OLIVER STONE: 'MEDIA SLANDERS POLITICALLY-MINDED STARS'

[Lunatic Fringe]

Movie-maker OLIVER STONE has blasted media groups who "slander" celebrities for their political comments - because intelligent stars have every right to question their leaders. The Vietnam veteran, who is a fierce opponent of the US leadership, is appalled every time a celebrity is rudely mocked for making his or her thoughts about PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH and the war in Iraq public, and he urges journalists to be more supportive. The NATURAL BORN KILLERS director says, "We're Hollywood wackos and all that stuff, left-wing... (It's) an easy and facile dismissal. "I'm still a citizen, I've served my country as a veteran, I've had many jobs before the film business. I know something of life, having lived to this age. "We have a right to speak and every time we speak: 'You're an actor, a showbusiness director,' we're making it up! "This is not a way of dealing with people. This is slander."

[E.G.C.]

Here are my thoughts on this subject.

I would like to remind Oliver Stone that the rights of people like myself to blow the whistle on these simple minded stars was paid for with blood and lives on the battlefields.

If he or any of his friends have a problem with what I or others have to say about these simple minded stars than he needs to go pack up hish bags and go fly off somewhere where he's more confortable. Like China, Cuba or Zimbabwe.

This nation can do without this sorry lazy miserable good for nothing goofball and his kind telling us what tosay and what not to ysa.

Regards..........