Actress: US Shares Blame for 9/11
According to actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, touting her new movie about the aftermath of 9/11:
"I think what's good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such a subtle, open, 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,' 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 with allows that to sort of creep in."
What reprehensible things, exactly, is she referring to?
Maggie might want to check out "Tribute to America" by Canadian Gordon Sinclair.
Better yet, she should read one of my favorite all time articles by Dan Flynn titled "Top Ten Reasons that Thinking Americans Love Their Country" . . . Wonderful, amazing piece.
His top 10?
(10) Education
(9) Immigration
(8) Technology
(7) Creating Wealth
(6) Generosity
(5) Human Achievement
(4) Enlightened Power
(3) Medicine
(2) Democracy
(1) Freedom
Key quote for Maggie G: "Our legacy is not slave chains, Wounded Knee, and the murder of James Byrd, but American GIs liberating a Nazi death camp, an immigrant's first glance at Lady Liberty's torch, and Ronald Reagan exhorting the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall."
How wonderful it is to be an American. What a gift it is to live in this big, beautiful, generous and God-blessed land. And how sad not all Americans realize it.
"I think what's good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such a subtle, open, 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,' 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 with allows that to sort of creep in."
What reprehensible things, exactly, is she referring to?
Maggie might want to check out "Tribute to America" by Canadian Gordon Sinclair.
Better yet, she should read one of my favorite all time articles by Dan Flynn titled "Top Ten Reasons that Thinking Americans Love Their Country" . . . Wonderful, amazing piece.
His top 10?
(10) Education
(9) Immigration
(8) Technology
(7) Creating Wealth
(6) Generosity
(5) Human Achievement
(4) Enlightened Power
(3) Medicine
(2) Democracy
(1) Freedom
Key quote for Maggie G: "Our legacy is not slave chains, Wounded Knee, and the murder of James Byrd, but American GIs liberating a Nazi death camp, an immigrant's first glance at Lady Liberty's torch, and Ronald Reagan exhorting the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall."
How wonderful it is to be an American. What a gift it is to live in this big, beautiful, generous and God-blessed land. And how sad not all Americans realize it.
posted by LadybugUSA at 5:38 PM
1 Comments:
Hadn't heard of her, either, so looked her up at Google. Born in NYC, but raised in Hollyweird by parents (mother, screenwriter; father, director)in the entertainment industry. Hollyweird prep-school then Columbia University studying "Eastern religion and literature." 'Nuff read; 'nuff said.
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