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Empty chair debating or empty-chairing is a performance when one pretends to debate another individual, often represented by an empty chair. It can also refer to a public display of criticism of a planned interview partner who declines to participate, prominently featuring the empty chair as a symbol of the absent interview partner's perceived inadequacy.
On Thursday, August 30, 2012, American actor and director Clint Eastwood gave a speech at the Republican National Convention.Eastwood had endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 United States presidential election earlier that month, and spent much of his speech's running time on a largely improvised routine in which he addressed an empty chair that represented President Barack Obama.
Empty chair may refer to: Empty chair (law), a non-party to a lawsuit; Empty chair crisis, a 1966 diplomatic crisis involving Charles de Gaulle; Empty chair debating, a political technique involving a feigned lecturing of or debate with an absent person; Empty-chair technique used in Gestalt therapy; The Empty Chair, a crime novel by Jeffery Deaver
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Perhaps you are facing a similar scenario this year with an empty chair at the holiday table. Amid the feasting and fellowship and maybe even the tears, it is the perfect time to remember, to ...
Eastwood's speech gave rise to an Internet meme called "Eastwooding", with pictures of people pointing at empty chairs. [64] [65] Several months later, following the election, Eastwood revealed to CNBC anchor Becky Quick that his "empty chair" skit had been inspired by a Neil Diamond song ("I Am...
The empty chair is a non-party to a civil lawsuit who might also be blamed for any damages. To the defendant , the advantage of shifting blame to the empty chair, a strategy called the empty chair defense , is that the empty chair is not there to defend itself, forcing the plaintiff to defend it.