Best of Invisible Obama: Twitter Strikes Back, #Eastwooding Begins

Aug 31, 2012 3:25 PM EDT

Within seconds of the actor’s bizarre RNC speech to an empty chair, an anonymous Twitter user started mocking right back—as the unseen president. A look at the funniest tweets.

Clint Eastwood’s now-infamous speech at the Republican National Convention included a dialogue—or rather monologue—with an empty chair. The idea was that he was addressing an invisible President Obama, who the actor and director was both conducting a (one-sided) interview with and giving a bit of a lecture. Within moments, a new Twitter account popped up called @InvisibleObama to record and parody the incident. Here are the anonymous user’s best tweets, followed by the new sensation known as “Eastwooding.”

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— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

The GOP built me.
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

When Mitt Romney says “Mr. Chairman,” do you think he’s referring to me?
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

Mitt, if you would talk to me like Clint did, I’d tell you that my iPod plays “Invisible Touch.” On repeat.
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

Vote for Romney, and you’ll get @invisiblenasa!
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

Global warming’s invisible too? Oh it’s on now.
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

I’m behind Mitt! No seriously. I’m right behind him.
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

Hey @piersmorgan, I got your empty chair right here. No seriously. I do.
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

Sometime overnight, Twitter deleted the account. But by Friday morning, the account was reinstated. Here’s the first tweet after @InvisibleObama’s absence:

I’m back. Sorry about that. @twitter took the invisible thing a little too literally. Now where were we...
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012

Predictably, @InvisibleObama wasn’t the only Twitter user having fun with the creepy event. Ben Smith of Buzzfeed snapped a pic of The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza interview of an invisible Barack:

#Eastwooding twitter.com/daveweigel/sta…
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 31, 2012

Not to be outdone, Chris Geidner got an exclusive with the whole (invisible) Obama family:

Exclusive: The Obama family stops by @buzzfeed’s workspace at #RNC2012. twitter.com/chrisgeidner/s…
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 31, 2012

Also, the hashtag #Eastwooding quickly sprang up. Similar to planking , Eastwooding is when you angrily and accusatorially point at an empty chair.

#eastwooding twitter.com/delrayser/stat…
— delrayser (@delrayser) August 31, 2012

Just doing a little #eastwooding before bed. twitter.com/jamesggilmore/…
— James G Gilmore (@jamesggilmore) August 31, 2012

#eastwooding twitter.com/marilolis/stat…
— marilolis (@marilolis) August 31, 2012

Even the president had a response:

This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012

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