And the Oscar for Most Dishonest Performance By a Spoiled Expatriate American Actress Trying to Dig Herself Out of a Public Relations Hole goes to . . . Gwyneth Paltrow.

Over the weekend, the international press sent out word that Paltrow had trashed her native country during a press event in Spain.

"I love the English lifestyle, it's not as capitalistic as America. People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner," the Shallow Gal was quoted as telling NS, the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias. "I like living here because I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans," the 34-year-old reportedly mused.

After creating a global furor, Paltrow crawled to People magazine for help in covering her scrawny intellectual assets. The publication's website claimed the actress was misquoted and that she would neeeeever say anything negative about America.

"First of all I feel so lucky to be American. When you look at the rest of the world, we're so lucky, and that's something my dad always instilled in me," People quoted Paltrow explaining. "I feel so proud to be American." Summoning up all her method acting lessons from past tearful acceptance award speeches, Paltrow emoted: "I felt so upset to be completely misconstrued, and I never, ever would have said that."

Never, ever?

The oh-so-wronged actress has, in fact, been reciting from an unambiguous anti-American script for years.

In January 2006, as I noted on my blog over the weekend (http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006470.htm), the British newspaper the Guardian quoted Paltrow snubbing America in nearly identical language. Same old, same old: Continued...