Maggie Gyllenhaal: Celebrity Twit

Well, it looks like we've got another asshat "celebrity" who doesn't know when to keep her damn mouth shut.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has waded into sensitive political waters by raising questions about Sept. 11 and American foreign policy.

The 27-year-old actress, who stars in a new film about the 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, said in an interview last week that the United States "is responsible in some way" for the attacks.

A fan Web site devoted to Gyllenhaal was overwhelmed with criticism, forcing the site's editor to remove the ability to post messages "because it's gotten too outta hand."

In a statement issued Monday by her publicist, Gyllenhaal said Sept. 11 was "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world. Because it is always useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict.

"Not to have the courage to ask these questions of ourselves is to betray the victims of 9/11."

I have never seen a Maggie Gyllenhaal film, folks. I've heard of her, but from what I can tell, she's essentially had bit parts in a few films, and the lead in another film that got essentially no press. She's barely even the Jessica Simpson of acting. (This reference should denote that nobody knew who Jessica Simpson was until the stupid television program made her a star for being such a total nitwit, and nobody knows who Maggie Gyllenhaal is, either.)

So now she's got another bit part in an independent film about people living in New York after 9/11, founded to revitalize New York City after 9/11, and she, a B list actress at best, thinks her handful of bit parts gives her the clout to make a statement like this?

Upon closer research, she's revealed to be an English major with no real experience in anything, save for theater. This obviously qualifies her, at the ripe old age of about twenty-eight, to comment on world affairs and question American foreign policy.

Welcome to the Hollywood mindset, folks. Maggie Gyllenhaal can read and recite text, so you should listen to what she thinks about the world. Tell me something I haven't heard before, Mags.