Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks. The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website…. “I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends…. But after her outburst, in which she also queried the 1969 Moon landings, a successful future in Hollywood appears to be in jeopardy. She said: “Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.”
Yikes…the stunning, incomprehensible ignorance behind Marion Cotillard’s comments is well…I’m can’t thinking of a word that adequately describes my feelings. What’s French for “Foot-in-mouth disease”? That a allegedly lucid, intelligent, and talented woman could seriously put forward opinions such as these simply defies explanation. It’s not that I give a damn about Cotillard’s opinion on anything, because I really don’t. What bugs me is that she seems to seriously believe the lunacy she’s spouting. The “moon landing on a sound stage in Burbank” theory is both ignorant and beneath contempt. And unless she’s a structural engineer, her opinion on the collapse of the Twin Towers defies anything resembling rational explanation. Uh…hello?? You’re an actress, NOT an engineer. How about sticking to things you actually know something about?
I can handle ignorance. I may even be able to work with stupidity if it’s too terribly egregious or aggressive. What I simply cannot stomach is rampant, unrepentant, thoroughly uninformed vacancy. This is why celebrities should stick to what they do well and leave the opinionizing to those who actually have a (&^%$#@ clue.
Yes, I will admit to being perhaps somewhat overly sensitive when it comes to 9.11 conspiracy theories. Having lost a friend in one of the Twin Towers, the various and assorted conspiracy theories strike me as just plain disrespectful of the innocent Americans murdered on that horrible day. 9.11 is not merely some sort of intellectual exercise. Some of us lost friends and loved ones, whether in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, or on Flight 93. To have a know-nothing like Marion Cotillard disrespect those who had to buried loved ones murdered on 9.11 is both disrespectful and ignorant beyond belief.
Then again, who really give s (&^% what Marion Cotillard thinks?
“Then again, who really give s (&^% what Marion Cotillard thinks?”
Right. Leave this brainless mome (Piaf!) alone. She seems to be another victim of L’effroyable imposture, by Thierry Meyssan, published in the US as The Big Lie, a tissue of idiotic propositions that 9/11 was the work of the US government (Air Force and CIA). Meyssan’s magnum o-piss has been denounced by the the French government as well as by several actors and actresses in France, as it has been in the US
Seen/heard the one here that the Twin Towers were actually brought down by the CIA which carried out the demolition by means of carefully placed explosives on all the lower support beams?
Right; never mind the fact that an operation like that would require the sworn secrecy of hundreds of CIA operatives. Don’t you think ONE of them might have come down with a wonky conscience and blown their cover?
White 873 media outlets competing to outscoop one another, how long can you assume a planned cataclysm of this nature would remain a secret? I’d give it about 20 seconds, tops…and I doubt it would last even that long…. ;o)
Jack: First, my condolences. I don’t doubt that you lost real, live loved ones on that horrible day. HOWEVER… I’ve gotta say goodbye at this point. While your rants are amusing, you’re so off base here, your credibility is spent with me. I don’t care to dig any deeper into what some random person said, but based on what you’ve quoted… she said: “I think we‚Äö√Ñ√¥re lied to about a number of things” … If you think that’s BS, well, good for you. Also, I didn’t see the phrase “sound stage in Burbank” in her quote. My hopes for Americans dims by the day. You’re all doomed if you’re all in the same intellectual cesspool. The day Gore Vidal dies and Chomsky flees to a free country, there will be approximately zero people left in your country speaking anything resembling truth. But, at least you’ll be Free(tm)!
CT…the “sound stage in Burbank” line was not in her quote. That was me employing a bit of literaty license to describe her theory. As far as “being in the same intellectual cesspool” goes, well, if gained your seal of approval means taking 9.11 conspiracy theories seriously, then I’m rather enjoying this cesspool.
In my mind, nothing demeans the victims of 9.11 more than the constant buzz of conspiracy theorists spouting their unsupported and unsupportable fantasies dressed up as legitimate theories. Yes, I understand their are many questions and damn few answers. Does that mean a conspiracy was afoot at the highest levels of the US government in coordination with al-Qaeda and the CIA? Please…you’re gonna make my pointy li’l haid assplode….
My goal is not to increase my credibility in your eyes, although I’m like anyone else in that I’d prefer to be universally loved. Here in the real world, though, I’ll settle for a reasoned, dispassionate discussion of the facts.
The day someone can offer convincing and convincing proof of a conspiracy, we’ll talk. Until then…how ‘bout dem Twins, eh??