1. That guy from that one movie in 1999 says Obama isn’t losing Hollywood. And I guess he would know because… he watches a lot of movies?
2. Aww. Sheryl Crow has mixed emotions about killing Obama. It must be a huge relief not actually to believe in anything.
3. Gasp! Rob Lowe flew on a 9/11 terrorist’s “dry run” flight. You may recall that Seth MacFarlane had a seat on one of the 9/11 planes but missed his flight. Because if 9/11 is about anything, it is about the persistent good fortune of celebrities.

Via Big Hollywood.

Jesse Ventura defends America, whether it's with Gatling guns or fatuous, paranoid fantasies.

I just heard Jesse Ventura say, on the 9/11 episode of his “Conspiracy Theory” TV series:

If everything they told us was true, then why would they need to stonewall us?

“They” is clearly the “false flag”-perpetrating U.S. government. And “us” is all the people working on his adorably irrelevant “gotcha” TV show on a cable channel you’ve never heard of (TruTV).

I’m not going to spend much time on this because Jesse Ventura has long become, after all, a self-parody.

But I think we’d all have much more to fear if a single employee of any organization related to national security deigned to be interviewed by this silly man.

As a rule, if I can’t reply negatively to the question “Am I duplicating the efforts of Charlie Sheen?”, I quit what I’m doing.

If the facts remain broadly as outlined, this incident has serious implications for airline travel: A man is on the no-fly list but is allowed to board the plane. Everyone flying on an inbound long-haul flight to the United States is forced to hand over excessively large amounts of liquids and gels and put the small amounts permitted into separate plastic bags, yet the no-fly guy’s material for bomb-making sails through undetected.

This time the last line of defense worked. Next time, the paradise-seeking jihadist might get lucky and find himself sitting next to, say, Charlie Sheen, too immersed in a lengthy treatise on how 9/11 was an inside job to notice the smoldering socks in the next seat; or to the same kind of nothing-to-see-here crowd who thought Major Hasan’s e-mails were “consistent with his research interests”.

Question: Do these videos illustrate an eerie connection between Charlie Sheen’s 9/11 Truth claims and North Carolina’s rogue helicopter problem? If not, which of these guys is more batshit insane?

I’m glad we’ve got our best man on the case.

I was going to suggest such a meeting would be beneath the office of the President, but didn’t Obama invite somebody from terminally pre-revenue Twitter to advise him on economic policy?

Interesting that Lt. Harley has been silent on the war in Iraq, given his own history in the region:

UPDATE: Greg Gutfeld has more on Topper.

But look, I love Sheen simply being Sheen. He is a man unencumbered by self-awareness. Think about it: The world’s most famous clueless druggie, gambling-addicted whore-banger thinks he’s uncovered a conspiracy – and we should all believe him.

How cute is that?

When I made the post about Arianna Huffington’s new project, I wasn’t aware that Maggie Gyllenhaal had said only days earlier that America was to blame for 9/11. Here’s the quote:

“I think what’s good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such a subtle, open, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated than just ‘Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for them,’ because I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way and so I think the delicacy with which it’s dealt with allows that to sort of creep in.”

And here is the video.

I think it’s hilarious how frequently these celebrities use words such as “subtle,” “delicate,” and “complicated,” to describe their own convoluted worldview, and yet how easily they ascribe “reprehensible” actions to the USA. Where is that cool, detached objectivity when it comes to the nation which– largely through the sacrifice of people younger than you, Maggie– guarantees your freedom to absolutely shit on it?

For all these celebrities’ emphasis on nuance (whether in pretending to be other people or in condemning the USA), their political arguments do not contain much detail. How are we supposed to argue against Maggie Gyllenhaal? By enunciating every single non-reprehensible action of the USA? That doesn’t seem very practical. If all they ever do is issue vague indictments such as “America has done reprehensible things” or “Bush is evil,” how can we ever have an intelligent debate about anything?

One more thing, Maggie. I read that you grew up on the Lower East Side. I can’t be certain how or if you were actually affected by the terrorist attacks on Manhattan, but I am guessing that because the World Trade Center was populated by people in business, finance, etc., and not wealthy bohemian pseudo-intellectuals, you and yours did not know suffer the same loss that other New Yorkers did.