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Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid, in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Redford, now 76, in a recent picture
Weather Underground terrorist Kathy Boudin, a convicted multiple murderer and armed robber
In Kathy Shaidle’s new column on the about-to-be released movie that Redford directed and starred in, The Company They Kept, Shaidle asks,
Surely not a few impeccably degreed and rap-sheet-free young graduates are wondering right about now, “Who do you have to blow up to get a job around here?”
A wanted poster for murderous Weather Underground (aka “the Weathermen”) terrorists, among them Boudin and Presidential best friend and fundraiser, Bill Ayers
Kathy gives the background to Redford's movie, in which he seeks to romanticize terrorist cut-throats.
A fist-raising “Hanoi Jane” Fonda in a 1970, Cleveland mug shot
During the one year (1973-1974) I spent in high school in the tenth grade, I only made cameo appearances at Long Beach High School, yet I vividly recall the life-sized poster one of the secretaries in the principal’s office had put up on the wall of Robert Redford, who was then the world’s biggest movie star. Had the American people known that Redford was really a communist, I have no doubt that he would not have been the world’s biggest movie star, and he would probably not have graced a wall at LBHS.
“Hanoi Jane” Fonda giving aid and comfort to the enemy in North Vietnam in 1972
Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was well-known that Hollywood types were handing over fortunes to communist terrorists. The question now regarding Redford is not if he gave them money, but how much he gave them.
Fonda and Redford at a party in 1990. They acted together in three movies, but we now know that they had a much deeper bond than that.
Anti-American, Hollywood, liberal elitist who love to talk the talk but not walk the walk they talk. Why don’t those two ugly Americans give all their money to Uncle Sam that they might answer Joe Biden’s call to be more patriotic and pay higher taxes?
ReplyDeleteThen again they could move to North Korea, give NK all their money and wallow in the socialism they talk the talk for. Like M. Moore who talks the talk of Cuba but will not denounce his American citizenship or his money, and live the highlife of Cuban socialism.
Redford the deluded moralist and Janie the spoiled brat just will not ever be stuck in the morass they want for everyone else. Being an anti-American, Hollywood, liberal elitist means hypocrisy is a burden for someone other than them. Thank you.
Funny thing, I'm reading the 2002 book, "Aid and Comfort," about Jane Fonda's 1972 sojourn to North Vietnam. I'm about halfway through.
ReplyDeleteJane was a pretty mixed-up girl, mother a suicide and father Henry rather remote. However, Henry Fonda was not altogether different from most men born in 1905.
The French "intellectuals" Jane met in Paris in the mid-60's seem to have set her on the path. At first, she even defended the U.S. effort in Vietnam according to the above book. It didn't take long to for her to go to the Communist side.
Her father and brother did NOT approve of Jane's behavior in Hanoi. I once saw Peter express this on an E channel show.
The communist rhetoric is all sentiment and no logic at all. As such it affects people easier affected by sentiment, emotion and drama, mostly artists, people in the entertainment business and literature producers. Unfortunately, when your heart takes precedence to your brain in vital matters, what you invariably get is total failure, often to the point of treason and massive crime, a.k.a. the very staples of communism. And since the talk is about Redford, and to illustrate the point, watch "Spy Game," a movie he starred in with Brad Pitt. The movie becomes possible only when in the relationship of the characters drama develops, i.e. when Redford's character pushes aside logic by which he had been operating all along and lets sentiment take over his modus operandi in order to save Brad Pitt's character, who is also in trouble because he put heart before brain in his behavior. To put it in other words: A primarily logical man can never be a communist. A sentimentally and emotionally tangled up individual, yes.
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