The 10 Least Avoidable Memes Of The 2012 Election
Clint Eastwood and His Empty Chair
One of the Republican Party’s few legitimate celebrity backers (unless you consider Ted Nugent pertinent), Clint Eastwood was a big “get” for the Republican National Convention in late August. Or he was, until he gave a crazy old codger speech that involved talking to an empty chair he pretended was President Obama. Naturally, someone started an “Invisible Obama” Twitter feed with a chair as the profile picture and “Eastwood-ing” — in which people take pictures of themselves in dialogue with empty chairs — temporarily became a thing. Even the Obama campaign got in on it:
This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012