He ought to know better. Tom Lee Jones is a rancher in Texas and makes excellent flicks including westerns like Lonesome Dove, and The Good ol' Boys. However, his roomate in college was Al Gore. I wonder how much green rubbed off on him. What is problematical is that guys like Jones are dead silent on what is happening to their community in the ag world.
Silence is complicity too.
One Voice to name a few. Plus, before they split they did artsy pieces on Montana. Actually, Jane's brother Peter Fonda , also runs a spread in Montana did an excellent piece on the West for the History Channel. He is associated with Dr. Alston Chase, a voice of reasonableness in the sea of loonies in the environmentalist's world of the West. Turner is one of the largest land owners in the United States.