Zooey Deschanel Vs. LA Times' Patt Morrison: Round Two

Yesterday we wrote about how the LA Times' Patt Morrison took actress Zooey Deschanel to task for comments that seemed to denigrate Downtown Los Angeles.

In a post on her website, Deschanel fired back with three main points--first, that she was misquoted, second, that she loves LA, and third, that Morrison lacks journalistic integrity. Deschanel's friends and fans have expressed overwhelming support for her.

Glee's Lea Michele tweeted at Deschanel,

@therealzooeyd you seriously rock..read your response letter on @hellogiggles and I must say you are a smart, witty, and awesome lady.

The Office's Mindy Kaling wrote,

@therealzooeyd you my friend, were the victim of a lazy person on a slow news day. LAME!

Deschanel herself expressed solidarity with Jonah Hill, of Superbad fame. Since Hill had been misquoted by EW at the same event, Deschanel tweeted,

@jonahhill You're not the only one! Half the stuff I said last night was taken completely out of context.

After this outpouring of publicity, Morrison has responded, albeit somewhat indirectly, to the actress' complaints.

In Morrison's new piece, Deschanel is no longer a snobby cow, but a "talented and charming actress." Despite this 180, Morrison never once writes the words, "I'm sorry" or "I apologize." The journalist defends her previous comments, explaining that a check of voter registration records placed Deschanel in the Pacific Palisades, as if the claim that she lives on the West Side explains everything. The final line of her article offers a weak attempt at friendliness:

I hope Deschanel will head back to greater downtown L.A. one of these days. The vegetarian breakfasts at the Homegirl Cafe? I can't recommend them enough.

Comments

[kathy skochko]

04:14 PM on 07/17/2011

sowhat if she did bad mouth downtown LA it was a toilet 30 years ago and is way worse now. Too man bums voting themselves a pay raise

[DeeEmm1]

07:09 PM on 07/13/2011

I grew up 5 minutes west of Downtown. It is a dump. Now excuse me while I use the LA Times to pick up dog poo, that's the only thing that newspaper is good for.

[13champlain]

02:50 PM on 07/13/2011

She is a strange girl. That's not a bad thing.

[Ampoliros]

11:54 AM on 07/13/2011

I was madly in love with Zooey till she married Fail Cab. Why? WHY?

She ran me back to Anne Hathaway

[FZliveson]

11:54 AM on 07/13/2011

I think Zooey has a chance to follow in the footsteps of Debra Winger, her co-star in "Eulogy."
It is more than a coincidence that Deschanel looks and sounds a good bit like Winger.

I will never read anything Morrison writes again after I read;

"In the article, Morrison called Deschanel a "snobby cow" 

If Zooey Deschanel is a cow than I am proud to be an admirer of the bovine species.
Morrison- - you are a sewer trout!

[SkyCap]

12:48 PM on 07/13/2011

Indeed, sewer trout are terrible...too many bones.

[kathy skochko]

04:17 PM on 07/17/2011

Deschanel is sonot like winger , and way better looking.

[FZliveson]

05:53 PM on 07/17/2011

You are so incorrect. Deschanel has a sultry kind of charisma that Winger used to her advantage. Deschanel has some excellent acting abilities and a sense of righteousness; both of which contributed to Winger's great success. What other film star had a movie named after them as did Debra Winger; "Searching for Debra Winger"?

Deschanel is not much better looking than Winger was in Officer and a Gentleman. Beauty goes deeper than skin and eyes. Winger had just as good a body.

[pokypaul86]

11:40 AM on 07/13/2011

Downtown LA is depressing, other cities downtowns have made much greater strides to be livable and visitable, just look 100 miles south to San Diego.

[cameron d]

11:38 AM on 07/13/2011

Man, she's adorable.

[skylover]

11:36 AM on 07/13/2011

Oh, Zooey...don't go away mad. Just go away.

[SkyCap]

12:49 PM on 07/13/2011

Look, I could understand if she isn't everything under the sun for you...but what bugs you so much about her that she just needs to go away. Is her presence in the celebrity sphere really hurting you?

[Recalled]

10:47 AM on 07/13/2011

Downtown LA is a disgusting pit off homeless people. LA could careless about the human zombies that roam the streets entering business and harassing foreign tourists. LA should be ashamed of itself for preferring to ticket jay walkers instead of assisting those digging out of trash cans.

[casskiru]

08:13 PM on 07/13/2011

This really surprises me about LA - America's SECOND city, after NYC. :)

What's the deal there LA? We in NYC took care of that problem long, long ago

Wait, now that I think of it, we just carted poor homeless and disturbed people off to private
institutions with no accountability where they wandered the halls, treated like animals, among other "admirable" solutions to the problem.

Animals shouldn't be treated that way either.

Still we got "them" off the streets and no one imagines that those in power in LA or NYC really cares about these people, so yeah at least we manage to make them disappear so LA, come on now....... get your act together.

[thesadtruthliveson]

10:23 AM on 07/13/2011

her music is horrible but id still hit it.

[chi01]

10:31 AM on 07/13/2011

She sings like Kermit the frog, but she's pretty hot.

[skylover]

11:35 AM on 07/13/2011

Fanned! I, too, hear Kermie when she sings. She, however, seems to think she sounds like angels...

[casskiru]

08:15 PM on 07/13/2011

Whether or not she would "hit" you is something else altogether.

[thesadtruthliveson]

09:30 AM on 07/14/2011

im pretty sure she would hit me but most likely with her car.

[Southern Yankee]

09:42 AM on 07/13/2011

Downtown LA is not Disneyland or Hollywood. It really does sort of suck. It's like everyone left town and forgot to turn the lights out.

[Dattucha]

10:43 AM on 07/13/2011

oh yeah cuz hollywood is all clean and shiny - in complete contrast from DT. what're you talking about? do you even live in LA? DT has come a loooong way.

[Recalled]

10:48 AM on 07/13/2011

Agree. Downtown LA is one of the worst examples of US poverty.

[lawrence of america]

12:02 PM on 07/13/2011

youve never been to detroit

[JoeMentia]

09:40 AM on 07/13/2011

How cute is she? Even cuter now that I know she's got some fight in her.

[Mafdet]

08:49 AM on 07/13/2011

I liked Zooey before but I like her a bit more now. We have become a society that has raised apathy to a virtue. When people insult us, we say that rather than confront them, we will "take the high road." When they lie to us we apologize for contributing to the "communication problem." When they commit fraud for a decade on a global scale we refer to it as "excessive risk taking" and excuse it by saying "we were all living beyond our means..." It is always nice to see someone take the incompetent and unprincipled to task.

[MorallyChallenged]

08:43 AM on 07/13/2011

Sounds like Morrison is ready for a national news media gig.

[sergal stew]

10:26 AM on 07/13/2011

Perfect. ;-)

[Michell Guzmn Talbot]

01:13 PM on 07/13/2011

Maybe Glenn Beck's slot...

[TopDog]

08:19 AM on 07/13/2011

TopDog wonders...do you like her better as a blonde or brunette?