Redford: Bush is ‘morally criminal,’ ‘devious” and ‘sneaky’

The appointment Wednesday of Sen. Ken Salazar to head Barack Obama‘s Department of the Interior coincided nicely with a news conference held at the National Press Club in which actor Robert Redford, speaking via satellite, advocated on behalf of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  

“I think very highly of [Salazar],” Redford stated, echoing sentiments made by Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., and other NTHP representatives, all of whom were there to speak out against the possibility of the Bureau of Land Management selling new oil and gas leases around Utah’s Nine Mile High Canyon.

Redford warned that leases around the canyon “need to be stopped.”

“Bush may be a lame duck, but he knows how to quack,” said Redford. He warned: “We should not leave one more debt” of the Bush administration for Obama to fix. 

“These lands are part of our legacy … not Cheney’s and Bush’s,” he continued. “[They’ve] been trashing the environment since they came in, like it was their prerogative.”

But he was just getting warmed up: On top of Redford’s criticisms of the Bush administration’s environmental policies, he called Bush “morally criminal” on three separate occasions and said he “was shocked about how devious and sneaky” Bush has been while in office.

 

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