In other news from a surprisingly busy and profane Cannes film festival this year, Blogger JammieWearingFool spots Peter Fonda emailing President Obama that “You Are a F–king Traitor.” As JWF writes, “This ought to go over well with the Hollywood crowd.” Here are the details, via 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’.”
Hey, the Coast Guard was simply “being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but are important internationally.” Oh wait, that was the President’s description of the command structure (or lack thereof) in Libya.
But still, if it’s cool in the Middle East, why would Fonda have a problem with it in the Gulf of Mexico?
(Cross-posted at Ed Driscoll.com)
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