Hey! Tony Bennett! We know you’ve got a duets LP to promote, but forget all that – we wanna know what you think about terrorism. Y’know, you’re not exactly a 100% American lookin’ anyway, which effectively makes you a foreigner. As such, you’re probably sympathetic to those terrorist guys, right?
What’s that?
You think that America itself is to blame for the 9/11 attacks in New York? You heard that George W. Bush thinks the whole thing is just one big mistake? Why, that’s not very American is it? It’s borderline reasonable for a start!
That’s right kiddiekins! Tony Bennett is opening that old mouth of his and talking about 9/11. He says that the whole attack on the World Trade Centre (et al) is solely the fault of Americans themselves.
What, so they waved the planes into the side of the building?
Of course not. Bennett said to Howard Stern:
“I’m anti-war. It’s the lowest form of human behaviour.”
“To start a war in Iraq was a tremendous, tremendous mistake internationally.”
However, however, however… those pesky terrorists started it all, right?
“I don’t know about that. Who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right ? They flew the plane in, but we caused it ? We were bombing them and they told us to stop.”
But. Wait. Hang on a doggone minute. George W Bush wouldn’t have irritated anyone enough to make them want to retaliate, right? Those guys picked a fight with America and Bush went after ’em… right? What? Bush told you otherwise?
“He told me personally that night ? ‘I think I made a mistake.'”
At least these comments didn’t come on the back of the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Ah yes. They did. This makes Tony Bennett the celebsphere’s grouchy ol’ grandparent who can’t be bothered to keep their mouth shut anymore and just says exactly what they think.
It’s brilliant.
Now, all we have to do is to wait for our American cousins to start running their mouths off like Bennett just burned a flag and wiped his dick on the Bill of Rights (which, incidentally, should be Tony Bennett’s next PR stunt).
And while you’re shouting and hopping mad, remember, this is all your own stupid fault.
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