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Not defending Altman here, but these are obviously old comments reported as if they are current. (If he was filming Gosford Park these were certainly made pre-9/11.

You are wrong.

"I am a political person," Altman says, "but I don't have to put a strong debate into a film. This present government in America I just find disgusting, the idea that George Bush could run a baseball team successfully -he can't even speak! I just find him an embarrassment. I was over here when the election was on and I couldn't believe it -and I'm 76 years old. Then when the Supreme Court came in and turned out to be a totally political animal, the last shred of any naivety that was left in me has gone. When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke."
An enraged Altman suddenly checks himself, aware that he is on sensitive ground in our post-September 11 world. But, controversially, he thinks that Hollywood may have inspired the World Trade Centre attacks. "We gave them the ideas -it was a movie," he fumes. "We should be ashamed of ourselves."
Altman also disagrees with bombing Afghanistan, even though he flew B-24 bombers in the South Pacific during the Second World War. "I don't think there was a moral choice then," he argues. "But this thing we're involved in now - these people don't even have a country, and maybe that's the problem."

from The Times (London) January 21, 2002, Monday

Now apologize to everyone on this thread for presenting false information.

Now apologize to everyone on this thread for presenting false information.

Lighten up, junior.

I stand corrected, as I didn't have time to read the entire article. I was merely focusing on the time frame given that the report stated that Altman was making "Gosford Park" and I could have gone to my local theater a week and a half ago to see the finished movie. (and could have seen it in Manhattan long before that.)

I never disputed that Altman was a jerk. However, this is still sloppy reporting.