Robert Redford Defines Hollywood Irrationality

The Whistler • July 13, 2008

In an interview in Ireland where he was to be honored, actor/director Robert Redford explains, inadvertently, why Hollywood types who’ve spent a lifetime honing their talent for fantasy and make-believe, have no business offering serious criticisms of reality.

Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times , if he was looking forward to “regime change” in the US, Redford said: “Yes. Where my country is at the moment, I’m not confident of anything. I’m hopeful.
“I think Obama is not tall on experience . . . but I believe he’s a really good person. He’s smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.
“I hope he’ll win. I think he will. If he doesn’t, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye.

“He’s not tall on experience (but) he’s a good person and he’s smart.”
Helluva a reason to select someone to be the head of the largest, and arguably the most important and complex organization in the world, the US government… never mind the leader of the free world. And once again, no hint of what specifics are entailed in “Change.” Just, apparently, change itself.
No experience, but he’s a good person. Heaven help us!

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http://Array sayanything-2407

Yeah, I posted on and broke down what Redford said a few days ago:

http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/redford_you_can_kiss_the_democratic_party_goodbye

But Redford does make an excellent point, there needs to be a change, and that change needs to be get rid of the current crop of Democrats in office and bring in newer blood. I say, same goes for Republicans.
syn

Redford…it takes an idiot to pay money to sit in a movie theater for two hour watching your industry’s useful idiocy so take comfort in knowing you’re in the correct company; delusional, paranoidal, plastic-fantastic-spasmatic idol worship.

I mean how many polar bears did Hollywood kill to make their inconvenient truth?
Lestat

I think a good person is exactly what we need right now. We haven’t seen one in the White House for awhile.
http://www.wethepeopleforum.com/forum/forums.asp golfmann

Jimmy Carter II

Can we survive another?
Bat One

Sanity,

Redford is one of those marquise “progressives” for whom Joe Lieberman and Hillary and Bill Clinton simply aren’t sufficiently doctrinaire in their leftist beliefs.

I noted the same things you’ve listed from Redford’s interview, but I was most immediately struck by his regurgitated mantra about “change” with no hint of a cogent definition, and his inane suggestion that Obama should be president because he’s a “good person” and he’s smart… despite the concession that Obama has no real experience running anything more than a tenant meeting at one of Tony Rezko’s slums.

Heaven keep us safe from the good intentions of the ignorant…however well renown.
sayanything-2407

No worries Bat One, just a little nudge, but commented here regardless.

I take no offense, but thank you for noticing also.

It was my thought that Redford was a Democrat Liberal, but what struck me was a couple of things from Redford:

1. He admits Obama is lacking (not tall) in experience.

2. He thinks that if Obama looses this election it will severely damage or break apart the Democratic Party.

3. He believes the current group of Democrats need to be removed to make way for fresher blood. Which in my eyes, means that he doesn’t think the Democrats in office are doing a very good job at all, so much so he thinks removing them is the best answer.
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

“He’s not tall on experience (but) he’s a good person and he’s smart.”

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Heaven help us from these ninnies!
Bat One

Sanity,

My apologies. I didn’t see your post, and I did not mean to step on your toes in any way.

Still, the sheer inanity of Redford’s glib pronouncements are worthy of the attention.

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