Peter Fonda calls Obama 'traitor' at Cannes

Source: Yahoo News

Wed May 18, 11:45 am ET

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'."

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...I wouldn't go so far as to call him a traitor, but his commitment to protecting the environment has been woefully poor thus far...

I love hyped up rhetoric, but at some point a person can end up distracting from the point he's trying to make.

If anyone did, it'd be their American employees who wore the boots.

to prevent American citizens from accessing their Public Beaches.


http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/03/BP-oil-tarballs-louisiana

and expects it to draw more attention to what he said.

- amazed the "Jane Defenders" haven't shown up yet!

First Lars von Trier goes on a Nazi rampage, now Peter Fonda calls the president a f(expletive) traitor. Too much drinking on the yachts, methinks.

facepalm

think Democrats have largely tried not to criticize Obama --

We are really all most of us removed from the environmental destruction -- which has

become deadly considering BP/Gulf and Halliburton/Fraking -- and don't feel the urgency

of these problems --

but, we're all on the list to be "Katrina'd" and/or "Fukushima'd" -- !!


The oil industry took advantage of a 50 year delay in our feeling the effects of

Global Warming and what capitalism's exploitation of all nature and humanity had done

to the planet --

Time is up now and we're really feeling it --

Scientists have known the dangers of the industrial revolution for 100 years --

We've wasted a lot of time --

Capitalism is suicidal --


time's up --

has to say about President Obama. That is all.

Oh the irony!

Don't forget time of war.

IMO, with President Obama you never know what he's going to follow-through on and if he does, how much. As we see now from people who still post BP updates, BP is going to skate on this, with American taxpayers paying for something on the order of 20% of the entire cleanup.

Obama is not about change. He's about running things the same old way they've been run in Washington for a long time. Sometimes it seems as though the major difference between presidents is whether they support a woman's right to an abortion or not.

While abortion rights are important, it's a sad distinction to make.

PB

because they are expensing any cost they did foot? Wouldn't that make the tax burden on us (myself excluded at the moment as I have no income, hence no tax) even higher than 20%?

Auto execs on private jets, health insurance companies, bankers, BP execs. They all get dressings down that nearly make them cry all the way to the bank.

Ooh, an e-mail!! What a fucking tough guy!

All these fried-brain actors using Obama to promote their shitty movies.

Obama is traitor!

Off to the front page!

:rofl:

His point pertains to the manner in which Obama has handled the Deepwater Spill. Clearly, Mr. Fonda does not think highly of Obama's actions. Do you approve of how Obama handled the situation then?

"Fonda, who said he sent the email last week"

Did he just wake up?

:rofl:

at deflecting and ignoring questions.

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This is a huge issue for me.

shitty, sight unseen. Just so everyone can think about that. So they can remember when this film is being praised for telling the truth. Here is a piece about it from the Washington Post. About the film, not about an email one of the producers sent. The 'shitty movie;: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/provocative-gulf-oil-spill-documentary-the-big-fix-premieres-in-cannes/2011/05/17/AFgRQp5G_story.html

Thanks for this excellent link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/provocative-gulf-oil-spill-documentary-the-big-fix-premieres-in-cannes/2011/05/17/AFgRQp5G_story.html

It breaks my heart, left in Louisiana, to not be able to eat Gulf seafood again. I KNOW what BP was allowed to do to the people on the Gulf Coast.

It set a bad precedent.

not enacting strong controls on financial institutions after the outrageous bailout, all indicate that Fonda is correct. Still, I don't see an alternative, and he DID kill OBL.

it is now time to reap what he sowed

And these clowns wonder why no one takes them seriously.

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about the Bp spill. that ain't going ot the beach. That's putting your money where your mouth is.

The filmmakers invited several celebrities, including Fonda, to participate in their documentary. In return, Fonda got an executive producer credit.

He didn't "put his money" anywhwere.

I don't want to trash Fonda. Somebody has to risk telling the truth, Hannah.

He hasn't been relevant in 40 years.

When BP would not allow anyone to walk beaches and do fly overs. I too hold Obama responsible for that. The Coast Guard comes under command as Commander in Chief. The buck stopped with him.

shrubco, now there are some traitors for ya.

respond to this poll.

since you cared enough to respond to it.

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things are way worse than people think - Fonda only cited ONE example - but it has become obvious that Obama either will not, or can not, assert himself as a powerful president.

There have to be reasons behind the big change between Obama the candidate and how he governs. I strongly suspect the reasons lie in the famous 'warning speech' President Eisenhower gave Americans.

http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html

We are squandering everything to continue wars.

Any publicity is good publicity.

Sid

Me either.