Marion Cotillard falls for the woo, also questions the moon landing

[eromitlab]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=523729&in_page_id=1773

What is it with celebrities and believing this nonsense? Maybe she can narrate the final final cut of Loose Change, since that's evidently where she got all of her information.

Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers, Cotillard said:

"We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."

She also thinks it was cheaper to destroy the twin towers than to "modernise" them. As for the moon landing...

"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."

 

[uk_dave]

Are celebrities brighter than the average person?

No, didn't think so.

I've always loved the irony of the 'truth' movement dismissing ordinary people who are just 'sheeple' watching American Idol, while at the same time 'truthers' themselves seem obsessed with obtaining celebrity endorsement of their fantasies.

 

[eromitlab]

They decry America for its celebrity-obsessed journalism that doesn't focus on their "bravery" and "patriotism", yet they long for celebrity endorsements.

Wait... maybe this is a strategy. They use celebrity endorsements to burrow into the celebrity-obsessed journalism and reach more people.
No, wait... that would require someone on the tr00th side actually focusing long enough to devise a strategy.

 

[Corsair 115]

I can't but help think of the science-fiction short story, The Marching Morons. There are times where I fear the central premise behind the story is coming true...

 

[Father Dagon]

What is it with celebrities and believing this nonsense?

It's an occupational hazard for celebrities. I'ts really hard to find an author, actor, musician, etc that hasn't some kind of really bad and incoherent ideas. Often a mix of whining socialism (bad conciense for the third world) and murky continental conservatism (material possessions are bad.) I almost ◊◊◊◊ my pants when i heard Leonardo DiCaprio speak of the convergence of crisises in the trailer to 11th hour. Not that I think that DiCaprio reads Guillaume Faye who coined the phrase "the convergence of the catastrophes", but if you aren't educated, you don't even know what to look out for. ("Führerprinzip is bad. But we have the principle of the leader. That's something totally different!")

 

[NickUK]

Hands up if you've been trying to come up with an Edith Piaf pun on all of this?

I've been trying for about an hour and my mind's completely blank

 

[uk_dave]

Hands up if you've been trying to come up with an Edith Piaf pun on all of this?

I've been trying for about an hour and my mind's completely blank

Well, try not to have any regrets about that.

 

[cludgie]

We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned?

Shame she didn't quote any examples.

I guess with the growing number of woo-believing people in the entertainment industry we can add acting to the list of occupations where the old saying "you don't have to be mad to do this job but it helps" applies.

 

[hurdygurdy]

Hands up if you've been trying to come up with an Edith Piaf pun on all of this?

I've been trying for about an hour and my mind's completely blank

That's because you don't see la vie en Rosie.

 

[SezMe]

What is it with celebrities and believing this nonsense?

What is it with ordinary people and believing this nonsense?

The only difference is that celebrities get ink while ordinary people don't. Starting a thread about it is a good example.

 

[fromdownunder]

Maybe it is a market Tom Cruise should be tapping. Truthers for Hubbard has a wonderful ring about it. And since they believe anything, accepting Xenu should be a breeze

Norm

 

[NickUK]

That's because you don't see la vie en Rosie.

That one wins!

 

[boloboffin]

minor tweak: la woo en Rosie

 

[realitybites]

She's quite the brave one. Speaking out against teh JOOOOOOS who just gave her an Oscar.

 

[CHF]

They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours.

Oh dear....

 

[Pardalis]

Connasse

 

[johnny karate]

Unfortunately, being a brilliant performer doesn't make you brilliant in other areas of your life. It's kind of like how Sartre wasn't a very good dancer.

 

[Pardalis]

To deny an entire people the most horrible attack upon them (9/11) and their greatest achievement (Apollo 11) wreaks of anti-Americanism, and yet at the same time she is awfully glad to have won an Oscar...

An idiot and a hypocrite.

 

[westprog]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=523729&in_page_id=1773

Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments on Paris Première - Paris Dernière, a programme broadcast a year ago.

It doesn't excuse the remarks, but it's telling that nobody cared till she won the Oscar.

 

[sts60]

I read the thread, and was left with one question:

Who is Marion Cotillard? And why should I care what she thinks?

OK, that's two questions.