Oliver Stone Controversy (Offers What Seems An Apology for Comments About Jews)

NYT Media Decoder ^ | July 26, 2010 | Brookes Barnes

[lbryce]

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 committee’s 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.

[AJFavish]

Perhaps he will remake “They Saved Hitler’s Brain”.

[Salem]

"Oh. Well, that’s all right, then."

Not surprising, with the other intermittent noxious belches emanating from the massive, plugged septic tank which is Hollywood and the entertainment industry.

His apology being the political theater it is, the only thing he'll ever understand, and all the others like him, is if their movies go down in flames in the marketplace. Remember this the next time a Stone film comes out.

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[Catholic Canadian]

I'll never understand this obsession the left has with 'Jews controlling the media' given the mainstream media's obvious biases against the Israeli State. What an absurd association to make. One would assume the media would be rabidly pro-Israel if Stone's and the Leftists' assertions were in fact true.

The left is truly delusional in every sense of the word, but then we all know that already.

[PRePublic]

Oliver doesn't get it that it's not just about the sheer numbers (between) 6 (and 11) Million Jews VS 30 Million Russians, but the Russians weren't targeted for “being of a certain race, creed, or religion”, Hitler wasn't going to eradicate the “Russian race” is there's such a race...