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In reply to the discussion: Oliver Stone agrees: The Maidan Square riots were just another CIA coup. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)34. Where does it say what you wrote?
Oliver Stone Controversy
By BROOKS BARNES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: July 26, 2010
Oliver Stone found himself the catalyst of an online brush fire on Monday after he made comments published in The Sunday Times of London that were interpreted as anti-Semitic. In an interview with The Times to promote his documentary South of the Border, which is about South American politics, Mr. Stone defended Hitler. Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein, he said. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support. Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people. Mr. Stone then proceeded to discuss what he called the Jewish domination of the media, adding with an expletive that Israel had messed up United States foreign policy for years. Bloggers quickly picked up on the comments, and the American Jewish Committee issued a news release condemning him. By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite, the committees executive director, David Harris, said in the release. Mr. Stone, whose next Hollywood movie, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, will be released by 20th Century Fox on Sept. 24, has stirred controversy with his comments in this arena before. In January the director told a gathering of television critics that Hitler is an easy scapegoat while discussing his Showtime nonfiction mini-series, Secret History of America. At that time the Simon Wiesenthal Center harshly rebuked him for the remarks. A spokesman for Mr. Stone was not immediately available to comment.
By BROOKS BARNES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: July 26, 2010
Oliver Stone found himself the catalyst of an online brush fire on Monday after he made comments published in The Sunday Times of London that were interpreted as anti-Semitic. In an interview with The Times to promote his documentary South of the Border, which is about South American politics, Mr. Stone defended Hitler. Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein, he said. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support. Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people. Mr. Stone then proceeded to discuss what he called the Jewish domination of the media, adding with an expletive that Israel had messed up United States foreign policy for years. Bloggers quickly picked up on the comments, and the American Jewish Committee issued a news release condemning him. By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite, the committees executive director, David Harris, said in the release. Mr. Stone, whose next Hollywood movie, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, will be released by 20th Century Fox on Sept. 24, has stirred controversy with his comments in this arena before. In January the director told a gathering of television critics that Hitler is an easy scapegoat while discussing his Showtime nonfiction mini-series, Secret History of America. At that time the Simon Wiesenthal Center harshly rebuked him for the remarks. A spokesman for Mr. Stone was not immediately available to comment.
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Oliver Stone agrees: The Maidan Square riots were just another CIA coup. [View all]
another_liberal
Dec 2014
OP
If you can't believe everything to come out of Hollywood, what can you believe?
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2014
#2
If "being a tool" is grounds for dismissal, we ought to just roll up DU and go home
Scootaloo
Dec 2014
#17
And Putin has a history of manipulating nations against the will of their people, even violently so?
MattSh
Dec 2014
#66
Last I checked, the CIA was piping food up prisoner's asses and getting called "patriots" for it
Scootaloo
Dec 2014
#18
Last time I checked, those actions occurred during the Bush Administration...
brooklynite
Dec 2014
#23
People protesting the reversal of a major foreign/economic policy. That must be a CIA plot.
pampango
Dec 2014
#9
"... this underhanded intervention in the internal affairs of another sovereign country."
pampango
Dec 2014
#14
He says Hitler and Stalin are just misunderstood and the Jews are preventing an "honest discussion"
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#26
When someone starts ranting about "Jewish domination of the media?" Sure. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#44
No, I don't. To his credit, he apologized for those remarks, very sincerely.
NuclearDem
Dec 2014
#47
It reminds me of the uproar over Hannah Arendt's observation about Hitler's henchmen.
Octafish
Dec 2014
#41
But it's okay this time because it fits a pre-selected narrative, you see. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#45
Mere foreigners can never have any agency of their own. It's all the US. Oy. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#43
And I'll bet these guys agree with Oliver Stone. You know..."birds of a feather" & all.....
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2014
#50
It is indeed. He really hearts Putin, and I'm learning that Stone likes him a lot too.
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2014
#54