According to an article in The Statesman, Robert Redford, in his own words, is the grand savior of everything across the world, the universe, and all time. Right? Also, Golden Bob thinks that Al Gore is a Johnny-come-lately to the environmental cause. Oh, and Al Gore is rich, and that means that Al Gore doesn’t actually care. Golden Bob Redford, is also rich, but that doesn’t count because he’s different.
He is notably cynical, however, about Al Gore’s recent award of a Nobel Peace Prize. “He’s making a lot of money, he’s having a belle époque, a heroic moment,” he says. “It must have been really hard for Gore to suffer all that [losing the presidential election], so he found another thing to come back with: the environment. He had a lot of money behind him, because in Clinton’s administration there was a lot of money. With that he was able to build himself a new campaign and pick an issue. And he picked an issue that just happened to arrive at its moment in time.”
You know, Al lost his 2000 bid for president and then, several years later happened to hear about the environment and, as a result, built a time machine, went back 35 years in time, did a lot of work on environmental issues and accidentally won a Nobel Prize.
You’re right, Golden Bob, just because you’re 85 years old, everyone else should just let you handle it. Right? I mean, look how well your fight againt new roads in Provo Canyon worked out.
Robert Redford is right– he was a fraud long before anyone outside of Tennessee had heard of Al Gore.
From the New Statesman article (your post was brilliant):
“As a young man growing up in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Santa Monica, Redford had little interest in politics. ‘Richard Nixon was my state senator and he was so boring,’ he says. ‘I thought, if this is what politics is like I don’t want any part of it.'”
Two points:
1. Richard Nixon was never boring.
2. Richard Nixon was never a state senator.
Right, this is exactly what the environmental movement needs right now. Squabbling.
Yeah, so Al may have exaggerated a bit about his invention of the internet but he’s had a huge impact on his ‘new’ cause. He’s gotten a lot of people to actually think about the environment in a manner that very few others, barring DeCaprio, have done. So kudos to Al.
I’ve got the War song “Why Can’t We Be Friends” running through my head right now and am wondering the same thing.
For the record, Al didn’t lose the 2000 election, he THREW IT! nyah.