The Telegraph‘s Richard Eden reported last week that Peter Fonda, exec producer of the anti-BP doc The Big Fix, used the term “high-powered rifles” while saying that he’s urging his grandchildren to revolt against President Barack Obama.
Fonda, in Cannes to promote The Big Fix, was speaking metaphorically but nonetheless managed to sound as if Captain America has evolved into a wacko tea-bagger or NRA wing-nut of some kind.
Fonda’s disdain for Obama is probably rooted in the case made against the President in The Big Fix, which is that O has more or less coddled Big Oil since the disastrous gulf oil spill of 2010 and his people have idly stood by while BP has paid out on only one of many dozens of spill-related citizen lawsuits.
Here’s my 5.17 Big Fix review.