Posted on 09/23/2004 1:41:52 PM PDT by Ironfocus
Las Vegas - The Bush administration is "intentionally blind" to the needs of the environment and has rolled back years of advances in improving air and water quality, actor and activist Robert Redford said on Wednesday.
"Sadly, the erosion that's occurred is disastrous, frightening and dangerous," Redford said.
Speaking at an event sponsored by the Environmental Accountability Fund, a political action committee, Redford said he is insulted when President George W Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney tout their status as Westerners.
"I take particular offence as a Westerner when I see all the swagger and all the strutting. .... And I think, `What do they know about the West?"' said Redford, who has homes in California and Utah. "It's synthetic. It's fake."
America needs more bipartisanship efforts, Redford said recalling the 1970s when he worked to help pass the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
"Remember the old days when we all fought tooth and nail, but we worked together to come to some sort of solution that could be bipartisan?" Redford said. "God forbid we could ever let things slide, that we lose that balance and we end up with something that could be divisive, totalitarian, mean, narrow. That's where we are now."
Bush campaign spokesperson Tracey Schmitt dismissed Redford's claims, and said Bush has proposed a number of policies beneficial to the environment.
Gee, and just a few days ago on FR there was an article titled something like Air Quality Highest in 20 Years.
Wished I'd saved it!
Perfectly describes the Democrat party.
Who is Robert Redford kidding? Bipartisanship! He has always and I mean since day one, has had it in for Bush.
"Sadly, the erosion that's occurred is disastrous, frightening and dangerous,"
Sounds like a description of his career.
Hey pretty boy, I'm an AZ native, and today the sky is so blue you could swim in it. SHOVE IT!!!
Aw stfu REDford. The air is this year the cleanest it has been since the Clean Air Act came into being you smarmy maggot. Why don't you go tear up another alpine valley and build another ski village.
Does this mean that some one is thinking about building something that would harm the perfect view that Bobby now has? In Utah?
I swamped the professor with so much data and so many links that I doubt he read a quarter of my work.
The only thing that is eroding is whatever is left of the little commie runt's brainstem. He's been a drooling lobotomite for at least the last twenty years.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Hey Bobbie! I won't tell you how to run your little film festival and you don't tell me about air quality.
What a jerk. Air quality in the West has improved consistently since the early 70s. I should know since air quality monitoring is my own little patch of career heaven. Bobbie's breathing cleaner air today than he would have in 1920s.
The only erosion that has ocurred is the erosion of his mental capacity....
I think that warning should read, "Gay-enviro whacko alert."
Redford is the typical Green Fascist who has gotten very rich using the Green way.
This guy is a hypocrite in the same league as Babs herself. Hollyweirdos, the both of them.
Funny. I seem to vaguely recall an invitation that this pompous a$$ received from the Bush Administration official to attend an environmental function. The invitation caustically rebuffed by Redford.
Also, the erosion of his short height to begin with.
He has a home/ranch in the California Wine country, and someone who saw him said he looked like a very ugly troll who needed a step ladder to look Da$$hole in the eyes.
I am a westerner, I have lived in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington and I hope in the very near future to move to Northern Idaho to get away from all the liberal wackos in Washington state. I don't agree with Rob's tree hugging ideology.
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