WTF!?!? Peter Fonda brags about encouraging his grandchildren to shoot President Obama?

[wndycty]

I may be later with this, but what the fuck?

Cannes 2011: Peter Fonda encourages his grandchildren to take up arms against President Barack Obama
Peter Fonda, the star of Easy Rider, says he is training his grandchildren to use rifles for a conflict with President Barack Obama.

By Richard Eden 6:28AM BST 22 May 2011

Lars von Trier, who was banned from Cannes for praising Hitler, was not the only one making unsavoury comments at the film festival.
Peter Fonda, the star of Easy Rider, suggested to Mandrake that he was encouraging his grandchildren to shoot President Barack Obama.

“I’m training my grandchildren to use long-range rifles,” said the actor, 71. “For what purpose? Well, I’m not going to say the words 'Barack Obama’, but …”

He added, enigmatically: “It’s more of a thought process than an actuality, but we are heading for a major conflict between the haves and the have nots. I came here many years ago with a biker movie and we stopped a war. Now, it’s about starting the world.

“I prefer to not to use the words, 'let’s stop something’. I prefer to say, 'let’s start something, let’s start the world’.

“There’s no room any more for a cissy and, like I said, don’t forget that I’ve got grandsons who I’ve trained with long-distance rifles. We have to run like mofos to change this world.”
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8528327/Cannes-2011-Peter-Fonda-encourages-his-grandchildren-to-take-up-arms-against-President-Barack-Obama.html

[kjackson227]

1. Yep... I wonder if he and Jane get along?

[leveymg]

2. That one took too many acid trips. Never really came back.

Too much family money, not nearly enough common sense to survive in the wild.

Peter peaked in 1968.

[JuniperLea]

4. Too many dollars, not enough sense...

That alone can warp a mind.

[leveymg]

6. George W. Bush. 1972. He had his ticket pulled, too, for largely the same reason.

But, his parents were crazy enough to keep pushing him into the family business.

Little known gonzo intersection: Hunter Thompson and party animal, George W. Bush, during the summer of '74:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2005/02/21/hst/print.html

Quote:
Thompson claimed to know a thing or two about the president's partying past. In an interview with The Independent in 2004, Thompson said he remembered meeting Bush at Thompson's Super Bowl party in Houston in 1974. He said that Bush was "with a guy who had come to sell . . . " but then cut himself off. "Look, I'm not going to put this next sentence on the record. Let's just say that 'a friend of mine' was buying cocaine. I have friends in Houston from all walks of life. Lawyers. Professional men. Bush was hanging around with this crowd of what you might call gilded coke dilettantes."

Thompson's memory wasn't always the most reliable, and his story about his Houston encounter with Bush evolved over time. But in the 2004 telling of it, at least, Thompson said the future president had left an indelible impression on him.

"He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away." -on meeting George W Bush at Thompson's Super Bowl party in Houston in 1974

Also referenced in the above link, a set of tapes reviewed by a NYT reporter (but never made it into print) of Dubya's admission to drug use secretly audiotaped by Douglas Wead, an old friend of Bush's, which ABC News reported as follows: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=518678&page=1

On the tapes, Bush discussed strategies for stonewalling questions about past marijuana use.

"Do you want your little kid, to say, 'Hey daddy, President Bush tried marijuana; I think I will?'" said Bush on the tapes. "That's the message we've been sending out. I wouldn't answer the marijuana question."

In a taped segment played on "Good Morning America," Bush also addressed how he would deal with questions about cocaine use.

"The cocaine thing, let me tell you my strategy on that," Bush said on the tape. "Rather than saying no … I think it's time for someone to draw the line and look people in the eye and say, you know, 'I'm not going to participate in ugly rumors about me and blame my opponent,' and hold the line. Stand up for a system that will not allow this kind of crap to go on."

When asked if past drug use was a big issue to Bush, Wead said, "He brought the subject up often."

[JuniperLea]

17. Holy cowbell!

I'd heard about this, but never read an account so detailed. Amazing what money can do.

[leveymg]

20. I was raised in a town with people like them. The richest kids were the most wasted

The richest parents, the biggest drunks and wife swappers. The very rich and the very poor are very similar in their attitudes towards such things, except that the richest kids rarely if ever got busted.

Bush was one of those sorts of kids, but was never very bright to begin with. He shows a lot symptoms of being (mildly) fetal alcohol syndrome with associated psychological and social problems. See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x231653 Should never have been allowed near the Presidency, but his mother was likely feeling very guilty for all the martinis she drank during the pregnancy and pushed Poppy. Poppy, in turn, had a lot of people by the balls and pushed Dubya on them.

We're all paying the price for that lack of accountability and the foolishness of the very rich.

[JuniperLea]

22. I still live in the town I grew up in, and it is still that way too!

I live in Los Angeles... 'nuff said!

[JuniperLea]

3. Good Lord...

This is teetering on the edge of being a criminal threat! Very, very disgusting.

What a delusional old fool... he didn't stop that damn war with a movie... jeez. What the hell happened to him?

[NBachers]

5. Peter - I'm very, very disappointed in you

[Viking 1]

23. I'm not

I've always thought the guy is a douchebag. How he got the lead in Easy Rider I'll never know.

[JoePhilly]

7. If he trained them, we have little to worry about.

It is more likely that his grand kids will be adjusting his meds.

[golfguru]

10. LMAO n/t

[Mr. McD]

8. I came here many years ago with a biker movie and we stopped a war.

I saw that movie when I was in Viet Nam. Which war did they stop? :shrug:

[Politicalboi]

9. Sounds like a Teabagger

"I came here many years ago with a biker movie and we stopped a war". WTF? A shitty biker movie and "They" stopped the war? And to think we never thanked him.

[jwirr]

11. He talks about a war between the haves and have nots? Which side

does he see himself and his grandchildren on? His statement does not make a lot of sense. Hey kids, don't pay too much attention to grandpa - he has dementia.

[fugop]

12. He can hang out with Jon Voigt

They can share the crazy.

[JuniperLea]

18. OMFG!

What a mental picture that draws!

:rofl:

[LiberalFighter]

21. In Deliverance?

[Mimosa]

28. True, his statement was ambiguous.

I didn't take it as threatening the President.

[zalinda]

13. This smacks of a hit piece

I'm guessing that this 'article' has pieces of the conversation deliberately left out. Both Jane and Peter were not living in wealthy splendor growing up, their father was very conservative with not only his love, but his money when it came to his children.

And, for those who weren't around for Easy Rider, it was a BIG deal, when it was playing. Did it stop a war? I'm sure it contributed to it. And, as far as I can gather, he associates himself with the have nots.

zalinda

edited to spell check

[BlueIris]

14. Hope he gets to explain himself to the Secret Service.

Treasury agents do not take kindly to asshats making jokes about shooting the president.

[Vicar In A Tutu]

15. Possibly partly to do with the oil spill...

"A keen environmentalist, Fonda accused Washington of attempting to gag reporting of the spillage, saying, "I sent an email to President Obama saying, You are a f****** 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". In 'The Big Fix', Fonda attempts to gain access to the Louisiana beaches in order assess the impact of the biggest oil spill in US history, only to be turned away by BP personnel"

He's clearly naive and ill-informed to some extent. I'm not sure how much real gagging actually went on, given that it dominated the news and had Obama constantly criticise BP.

Possibly dangerous, too, so he should at the very least be questioned by the authorities, too.

[slackmaster]

16. He's senile

Nothing to see here.

[WI_DEM]

19. he's gone off the deep end

[Arugula Latte]

24. I hope the Secret Service pays him a visit, pronto.

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[msanthrope]

26. I hope the threads or two that celebrated Fonda calling Obama a 'traitor' last week

don't fall down the memory hole............

[1stlady]

27. Assholes like Peter Fonda

are so irrelevant, they have to make outrageous statements or threats rather, to get attention. When is the last time anyone ever mention a Fonda, with the exception of Jane Fonda? He's jealous and bitter and wants a Donald Trump asshole 15min of fame moment. I hope the secret service pays him a visit, what a loser!!