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| Gweneth Sez No to America -- Drops by to Pickup American Paycheck |
| 2004-01-21 |
| Edited for length and relevence. Awaiting the birth of her first child in London (where she lives with her husband), actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently announced that she will not raise her kid in America. Hey, Gweneth, wanna improve the quality of life in America? Stay in England with your hellspawn. In 20 years when prayers five time a day in England multi-cultural society are imposed along with the âbagâ, you can remind your child about all the ills of the USA. The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave is just too dangerous a place — with all of these gun-toting, super-patriots running around — Ms. P proclaimed. Dangerous place for leftists such as Ms. The Oscar-winning actress told a British publication: âI worry about bringing up a child in America. At the moment, thereâs a weird, over-patriotic atmosphere over there, like, âWeâre number one and the rest of the world doesnât matter.ââ Riiight. The world doesnât matter; sounds Clintonesque, without the patriotism, without the responsibility. Iffin the world doesnât matter, why did Bush go to the UN TWICE to get their blessing for removing Saddam? Iffin the world doesnât matter why do we have several countries aiding us in Iraq? Why? Becuase you run aroud with your fifth column socialist friends and you refuse to pull your head out of your ass to see the world as it really is, not as Comrade Paltrow wants the world to be seen. If frantic flag-waving werenât enough, the nation apparently is awash in firearms. âAnd the guns in school — itâs not great,â Paltrow complained. Youâd think the legendary gun lobby was handing out assault rifles at the schoolhouse door. (Blame not the NRA, but the ACLU and other proponents of permissiveness, for violence in our schools.) Show me the guns, girl. Fact is, you canât. At the time of the Iraq war, the star-spangled girl informed another British interviewer. âI love America and I completely stand behind America. But at the same time, Iâm a free thinking person and I question motives too and I question this war and the motives behind it.â Undeniably, Paltrow is free. Clearly, she has a right to question or oppose administration policy. Itâs the âthinking personâ part thatâs in doubt — especially in an individual above adolescence who introduces a statement with the word âlike.â You just have been hiding in a cave to not understand the reasons why we are at war. 911? Remember that, or is that âourâ fault? Ms. Paltrow, military folks are standing in harmâs way to conduct the war on terror. If you canât stand behind those troops AND their mission, at least show your love of America by keeping your mouth shut. As it is, you sound tired and irrelevent. And to me personally: a traitor. Whatâs Gwynethâs gripe? Is America today truly the weirdly over-patriotic place of the actressâs fevered imagination? You wouldnât know it from the spiritual treason the left gets away with. Spiritual, my ass. This is not âperceivedâ treason. This is out and out treason with troops in the field and our enemies here and in Eurostan. Within days of 9/11, liberals like Katha Pollitt, a columnist for The Nation, were fretting over modest manifestations of patriotism. (Pollitt says she told her 13-year-old daughter, who asked to fly the flag, âThe flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.â) I donât recall anyone asking the flag-haters to exit stage left. The last time I heard âAmerica, love it or leave it,â was during the Vietnam War. âThe flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.â None of those things are necessarily bad in time of war. Most importantly, our public schools continue to teach skepticism about America, if not outright loathing, in the name of multiculturalism, diversity and various victim studies. Still, liberals like Paltrow are intimidated by even these gestures. For the left (including its Hollywood auxiliary) any patriotism is too much. Hollywood believes the dictionary definition of patriotism is: âparanoid, xenophobic, chauvinistic, authoritarian bordering on totalitarian, imperialistic, warmongering â See McCarthyism.â Hollywood patriotism: Sitting on an antiaircraft gun emplacment which is used against our military forces, visiting Baghdad to inform the world that Bush is worse than Hussein, jerking off abot non-existant Islamic daycare centers, and trying to convince everyone that you love your country: just not enough to allow it to defend itself. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #18 The left says that "Bush is stifling dissent!", when in reality what has happened is there is no long a market for their drooling idiot ideas. to quote Jack Nickloson: " Go sell your crazy somewhere else, were all full up here" |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2004-1-21 5:43:31 PM |
| #17 Shouldn't she and Depp take their complaints to the ICC. I mean American officials couldn't be charged or anything but it could be a photo-op like when Sally Fields testifies on the plight of textile workers because she starred in Norma Rae. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-21 1:26:54 PM |
| #16 In her defense, she did go to a public high school in Long Island. Granted, she lived in a really upscale town, so the school wasn't bad. But she didn't go to prep school. That said, she's still an idiot. |
| Posted by: growler 2004-1-21 1:09:58 PM |
| #15 I am tired of being called a gun toter. I don't even own a gun. But I have had my eye on this nice M1911A1, so who knows: maybe I will get one. Ruprecht, I probably picked it up from elsewhere and I dont know where, so feel free. I will start using it myself. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-1-21 1:06:47 PM |
| #14 At the time of the Iraq war, the star-spangled girl informed another British interviewer. âI love America and I completely stand behind America..." Then you take the bad along with the good. Sorry, but the world doesn't revolve around the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow. Deal with it. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-21 1:03:50 PM |
| #13 Paltrow is the pampered daughter of another actress (Blythe Danner?) - doubt she knows the true meaning of middle-America or any person of humble beginnings. Which leads me to surmise that she probably doesn't know any gun-toting super pat's or that her child ever would as people of that societal ilk do not associate with those of our ilk. You know, us jingoistic, redneck, knuckle-dragging, gun-toting, meat-eating, blue-collar, nationalists.......traits to live up to if you ask me. Apparently she watches too much Peter Jennings. If she did live in the states, most likely her kid would go to some high cost prep school. Anyways, if gun-toting super patriots are the worse thing about this country to her - may I live to be a 120 year old proud American. BTW - I always thought most of her movies sucked anyways. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-1-21 12:56:56 PM |
| #12 Eurostan. God what a perfect term for the future Europe. If you don't mind Badanov, I'm gonna adopt it and overuse it as if it were my own. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-21 12:17:46 PM |
| #11 Hey, give gWhineth some credit; she is one of the only Hollyweirdoes who actually have left the country. I'm STILL waiting for all those wackoes who keep threatening to move to Europe to in fact do so. Streisand, Altman, Baldwin, et al, will you guys please put or shut up ? |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2004-1-21 11:46:41 AM |
| #10 She does have wonderful hair though. And a pouty smile. The camera just loves her. I'll miss you Gwenyth. I'll check you website often as well as your chatroom. PS, She'll be back. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-1-21 11:30:36 AM |
| #9 Gwyneth Paltry has kept her head up her ass for so long she's used to the smell of shit. |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-1-21 11:21:59 AM |
| #8 Maybe she should read this |
| Posted by: tipper 2004-1-21 10:46:13 AM |
| #7 The otherwise idiotarian Andrew Young was exactly right when he said that the British and French invented racism and franchised it to everyone else. Actually, Andrew Young has a perfect record of being wrong. Neither the British nor the French invented racism. Racism is something that predates the French and British empires by thousands of years. Genocidal wars between major civilizations were the rule, not the exception way before either the Gauls or the Celts became cohesive tribes. In times of old, racism was so prevalent that encouraging the move of entire populations from conquered territories was considered a merciful gesture - it was practised by ancient civilizations everywhere. (The Jews fled from the Assyrians, the Huns fled from the Chinese, et al). This is a lot like the canard that Europeans invented imperialism. Civilizations everywhere have been conquering weaker neighbors for thousands of years. Europeans merely had an uncharacteristic period of dominance for a few hundred years. Unlike Europeans, many of the traditional non-European imperialists are now feeling their oats, now that they're becoming more developed. (Not having experienced the horrors of either WWI or WWII, they're spoiling for a fight over territorial grievances, real or imagined). In fact, the wars of the future are likely to be among non-European powers looking for a rematch with regard to territorial losses suffered in the past*. * They always overlook the gains - the losses were a tragedy and a crime, whereas the gains were only what they deserved. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-1-21 10:27:09 AM |
| #6 She's been spending way to much time in ultra-patriotic, rightwing, gun-worshipping Los Angeles. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-1-21 10:20:34 AM |
| #5 America to Gwenyth... Get the hell out and don't come back. Raise your bastard in France where he will feel at home. |
| Posted by: ScottAK 2004-1-21 9:45:40 AM |
| #4 Darn...I'm getting short on movie stars who aren't on my pooh list. Does she have a movie coming out? |
| Posted by: B 2004-1-21 8:45:52 AM |
| #3 How dare the peasants be proud of their country?! |
| Posted by: TS 2004-1-21 8:01:18 AM |
| #2 Another thing, I'll bet she still uses her American Express card. That simply won't do. We should come up with a new card for these rich expats who are so uncomfortable with jingoistic, provocative terms like "American". Call it the UN Express Card, pay in $10,000 and get 8 cents worth of credit. Perhaps a selfless, compassionate NGO card would be more to her liking. The Amnesty International Card: one rate for Americans and their friends, a much lower one for third world dictators and interest-free for Palestinian "resistance-fighters." How about the Trotskyite Express Card of Britain? Pay 40% of your income every month whether you charge anything or not. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-1-21 6:45:57 AM |
| #1 Just how many prominent Hollywood lefties have been assassinated in recent years? Well, there was, uh, wait a second, have it right here; somewhere; and, uh, lemme see, well I'm sure there have been many and a Canadian professor told me so, so there. The belief in European superiority couldn't be chauvinistic, could it? Does any Hollywood uber-conformist terror-apologist and euro-dhimmi actually know who Chauvin was and how his name became a term of opprobrium? For that matter, who invented "jingoism" and where? The otherwise idiotarian Andrew Young was exactly right when he said that the British and French invented racism and franchised it to everyone else. The ancient peasant need for prejudice and presumed superiority remains, only the targets have changed, and not even that in all cases. Paltrow is the equivalent of the shuckin' and jivin' minstrel show performers of a bygone era, pandering to Euro-bigots and profiting from her own debasement. While we are on that theme, Michael Moore's fat, slovenly persona is akin to a white man wearing blackface, a caricature revealing the performer's real prejudice. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-1-21 6:01:57 AM |