Yesterday Oliver Stone was the center of attention after an interview with the Sunday Times of London in which he said that Jews run the media and Hitler was a “scapegoat”. He seems concerned that history has labeled Hitler and Stalin as evil, so he’s making a new documentary to help people, “walk in Stalin’s shoes and Hitler’s shoes to understand their point of view”.
In other words, don’t get all PC just because Stalin killed 20 million of his own people between 1936 and 1938. Hindsight is always 20/20. Did Hitler go overboard when he executed 14 million Jews, Gypsies, POW’s, homosexuals and the handicapped, or is it time they took some responsibility for being unpure? You may think you know the answer, but Oliver Stone hopes you can keep an open mind. Look, we can play the blame game all day, but a bunch of finger pointing isn’t gonna solve anything.
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Oliver Stone, who looks like Captain Kangaroo now btw, has won 3 Academy Awards and is currently working on a 10-part documentary for Showtime called “Secret History of America”. Yesterday he gave and interview with the Times of London to promote the documentary, but now everyone is freaking out over it.
Perhaps because he defended Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and said that Hitler is only considered evil because of the “Jewish domination of the media”. He also said he tried to, “walk in Stalin’s shoes and Hitler’s shoes to understand their point of view”, and hopes his movie will put their legacy “in context”.
Oh and there’s more.
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If you, like Media Takeout, clicked on the CBS radio page titled "Diversity" yesterday afternoon after CBS fired radio host Don Imus for calling the Rutgers basketball players "nappy headed ho's", you would have seen why they were so outraged at his culturally insensitive comments. Just look at the page that celebrates the diversity at CBS - why, there's a white man in a jacket, and then there's a white man looking downward, and one of the white men has a tie on, while another white man has no tie at all. He may not even own a tie for all we know! It's a rainbow, it is!
But awesome gets awesomer, since CBS quickly redesigned the page and added a picture of a white woman and singer Brian McKnight. It's not clear who the woman is, but Brian McKnight does not work for CBS. Presumably CBS just ran a GIS on "black man" and "woman" and that's what turned up. So it could have just as easily been George Washington Carver and Betty Rubble. I asked Oliver Stone what they should have put up and he suggested this. Because, as the New York Daily News points out, Oliver Stone is a racist:
Screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper says Stone whipped the racist epithet on him at an L.A. party shortly after Cooper's movie "New Jack City" came out in 1991. "Oliver Stone's my hero, so I went over to him," Cooper recalls in StopSmiling magazine. "[I said,] 'Man, I love your movie 'Wall Street.' … He said to me, 'Okay, thank you very much. I bet you like [the Stone-scripted] 'Scarface,' too. All n—s like 'Scarface.' "[Stone] stumbled off. Right before I could go after him and commit career suicide, [director] Stan [Lathan] and [hip-hop mogul] Russell [Simmons] pulled on my arm and said, 'No you don't. Let it go. That's just him, he's high.'?"
Maybe Stone only said what he said because he was high, but consider this: Stone is an asshole.
