Support actress Maggie Gyllenhaal - 9/11 truth movement

[Lori Price CLG]

Quick poll action! "Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is being criticized for remarks suggesting the U.S. bears some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. What do you think?" Pol demands actress apologize for 9/11 remarks --Councilman Tony Avella, who represents District 19 in Queens, today demanded a public apology from actress Maggie Gyllenhaal for remarks she made suggesting the U.S. bears some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. ... "I think what's good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such a subtle, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated than just, 'Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for them,'" Gyllenhaal said in red carpet comments Friday to cable channel NY1. "Because I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way and so I think the delicacy with which it's dealt allows that to sort of creep in," she said. (Exactamundo, Maggie!)

Lori Price

[sui generis]

1. of course I think America is partly responsible

but let's deconstruct that:

do I think average American citizens were responsible? Not at all. Do I think American policies in the middle east contributed to a rationale of oppression used to justify the attacks by the people who did it? Absolutely. Do I think that our policies alone were a justifiable excuse? Not remotely.

There is a huge difference between admitting some responsibility for the situation and agreeing that we deserved it.

The problem is knuckleheads like Tony Avella are too dense to distinguish what is pretty evident to anyone with eyes and a brain.

[Lori Price CLG]

4. Correct! Avella is a typical (lying) Reichwing whackjob!

Please keep this one 'kicked' as the supportive comments have increased by two per cent since I sent this 'Quick poll action' to my Yahoo egroups and to DU!

:)-Lori

[Dogmudgeon]

2. She's not doing too bad

In the polling, only abour 40% of the responses want her to be strung up. The rest say it's either OK or has been blown out of proportion.

--p!

[ET Awful]

5. I'd be willing to wager that the majority of those who say

she should apologize also think that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that he backed the 9/11 attacks, and that Jim Robinson is doing the world a favor.

[JAbuchan08]

3. I hate how they phrase these poll questions, they make it sound as if she

said that America attacked itself or was somehow directly responsible for the attacks when all she really said was that "what goes around comes around." In any case, I hope that she neither apologizes nor suffers career consequences.

[Kolesar]

6. She just needs spanked

click here

[LifeDuringWartime]

16. Lee, it's about your behavior.

It's very bad.

[Jade Fox]

7. We'll know we are starting to get over our collective blindness....

and insistance that we were totally innocent vitims caught completely
off guard on Sept. 11, 2001 when someone is able to say something like
this, and no one demands they apologize.

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[Jade Fox]

13. Had Bush done less brush-clearing at his ranch....

and heeded the numerous, explicit warnings that 9/11 was coming, it would
have never happened.

As for US policies in the Middle-East, they have been dicated by the oil industry
for decades--folks the entire Bush Family are in bed with.

[CottonBear]

14. During the 1990s, the US government did defend the country

against terrorism while working to support peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.

As far as terrorists are concerned, we caught, tried and executed Timothy McVeigh and we tried, convicted and imprisoned the first World Trade Center bomber. At the same time we were helping to end the atrocities in Eastern Europe (Bosnia and Kosovo.) How many terrorist has the Bush administration tried and convicted?

As I recall, it was the Republicans who screamed and wailed and yelled "wag the dog" each and every time President Clinton ordered action taken against our enemies.

[CottonBear]

15. The poster that I responded to is now called"Name Removed."

Thanks DU Mods!

[Double T]

8. We all have free speech in a democracy....

....or at least we used to until the present regime stole their way into power.

[Lori Price CLG]

10. Exactly - and I don't care if Freepers fail to comprehend that fact. n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

9. Done and Kicked!

[Lori Price CLG]

17. Thanks and cool signature line! n/t

[Rick Myers]

11. voted/kick

:kick:

[Lori Price CLG]

18. Poll update: 5PM EST -- 40.2% I agree with her position. :)

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is being criticized for remarks suggesting the U.S. bears some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. What do you think?

32.0%
I disagree and think she should apologize for the remarks. (490 responses)

40.2%
I agree with her position. (614 responses) :bounce:

16.2%
I disagree but think she has a right to voice her opinion. (247 responses)

1.2%
I don't have an opinion either way. (19 responses)

10.4%
I think this incident has been blown out of proportion. (159 responses)

1529 total responses

Lori Price