Politics

It only took 11 minutes to undo four days of painstakingly choreographed political stagecraft at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Clint Eastwood’s bizarre, rambling diatribe on the RNC’s final night, largely directed at an empty chair bearing an imaginary President Obama, instantly became the most memorable and most mocked moment of the convention. On the Internet, Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech was a mere footnote to pictures of people debating empty chairs — “Eastwooding,” as the kids called it — and quips about the octogenarian actor’s sanity. Even Obama’s staff got in on the joke, tweeting a picture of Obama sitting in the Oval Office beneath the caption, “This seat’s taken.”

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