Elitist Enviro-Hypocrisy: Harrison Ford’s Cheeseburger Runs
by John Nolte
This was the most dispiriting PSA ever. Watching Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan and Han Solo have his chest waxed for rain forest awareness was like catching your dad dressed in your mom’s clothes.
There just isn’t enough therapy.
And now we discover Ford’s just another elitist Hollywood hypocrite whose concern over “the tons of carbon” the rest of us emit into the atmosphere doesn’t apply to him.
Mr. Chest Wax likes to jump into one of his many aircraft and fly up the coast …. for a cheeseburger.
Environmental activists have blasted Harrison Ford for making “unnecessary” trips by air, following revelations he once made a jet journey to buy a cheeseburger.
The “Indiana Jones” star began flying when he was 52. After receiving his license, he went on to purchase several aircraft, which he keeps at Santa Monica Airport in California.
He recently revealed in an interview the extent of his love for piloting, telling Britain’s Live magazine, “Learning to fly was a work of art. I’m so passionate about flying I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger. Flying is like good music; it elevates the spirit and it’s an exhilarating freedom.”
Harrison, if you’re going to forever shatter our man-chested image of you, couldn’t you have at least done it out of a firm set of principles? And how about you fly up to East L.A. and refund my money for all these DVDs of yours that lost much of their movie star lustre along with your chest hair?
In the last two decades, no movie star has fallen further than Harrison Ford. That appalling Indiana Jones’ sequel might have made money, but it was an embarrassment and since Air Force One way back in 1997, he’s made one awful choice after another. You get the impression that somewhere along the line he decided to stop being Harrison Ford, and now the most sure-fire star of the late 70s through the mid-90s can’t even open a film.
I knew it was over when he became one of those 50-somethings sporting an earring, but I kept hoping for a miracle — for American Graffiti-era Harrison Ford to pop out of a time tunnel and beat some sense into Middle-Aged-Crisis Harrison Ford.
Next thing I know he’s having his chest waxed.
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There is simple no self-awareness on the left.
Yeah that was a blow ot the optic nerve alright. This guy was Han Solo for chrissakes!! He was Indiana Jones!!! WTF is he THINKING!?!?!?!
Hollywood Hypocrites: Pretending to care, one meaningless gesture at a time.
When I was a kid, Han Solo was the epitome of cool. Then came Indiana Jones and Ford outdid himself. Why can't he stay cool like Clint Eastwood? Chest waxing and an earring? Sigh.
does he get fries with the burger. does it have bacon on it. gee, i'm hungry, perhaps i can call harrison ford to pick me up, and get me a double cheese at portillo's, best burgers in the world, hands down! perhaps he can fly over in his solar powered jet, or the wind powered one, screw it, i'm hungry, go ahead and use the one that works, use the good old oil powered one, i can't wait a few years for lunch.
Funny thing happened to me at the corner of eight and 23rd in NYC while going to an audition. I was kind of in a hurry so I was walking across the street and I notice this guy wearing a gray T-shirt and blue-jeans is barreling down the sidewalk with a cellphone to his ear. I thought, " hey, we are going to collide if this guy does not watch where he is going." So we almost do collide. The guy turns to look at me with a look like "what are you doing on my sidewalk?" Turns out to be Ford. I kind of chuckled about it but got a ring side seat as to what this guy might be like to hang around. I do not think I would want to be on set with him. And hey, what about the other guy, John Travolta? I am sorry about his son and my condolences, but hey, what's with the Jumbo Jet in the driveway.
Poor Harrison Ford.
Apparently he has lost his mind and gone loco. Having had a mid-life crisis and hooking up with Calista Flockhart has evidently driven him over the edge. Perhaps she has cuckholded him and driven him to get his chest waxed……..
Next thing you know, he'll go atheist on us and denounce the Power of The Force.
It'll be a sad day…indeed.
He wasn't really Han Solo, he was just reading someone else's words. Sigh.
Oh?? Can you imagine someone else reading those words?? I sure can't….
For now I will convince myself that the fuel wasting Harrison Ford that eats cheeseburgers is the real Harrison Ford. And the one that gets his chest waxed for rain forest awareness is just the one that is trying to keep the environ-whackos in Hollywood off his back.
Please tell me that is the case…….
That bit's unintended hilarity was the most entertaining thing Ford's done in years. I don't care if he makes more of these idiotic tree hugger PSA's or spends his time flying his planes. Whatever it takes to keep him from making any more awful movies.
I see nothing wrong with flying up the coast for a cheeseburger; I aspire to be able to do that myself someday.
What I take issue with is this guy who flies up the coast for a cheeseburger agitating for legislation that will doom the rest of us to cold-water walk-ups and beans in a city we're never allowed to leave…to "save" "the planet." *ptooey*
Don't you kind of wish that Tom Selleck had been cast as Indiana Jones?
Tom Selleck or Bruce WIllis
After seeing that disaster Crystal Skull I do. Selleck is aging much better too. Is it just me or does Tom Selleck seem infinitely more likable??
Not as Han Solo, maybe Indiana Jones……
Andrew Breitbart is the REAL Hans Solo.
Normally, I'd say that Ford was having a mid-life crisis with the earring and the significantly younger girlfriend, but wouldn't that mean he'd live to 120?
With all due respect, Mr. Nolte, why did you have to post that image? Now I'm the one who needs therapy…
Though truth be told, the real genius of Star Wars and Indiana Jones was that their characters had a life of their own unrelated to the actors. When I watch Star Wars, I don't see Carrie Fischer and Harrison Ford up on screen, I see Princess Leia and Han Solo. Likewise with Indiana Jones: those aren't Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, they are Indy and his dad. So my love of the movies will survive even this.
Watch the movies, enjoy the good ones and dont give so much credit to the actors portraying the characters. They'll disappoint you every time. After all, they make a living pretending to be someone else.
I see this as one of two possibilities.
One, he doesn't believe in AGW but says he does because all Hollywood phonies are supposed to be on-board.
Two, he believes in AGW but he doesn't need to alter his lifestyle. If the "little" people just change their planet destroying habits then he can continue to do as he pleases.
In the first case, he is a lying hypocrite. In the second case, he is a hypocrite who lies.
Well, I haven't been racing to see his movies in the last decade so not seeing any of his future efforts won't be that difficult.
Gonna cut the pilot some slack on this score. He is fighting for the survival of the general aviation industry. Ford is ok in my book.
During the 1980's and early 1990's Harrison Ford came out with one film a year and I would vow no matter what I would see the film if not the opening day then within the first week.
The list of films I saw were:
Witness
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (awful still can't get Kate Capshaw's screaming out of my head)
Presumed Innocent
Regarding Henry
Clear and Present Danger
You get the idea….
After Air Force One it likes HF totally flaked out and he was in a bunch of Blah movies including that stupid one "Hollywood Homicide" or whatever and you went "Crap, where happened to this guy?" Then last year he comes out for Roman Polanski another "Gees, dude what are you thinking, do you realize this guy is a pedophile"?
Now this Hypocritical enviro wacko stuff, it sort of like when David Brinkley did the commericals for Archer Daniels Midland or finding out that Mother Theresa had a condo in Aspen.
It would have been cheaper and quicker just to buy a gas grill and cook your own cheeseburgers. Why do liberals always have to walk all around the mountain to take a leak?
To me Harrison Ford died in 1997 to be replaced by a creepy metasexual imposter. I guess we can now add hypocrite to that latter description.
I blame the skeleton he married, Calista Flockhart. Before he hooked up with her, he was the brash man and great actor we remember. I know she is a Progressive/Socialist loon, so she must have infected Mr. Ford. Alas, it must be something about those Progressive/Socialist babes in Cal-ee-forn-ea. That is the only way to explain the Kennedy mystique that made a girly-man out of Ahnold.
Seems like everyone here has way too much tied up in an actor. They're professional pretenders, FGS.
If he has his chest waxed for rain forest awareness, I wonder what body parts he would have waxed for global warming awareness?
Fighting for the survival of the metrosexuals and the cosmetology industry too.
"These days there's men getting facials,
Manicured, waxed and botoxed.
With deep spray-on tans
And creamy, lotiony hands
You can't grip a tackle box.
With all of these men lining up to get neutered
It's hip now to be feminized.
I don't highlight my hair.
I've still got a pair.
Oh thank God, I'm still a guy"
-Not Harrison Ford.
LOL! That was beautiful.
"Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense. "
Good attitude to have.
So he not only emits more carbon in an afternoon than I do all year….but he also EATS ANIMALS and DAIRY? Do these liberal elitists have no shame at all?
I still say that he can do whatever he wants… hopefully, he's just mouthing a couple of words to satisfy a few environmental commies.
The guy flies a plane… I hope he flies often.
That said, I've long since said he needs to lose the earring. He's Indiana Jones… nothing else makes you cooler than that.
As an early 30-something I grew up watching all of his greatest works. It is so disappointing to realize that the Harrison Ford I knew is no longer with us. Nevermind his personal life (cheating on his longtime, devoted wife that was with him before his fame) with Ally McBeal, and getting a very non-manly earring as though it's 1985 again, and still withstanding his horrible choices for movies like you mentioned, but to be a typical, lying, hypocritical Hollywood nutcase is just the icing on the cake.
RIP to the real Harrison Ford. Where ever he may be!!
Now THERE'S a movie I'd pay to see.
It's not just you Hank………….and after seeing Chrystal Skull and then seeing Tom's Jesse Stone "made for tv" movies I'm starting to re-think which ones actually the better actor….Selleck is definately the "more" cool of the two these days……..Nothing I hate more than a whiny action movie star…
This must be some new level of liberal narcissism. Now a liberal can alter large swathes of the planet for the better with his body hair. Next week maybe Matt Damon will prevent an asteroid hitting the earth by getting a pedicure.
Good point, now that I think about it, I really wish we could've seen Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones.
He can use Cuba as his personal humidifier and fly there just to smoke for all I care but I just
can't separate the actor from his public words and actions. Most people on this site, it seems, can
appreciate the actor in his work and disapprove his public utterances as a citizen. They are bigger
than I am, I just can't do it. If a "Star' wants me to live in a "cold-water flat walk up" as you mentioned
and still wants me to spend 50 bucks for an evening at the movie's in awe of his ability to suspend
reality for a 120 mins is just asking too much from me. I appreciate the folks that work in the business
and their lives depend on these "Stars" directly or indirectly for their daily sustenance, bless you,
you do what you have to do.
Bruce Campbell could do it.
oooooh…..good one. Bruce Campbell could definitely do it……
Get off my plane!
I have a problem faulting Harrison Ford for flying up the coast for a cheeseburger – a good cheeseburger may be worth the flight time, the jp4, the ATC hassles. He could be like other Hollywood types and leave his multi million dollar mansion in a convoy of limos filled with hangers-on and other parasites, fly up the coast, again convoy to a meeting where (for a fee) he preaches to the slavering masses on their sinful use of fossil fuels.
Check out a "Magnum, P.I." episode titled "The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u" (at least I think that's the one). The episode has the gang on a treasure hunt with Magnum basically goofing on Indiana Jones.
Bruce Campbell can do anything.
I suppose if you eat the cows they won't emit any co2. So flying up the coast and eating a burger is like buying a carbon credit. Yummm, carbon credits with bacon and cheese.
BEST. EPISODE. EVER
http://magnum-mania.com/Video/Goodbye_Ivan.html
*Simply. I feel such shame and self-loathing at every typo I make.
This is a really common thing for GA pilots to do. I mean really really common. You're supposed to fly that plane you spent a lot for, and want to stay in practice, so since you're going to be flying anyway why not go somewhere and grab lunch.
There's even a wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger) and a book about it.
You know what? If I could afford to hop in a plane just to go to California and eat a cheeseburger, I would. Of course, as cool as Han Solo was, let's just do a quick review on him.
Likes to make a quick buck through capitalism.
Does his job, gets his money and gets ready to go.
Is browbeaten into feeling shameful about his pragmatism and obviously selfish ways.
Has a change of heart and aids his rebellious friends.
Will Ford pull a Solo and join the rebellion against the evil global carbon footprint?
So we want to outlaw private pilots? Or private aircraft? Why the emphasis on the cheeseburger? That was just the excuse to go flying. I have no problem with it.
While, my husband is not a environmentalist when he wants to go flying and stops for lunch he joke that he went to get a hamburger. I can't speak for Ford but he might have been joking. I've heard variations of that joke from many pilots.
Still he is a hypocrite.
I wonder if he's just referencing the pilot's joke about going out for a $20 (now $100) cheeseburger – where they go flying somewhere, mostly just to go flying for recreation, but grab lunch at a restaurant located at the destination airport.
It's not the burger that costs so much… it's the cost/hr of flying there to get it. But the burger isn't the goal – the fun of flying is.
Yes, yes he can…..
Where'd all the self-awareness go? There is none on the right either.
What you don't like getting the manly mani/pedi! Or are you the fortune cookie type?
Rather than whine and condescend about this, shouldn't you be higlighting and celebrating the fact Ford makes a free choice to be wasteful for the pursuit of something enjoyful?
All you do is tear others down. Pretty soon everyone will be as lowly as the right.
About as much shame as you apparently. None.
And if the right sets the standards everyone else looks better for doing nothing at all.
it would be called Puke Wars
No, that'd have Susan Sarandon in it.
Ouch! in more ways than one. Nolte your words are stinging… but oh so true. From the construction guy actor to the flying bird brain. I miss the old (young) Harrison Ford too.
Shouldn't these people despise ALL recreational flying? If you REALLY believe "we're killing the planet", wouldn't the thought of flying around for sh*ts and giggles be something you would abhor? If he's so green, he shouldn't be flying PERIOD! Sure, okay, if he has to fly to ply his acting craft, fine. But, just zooming around because it elevates the spirit?? Not for you, Green Sleeves.
Insert name here – __________ once was convinced by The Chesapeake Bay Foundation to NOT wax in an effort to "Save The Crabs."
I agree. Flying a plane to get a burger is the way to do it. I'm just not willing to wash my hands of him over politics. Oh, and Tom Selleck is cool and all but there's no way in hell I would ever trade him as Indy.
I think you're missing the point. Nobody has a problem with Ford's hobby- most of us envy it. It's his hypocrisy in turning arount and parrotting eco-loon propaganda, for the people who would, in fact, outlaw private aircraft.
Heh. Flying around just for lunch is, IIRC, a time-honored tradition in general aviation. I indulged in a "hundred dollar cheeseburger" invitation a few years ago. Great fun.
Of course, my pilot host didn't rant at me about AGW.
The best one is John Travolta and his own private 707. I certainly don't begrudge anyone who can afford it to fly whenever – or whereever – they want to – That is the beauty and power of general aviation. Forgotten by the MSM who regularly lambaste any business with a jet, they forget (more likely don't care) that they can cover 3-4 cities a day in that jet that would take 3-4 days on an airliner.
Just don't lecture the rest of us about our evil "carbon footprint" ways.
BTW among pilots (I used to fly until it got too expensive for me) – anyway, it is common for a recreational pilot to go out on a Saturday, fly to a reasonably close airport for lunch and call it the "$200 cheeseburger". It is a standing joke among pilots.
That's avgas ($5/gallon) , amortized costs (annuals, insurance, tie-down fees) of the plane.
That's for a small single engined plane.
If he is flying his Citation Jet (a business jet from Cessna) it's probably the $5,000 – $10,000 cheeseburger.
Dangit. Now I want a cheeseburger.
Clint Eastwood at 80 still kicks ass, in the movies and in real life. Long live Dirty Harry.
Ooh…good site and I had the wrong episode. The one I was thinking of was Legend of the Lost Art.
As the old has been used to say a brush with greatness.
I think just the opposite. It's obvious he's just playing the left compassion card as dues. Underneath he's still a guy who'll jump in a carbon spewing plane for cheeseburger.
Works for me.
As long as she didn't talk, and wore something low cut THE ENTIRE TIME… and no puking either. Then I might….
Hey, I live in Northern CA. All I want to know is, where is this burger joint? I might be willing to spew a few pounds of CO2 from my Sienna's tailpipe for a good burger.
Sarandon's what? maybe 90 years old now……….She wears something low cut I'm yackin'……….Now if we are talkin' "Bull Durham" Sarandon, that will work……but she still isn't allowed to talk………..
The only thing potentially cooler than Indiana Jones is Han Solo.
I like that he flies too. But the earring has got to go. I mean really. Would Indiana wear an earring?
Love me some Tom Selleck– but Ford is Indiana.
Elitist Enviro-Hypocrisy: Harrison Ford’s Cheeseburger Runs
At first reading of the title, I thought we were going to see a video of Ford's backside while he jogs. I'm much relieved to find that this is not the case.
And if you've ever listened to Ford in any interview during the last 10 years, you know he sounds about as cogent as Farah Fawcett did…I wonder if Ford is in early stages of dementia.
If he really cared about the environment he would have himself filmed getting a grey poupon anema.
Excuse me? But what good was accomplished by ripping his chest hairs off? Did he burn </>them instead of fossil fuels? If so, it would explain why he's hooked up with Calista. Only someone as skinny as her could warm herself from those flames.
Get that one to a bumper sticker printer asap.
" You get the impression that somewhere along the line he decided to stop being Harrison Ford "
He divorced and started dating women half his age.
It's a bitch when they forget to put the napkins in your bag when you're going through the drivethrough.
I'm the last person to defend hypocritical Hollywood lefties, but the "$100 cheeseburger" is quite common in the aviation community. It refers to a Saturday afternoon jaunt, usually shared with a pilot buddy, to an airport destination a distance away that will generally cost the pair about $100 each in airplane fuel/rental/operating costs. Pilots *need* to fly frequently to stay in top (read: safe) form, and picking a new airport destination every weekend and grabbing lunch is a good way to do this (and contribute to local businesses—FBOs are generally owned by individuals).
Of course, for most of this, this trip is made in a small Cessna, not a jet, but the principle is the same.
As a pilot (and a republican), what Ford has admitted doing here does not outrage me.
That sounds like a good sequel to Blade Runner.
No surprises here for me.
No surprises here for me.
As a person, I feel Irish, as an actor, I feel Jewish.
- Harrison Ford.
Well, I'll tell you this much.
Han Solo wouldn't have any problem firing up the Millenium Falcon and blasting a bunch of parsecs over to another galaxy for a Banta burger!
And if anybody had a problem with it, he'd handle'em just like he did Greedo. Remember (even though they don't want you to) Han. Shot. First.
The difference is that Han wouldn't make some stupid PSA….
That's too bad. And we were just introducing our daughter to Indiana Jones.
Pilots fly. They rarely need an excuse to go. If you wanted to fly on sat going up the coast for a cheezeburger is as good a reason as flying in circles or checking out the trees. If he flies at all he's a hypocrite to the environmentalists cheezeburger or not.
Having said that, I think he spoke in the past tense, probably before the 1997 cutoff. So is a hypocrite for changing his mind or are we all just sad because we all thought he was someone he is not.
Never trust an old man that wears an ear ring.
Also, I'm sure Han had a hairy chest.
EVER
I can't believe you wingnuts are on him about this.
Sure, the private jet runs are just bringing us closer and closer to a global cataclysm… but it's a really good cheeseburger.
I mean, you gotta have priorities, right?
There are hamburger joints next to landing strips in California?
What do I have to be ashamed about. I don't run around telling people that they are killing the planet, and tell them how to live while I'm doing the exact opposite.
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