Redford on MSNBC
A cause with a celebrity attached will usually get further than a cause without one. Environmentalists who are fighting a sneaky Bureau of Land Management plan to sell oil-drilling leases near Utah's national parks are getting a boost from a local celebrity: Robert Redford.
After writing a scathing criticism of the BLM plan on The Huffington Post last week, the Sundance Kid appeared Monday night on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" to rail against the BLM and the Bush administration even further. Here's the clip:
Maddow was excited to have Redford on her show, even if via satellite. In her intro, she said, "Yes, the Robert Redford - Mom, get the camera."
The publicity over the BLM's sale plans - announced on Nov. 4, when the nation was busy paying attention to that election thingee - apparently is working. According to the Tribune's Patty Henetz, the BLM and the National Park Service are having high-level talks to smooth over BLM's end-around of the Park Service when it decided which parcels would be sold off.
After writing a scathing criticism of the BLM plan on The Huffington Post last week, the Sundance Kid appeared Monday night on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" to rail against the BLM and the Bush administration even further. Here's the clip:
Maddow was excited to have Redford on her show, even if via satellite. In her intro, she said, "Yes, the Robert Redford - Mom, get the camera."
The publicity over the BLM's sale plans - announced on Nov. 4, when the nation was busy paying attention to that election thingee - apparently is working. According to the Tribune's Patty Henetz, the BLM and the National Park Service are having high-level talks to smooth over BLM's end-around of the Park Service when it decided which parcels would be sold off.
Labels: BLM, politics, Robert Redford
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