Robert Redford slams Bush ENVIROWACKO ALERT

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[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.

[marty60]

Right. I read it too. Just remember, Lefties don't listen to things like that. Unless one of their little long haired dope smoker "scientist" say it, it doesn't exist. Or maybe he doesn't get the paper at his mansion in the Mountains of Utah.

[donnab]

you got to love these guys who take pristeen landscape and buy it as their own. then put in septic systems and build huge houses, using oil and electric in a place that none existed before. then turn around and wonder why there is erosion and pollution and of course blame others for destroying the environment. can you say hypocrit?

[marty60]

Yes. and remember the stories about him having a helicopter ferry him and his friends to the top of mountains, just so they could have the pleasure of pristine snow. what an elitist pig.

[Troublemaker]

That's what I thought of immediately...Sundance. No problem putting a resort in the woods. Like the old saying "A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the mountains, an environmentalist is someone who HAS a house in the mountains". Redford was born in Santa Monica, CA to a father that worked for Standard Oil. Reford was schooled in acting in New York. If there's any "posers" - it's Redford and his mountain-man environmental BS.

[glock rocks]

Right around the 2000 election, REDford came out with the same load. The Utah legislature had a bill presented by the right declaring Sundance a primative area. LMAO. It didn't pass. Keep pushing Robert. I'd love for UDEQ to find that Sundance is the last known habitat of the Hollywood liver fluke or some such.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[kittymyrib]

Gee, Bob, the rest of us aren't spoiling the wilderness by building our houses there. Hypocrit.

[Old Professer]

The Electric Horseman is still drunk, it seems.

[NorseWood]

Redford, go whisper it in your horse's ear.

[fxrdeb]

Who cares what this idiot has to say? What makes these Hollywood people think anyone wants to hear what they think. They are nothing but a bunch of court jesters.

[zetapsi]

I wish these Hollywood crazies would stay the hell outta politics. Redford's an awesome director and actor, its a shame he can't leave it at that. The biggest shame is that they actually think they can sway people with their looney rantings.

[Old Professer]

Variety

The Electric Horseman

Variety Staff
Jan 1, 1979

The Electric Horseman is a moderately entertaining film, but no screen magic from Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. The pic is overlong, talky and diffused.

Even though Redford, as an ex-rodeo champ, and Fonda don't create the romantic sparks that might be expected, it's their dramatic professionalism that salvages Horseman and makes it a moving and effective film by the time the final credits roll by.

What Electric Horseman is peddling is the virtue of 'freedom', morally, economically and socially. Redford's attempt to liberate the prize-winning horse of the AMPCO conglomerate from an overabundance of steroids and pain-killing is presumably intended as an analogy for the way the American public is force-fed consumerism from today's corporate giants.

1979: Nomination: Best Sound

Copyright © 1979 Reed Business Information

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[Grampa Dave]

Borrow some hair from a dead lynx or some other endangered critter and drop it around Sundance and call in the Enviral Nazi squad to protect the lynx from Sundance.

[Natural Law]

I liked him better when he was Bush 41's VP.

[joesnuffy]

LOL "Inside Daisy Clover".....the closest Redford movie to a biography
imo

[Eva]

It is a well known, little hid fact that Redford is Gay. The reason that I mentioned it is that I am tired of the Gays hiding their agenda behind other leftist causes. They hate Republicans and Bush in particular for one reason, the conservative moral stance on homosexuality.

[sergeantdave]

Totalitarian - Stealing private property under the ESA, without paying compensation, to create de-facto federal nature preserves for the common good. Also known as fascism.

[Enduring Freedom]

Can someone PLEASE find this guy's email address?

[Grampa Dave]

"It is a well known, little hid fact that Redford is Gay."

"The reason that I mentioned it is that I am tired of the Gays hiding their agenda behind other leftist causes. They hate Republicans and Bush in particular for one reason, the conservative moral stance on homosexuality."

Thanks on both of the above.

The gay activist and activists for the gay agenda are the worst of the worst of the vile haters of GW. A conservative gay warned me of their full blown attacks this year. He said to take the name of any writer, editor, publisher or opeder of the MSM and do a Yahoo search with the name of the writer and gay. It has been an interesting a revealing exercise.

[texson66]

Looks like wind and water erosion has happened on Redford's face! It must of gotten to his brain! RR offeres no statistics or evidence....sorta like JF'nK's "testimony" on VN to congress.