...racist MSNBC sure doesn't.
Posted on 01/15/2009 8:14:55 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy
Hollywood's Sundance Kid is hurting poor people.
So say some East Coast ministers and conservative activists, who took to the streets in front of a downtown Salt Lake City theater on the eve of Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival to accuse the actor of holding down low-income Americans with his opposition to oil and gas drilling near national parks in Utah.
The protesters, led by the Congress of Racial Equality's national spokesman Niger Innis, suggested Redford should "relinquish his wealth" and live like a poor person. They complained that the filmmaker's anti-drilling stance could lead to higher energy prices for inner-city residents, forcing them to accept a lower standard of living.
The clergymen prayed for Redford "to see the light" and linked his environmental activism with racism.
"The high energy prices we're going to see this winter are essentially discriminatory," said Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. of the Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., chairman of the High-Impact Leadership Coalition, a petroleum industry advocate.
A month ago, Redford, a trustee of the National Resources Defense Council, voiced support for a federal lawsuit aimed at blocking the Bush administration's "morally criminal" attempt to auction 103,000 acres of scenic redrock desert for oil and gas drilling near Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Dinosaur National Monument.
On Wednesday, Redford said through a spokeswoman Advertisement that he stands by his opposition to the leasing. "These contested oil leases in Utah really have nothing to do with the cost of home heating," said Los Angeles-based spokeswoman, Joyce Deep. "The fact is, the oil and gas industry already has more leases than it knows what to do with."
Using federal studies and statistics, The Wilderness Society calculated the natural gas recoverable from the 77 contested parcels would be the equivalent of two days of national consumption. The oil recoverable from those parcels would last 1 hour and 40 minutes at today's consumption rate.
Glenn Bailey, executive director of the poverty-advocacy group Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City, called CORE's message a "red herring." The root cause of high energy prices, he said, are "big industry and price manipulation, not conservationists."
But Bishop Bobby Allen, of Ogden's Griffin Memorial Church of God in Christ, said even a tiny amount of Utah gas represents a lifeline to poor inner-city residents. "One life worth saving is worth the effort," he said.
Just wait until they find out what “cap and trade” is and what it will mean to them! Yes enviromentalist’s are against the poor they think the earth and them are more imprtant than you nd your family. That world has too many people so a few less of all of us is a good thing in enviromentalist’s minds.
BTTT
Good points -- Obama plans to offset “cap and trade” impacts on the poor with more government handouts/welfare. It all makes sense ... to the Marxist/socialist mind.
Robert WHO?
Global Warming and Environmentalism is a religion. They have a leader, like a pope and carbon offsets are like indulgences that the Vatican gave. No offense to Catholics, but that is what it reminds me of. Many of these global warming fanatics are people who are devoid of spirituality and have an empty life.
Well gees, they are so fanatically about it.
Well gees, they are so fanatically about it.
...racist MSNBC sure doesn't.
The way you wrote it sounds like sarcasm in defense of him.
Thank you to CORE and MR Innis!
We need more activists like Innis that’s for sure.
Is Redford THAT Stupid?.. or an opportunist?..
How about both.
In reading what someone has written it's best to take what is written at face value unless someone uses the /<sarcasm tag. It is why it was invented and it's use means you don't have to have the ability to read someones mind to know what their intentions are.
Beginning a sentence with “Yeah” and ending with “hehe” certainly would lend one toward a literary interpretation of sarcasm, or at least a tone of non-seriousness.
The tone intended was one of glee. Again, unless there is a sarcasm tag attached to the post, you would be better off taking posts at face value. Unless you are a mind reader off course, which in your case is obviously not a factor.
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