“Nick Vallelonga, the Golden Globe-winning writer of the critically acclaimed drama ‘Green Book,’ has apologized for a 2015 tweet containing a false, Islamophobic statement.”
The wording is true to form for Leftist propagandist CNN, but were Vallelonga’s words really “Islamophobic”?
In the tweet, sent to then-candidate Donald Trump, Vallelonga claimed he saw “Muslims in Jersey City cheering” when the World Trade Center towers collapsed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Vallelonga’s Twitter account was deleted after the tweet resurfaced this week.
So did Vallelonga flat-out lie to malign Muslims when he tweeted out what he saw? Or did he perhaps think he saw cheering that was not really happening? Strange. But Vallelonga sure followed up with what Leftists and Muslim lobbies such as CAIR want: he sank into dhimmitude, as most people do when bullied by the Islamic lobby-Leftist alliance, and groveled, pleading for forgiveness. At that point, truth be damned.
Donald Trump back in 2015 was also lambasted by the Leftist media for reporting that he, too, saw cheering, only, Trump didn’t back down (no surprise!):
Trump said he was getting an “unbelievable response” from “hundreds” of people who told him they also saw televised Muslim celebrations of the 11 September 2001 attacks in Manhattan.
“I saw it. So many people saw it. And, so, why would I take it back? I’m not going to take it back,” said Trump.
In a revealing followup, Breitbart provided nine pieces of documentation that vindicated Trump’s claim of Muslims celebrating 9/11, including a “CBS News report about “swarms of suspects” cheering 9/11 from rooftops. Vallelonga should have stood by his statement.
“Green Book” writer apologizes after anti-Muslim tweet surfaces,” by Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, January 11, 2019:
(CNN)Nick Vallelonga, the Golden Globe-winning writer of the critically acclaimed drama “Green Book,” has apologized for a 2015 tweet containing a false, Islamophobic statement.
In the tweet, sent to then-candidate Donald Trump, Vallelonga claimed he saw “Muslims in Jersey City cheering” when the World Trade Center towers collapsed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Vallelonga’s Twitter account was deleted after the tweet resurfaced this week.
“I want to apologize. I spent my life trying to bring this story of overcoming differences and finding common ground to the screen, and I am incredibly sorry to everyone associated with ‘Green Book,'” Vallelonga said in a statement Thursday via a representative. “I especially deeply apologize to the brilliant and kind Mahershala Ali, and all members of the Muslim faith, for the hurt I have caused.”
Ali, who stars in “Green Book” alongside Viggo Mortensen, is Muslim.
Representatives for Ali have not returned CNN’s request for comment.The movie follows the friendship between celebrated pianist Dr. Donald Shirley (Ali) and his rough-around-the-edges driver Tony Vallelonga (Mortensen).
Tony Vallelonga was Nick Vallelonga’s father.
“I am also sorry to my late father who changed so much from Dr. Shirley’s friendship and I promise this lesson is not lost on me,” Vallelonga added. “‘Green Book’ is a story about love, acceptance and overcoming barriers, and I will do better.”
“Green Book” won the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical on Sunday, but its path to accolades has encountered controversy.The film has been accused of exaggerating the pair’s friendship and criticized by some of Shirley’s surviving relatives.
Mortensen was also the target of ire when, during a post-screening discussion in November, he used the N-word while trying to draw a contrast between the period in which the film is set and present day. He later apologized….
Logic&Reason says
He knows what he saw. But he wants to keep working. Charges of “Islamophobia” can/will get you fired, especially from showbiz. Filled to the brim with willfully ignorant/craven Leftists.
Mac-101 says
Once again, Hollywood is well overrepresented among the powerful by a certain group of people. Why do THEY protect and strengthen Islam?
revereridesagain says
They are Leftists and they know who their allies are.
Attacking and compelling apologies is getting to be a regular industry with the Golden Globes. Didn’t they attack someone a couple of years ago for admitting to the crime of doing charity work in Africa while being a white male?
Mac-101 says
Don’t remember it but absurd enough to be true!
Mac-101 says
Exactly Carl. The Leftist are just useful idiots for the Globalist Elites behind the curtain.
Rufolino says
Slebs all cave-in to Moslems or Islam as soon as they see their reputations or their popularity at risk.
Makes one sick, I despise them all. The “Awards Season” is a repellent showcase for these attitudes.
“Celebrity” is beginning to stink like rotten fish. Kudos to those very rare individuals with personal integrity. In this dishonest context they are admirable.
Ned kelly says
Hundreds of people world wide commented at the time, that they saw muslims celebrating in the streets, the day it happened. It was also seen in UK streets,
gravenimage says
True.
Mac-101 says
Leftist have NO principles except for gathering Money and Power and punishing/destroying the innocent!
Logic&Reason says
Freedom of speech, thought, truth…all compromised/controlled by lies and false accusations of a Muslim Brotherhood concocted “phobia”.
Martin says
In a sense one can understand Nick Vallelonga doing the apology scene: he’s spent a very long time and a lot of effort as a writer getting Green Book up on the silver screen; this is his one big shot at success and he does not want the currently powerful PC “police,” via the social media, to start a boycott on his film and cause his greatest career moment (and chance at cashing in) to come crashing down.
Yes, grovelling is the coward’s way. If I saw Muslims cheering 911 I’d be screaming it from the roof tops and not back down – this was Nick’s moment of truth to show what type of man he truly is – but I have never had hundreds of thousands of dollars and a career (fame & fortune) riding on my publicly apologising for a truthful statement I had previously made.
If Nick Vallelonga had stuck to his guns and lost his big opportunity what value would it have been in the scheme of things when his moment of truth would be as quickly forgotten as his once promising career would be forgotten by the public? Then again at what price do you sell-out your dignity and honour?
It looks to me like Nick Vallelonga is going to have to start lying to himself in order to feel good about himself from now on.
Ginger Reagan says
Very well written. Some would say ” what worth is money, if you sell your’ soul?”, but that’s easier said than done.
I saw muslims celebrating in the streets for 9/11. It was all over the news. There are ALOT of ppl who witnessed U.S. muslims celebrating. I remember thinking WTF the next day, Obama took over the media to cry over muslims unfairly malighned. WTF? It takes 2 min. to find the footage.
gravenimage says
And Green Book has to go back decades to find something to castigate America for.
Michael Copeland says
A “false” statement?
Where does it say that?
It is Sandra Gonzalez of CNN, not Nick Vallelonga, who says this is an apology for a “false, Islamophobic statement”.
Vallelonga says he is deeply sorry “for the hurt I have caused”. He does not say his statement was false.
Television news after 9/11 had plenty of pictures of muslims in Gaza, Yemen, etc. wildly celebrating. Must all these networks now issue apologies “for the hurt caused”? It was, after all, straightforward news reporting.
No, it appears to be Sandra Gonzalez who has made the “false statement”.
somehistory says
Michael Copeland,
“a false, Islamophobic statement”
************
I read what he said a couple of times and noticed that the only place it was called false was by the CNN lie…uh, report. And included the made-up-by-by-the-oic word.
That line is totally misleading, implying that the writer of the book said it.
I was alive and cognizant on that day and I recall numerous news reports showing the candy-throwing, ululating, moslims celebrating the attack. Of course, the oic hadn’t yet come up with the foul word to describe anyone who tells the truth about islam.
A person should never apologize for telling the truth or criticizing islam or the evil actions of its adherents.
Logic&Reason says
One thing the Trump candidacy, campaign, and election has revealed: the pernicious, idiotic face of the Left. Education, media, and entertainment. Trump nailed it with FAKE NEWS.
Clear your browser history…then go to YouTube’s homepage. Their default listings are all Trump-bashers….from Colbert to CNN.
Walter Sieruk says
This man should not have apologized for what he tweeted when he posted that he saw Muslims in the State of New Jersey who were actually rejoicing that very day of September 11, 2001 then they heard about the mass murders of those jihad attacks that very same day. That he apologized for for what he posted and then apologized for what he observed the specific day showed that he must be a weak and inconsistent man who caved into social pressure from the Left. For many other people who live in New Jersey also observed Muslims celebrating those murderous jihad attacks by the forces of Islam on 9/11.
Such a vicious and malicious Islamic spirit on the part of so many Muslims ,concerning 9/11, that this extremely callous Muslim spirit is not limited only to the State of New Jersey .
For example, even further in time on the day of September 9 2016 some man I know who works as a security guard at a public place told me a Muslim actually had the nerve to walk over to him and said to him two Muslim “Jokes” about 9/11. As if it was a funny subject. It’s wrong to even try to “joke” about 9/11. Talk about bad “jokes” those two are the very much worst of all. The first was “What is the difference between September 11, 20001 and a cow?” answer “You don’t keep milking a cow after fifteen years.” Not only is that “joke” awful but those Muslims trying to be funny by say that cruel thing do have some gall because they have no room to talk . For they are still are “milking” the topic of the crusades and the crusades have been over for well more than seven hundred years. What gall they have! The second “Muslim “joke” about 9/11 is “On September 11, 2001 the people trapped on the upper floors of the WTC had ordered their pizza sent to them plane.” To say that such “humor” is terrible is an understatement. Furthermore, those Muslim who say those “jokes” are really only exposing their own sick, vicious, callous and heartless Islamic mindset.”
Furthermore, getting back to the specific above statement of this post that on September 11, 2001 “Such a vicious and malicious Islamic spirit on the part of so many Muslims ….limited only to the State of New Jersey.”
For on September 11,2001 many Muslims rejoiced in different countries around the world then they found about the outcome of those al Qaeda jihad attacks in which so many people died . They were so glad and happy about all those people who died in such terrible ways. The reason they felt so happy with joy is because ,as the Bible explains such people have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. {K.J.V.] For them that “hot iron” is Islam
mortimer says
Nick Vallelonga can WHITEWASH ISLAMIC TERROR all he wants, but it will not destroy the five dangerous doctrines that cause ISLAMIC TERRORISM: 1) Al Walaa wal Baraa hatred directed against non-Muslims) 2) Taqiyya (sacred lying) 3) Taqlid (regimented group-think) 4) Islamic supremacism 5) Homicidal Islamic vigilantism against blasphemers, verbal opponents of Islam and apostates.
mortimer says
SEE NO ISLAMIC TERRORISM … if you see it and report the TERRORISM, you are a bigot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404
Walter Sieruk says
This report ,on this site , is a strong reminder that many Muslims in different towns and cities in many countries around the world did, in fact , celebrate when they discovered on the day of September 11, 2001,about all the people who died in vicious and murderous jihad attacks. Such callous and outright maliciousness is , indeed despicable.
Still, many Muslims do make the claim ,at least in lip service , that they do respect the Old Testament book of Proverbs of the Bible. Therefore regarding this professed “respect” and also that many of those same Muslims rejoiced in celebration at the horrible disaster that came upon all those people on 911 because of those Islamic terror attacks .
It thus should be known that Old Testament book of Proverbs ,in 17:5 , teaches “He who is glad a calamity will not go unpunished .” [N.K.J.V.]
Truth says
Islam is evil
FYI says
And the Hollyweird Golden Crescent Dhimmi of the year award goes to….goes to….Nick Vallelonga…for his Oscar winning performance in the role of the virtue-signalling Lenny Leftard …..in the fake “islamophobia” saga …currently on show on all major News Networks..
gravenimage says
Golden Globe-winning writer apologizes for “Islamophobic” tweet that revealed he saw NJ Muslims cheering 9-11
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Local news stations reported it at the time, as well–were they also “islamophobic”?
Here are some credible reports:
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/exclusive_jersey_city_cop_residents_say_some_musli.html
The only thing Trump may possibly have been off on were the numbers.
No Muzzies Here says
They did cheer in the streets. This whole thing is an example of how the left, in close collaboration with the media, acts to suppress truth and to present to the public a total fabrication instead of reality.
ljarvik says
Thank you for posting this…now I don’t have to see “The Green Book.” You just saved me the price of a ticket.
scherado says
…and there are so many people then and now who thought that the USA “deserved” what it got.
Michael Roderick says
Everyone knows that 9/11 was a George Bush/ Mossad/Halliburton conspiracy to provide a justification for invading Iraq via Afghanistan and stealing all of its oil. Muslims dancing in the streets were all PAID ACTORS..
gravenimage says
What a load of vicious crap from “Michael Roderick”.
Is he also saying that all those 34,000+ Jihad terror attacks have also been George Bush, Halliburton, and the Jooooooos? Bad dhimmis!
b.a. freeman says
😀
+1