And now it’s Peter Fonda, managing to take away my enjoyment of a
film that was an anthem of my generation, Easy Rider. In case you
haven’t heard, Peter Fonda publicly called for horrendous things to be
done to President Trump’s 12-year old son, Barron, in addition to
referring to the president with the same type of latrine-mouth vitriol
that De Niro so enjoys spewing.
Fonda has since issued an apology and withdrawn the vulgar comments and
threats. Although the agency charged with protecting the president and
his family has not officially commented, it’s speculated that Fonda’s
apology just may have been inspired by the Secret Service having “a
little talk” with him.
But that apology won’t keep me from seeing Peter Fonda in a different
light now than I’ve seen him in for all these years since he starred in
that iconic film. (*EDITOR) Maybe he never thought of Easy Rider the
way I did, as a celebration of America and its beauty and its freedoms,
even as it exposed some of the country’s ugliest flaws.
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