Posted on 04/14/2011 9:56:52 AM PDT by Nachum
In an interview to promote his new film The Conspirator, Robert Redford had some interesting thoughts on Sarah Palin as well as her followers. Ouch. It’s one thing to get picked on by the Bill Maher’s and David Letterman’s of the world. I mean, that’s gotta stink but a public figure can get over it. However, to get dissed by the freakin’ Sundance Kid. Now that’s got to hurt.
The interview was for Aol’s PopEater and the comments in question came as the discussion turned to Redford’s great film Quiz Show (if you haven’t seen that one, you’re missing out) about the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. Here’s what he had to say and how it got back to Mama Grizzlie:
“REDFORD: I felt like in that moment in history the quiz shows and the scandal that came, at that moment entertainment got exposed but academia got exposed, the corruption. The sad thing is it didn’t hurt entertainment, it hurt academia.
POPEATER: Well I find it sad that Sarah Palin insinuates that higher education is elitist. I can’t work that one out.
REDFORD: Well, I can because the country is made up of three categories. Traditionalists, cultural creative people and the moderns. The moderns are the hi-tech Silicon Valley people. The traditionalists on the lower end of it are the people who don’t want change, they’re afraid of change therefore they have anger. The fear card is a very big powerful card and when you have people afraid of change; they’ll do anything to prevent it. They’re doing it because they’re limited, frightened of people who are not as limited. I think Sarah Palin, part of her strength is how limited she is.”
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Years ago the people in southern Utah burned him effigy.
Maybe it's time to gather the straw again.
It is like the people in this country is going crazy, Obama is the worse thing that has happened to us ever..Everything that is happening to us is because stupid people voted for this Muslim..I did not but others did...I checked out the monster before I voted no one would listen to what he was up to so now we have this..
I don't think I agree with that. I think that his work stacks up well against other actors of his generation. He was a studio contract player and worked as a young actor with Rod Sterling (Twilight Zone), in screen adaptations of stage plays (The Ice Man Cometh), Network television guest roles like Alfred Hitchcock, Route 66, and Perry Mason to name a few until he was cast in big screen productions and was an "A List" actor for many years. He, IMHO, made some extremely poor choices of films when he had a chance to get studio execs to produce what he liked, but he is a fine actor by many people's standards.
I might put him in the same boat as Sean Penn, George Clooney, Rob Reiner, even Cher. Celebrities who's hubris and idea of self importance have allowed them to think that they can use their own public personae to tell others how to live.
“to get dissed by the freakin’ Sundance Kid. Now that’s got to hurt.”
Considering that this is a worthless old has-been who is belittling Sarah, she should of course just ignore him. He isn’t worthy of a reply.
leatherface speaks....
Response: I have lived a long time. I started college in the 1950's and they were feeding us the same crap almost word for word then. My English professor was an Ex-Marine who fought on Guadalcanal, and who pointed out just how much nonsense such statements were.
Redford is a smug, elitist POS. I hope his new film dies at the box office. And then, for good measure, I hope he dies. Hollywood scum.
The irony is that the "limited knowledge" Sarah Palin could and would probably do a fine job of it. What can Robert Redford do other than pretend to be someone else?
Atlas Shrugged part 1 is opening this weekend. Everyone should go see that instead.
You forgot the parasite class (unless you consider them all parasites!)
Kindly sit down and shove your Sundance where the sun don't shine.
And a large part of her strength is due to her relationship with God. She is not above saying it like it is (the truth); Her good sportsmanship (practicing the Golden Rule); and standing up for American values (based on Biblical law).
What more could anyone want in a President?
“So who do we have on the ‘Late Show’ tonight?”
“Well, Dave, tonight you have the posterior of a primate defecating.”
“You mean our show is an Orangutan’s A__ taking a sh-t? I thought we had Robert Redford on?”
“Looks the same,talks the same Dave.”
There are two kinds of people: Those who desire other peoples wealth and power over others lives, and those who want to live as free men.
“Creative culture” types have always been tools of the state and the power elites. The “rebel” myth was created by themselves to assuage their guilt about how they make money.
Look at the walls of the tombs in ancient Egypt and you will see who paid the bills and who’s culture was promoted - the pharaohs.
Look at the walls of todays public buildings and art museums and you will see the same subservience to “the man”. Instead of pharaoh he is called NEA, PBS, and NCR.
These “artists” are no different than the civil servants behind the counter at the Post office or the DMV. There is not a true rebel in all their ilk.
Robert Redford, cultural warrior, defending the power structure in Washington. This says it all.
YES! Atlas Shrugged is the better choice!
Yes, Sarah is so limited that she doesn't know she's afraid of change and isn't supposed to be using social media to make lib heads explode like her Facebook posting on Obamacare's death panels from 2009 is still doing.
That is so true! Redford totally destroyed Park City. Last time I went there, I spent more time sitting in traffic than on the ski slopes.
Sarah speaks the truth and her focus is her love of God. Redford speaks the lies of self centered human nature focused in a big fat ego.
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