Clint Eastwood Hints He's For Sarah Palin

CLINT Eastwood made it clear who won last week's vice-presidential debate in an interview he did Saturday as part of The New Yorker Festival with the magazine's legendary Lillian Ross.

"One of the candidates the other night seemed more prone to telling the truth than the other," Eastwood said. The cheese-and-Chardonnay crowd laughed, presumably because they thought he meant Joe Biden.

But the laughs among the 300 worshipful movie buffs at the Directors Guild theater dried up when Ross interjected, "I liked her, too!"

Eastwood went on to talk about how well "she" did, although he stopped short of a ringing endorsement.

The Post's Kyle Smith asked Eastwood, who describes himself as a libertarian, what qualities he believed would be ideal in a presidential candidate.

Eastwood, a former mayor of Carmel, Calif., quoted James Cagney as saying, "Plant your feet, and tell the truth."

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