On Jul 2, 1:43=A0pm, efeatherston wrote:
> On Jul 2, 11:52=A0am, Christopher Helms wrote:
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> > On Jul 2, 9:20=A0am, CliffB wrote:
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> > > Gwyneth Paltrow Still Hates America
> > > Especially New York City
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> > > By =A0SCOTT ROSS
> > > Updated 6:19 AM PDT, Thu, Jul 2, 2009
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> > >http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/entertainment/Gwyneth-Paltrow-Still.=
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> > > Getty Images
> > > Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple apparently can't stand listening to
> > > mommy's blather either.
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> > > A trip across Spain has Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow
> > > focusing her general contempt for the United States on New York City.
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> > > "(Spain) is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a
> > > history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in
> > > the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over
> > > there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible," =A0said Paltrow.
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> > > "Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a
> > > little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York.
> > > They enjoy time with the family. They don't always have their
> > > BlackBerries on."
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> > > Paltrow has been visiting Spain regularly since she was 15, but
> > > recently spent time touring the country and its cuisine with NYC
> > > celebrity chef Mario Batali, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman
> > > and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols filming "Spain ... on the Road
> > > Again" for PBS.
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> > > Someone -- her publicist, maybe -- should explain to Gwyneth that whe=
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> > > you eat your way across a country with a camera crew in tow, the
> > > people you dine with are probably going to be more at ease and not
> > > burying their heads in their Blackberries.
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> > > This isn't the fist time the Paltrow has turned on her homeland, In
> > > fact, the actress has a long history of America bashing.
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> > > "I love the English lifestyle, it's not as capitalistic as America.
> > > People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting
> > > things at dinner," Paltrow said in a 2006 interview with NS, the
> > > weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de
> > > Noticias. "I like living here because I don't fit into the bad side o=
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> > > American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and
> > > civilized than the Americans."
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> > > Following the uproar that ensued, she made a plea to her fellow
> > > Americans.
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> > She should have thanked the dumb American bastards for making her
> > point. We Americans are a bunch of self absorbed, dumb, fat, arrogant,
> > greedy, militaristicholes who are drowning in our own debt and
> > everybody knows it except us. Paltrow's mistake was not realizing how
> > insulated America is from itself. We act as though this country is
> > different and free and special, which was true once upon a time, but
> > that country is dead and gone. Our only growth industries are
> > stupidity, debt, welfare, unemployment, obesity, diabetes and
> > illegitimacy. Millions of Americans drop out of high school or
> > graduate not being able to read or write and we're going off on
> > Gwyneth Paltrow for noticing that we're turning into a bunch of big
> > fat mother.ing morons. Well guess what? We ARE turning into a bunch
> > of big fat mother.ing morons. American exceptionalism only exists
> > on American television and in the minds of Americans like my dad, who
> > insist on living in the past. It's alive on Fox "News." It's as dead
> > as Queen Anne everywhere else. We just never got the memo. Everybody
> > else certainly did.
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> If we are such a horrible place, why do so many people from other
> countries race across the borders, legally and illegally, to come here?
It's funny. Helms' accusations against the U.S. for its supposed
obtusity, "exceptionalism", and haughty narcissism actually seem to be
the hallmarks of would-be pretend Euro Gwhiney Pilltow. ironic |
