Jihad Watch recently reported about Golden Globe-winning writer Nick Vallelonga apologizing for his “Islamophobic” tweet that revealed he saw New Jersey Muslims cheering 9/11. As absurd as it was to see Vallelonga lie to himself and to the world in order to appease dhimmi Leftists and Islamic supremacists, the situation escalated fast and shows how far Hollywood culture (which has a significant impact on American culture) has descended into Sharia adherence. It wasn’t enough of an appeasement for Vallelonga to apologize and withdraw the tweet. It was subsequently announced that Vallelonga would not attend the Critics’ Choice Awards, “or have much of a presence at all on the awards circuit for the rest of this season.” This is despite the fact that Green Book was nominated for seven Critics’ Choice Awards.
Even Participant Media, which produced Green Book, threw Vallelonga under the bus. It “released a statement of its own: ‘We find Mr. Vallelonga’s Twitter post offensive, dangerous and antithetical to Participant Media’s values. We reject it in no uncertain terms.'”
Shameful.
“‘Green Book’ Screenwriter Won’t Attend Critics’ Choice Awards Amid Fallout From Anti-Muslim Tweet (Exclusive),” The Hollywood Reporter, January 11, 2019:
Nick Vallelonga, one of Oscar hopeful Green Book’s screenwriters and producers, will not attend Sunday’s Critics’ Choice Awards, or have much of a presence at all on the awards circuit for the rest of this season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Vallelonga, 59, whose father, Tony Lip, is portrayed by Viggo Mortensen in the film (opposite Mahershala Ali’s Don Shirley), won a Golden Globe on Sunday night when the film was awarded best screenplay. The film also picked up a Globe for best picture (musical or comedy), and Ali won the supporting actor Globe.
However, Vallelonga has been under fire since Wednesday, following the resurfacing of a 2015 tweet in which he addressed a tweet to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump about a debunked conspiracy theory: “100% correct. Muslims in Jersey City cheering when towers went down. I saw it, as you did, possibly on local CBS news.”
Vallelonga subsequently deleted the tweet — and his Twitter account — before issuing a statement in which he said: “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. I especially deeply apologize to the brilliant and kind Mahershala Ali, and all members of the Muslim faith, for the hurt I have caused. 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. Green Book is a story about love, acceptance and overcoming barriers, and I will do better.”
Participant Media, which produced Green Book, released a statement of its own: “We find Mr. Vallelonga’s Twitter post offensive, dangerous and antithetical to Participant Media’s values. We reject it in no uncertain terms.”
Green Book is nominated for seven Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday — best picture (Vallelonga, Farrelly, Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler and Brian Currie), best director (Farrelly), best actor (Mortensen), best supporting actor (Ali), best screenplay (Vallelonga, Currie and Farrelly), best score (Kris Bowers) and best actor in a comedy (Mortensen).
James Hilborn says
We all saw it. Oddly enough, the group I saw on TV were on a rooftop, as if they knew what was going to happen. We also saw crowds of Muslims in the Mideast dancing in the street.
gravenimage says
Yes.
lb4t says
Yes, I saw it.
Henry Mansfield says
I listened to the events of 9-11-01 unfold over a work radio, came home and watched footage on TV of Muslims celebrating the attack.
There’s a problem in saying so? There’s definitely no problem with my memory of it.
Michael Copeland says
It is “antithetical to Participant Media’s values” to say that Participant Media has no clothes.
revereridesagain says
It was reported fairly widely in the media. The cover-up since then has been blatant.
Helen Hodge Hesketh says
I don’t understand. Was he lying when he said he saw Muslims cheering? If he really saw it, why would he apologize for stating the truth.
Joe says
“Professional” journalists only report the truth, if it promotes their agenda.
Martin says
“I want to apologize…I especially deeply apologize to…all members of the Muslim faith, for the hurt I have caused…”
This man feeling the need to grovel during what should be his finest moment of (a now ended) stardom is sickening.
Where are those videos of Muslims cheering in New Jersey (or anywhere else in the USA) as they saw the Twin Towers fall? Is that video lost down a memory hole? It needs to be shown again so that people do not have to keep apologising, or have their careers ruined, for saying what they saw on TV.
Apologising to Muslims for what was seen during 911 is NOT the way to go. We NEED to see that video to prove that Muslims were cheering America’s worst terrorist attack.
Where is that video!?
Al Lariv says
Nick Vallelonga is perfectly right. There are several videos of Muslims cheering as the buildings fell.
DanC says
Looks like the West has features straight from Orwell’s 1984! 🙁 Now we’re suppose to correct our collective memory?!? Otherwise, what? we’re reprimanded by the politically correct leaders?
AOC recently said one of the most stupid things of the century: it’s better to be morally right than factually correct. Unfortunately, no matter how idiotic this is, it’s today’s reality. The Media and Academia go berserk towards this approach. And our kids are educated with this poison.
Rarely says
There are always nut cases. I’m much more concerned about the lack of a cohesive response from the muslim leadership in the U.S. condemning the 9/11 atrocity. Although the muslim community carries no collective guilt for the “event”, a wholesale condemnation would have been appropriate and perhaps even a little reassuring. The lack of it causes concerns of where sympathies may actually lie.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Muslims supporting violent Jihad are not “nutcases”–this is mainstream Islam.
Michael R says
There is no “collective guilt” for islamic victories among muslims. Your paradigm is completely wrong.
Ashley says
Many witnesses, including law enforcement, reported the cheering.
Nick Vallelonga should never have apologized for his tweet…his eyes did not betray him.
The media squelched and/or destroyed the videos.
Although grainy and scratchy this clip touches on the matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlmPLX3WSZg
gravenimage says
Thank you, Ashley.
Or Else! says
I heard Limbaugh say today that there’s also a movement to have “Green Book” exempted from Oscar nominations, as it depicts a white man looking good in the face of racism towards blacks. Yeah, can’t have that.
Typical Democrat/Leftist nonsense. Do they even stop to think that the Jim Crow legislators, the KKK, the segregationists, etc….were all southern DEMOCRATS?
Or Else! says
…with support of the northern Democrats?
Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslims were cheering the mass murders committed by the jihadist on September 11, 2001 because the vicious god of Islam gave the instruction found in the Quran , which teaches in Surah 9:123. “O you who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers who are close to you and let them fond harshness in you…” Using guns and hand grenades are a very effective way of showing those non-Muslims in Paris much “harshness.” Likewise there are other places in the Quran the teach violence and killing. As in 4:89. 5:33, 9:5,111. Furthermore on Middle Eastern television it was recorded that Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah count them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed. [1]
. The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundred of them…”[2]
Moreover, the Quran reads “When ye encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads, until ye have made great slaughter among them. …” Surah 47:4 let’s face it using firearms and bombs as the jihadists did on that specific day can sure make a greater slaughter “slaughter among them” than a sword a can.
In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Quran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach “by their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [NKJV]
Thus are the fruits of Islam.
[1] The disc documentary OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’s AGAINST THE WEST
[2] THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: THE WHOLE STORY OF MAN by H.G. Wells
Ed Artis says
Spot on
Walter Sieruk says
Those jihadists of al Qaeda who schemed and carried out that murderous Islamic terror attacks on September 11, 2001. and with the Muslim terror chiefs,as KSM who backed , supported and schemed with them to committed the sin unto God and crime against humankind is an example of the evil of Islam .
As concerning those cheering Muslims, on 9/11, when they discovered those mass murderous affronts 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
Related to all this is 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.”
Henry Mansfield says
He’d have never gotten the chance to tell me the second of the two ‘jokes’.
dan christensen says
Maybe “The House Committee on Un-American Activities” from the 1950’s is rising from its grave. Back then the committee hunted ‘communists’ to death, both real and imagined.
Soon it will be Un-american to hold islam in contempt. Exchange ‘communists’ with ‘islamophobes’ and the persecution of American citizens, who loves their democracy and country more than they love “sharia law”, will restart.
On September 11, 2001 young male muslims all over the world were driving around the city streets, waving flags from various muslim countries; barking, shouting and howling in arabic of joy. Eternal shame on the primitive dogs – payback could some day occur!
Ashley says
On September 11, 2001 young male muslims all over the world were driving around the city streets, waving flags from various muslim countries; barking, shouting and howling in arabic of joy.
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Indeed, Dan. I’ve seen such videos.
I believe the big question is whether there was cheering and dancing witnessed in Jersey City and other neighboring areas on the heels of the attack.
GreekEmpress says
Muslims were cheering in the cafeteria of the company I worked for on 9/11.
Why does anybody bother to apologize for what they saw with their own eyes?
We’re going to end up like Europe, where a woman (Sweden, I think) was charged for reporting she saw Muslims setting fires to cars. (Which they were.)
gravenimage says
Frightening.
somehistory says
This is also concerning a “tweet”….otherwise, kind of OT, re: rep omar and a tweet she made that was a dirty lie.
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/threatened-with-libel-charges-rep-ilhan-omar-deletes-tweets-ignorant-hateful-tweets-about-covington-students/
gravenimage says
Golden Globe-winning writer banned from awards circuit for “Islamophobic” tweet saying he saw Muslims cheering 9/11
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This is appalling–this was widely reported at the time.
Gamaliel Isaac says
You can see the Muslims celebrations of 9/11 at thoughts-everything.com/jihadpages/stopImportingHate.htm . Scroll down to the video titled American Muslims Celebrate 9/11. If you scroll down from there you see videos of former mayor Giuliani, former police commissioner Bernard Kerik, Howard Stern, Dan Rather and CBS confirming it happened. Keep scrolling and you’ll see information about British Muslim celebrations of 9/11. Keep going and you’ll see more and more confirmation.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.
Florette Small says
I saw them also…I think the TV showed Brooklyn & Muslims (dressed the way Muslims dress) were cheering the 9/11 catastrophe
Michael R says
Cowardice ! The new favorite hobby !