Eastwood: Convention speech only irritated 'lefties'

Clint Eastwood says he achieved what he sought to do when he appeared at the Republican National Convention last week and talked to an empty chair that he said represented President Barack Obama. The actor’s speech was widely mocked.

In an interview published today in the Carmel Pine Cone, a small California newspaper, the 82-year-old actor said he did not know what he was going to say until he said it.