"I love dictators!"
Posted on 01/09/2010 7:10:11 PM PST by Third Person
Director Oliver Stone's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries "Secret History of America" promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context.""Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy -- these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history," Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena. "Stalin has a complete other story," Stone said. "Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any single person. We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good.' Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and its been used cheaply. He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect ...
From the mind that brought the world “Natural Born Killers.”
"I love dictators!"
Here’s the link: http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/01/oliver-stone-history-america.html
What is McCarthy doing on that list? He only killed one or two million people at most. < /sarcasm which goes to eleven>
MAN all that coke that Tony Montana didn’t do in Scarface Ollie must “took care it”
Hollywood moral relativist idiot...........
\Another enemy of the State.
Gene McCarthy was a scumbag for sure but I’m not sure he belongs on that list.
Wow...
Stone said that conservative pundits will dislike the show. ”Obviously, Rush Limbaugh is not going to like this history and, as usual, we’re going to get those kind of ignorant attacks,” said Stone, who also also compared the experience of sympathizing with war criminals to making his “W” movie about George W. Bush. “I’m trying to understand somebody I thoroughly despised.” Stone also warned that the same military industrial complex forces that he’s explored in movies such as “JFK” and in “Secret History,” are now corrupting Barack Obama. ”You can understand why Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps in Afghanistan,” Stone said.”Obama is very much trapped, we believe, in that system. And so that’s what we’re going to try and show you — the way it works.” The project will also show lesser-known positive aspects of American history and unsung heroes. Stone eventually hopes to send “Secret History” to schools as a teaching curriculum. “It would be a very different counterweight to what they’re learning,” Stone said. “Nobody is going to force it down anybody’s throat.”A critic also asked Stone “the Sarah Palin question” of what he likes to read. “My father was a voracious New York Times reader,” he said. “We consider that in The Middle. Sarah Palin would disagree.”
3 mass murdering butchers, and a patriot vindicated by history.
"You put me on that list, huh? With Stalin, Hitler, and Mao? Now, tell the truth: who's the real dummy, Oliver?"
Put Hitler and Stalin in context? The approximately 20 million people they killed is context enough for me.
Ringo, maybe. But not McCartney.
Wow, I knew libs got a free pass to make racist commments like hary reid did but getting a pass for killing millions because your politics are left is amazing even to me.
Oliver Stone is wrong again.
The twenty million dead of Russia from WWII might disagree.
WHY THE HE11 WOULD YOU CARE ABOUT MAKING A “MORE FACTUAL” ANYTHING ABOUT THOSE THUGS, DICTATORS, AND MURDERERS????????
The only people Leftists and liberals don’t nuance is Christian Conservatives.
In the name of love, peace and hope, they just want them dead.
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