Robert Redford's Fried Green Poets Hit D.C.

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The "Yeas and Nays" gossip column in Friday’s Washington Examiner reported the liberal weirdness on display at the Kennedy Center when Robert Redford assembled poets aged 13 to 25 for a supposedly deep-thinking "spoken word forum" on the environment. One "def poet" who inspired Redford was George Watsky, who touts himself as the "Undisputed Backtalk Champion." But the snippet that the gossips used was simply bizarre, from a poem titled "I Am So Green."

I have green middle fingers and I flip the green bird....I am so green, Morpheus offered me the red pill and the blue pill, I chose the green one.

Redford is apparently dazzled by odd Matrix metaphors. "You cannot go through a day without seeing something real coming up in print, radio, TV, song, fashion or film," Redford said. "But this group added something new, and what is really important is that they are using both their ears to hear the adults that are making the policies to convey the depth and degree of their passion and their voices to demand that we participate in the system that is shaping them."

"Three years ago at Sundance we heard some of these voices, and when they introduced George and he read his speech, I saw the reactions of the elected officials, and they were all just stunned," Redford said. "They were literally shocked and it was great to see those expressions."

Redford didn’t consider that they were stunned, not because it was profound, but because it was nonsensical. They were too stunned to flip him the green bird.  

And Redford thinks Team Bush is "retarded"...

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.


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Redford is apparently

Redford is apparently dazzled by odd Matrix metaphors. "You cannot go
through a day without seeing something real coming up in print, radio,
TV, song, fashion or film," Redford said.

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As opposed to something fake? Oh wait, he's in the movie business and we know that's all real. Someone get this clown another outfit please.

Next Please! If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal.

This is hysterical

It takes very little to be considered profound among the liberal Hollywood people.

Maynard G. Krebford

So who brought the bongos?

I have green middle

I have green middle fingers and I flip the green bird....I am so green, Morpheus offered me the red pill and the blue pill, I chose the green one.

Great choice if that's the suicide pill. Ignorance is easy.

Soylent Green Pill is People.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Lol - Jack - get rid of the people and thier flatulence!

old people give off the most. Kill them and eat them to save the environment. It's green!

dee - Canibalism is merely

dee - Canibalism is merely an alternative lifestyle, so who are we to judge.

And if you disagree, bite me!

Oh -- on second thoughts..

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Yeah Jack - we'll have to change some phrases

there are some grammar nerds who take everything literally. ; )

 

Fried green?  Redford must

Fried green?  Redford must have named this after the color his skin turned from all those face lifts.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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Red Diaper Doper Babies was

Red Diaper Doper Babies was already taken.

I think it's really

Green as in,,   Mary Jane, pot, dope, cannibus!!

 

NOBAMA 08 !!!

"I have green middle

"I have green middle fingers and I flip the green bird....I am so green,"

Ooh, ooh let me finish the poem...... I am so green I pulled out my other green appendage, man, and f-ed the green horse and Robert Greenford filmed it and watched it  and decided it was art to sling in the shocked faces of the whole green-d@mn world.

Dear Mr. Redford

Dear Mr. Redford,

I'm a poet too.  Please include me in your show.  Here is my entry.

Environment, environment
How I love thee
Melting ice, hurricane named Katrina
My mom won't let me play Nintendo
Stupid female dog
She drives a SUV and kills penguins
Why can't I sk8board on busy city streets
I want the government to give me what I want
Rising, rising freshman at VCU
I can't work with these unsavory people at Subway
Minimum wage, give me a raise
I don't like chuncky peanut butter
Can you give me something else Mom?
I want government to give me stuff like a new Playstation
Environment, environment
How I love thee.

 

<insert witty signature here>

→ Poetry

Dingy Harry rugged two-toned awful coffins.

Cosmic muffins rise in the yeast.

A rye Smile and crusty disposition

Staff of life in my pocket pool.

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OMG that is so funny

The rising freshman at VCU....You have just nailed most VCU students with that ONE article.