Ms Fits recently posted this entry about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s politics:
Goddess of hotness Maggie Gyllenhaal has endeared herself to leftists worldwide by speaking about the September 11 attacks.
Promoting her new movie ‘The Great New Wonderful’ - which is about the 2001 attacks - the actress said in an interview that the US “is responsible in some way” for the tragedy.
In a statement issued Monday by her publicist, Gyllenhaal said Sept. 11 was “an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America’s role in the world. Because it is always useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict…Not to have the courage to ask these questions of ourselves is to betray the victims of 9/11.”
She’s hot, she was in a sexy movie about bondage and she’s asking pertinent questions in a terrifyingly conservative environment.
Swoon.
Uber right wing blogger Tim Blair jumped into the fray, linking to Ms Fits’ post, with a fairly predictable comments thread trashing of Gyllenhaal resulting.
Tim ommitted the second paragraph clarifying Gyllenhaal’s statement, though his readers could have followed the link. I see nothing particularly objectionable about her comments, and I wonder what all the conspicuous indignation is about.
You can read more of Gyllenhaal on politics and films here.
and this about her brother from the same article:
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“Meanwhile, Gyllenhaal’s brother, Jake, also has a nose for hot-button issues.
The Day After Tomorrow star weighed in on global warming last week by attending an Earth Day event in the Arctic sponsored by Global Green USA and the National Resources Defense Council. He danced with local Inuits and urged governments to cut down on pollution and greenhouse gas emission.
“The Inuit people put a human face on global warming,” he told reporters Friday. “They are literally melting away.”
Her original comment (in the interviews was: “Because I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible [for 9/11] in some way and so I think the delicacy with which it’s dealt allows that to sort of creep in,”
The statement issued by her publicist was by way of subsequent clarification, after the storm broke. Gyllenhaal was artless at best to have implied that America brought the 9/11 attacks on itself. I don’t think that a surprise attack upon a peacetime civilian population - an attack deliberately calculated to murder at least tens of thousands - can ever be justified, whatever the root causes of terrorism might be. Gyllenhall is naive in the extreme if she imagined that her remark wouldn’t be interpreted in this way.
You can ask serious questions about America’s role in the world without necessarily looking like an insensistive lamebrain.
oops. rest of my message got cut off. don’t know how that happened.
I was supposed to sarcastically say after that excerpt
‘Yeah, those groovy Native American people, natural born conservationists and Animal Libbers’.
Why do people (detractors and fans alike) get so goddamened excited everytime theatrical airheads say anything about politics? Is it because we expect them to be so goddamned stupid that anytime one of them strings together a sentence worthy of 100 IQ we are pleasantly surprised?
Nothing to see here, people.
She’s probably just hoping she’ll be considered worthy of being sent-up in Team America 2.
Jason, that’s because those damn liberal Hollywooders are reprogramming our children to hate America and fill their heads with leftist peace and love, or guns, drugs, and violence.
To quote Homer; “Rock Stars. Is there anything they DON’T know?”