Posted on 12/31/2016 11:16:58 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Oliver Stone is warning of Cold War-like hysteria over claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind hacking in order to give Donald Trump an advantage over Hillary Clinton.
In an essay titled “The Russians Are Coming” posted on his Facebook page, Stone acknowledged that “I never thought I’d find myself praying for the level-headedness of a Donald Trump,” but warned of what he called “group-think” in accepting the conclusion that Russia was behind the pre-election hack of the Democratic National Committee and of Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.
He linked to stories that cast doubt on the conclusions of intelligence agencies that Russia was responsible.
“My God, the ghost of Izzy Stone is back from the 1950s!” Stone wrote. “For that matter, so is Tom Clancy from the ’80s. False thrillers will now be written about the Russians hacking the American elections. Money and TV serials will be made. I’ve never read such hysterical junk in the New York Times (call it what it is — ‘fake news’), in which the editorials have become outrageous diatribes of alleged crimes by Russia, many of them presumably written by Serge Schmemann, one of those ideologues who still looks for Russians under his bed at night; they were called ‘White Russians’ in the old days and, like right-wing Cubans in Miami, are unable to live down past grievances. Schmemann is obviously riding high at the NYT edit board. This type of thinking has clearly influenced the Pentagon and many of our Generals’ statements, and has pervaded MSM reporting. When one group-think controls our national conversation, it becomes truly dangerous.”
He warned that the rush to blame Putin could have consequences for the way that Trump responds.
“As much as I may disagree with Donald Trump (and I do) he’s right now target number one of the MSM propaganda — until, that is, he jumps to the anti-Kremlin track because of some kind of false intelligence or misunderstanding cooked up by CIA,” he wrote. “Then I fear, in his hot-headed way, he starts fighting with the Russians, and it wouldn’t be long then until a state of war against Russia is declared.”
He urged readers to stay “calm in your thinking.” He also accused the New York Times of “evaded any contrary evidence” that others may be to blame for the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, such as an insider who was “disgusted” by the way the party apparatus was being run.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama announced a series of sanctions against Russia stemming from the intelligence committee conclusions. Trump, meanwhile, praised Putin on Friday for not immediately responding to the new sanctions. “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!” Trump tweeted.
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Why do these dopey Pinkos doubt Trump’s “level-headiness”?
PEOTUS is in no way an inexperienced lightweight.
A far left ideologue shows a glimmer of some sense.
Wow!
I still can’t fathom that he collaborated with John Milius on Conan the Barbarian.
He is likely writing a screenplay for a movie about Trump.
Would some Freeper with far more skill than I possess do an MSM search and tabulate how many stories the MSM ran about the Podesta DNC Emails and how much paper space and TV time was given to this story BEFORE Nov 9. My guess is the results will call the influence of the email hack into question
They're right here in this country.
The Media.
The Democrats.
The Uniparty Republicans.
its called group think a trap most leftist into. Most politician don’t understand some one who can make a decision and not ask a consultant for three alternative ways to respond .
Some of the Left are coming to the realization that their Nobel-Prize winning, light-worker Barky Soweto Osama and Hillary Clinton are really just oligarchs and war-mongers.
Don’t underestimate Olive Stone. Until he produced “Born on the Fourth of July”, people with no contact with the military had no clue about the hell so many Veterans face, because of the despicable behavior of the gov. He dropped out of Yale and enlisted for Viet Nam. It made him very cynical about the intentions of the war machine. About the same age as DJT, at Yale when Kerry and GWB were, just might be more deplorable than we’d stereotype him.
The whole Russia hacking scam is political theater produced by the Swamp Crooks to discredit Trump’s election.
The first signs that Obama and media overplayed their hand on this hacking issue.
Stone’s cold progressive blasphemy. Hollyweird is going to blackball him.
Pigs...you know that rest.When will I ever agree with Mr.Stone?Today.
Platoon was his story.
Oh, you mean like what Obama and Hillary already want right now?
Even Rolling Stone published something yesterday titled “Something about this Russian Hacker story stinks” (or words to that effect.)
From Oliver Stone no less. Color me shocked.
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