George Clooney Slams Daily Mail for ‘Fabricated’ Story About Fiancée’s Mom
The Daily Mail — where, as one scribe put it just yesterday, “reporting a fake story means never saying sorry” — came under attack Wednesday morning by Three Kings star George Clooney, who accused the British rag of fabricating a story in which the mother of his fiancée Amal Alamuddin has been “telling half of Beirut” she disapproved of her daughter’s impending marriage on religious grounds.
“None of the story is factually true,” Clooney wrote in the USA Today. “Amal’s mother is not Druze. She has not been to Beirut since Amal and I have been dating, and she is in no way against the marriage.”
But that’s all beside the point, Clooney continued:
This lie involves larger issues. The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal.
[snip] The Daily Mail, more than any other organization that calls itself news, has proved time and time again that facts make no difference in the articles they make up. And when they put my family and my friends in harm’s way, they cross far beyond just a laughable tabloid and into the arena of inciting violence.
Rumors that Michael Clayton is totally underrated went unconfirmed at press time.
[h/t USA Today]
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