Frankly I found the original Washington Post story so confusingly written I couldn’t figure out what to think. Then I caught the video last night on TV and, truth be told, didn’t think it was such a big deal. His “welcome to America” line seemed like standard boilerplate in the context of his preceding statement about Hollywood. Garance at Tapped has a pretty detailed discussion of the whole thing which gives me reason to rethink that interpretation. But my enduring view is that Allen is not as sharp as some of us would like, and whatever he meant, he was probably right to apologize and put the thing behind him.