Oh, Meryl. — Page 4

I want a Namo TV show. I'm cackling over here.

I knew it. Click bait articles are the worst.

Well, damn, that's a good lesson to me to not jump on the bandwagon until we... know why the... horses are behind the carts..? I'm not good with metaphors. But it's definitely a lesson not to presume the first thing we read about a story is the most accurate. In this case, Meryl doesn't require forgiveness, she didn't say anything wrong. Mea culpa.

Updated On: 2/22/16 at 01:26 AM

FindingNamo said: "You can edit it! It won't be at all what Dave does when he goes back and reconstructs his posts others have already replied to!"

The dumbest part about this comment is the fact that I never edit the content of my posts. Only when I discover a spelling mistake.

So when I tell you to read back, because I have already completely destroyed your argument in a previous post, and you seem to be surprised when you read back, because you seem to read it for the first time, doesn't mean it's new. Which is even dumber, because then what were you actually reacting on in the first place.

I have had many discussions with you, where you literally showed you didn't read it, even after I explained the point to you 3 times.

The dumbest part about this comment is anything posted by Dave 19.

You don't understand how statistics work.

Oh, so you're part of the "elite establishment" who wants to tell us "everyday" folk how to think because you've got an "education", right?

Contrary to distorted reporting, no one at that press conference addressed a question to me about the racial makeup of the jury. I did not "defend" the "all-white jury," nor would I, if I had been asked to do so. Inclusion -- of races, genders, ethnicities and religions -- is important to me, as I stated at the outset of the press conference.

In a longwinded answer to a different question asked of me by an Egyptian reporter concerning the film from Tunisia, Arab/African culture, and my familiarity with Arab films specifically, I said I had seen and loved Theeb, and Timbuktu, but admitted, "I don't know very much about, honestly, the Middle East, ...and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. And the thing I notice is that we're all -- I mean there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture, and after all, we're all from Africa originally, you know? We're all Berliners, we're all Africans, really."

I was not minimizing difference, but emphasizing the invisible connection empathy enables, a thing so central to the fact of being human, and what art can do: convey another person's experience. To be in Berlin is to see proof that walls don't work.

I do defend all the choices the jury made. This is work we took very seriously. I hope the press will shower Yang Chao, Lav Diaz, Mohamed Ben Attia, Gianfranco Rosi and the other artists we honored with as much energetic attention as that directed at my misconstrued remarks. Their work is newsworthy, and deserves celebration. It reflects a diversity of place, race, viewpoint and humanity that should not be invisible in America.

Setting the Record Straight from Berlin

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Racist

No, heifer, we're just talking about you.

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