Peter Fonda calls Obama 'traitor' at Cannes

Yahoo News ^ | 5/19/11 | Staff

[Impala64ssa]

CANNES, France (AFP) – Peter Fonda launched a four-letter attack on US President Barack Obama at the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, calling him a traitor over the handling of the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.

The star of the 1969 road movie "Easy Rider" was in Cannes for the premiere of "The Big Fix" by Rebecca and Josh Tickell, the only feature documentary in the official selection at the Cannes film festival this year.

Fonda -- a keen environmentalist and co-producer of the film which centres on the explosion of the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon, the ensuing spill and its consequences -- accused Washington of trying to gag reporting on the issue.

"I sent an email to President Obama saying, 'You are a f(expletive) traitor,' using those words... 'You're a traitor, you allowed foreign boots on our soil telling our military -- in this case the coastguard -- what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the United States, what we could or could not do'."

[Impala64ssa]

Watch out, Pete! You don't want your Hollywierd colleagues to call you a racist for dissing our dear leader. OTOH, don't see too many "persons of color" in the enviro movement. I've seen more diversity at a NASCAR race.

[RedMDer]

[I still care]

Pete will find out that dissent is NOT patriotic if it goes against the Dear Leader. His own will disown him.

[Jeff Chandler]

Easy Rider. I knew Fonda Peters starred in a movie once. Wow, he must be like a hundred years old.

[edcoil]

“You’re a traitor, you allowed foreign boots on our soil telling our military -”

Who were the foreign boots - is he referencing BP?

[brownsfan]

You nailed it.

Fonda and his pathetic sister have done all they can to undermine America. Obama is no different in that respect.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good point. And why is the tea party movement criticized for allegedly being racist, due to not enough black or other minority participants? Yet the enviro-fascism movement is almost entirely white, from what we see. Why isn’t the enviro-fascist movement ever called out as racist?

Heck, why isn’t MSNBC ever called out for their lack of minority talking heads?????? A liberal channel lacks diversity but denigrates others for the same offense they commit.

[Lazlo in PA]

I see that a lot of the old Hollywood rebel types don’t care anymore and just tell you what they think. Cranky old guys are the same all over no matter their profession.

[eyeamok]

Pretty funny coming from a Family of Quislings

[Christian Engineer Mass]

All leftists are traitors.

[chessplayer]

I think so. BP gave the Coast Guard orders and the CG could`nt kiss their butts fast enough. My respect for the CG has plummeted since the oil spill.

[Da Coyote]

And - of course - Peter Fonda is a glittering jewel of intellect.

/S

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Ha! Ha!.....I love it when libtards eat their own...

[John 3_19-21]

Is there a “Blnd Squirrel” ping?

[jobim]

I once smoked a joint with Peter Fonda.

Univ Hawaii Honolulu November 1970 - he came to speak at the outdoor theater, I suppose because of the fame of Easy Rider which had been released earlier that year. When he was finished, and the crowd left, about 6 of us invited him to sit in the grass there and talk and share some weed. He came across as a regular Joe. Oh those days of the Woodstock brotherhood - how painful to think how wrong we were.

[John 3_19-21]

Blind

[swain_forkbeard]

“Fonda...accused Washington of trying to gag reporting on the issue.”

I think he got that part right.

[blackdog]

He's finally grown up. It started around the time he did "Ulee's Gold". One of the best movies on how messed up white working class families are, and how the system is stacked against them.

A fine movie IMHO, which is why it went nowhere.

[Major Matt Mason]

"Right for the wrong reasons" alert.

[RedMDer]

Yep. Both traitors to our Country.