Maggie Gyllenhaal, sister of Jake, indie favourite actress from Secretary (DVD) and Mona Lisa Smile (DVD) amongst others, and now even more hated than Robert Kilroy Silk.
Gyllenhaal’s new film The Great New Wonderful tackles the tricky subject of 9/11. It features a collective of mini stories describing the attacks, reflecting on what happened to those caught up in the atrocity and it’s affect on their families.
Equipped with an undoubtedly panicking publicist, Gyllenhaal hit the interview circuit. Smiles and handshakes first, on went the tape recorder, she opened her mouth, and then it all went pear shaped. The prognosis was clear, never send an actor to do a politician’s job.
So, what exactly did she say about 9/11 to cause such a furore..?
"It is always useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict."
Reading between the lines, that does sound a bit like she’s saying the U.S. might have brought 9/11 on itself. Not populist opinion perhaps, but – without going out on limb here – one that is entitled to circulate freely outside the walls of tyrannical oppression.
Still time to politely excuse herself, but still Gyllenhaal instead gets in her JCB and just keeps on digging.
“Not to have the courage to ask these questions of ourselves is to betray the victims of 9/11,"
And digging.
"it’s an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America’s role in the world".
She went on to pay respect to "everyone who suffered and everyone who died in the catastrophe". Though by then the damage was well and truly done. Not long after she’d opened the floodgates, her Maggie Gyllenhall fan site was saturated with angry disdain about every single thing she’d said, commented on, or implied.
Nobody seems very keen to support her on this one either.
And who can blame them? It’s a subject touchier than paedophilia, immigration, or anything even remotely associated with Princess Diana. Not one to be joked about, trifled with or conferred upon on in any way. Other than with respect, most importantly, support for the cause.
Gyllenhaal had a go at voicing her opinion and it jumped back yapping like an angry right wing dog. A silly, silly actress, not yet thirty, she knows little more about the world than premieres, Pilates and stretched limos. Why should anybody take a damned thing she says seriously?
But conversely, why shouldn’t they?
She’s no more intelligent than any other voter, overpaid analytical analyst, or so-called ‘expert’ and that’s exactly why she’s fully entitled to air her views. She’s just flesh and blood the same as everyone else. You might not agree with opinions – hell, we might not even agree – but Gyllenhaal spoke her mind with due esteem and consideration.
Do we even dare to face the fact that she might be correct in her diagnosis? No, of course not. Because that would somehow be disrespecting the memories of every person that died that day.
It’s much better to put our heads in the sand and say ‘we’re right’. That way nothing bad can ever happen again.
Support or shout at Gyllenhaal here. Though don’t expect the poor girl to ever open her mouth again.
Free world? Do us a favour, George.
[story by Chris Laverty]
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Maggie Gyllenhaal is typical of the rampant Leftist. She’s conditioned to look at the world myopically with a “hate-America-first” template; even if it requires a jelly sky and lollypop forests to flesh out the fool’s world vision. Fact is, such persons will fabricate any delusion to fit their silly pathology. For example, such persons completely IGNORE the many obviously provocative behaviors (including the publication of a threating letter to American on the week of 9/11; AND the shooting down of an American aircraft ON 9/11)of Saddam Hussein, in order to pretend Iraq was a “victim.”
I am so sick of idiots that think their “art” makes them qualified to comment on any subject beyond their capacity to grasp. Liberals suck!
If ye guys can take the piss out of this lady’s words without any analysis of the reasons she might have said them ye are either lazy or stupid.
A cursory analysis of the facts involved would reveal that the 9/11 Commission Report is fiction. And dozens of books have been written about 9/11. I’d suggest ye read one or two.
Or maybe ask Stanley Hilton, Bob Doles former chief of staff, who is suing the Bush administration on behalf of 400 victim families for actually conducting the attacks.
I suggest your eyes might be opened.
Regards.
Ok, let me figure this one out with a simile…
Imagine that you are a rape victim. Would you be willing to discuss the possibility that something you did propitiated the rape itself? What did America do to justify the blatant murder of civilian innocents using public transportation as an added insult?
Gyllenhaal is another uneducated limelight imbecile who definitely has the right to express her own stupidity, and especially since she did not lose any friends or family in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. There are many, many other American traitors who are willing to sell their country off to public world opinion, regardless of rhyme or reason.
When one country attacks another, there’s usually a reason behind it. From what I can tell, all Maggie was trying to voice was that Americans should look at themselves as a part of the world – not the world being a part of America. Those responsible for 9/11 didn’t just wake up and decide to do these attacks – they had reasons, and many people (not only Americans) refuse to look at it like that.
In regards to the rape comment, comparing something like that to 9/11 is slightly different. One asks a person what they did personally, the other asks what their country did as a whole. People constantly blame TV and movies for violence that occurs in society – there are many more factors involved, yet many people don’t want to believe that – they want a scapegoat.
As a side note, look at the backlash that Maggie has received from those simple comments asking people to look behind the attacks. It’s almost poetic in that it demonstrates her point to an extent…