A Victim of the Media
Her oscar speech has for many years been used by the media to portray her as some sort of nazi-jew hater. And I, and im sure many others too, just accepted this. Untill that is, I recently saw that 'infamous' speech. I was shocked. Not by the speech, but how ridiculously overblown the hoo-hah was surrounding it. All she said was thank you to the Academy for not 'being intimidated by the threats of small bunch of zionist hoodlums' - the hoodlums, shes talking about, were the thugs outside threatening the Academy, Vanessa's life and burning effigy if they dared to honour her for her astounding acting performance. She has EVERY RIGHT to acknowledge them and call those terrorists 'hoodlums.' Why then has the media portrayed as some sort of nazi? when SHE was the victim. She, like many others including leftwing Jews, does not agree with the actions of the Zionist movement. Does this mean its ok to label someone a nazi? to malign them all these years? She receieved a small boo when she acknowledged them in the crowd. But when she made her pledge to continue to fight against anti-semitism and facism, she recieved a huge round of applause. WHY WAS THIS NOT RECORDED IN THE MEDIA? I feel angry at having held such a false view because i passively believed what the media, with its all hidden agendas, led me to believe of this astonishing actress.
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