i dare her to come back to this country and say that. why is it that celebrities criticize the U.S. while they're overseas, yet never open their mouths here? (jessica lange opened her big fat mouth in the last year or so, so did jared leto, etc). you know what, gwynnie? stay in england. dont ever come back. why do you bother calling yourself an american since you obviously hate america?

3023 people died at the trade towers bombing, 52 at london bombing? Am I right about the numbers? But maybe SOMEONE is in therapy is they were close to one of the 52... Im sure she does not know everyone in England yet to know that no one is in therapy.What is wrong with therapy if someone you know dies??? Is Gwen into scientology now?>

Gwyneth is insinuating that Americans are emotionally weak. If someone's loved one is blown to bits by a terrorist...she's basically saying it's weak to cry or mourn. Is that why she's cried and mourned publicly over the death of her own dad? Shut your mouth Gwyneth and PLEASE stay overseas. Just continue doing yoga 4 hours a day, getting spa treatments and naming your kids after fruit. In fact, name the next one that's on the way after you.....FRUITCAKE.

I know someone who won't be getting a memorial when she DIES! It won't be long before Londoners give her the boot, then she can move to Iraq and praise the terrorist for their perserverence in trying to kill us!

That was so insensitive in her part.
She sounded like that crazy guy, Bill Maher.
I think she should stay in London forever.

maybe she doesn't say it in the States, because she doesn't want to be labelled a terrorist..

Let me think...4 jumbo airliners are hijacked, flown into multiple buildings, including two of the tallest structures in the world, causing billions of dollars in damge, thousands upon thousands of humans seared, crushed or lept hundreds of stories to their death, hundreds of police and firefighters lose their lives in the rescue effort, and this cold bag of urine compares that to one double decker bus in London and 52 deaths? All murders are horrific, but I heard that more people died at the last John Tesch concert.

Yes. We have something in the UK called "freedom of speech". Some of your older American readers may remember it.

it's the whole "our tragedy is worse than yours" thing that does it. Both countries were attacked. Yes, america lost far more people than england, but they both represented an attack on our societies.
Just one country chose to tell the world about it every day since, the other's decided to get on with it.

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm sure that everyone who rode the tube the next day was comforted by the fact that "only" 52 people died. Oh, and "only" seven or eight hundred were injured, some losing limbs and others suffering permanent disfigurement.

it's not the number of deaths nor how they died. It's that no one, no matter who they are or what country they live in likes to hear someone, regardless of what nationality they have make an insensitive statement lke that.

saggy breasts aside, the woman should learn a little restraint.

Saying positive things about londoners WITHOUT insinuating negative things about americans would probably have been a little bit nicer. we like the brits a bunch. we do.

yeah, i'll agree that it's insensitive to insult the bereaved (anyone remembering the whole Billy Connoly and Boris Johnson thing with Ken Bigley?), but i think at the end of the day, you won't find people over here with 7/7 tattoos. There just seem to be a number of folks who weren't even involved in the attacks on the WTC, that seem to glorify in their misery.
Same as any emo kid who won't stop going on about the pain in his life.

Let's take her down to a local firehouse in NYC and have her make that statement...

Celebrities should really think before they speak. Just because you're famous, doesn't mean your smart.

Especially when most celebrities never go to college or don't have anyone around them that will question what they think (in an intellectial way, of course).

I think zenmasterfoo's probably right. But then by the same token, maybe commenters who disagree with ol' saggy tits should criticise her comments without belittling our tragedy.

http://www.americawestandasone.com/

seriously, she's got a point, even if she didn't put it tactfully

take a look at a brit's teeth and tell me they havent learned to live through the ugliness around them... bristish people are about as friendly as my grandmother is when we steal her dentures and put them on the dog....

see, and not one brit on here has made a Big Mac comment.
hang your head in shame, Popz9

Well, a great majority of Americans ARE self-involved, emotionally fragile, whiney pussies. It's true. Read any message board or comment section online if you don't believe me (*kah-wink*). But I'm sure you can add Gynnie's name (hell, my pussy-asss name, too) to that list of Americans with their heads up their asses. That's part and parcel of growing up in this awesome comfy sofa of a country. We're kinda spoiled.

And the idea that death only gets more relevant as the body count rises is an inane logic turd (particularly since we all know damn well that part of the sobbing reaction to our country getting attacked and 3000 people dying was geographically motivated.....if it happened in Canada no one would care...even Canadians, or maybe they're just too polite to complain, but I digress).

However, the day I stop having an emotional reaction to people dying and America being wounded on such a vast scale, is the day they should take away my Mangina License and recycle my emotionless corpse. Until then, quit pretending that anytime someone criticizes the US that they "hate Ahmerca"....they may just hate your stupid ass. And as ill-conceived as their comments may be, you may be doing yourself a diservice by dismissing them, as they might just very well have a small point lodged in their arguement....somewhere.

Like mine....I think we can all agree that my point was something or other....I think it was about badgers or something. Wait...what was I saying....?

The Brits are a tough lot, no doubt. She aint a Brit. She's a spoiled little tart with the intellect of a Sea Anemone. Want to talk about "getting over it"? The Brits still dislike the Germans. Need I write why? She's part of the see me, feel me corps that gets press for farting.

To be fair, bafongu, she does fart golden fairies and love. It's a medical fact....

Just out of interest, did the Bali bombings get much media coverage in the USA or Europe?
Incase they didn't:
2002 Bali Bombing - 202 dead, 209 injured
2005 Bali Bombing - 20 dead, 129 injured
2003 Marriott Hotel Bombing - 12 dead, 150 injured
2004 Jakarta Embassy boming - 9 dead, 12 injured
I'm an Australian. While I recognise that the number of people killed in the Bali Bombings and other asscoiated events do not come close to 3023 people killed on September 11th, I do believe that the outcome was the same in the U.S, London, Spain, Indonesia and the countless other places terroists choose to attack.
Since when was this about numbers?
I personally believe that it is only a matter of time before you'll all be hearing of an attack on a city in Australia. But how many of you will care?
Please keep in mind that terroist attacks are not exclusive to America and Europe.
I think Gwenyth's comments were naive. But come on, we all know that she didn't get to be where she is today because she posesses superior intellect.
She named her kid Apple, for fucks sake.

All I want for Christmas is the rape and murder of gwyneth paltrow.

Celebrities bash America overseas all the time, then return to its glories and act like they've done nothing wrong. BJ Clinton, Will Smith, Woddy Allen, Michael Moron. We're getting pretty d@mn sick of it and them.

We don't dislike the Germans, bafongu. We just don't trust them, for obvious reasons.

Gwytheth can say what she likes. But I have to agree dwelling over things makes the pain worse. The inference I understand from her speech is to recover and look to the future. I mean think of all the crazy American looneis that will blight her now.

Gwytheth can say what she likes. But I have to agree dwelling over things makes the pain worse. The inference I understand from her speech is to recover and look to the future. I mean think of all the crazy Americans that will blight her now.

i think the people that are coming out and saying that she should be raped and murdered/never come back to america, are pretty much justifying her point.
learn to deal with it, guys:)

Man, is she ugly or what? What the hell happened to her? Oh yeah, she was always an underfed horse-faced hag.

And who cares what she says anyway?

Gwyneth Paltrow is ex-party girl that was born rich and beautiful and became a famous actress because of who her parents were.

I don't think she really lives in the same world all the rest of us do.

Paltrow's comment regarding America's sadness re: 9/11 is insensitive.

Her comment regarding therapy doesn't make sense.

Her comment regarding the continued use of Americans to frighten Americans into a certain political viewpoint is accurate and justified.

That's precisely what Bush and his cronies have done. They have repeatedly suggested that if you don't condone their political viewpoints, you're un-American and putting American lives in danger -- "you're with us or against us."

The facts, of course, suggest otherwise, but when did Bush let the facts get in the way of a good political argument? The 9/11 commission said this week that the country has not done enough -- in fact, has done very little -- to prevent future terror attacks. Huricane Katrina, although not a terrorist attack, has proven how unprepared the country is to deal with a large-scale emergency. Yet, Bush has convinced people that he is somehow making them safer. Amazing -- he truly is a magician.

Wow some of you guys are really sensitive, not to mention total morons.

She's not insulting Americans, or even calling them weak. What she is saying is that there are more frequent attacks and the like in Britain, but with much less fanfare than the single attack in America, because they are used to this sort of thing, whereas Americans run around flailing at the first sign of chaos or disorder in what we are used to. Not to mention the fact that we are overly sensitive towards anything that we don't agree with or don't understand. Concider the following...Katrina, Kidnappings, The Aruba girl, Terror, The Avian Flu, The Jackson Trial, The breakup of Brad and Jen, The "Homosexual agenda", The non-existant War on Christmas. Everytime we overhype these things, we look like bigger idiots.

Also, If you all remember, there were a lot of companies that profitted off of countless half-assed, insincere 9/11 memorials and merchandise and things like flags and those idiotic yellow ribbon magnets.

Also, since you don't seem to know what the phrase "Think nothing of it." means...The comment she made about therapy that you couldn't understand was saying that they "think nothing" of therapy, means that they don't see therapy as out of the ordinary or weak as it's viewed in America. It means that when somebody is in therapy, it's not seen as a big deal to go and get help.

Maybe Londoners are a bit more resiliant as we lived through decades of IRA terrorism funded by Americans... mostly New Yorkers in fact.

Or maybe she just spotted the famous British reserve and stiff upper lip for the first time.

While I don't completely disagree with her, it is getting annoying that so many american celebrities say this stuff "outside" of america. Why not complain in american papers? If you don't want to risk losing jobs, why even say anything?

And on a side note, does anyone else want to go to England and drop kick Madonna. Her fake british accent is driving me nuts. Your from Detroit! I bet if we dropped her in Japan for a couple of months she's start wearing neon clothes and trying to bargain down everything she buys.

I bet it's all some publicity stunt, I live in London... and people over here (to tell the truth) generally don't like you yeah you may be our closest Ally but you fund the IRA and act stupid, old Gwynnie is just trying to act accepted... and he statement just sounds dumb.

What my fellow Brits are trying to say (I think) is that there is a long standing belief in the UK is that the US has financed the vast majority of terrorist attacks against us. This of course is going to have a knock on affect as to how some people view 9/11..

As to Gwynies comments. Had Big Ben, Canary Warf and 3000 people died on 7/7 then it would not have been stiff upper lip time. All those areas with simmering racial tensions would have exploded. The raw emotion may not have manifested itself in memorials but it would certainly have seen expression in violence.

I think we need to do what celebrities from all nations do at times like these. We need to have our most iconic national performers sing a song that will ease the terrible pain of this discussion.

I'm waiting to hear 50 Cent and Chris Martin's version of "Bridge over Troubled Water." Right now.

lord help me, i never thought i'd agree with gwyneth paltrow about anything!

Gwyneth, aka 'Sunken Boob Birdfaced Girl', is clearly an idiot. Is it necessary to say more after that?

The World Trade Center attack is the deadest horse imaginable. It was, *WAS*, a terrible tragedy. I don't think anyone is suggesting otherwise. However, it was also nearly five stinking years ago and there are STILL media outlets and tchotchke peddlers insisting on finding new and innovative ways to continually beat the topic even more to death. Ribbon campaigns, 3-D computer reconstructions of the precise, accurate angle of impact of the jet with the building and hour long specials discussing the number of pico-seconds a man was trapped under a slab of concrete and on and fricking on.

I'm with Gwyneth on this one. The acceptable span for national bereavement has long since passed. Time to find something else to inspire our hollow nationalistic sentiment and pseudo-patriotic displays.

i dont even know why anyone would care what she has to say. Why does her opinion matter so much?

Also...since when is the UK not a big comfy couch of a country as well. I'd say we are both spoiled. We're not in the middle east where that happens every day...wake up people.

>Yes. We have something in the UK called "freedom of speech". Some of your older American readers may remember it.

Freedom of speech also means private citizens have the right to comment on speech made by public figures.

Lol. that is a good comeback for that idiotic comment.

I just have a hard time listening to Gwyneth's comments regarding how well the Brits have done since 7/7. I think this is mainly because I can still vividly recall a million (or more) of them wailing incessantly (embarrassingly?) about one woman's sudden death. A woman that NONE of these people actually knew in person, mind you. A woman who's death they continue to mourn today. Talk about multiple memorials with sobbing people! Paying respect for the INNOCENT deceased on 9/11 was what we did. We don't wallow in it anymore, but I'll tell you one thing -- nobody will ever forget it.

I think more than anything the annoying part is the constant handjob Gwynneth gives to the UK, and that whole, LOOK AT ME I LIVE HERE IM A LONDONER OMG IM COOL attitude she is constantly pushing in our faces 24/7/365. WE KNOW YOU LIVE THERE. THATS GREAT. Now stop constantly rimjobbing everything about England while slamming the country that made you famous, stupid skank.

Wow! This overrated cunt really put you guys in a tizzy! I won't even dignify her with a comment.

Ignore what she said, but there is a larger idea at hand. Americans are losing their freedoms at the hands of a party who preaches less government, and a President who goes on national television to talk to two dogs on camera to say, "I have a lot of work to do." He has so much work to do he can go on TV and talk to a couple of canines. YEP.

I think the point, really, was that the majority of comments that this gwenyth makes are condescending venom spewed at people who she perceives to be lower than her. This isn't nearly the first assholish comment she has made. I love the British--my whole fam is British (except for me, yes I was born in America) and they ARE tough. But she is not tough, she is an American actress. If the British don't like Americans then why do they like her? Or do they?

Tony the tiger Blair and George Dubya should kick her clown ass to any Jihad loving country....and by Jihad loving country, I mean France. Lets all do Fish and chips and a couple of buds.

OK, if she really wants to talk about not dwelling...

Everything I've had the misfortune of reading from her anorexic, pasty ass complains about the death of her dad. I'm a daddy's girl as much as the next, but ALL she talks about is how much she cries and how miserable she is. She's still going on about it and it's been how long???

The death of 3000+ Americans who were just going to work/home/etc, versus the death of her famous daddy...what would be the larger tragedy?

JUST ANOTHER LEFT WING LIBERAL, OVER THE TOP, HATER OF AMERICA...

I'm so sick of it!!

Anyone else agree?

For fuck's sake! I can't believe some of the responses to this! You same assholes on here trash all these dumb bitches like Paris Hilton and Tara Reid, and when a *gasp* "smart" blonde gives HER OPINION you guys are ready to tar and feather her and string her up by her tits? What the fuck? You realize that the reason so many Americans are leaving this country is b/c it's being run by rednecks? Our lives are constantly permeated by conservative assholes who are such fucking hypocrites it makes me want to torch the "red" states. You know why she said all this shit? BECAUSE she CAN! In this country if she said it, half of you assholes on here would be outside her house burning it calling her a mo'fuckin traitor. That's why Jim Morrison moved there in the 70s, Chris Cornell from Audioslave lives there, Johnny Depp, Madonna. These are all American as hell people who chose to leave. And all your right-wing assholes give up the name-calling, so what if i like to smoke weed and make my own reporductive choices without some MAN telling me what do...fucking kill me for that!

Give me a break...Britain has its share of crybabies dwelling over a tragedy (for ex: a princess dying), people profitting from it (souveniers with Diana's image) and others unwilling to move on (makeshift memorials were everywhere for goodness sake). Trying to make a saint of a tall, beautiful princess is O.K. but us crying over our dead is NOT O.K.?

well now...if jim, chris, johnny and madonna(sob!)left with their millions because we are such assholes in this country maybe we do need to take a good hard look at ourselves. let me take this fat and contrite latina ass to my cleaning job at the Marriot and think things over. Goddess Gwynnie and SoCalGal420 have given much to think about.

Wow, you must all be huge George Bush fans because you all share his same mentality. "You're either with us or against us." Get over yourselves; you all brought this on with your greed for oil and sebsequent world domination. You Americans act like you are the only people in the world. Take a look at the tsunami last December; take a look at the earthquakes that have happened in Pakistan. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives and I bet that this type of news coverage doesn't even make the 15th page of the USA Today.
You people are absolutely rediculous; let people speak their minds.

socalgal, I don't like right wingers either, but they have a right to speak their minds just like gwenyth, me and everyone else.
Mean people suck. Go smoke a doob and chill out.

pssssst...pony6? now don't get angry cuz you are already really really angry but we do let people speak their minds. Even really really really angry people. We just love to also speak our minds.

I have to agree with Gwyneth on this one. Americans dwell. We still are talking about the damn Titanic! Move on people! Kids get shoot daily in bad areas in the big cities. You just never hear about it.

Why do British people like to hate on Americans so much? Is it jealousy? I think it might be. My boyfriend, who is English, agrees with me. I've lived in London, Tokyo, and right now I live in Auckland. The Japanese and New Zealanders don't share this bitter anger/judgement about America that the British do. Are you guys just pissed that the English empire used to be where its at, but now the Americans wield world power? Are you trying to say that the British empire didn't abuse their world power (when they had it) in the same way that America does? If so, you are absolutely wrong. I'm tired of hearing all this pretentious/self righteous anti-American garbage. Its like talking shit about the prom queen... she might be a bitch sometimes, but you still wished you looked like her. Just for the record, Americans do care about the effects of the tsunami in Asia and the earthquake in Pakistan. Don't make up random shit to be judgemental about. Gwyneth can say whatever she wants, but it doesn't make her smart, acurate, or representative of America.

well lebowski and jlk29, I guess it's up to me to remind you that SoCalGal420 have a right to speak their minds, too.

Looks like we have an infinite loop.

well lebowski and jlk29, I guess it's up to me to remind you that SoCalGal420 and pony6 have a right to speak their minds, too.

Looks like we have an infinite loop.

gracieee3 - What the fuck do you know? You don't even live here!

gracieee3 - who cares what some british people think about americans, americans can't stop complaining about the french.

gwyneth is right on this one. everyone needs to move on to solving the problem instead of crying about it.

9/11 won't matter in the future anyway. It will just turn into another day for stores to have a sale.

So, Tiffin, are you saying that British people don't dislike Americans? Are you saying that everyone in London loves America and is proud to be affiliated as its closest ally? I think we both know thats not true. You Brits are even pissed at Tony Blair because you think that he likes America and its leaders a little too much. Above, spacca said:

Posted by spacca on December 8, 2005 11:09 AM

I bet it's all some publicity stunt, I live in London... and people over here (to tell the truth) generally don't like you yeah you may be our closest Ally but you fund the IRA and act stupid, old Gwynnie is just trying to act accepted... and he statement just sounds dumb.

Lets all look beyond the comment and look at the facts...The British People have accepted more insane american celebrities than any other nation on the planet. We as a world community should be thankful.

Let the lady who named her kid after fruit say what she wants...it's not like she's a star anymore. As far as this whole Europe thinks this and the U.S. thinks that...hell with all that.

At the end of the day we're all equally hated by the Mid-East :P

re Xiangzi's comments: the Bali bombings did get a fair amount of coverage, but nothing like September 11th or July 7th (I refuse to call the latter by its shorthand term, because from the start it always seemed to me like an attempt to forge some kind of link with 9/11, a term which does at least have some kind of American resonance) over here. You'll always get bias according to coverage; look at those people who were just kidnapped. I'm sure in America the emphasis is on the US victim, just as over here it's all about the British one.

And I agree with MrFloppy; they'd forget all about the stiff upper lip if 3000 people were killed in one day. Roll on the day British people are more concerned about death than they are about, say, sports...

She looks like she's stoned in this picture.

England doesn't want her either.

I actually agree with Gwyneth, I don't think mawkish public mourning for years does any good (although thebighairedboy makes an excellent point that Britain isn't free from that either - Princess Di, for example.)
She just expresses the sentiment badly because she's a pretentious hypocritical patronising snot.

'Why do British people like to hate on Americans so much?'

We don't. Unless they're morons who live up to the worst stereotypes. Like gracieee3.

gracieee3 - Oh, so ONE POSTER on here says that all Londoners hate Americans, therefore all Brits hate Americans. QED.

Truth is, we don't all hate Americans. (I married one and moved to the US!) We might make fun of you and think we're smarter than you, but we make fun of everyone. I don't know anyone who was happy about 9/11 in the UK- we were all shocked and appauled. The world was with you on Afganistan.

Then Dubbya flips the bird to the rest of the world and decides to go ahead with Iraq. World remembers that you can be a bunch of arrogant wankers sometimes and goes back to making fun of you.

Oh, and the logical opposite of "everyone hates America" is "not everyone hates America", not "everyone loves America". Your logical reasoning needs some work.

Reading these comments makes me laugh more than anything.

A. Gwyneth is a hypocritical snob. Isn’t this the same woman that raved about England and then on the advice of Madonna of all people came back to America to give birth to her fruit? That was the plan anyway… I confess I don’t pay that much attention. You’re giving this more attention than she deserves.

B. As an American I agree… enough is enough already. 9/11 was tragic and we should have mourned but quite frankly I’m tired of seeing people profit through this tragedy. Can we have more people selling crap to us just to remind us? Does anyone remember what happened to us 64 years ago this week? Amazingly I didn’t hear anyone talking about it. Welcome to what 9/11 will be in 64 years. The world and the nation will have moved on to mourn something equally or more devastating. Don’t get me wrong… I love my country and I mourned for these people, I’m not insensitive but can we not find ways to move past this?

C. The English are just as bad with their princess worship. Get over it. She was a great lady loved by millions of people but she’s been gone how long?

D. Americans funding the IRA huh? I admit this is the first time I’ve heard this one but I had to laugh. Do the English not know their own history regarding the Irish? I mean I really said to myself, “you have to be kidding” when I read those comments. The answer is very simple if you know history.

E. Finally… no country is ever going to get anything right. Arguing about which country is better serves no purpose. I’m happy to have had the fortune of being born here but I suspect I would feel that way about just about anywhere else I might have been born.

rue- you have said my thoughts better than I could have written them.

Gwyneth is simply being her usual, pretentious, bitchy self. It's easy to be self-righteous when you have millions of dollars and think your shit don't stink. Don't let her stupid comments bother you. She's a fucking bitch, plain and simple.

Rue - On the Diana thing, no one I know gave a shit about the spoilt little media whore.

On the IRA thing- you've obviously not had a drink in an Irish bar in Boston, Chicago or New York over the last 30 years. "Dollar for the cause?"

@7 - Correction, 3 jetliners "were hijacked" NOT 4...

@ 68 - Ditto

Gwyneth Paltrow is a spoiled rich girl who has never had to worry about where her next meal is coming from or how she is going to make the car payment this month. The biggest trauma in her life was losing her dad in her late 20s...oh jeez, my heart bleeds for ya, Gwennie.

What a shame it is her charmed life has left her lacking in empathy and tact. The 7/7 terrorist attacks were horrible, but there were in no way comparable to the nightmare of 9/11. It's OK for Gwynie to praise the British character, but why can't she praise them without scorning American character?

Having said all this, I do believe George W. Bush and his cronies, hold 9/11 over us like a club;if you don't fall in line, it'll happen again! I dislike Bush and what he has done to the country, and sometimes I think I wish I could move to a different country. But if I did so, I wouldn't diss my United States at every turn, because that would show a lack of class.

Re: i eat coins

Four planes were hijacked: 2 went into the WTC, 1 went into the Pentagon, and another went down in Pennsylvania.

Tiffin… I wasn’t saying you or your friends mourn Diana. I’m pointing out that your country still does.. much like America can’t get over 9/11. Just a point is all.

I have actually frequented many Irish pubs all over. While I’ve never been asked for a dollar for the cause in any of them (New York included) I can understand why. I wasn’t saying that Americans didn’t fund IRA terrorism. I’m saying if you know your history you might know why the money comes from America. Our government doesn’t sponsor anything of the sort but they can’t control what the Irish do as far as fundraising. It isn’t our fault that the Irish are here in the numbers that they are.

Gyneth Poultry needs to stop clucking and shut that cum-recepticle. Im sick and tired of priveledged actors talking like they are "above it all" and tough as if they have lived an adverse life and "seen it all". JACKASS. Im sure she wouldn't be talkin all tough if she saw one of the WTC jumpers fall to their deaths right in front of her scrawny ass. I bet then she would be all compassionate and understanding.

A very entertaining discussion. Let me add some wood to the fire. Note: I am an American, liberal, democrat.

1. We should ALL be able to speak freely, but we should also be able to do so courteously, without resorting to 'in your face' verbal histrionics (i.e., cursing). One of the biggest problems with America today is our lack of civility, our rudeness, our vulgarity. It comes so naturally there is probably little to be done about it. But actually, I am thinking less about profanity on blogs then on people yelling at each other on FOX.

2. The British people are surely tough. I was in London once and you could just feel it--that these were the people who withstood month after month of Hitler's bombs. Such comparisons are silly, but my hat does go off to them.

3. The British HAVE TO think we are all around ignoramuses. Most of our newspapers offer editorials on the level of a 14 year old. Go to London and look at the ditziest tabloid. The level of political commentary will be at or above that of the New York Times. We Americans simply are not as a whole very intelligent--look at who we elected president (twice!).

4. Princess Diana was a total babe who actually cared about suffering people and had genuine compassion for those less fortunate than herself. I never saw her t*ts, but I'd go for her any day. Check out the photos in December's vanity fair. She deserves to be mourned deeply and long.

5. 9/11. The Arabs kicked our fuckin' asses. Admit it. I hope we never get over it. Let's remember it and stay in Afghanistan until that poor country is free of those Pakistani religious fanatics, the Taliban. (As for Iraq . . . like Colin Powell said, "You break it, you own it.") How many Americans still think Saddam had something to do with 9/11? Cf. #3

6. The French may be totally screwed up, but Paris (the city, not the slut) rocks!

7. Thanks for the fun. Carry on!

Wow, you Americans sure are touchy about patriotism! If some poxy Brit filmstar said similar after moving Stateside I wouldn't blink. Erm, unless it hit a raw nerve!

I reckon it's because very few of you travel abroad. Get out more!

I think Michael Moore hit it right in 'Bowling for Columbine' when he pointed out that the American press has created a paranoia in your society that everyone's out to get you, whether it's a neighbouring person or a neighbouring country.

I was there for September 11, watched the towers came down and everything. And I emigrated to the states from a country where terrorism was part of the daily routine. I am from Peru where our terrorist group was called "the Shinning Path".

Despite being used to terrorism, September 11 was one of the most devastating attacks I've seen in my entire life. And being a New Yorker (US national now), I think we did a fine job "getting over it". Things got back to normal surprisingly soon. I love it when "people" who were not even close to 9/11 decide that they have something to say that is slightly relevant. I mean, I was only in the financial district when the towers came down. Where was Gwyneth Paltrow exactly?

Its ridiculous that actors who don’t know of politics, economics, or life, decide that they can have an opinion that actually matters. They are actors, their only job is to entertain, they should leave the big decisions to the professionals. These actors are not a smart bunch, if they go alienating their US costumer base. Now, I am not saying all actors are idiots, but it seems to be the majority of them. At the very least, they are too self absorbed to actually empathize with anybody other than themselves.

I love this website, the guy who writes it is hysterical. But I personally don’t give a rat’s ass about Gwyneth and her opinions on international politics, economics, politics, cooking, cleaning, basket weaving, how to keep a pasty white complexion etc. and nor should anybody else. If I have a question about acting, I’ll ask her (probably not).

comments like these are misinterpreted, while i dont like her i think all she meant to say is that the brits didn't have such and emotional reaction as she expected from americans. I would hope she is not attmepting to parellel the two, while all attacks are terrible i think we can agree that it is not the same.