he’d like to speak at the DNC about his late son, and Mr. Khan agreed. “I think he made a mistake by making fun of the guy’s dead son but, you know, that’s his business.” I DISAGREE. When a political candidate for the highest office in the land decides to go after a private citizen and a GOLD STAR FAMILY, it’s not just “his business.”
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