2008 Woodie Awards
Oscar winning actress Cotillard expresses belief in 9/11 conspiracy theories
World Views editor Duffy expresses disapointment over statements
Evan Evan Duffy
Issue date: 3/6/08 Section: World Views
In a February 2007 interview on France's "Paris Premiere" program, Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard ( shared her suspicions of a September 11 conspiracy theory. "I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said in the interview, "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? [There] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."
In addition, Cotillard, who recently won an Oscar for her leading role in La Vie En Rose, claimed that the World Trade Center was in need of extensive repair work. "It was a money-sucker because [the towers] were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-ate all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, then destroying [the towers]."
So, to recap: Cotillard suggests that the US government fabricated the September 11 attacks because the World Trade Centers were outdated, and instead of funding major renovations, it was cheaper and easier for the US government to stage a terrorist attack against its own people.
Apparently Cotillard has a black-and-white definition of "expensive." What about the 2,974 innocent, hard-working Americans that were killed during the attacks? Many of these men and women worked in the World Trade Center, where their daily efforts at work and in their personal lives, at least in my opinion, were far more valuable than any renovation funds. Though the Bush administration has certainly made some errors in judgment over the past eight years, I have too much respect for the Presidency, as the head of our government, to believe that Bush, or any of his advisors, ever acted in such a way that would cause direct harm to the American people.
That being said, it is the President's job to protect and uphold the interests of the country as a whole. In this way, we can assess Cotillard's comments in a different light. Cotillard has maintained, since the interview was leaked to the American press, that she did not mean to deny the horror of September 11, nor that it actually happened. Instead, Cotillard maintains that she simply does not believe everything she's told, including existing conspiracy theories. She says that she would rather carefully examine conspiracy theories than automatically embrace public opinion.
In addition, Cotillard, who recently won an Oscar for her leading role in La Vie En Rose, claimed that the World Trade Center was in need of extensive repair work. "It was a money-sucker because [the towers] were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-ate all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, then destroying [the towers]."
So, to recap: Cotillard suggests that the US government fabricated the September 11 attacks because the World Trade Centers were outdated, and instead of funding major renovations, it was cheaper and easier for the US government to stage a terrorist attack against its own people.
Apparently Cotillard has a black-and-white definition of "expensive." What about the 2,974 innocent, hard-working Americans that were killed during the attacks? Many of these men and women worked in the World Trade Center, where their daily efforts at work and in their personal lives, at least in my opinion, were far more valuable than any renovation funds. Though the Bush administration has certainly made some errors in judgment over the past eight years, I have too much respect for the Presidency, as the head of our government, to believe that Bush, or any of his advisors, ever acted in such a way that would cause direct harm to the American people.
That being said, it is the President's job to protect and uphold the interests of the country as a whole. In this way, we can assess Cotillard's comments in a different light. Cotillard has maintained, since the interview was leaked to the American press, that she did not mean to deny the horror of September 11, nor that it actually happened. Instead, Cotillard maintains that she simply does not believe everything she's told, including existing conspiracy theories. She says that she would rather carefully examine conspiracy theories than automatically embrace public opinion.
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