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Robert Redford: ‘I Feel Out of Place in the Country I Was Born Into’
indiewire.com ^ | 10/6/18 | Michael Nordine

Posted on 10/09/2018 3:09:27 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

"Our civil servants have failed us," he said in a statement.

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Robert Redford may be done acting, but he’s not riding off into the sunset anytime soon. The actor, filmmaker, and Sundance Film Festival founder published “A Brief Statement About Big Things” on the Sundance Institute’s website yesterday, writing that he feels “out of place in the country I was born into” for the first time he can remember and that he has “watched with sadness as our civil servants have failed us.”

The overtly political speech was published the same day that Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court following a nasty confirmation process that once again emphasized how bitterly divided the country has become. Neither Kavanaugh nor anyone else is mentioned by name, but Redford citing “bigotry, mean-spiritedness, and mockery as the now-normal tools of the trade” suggests his anger probably isn’t directed at Amy Klobuchar.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boogedyboogedy; communismkills; hollywood; hollywoodreds; kook; milliondollarmarxist; nakedcommunist; politics; redford; reds
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To: a little elbow grease

Can’t we all get along? Sounds familiar.

The uncivil behavior is coming from one source—the Left.


61 posted on 10/09/2018 4:26:22 AM PDT by kabar
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To: a little elbow grease
I've been feeling that way since about 1960.


62 posted on 10/09/2018 4:34:39 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: a little elbow grease

Contrast Redford, a liberal who like other liberals, basically never grew up and has gained zero wisdom, with Clint Eastwood, who is the exact opposite.

Redford wallows in misery. Eastwood continues to make excellent movies and seems very content. Can’t wait to see The Mule.


63 posted on 10/09/2018 4:34:52 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Oh, I would feel out of place for being born anywhere while wishing my mother had access to abortion...


64 posted on 10/09/2018 4:35:13 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: a little elbow grease

What hokey drama!

‘Let others fight it out to the bitter ends’?

Zero, Maxine and others - including hollyweird and ‘comedians’ - have told the leftists it’s okay to be violent, and all the players in the #resist movement have carried out their orders.

Now that it’s backfiring on them, they’re encouraging ‘civility’ and recycling their ‘hope’ mantra?

Well, good luck with that. ‘Dig deep for hope and civility’ is not what these people want to hear.


65 posted on 10/09/2018 4:37:11 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: a little elbow grease

Without examples of the problems or solutions, this speech is rambling insanity.


66 posted on 10/09/2018 4:40:10 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: a little elbow grease

Jeez I’ve felt that way for over 20 years now and I am not even 50. It is only in the last year or so that it seems like we have begun returning to sanity


67 posted on 10/09/2018 4:40:32 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: a little elbow grease

Canada is right next door, Bob.


68 posted on 10/09/2018 4:41:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fresh Wind
Is this what you mean by "being better than our politicians"?

No, he means being better than President Trump. All his gripes were thinly veiled criticisms of Trump.

69 posted on 10/09/2018 4:45:07 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Just another burned out liberal idiot. Our country seems to be full of them


70 posted on 10/09/2018 4:45:28 AM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Mr Redford....... It has taken you till now to learn you have always been out of place in America. You lack all the various ethical and moral traits to be an Amercan. You are basically personified sleeze


71 posted on 10/09/2018 4:49:12 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: a little elbow grease

72 posted on 10/09/2018 4:49:40 AM PDT by maggief
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To: a little elbow grease

Then GTFO, Bob. You can afford it. Leave!


74 posted on 10/09/2018 4:56:49 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: a little elbow grease

Hollywierd is a separate country that loves the Soviet Union.


75 posted on 10/09/2018 4:59:17 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: a little elbow grease
To coin the old ad, Delta is ready when you are.
76 posted on 10/09/2018 5:02:46 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: a little elbow grease

I guess Bob thinks “into” is not a preposition.

Well, it is.


77 posted on 10/09/2018 5:10:15 AM PDT by Maris Crane (.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Delta is ready when Robert Redford is.
Maybe he could move permanently to France?


78 posted on 10/09/2018 5:12:52 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Nobody’s keeping you here. Get out while you can!!!
I’d suggest Kenya, birthplace of your hero!


79 posted on 10/09/2018 5:13:57 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: a little elbow grease

I know how you feel, Bob. I felt the same way when Obama got re-elected, but I knew it was only for four more years. Judge Kavanaugh is for the rest of his life so you will only have to endure him for the rest of your life.


80 posted on 10/09/2018 5:14:10 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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