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Too much political correctness: Clint

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Clint Eastwood

METRO NEWS SERVICES
March 02, 2009 1:10 a.m.
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Clint Eastwood is tired of everyone being so politically correct. “We’re all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything,” Eastwood told Germany’s Der Spiegel. “We constantly made jokes about different races,” the Gran Torino actor said about the good old days. “Every friendly clique had a ‘Sam the Jew’ or ‘Jose the Mexican’ — but we didn’t think anything of it.”

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