Posted on 06/27/2009 3:20:43 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Oliver Stone: 'Reagan Was a Dumb Son of a Bitch' Who Spawned Bush By Brent Baker Created 2009-06-27 02:14 Film producer/director Oliver Stone [1], a far-left promoter of conspiracies who is working on a sequel to his 1987 'Wall Street' movie, declared on Friday night's edition of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher that “Reagan was a dumb son of a bitch” and “I really think George W is dumber” and so, after producing movies on the CIA conspiracy to murder President Kennedy and a dark look at President Nixon, he won't create a movie on Ronald Reagan because “by doing the W movie I kind of put all my efforts behind dumbness.”
Stone, who earlier in the pre-taped show made up of three one-on-one interviews Maher conducted (other two were with Cameron Diaz and Billy Bob Thornton) characterized President Obama as no better than Bush (“a sneak Bush administration with different words”), also asserted: “I do think Nixon is the father of Reagan and I think Reagan's the father of Bush. There's sort of a very strong line.” Whatever that means.
From the June 26 program, after Maher asked why Stone, who did films on JFK, Nixon and Bush, had not done a movie on Reagan:
OLIVER STONE: Nixon always said Reagan was a dumb son of a bitch and, you know, I think that he was [audience applause]. And I think, I really think George W is dumber [more audience laughter and applause].
BILL MAHER: Definitely
STONE: I do think that by doing the W movie I kind of put all my efforts behind dumbness and I don't want to go back there because, you know, I'm not the Farrelly brothers. But I do think Nixon is the father of Reagan and I think Reagan's the father of Bush. There's sort of a very strong line....
Isn’t it amazing how everyone who has ever disagreed with a liberal is “stupid?” Liberals are children who never grew up.
“Liberals” have certainly done their best to wreck this country over the years. They get no sympathy from me.
"I do think Nixon is the father of Reagan ... "
Okay, I’m scratching my head on this one.
My thoughts exactly. I believe Stone's affinity for conspiracy theories is actually a deep seated paranoia caused by massive, long-term, drug abuse.
You are correct, Nixon was clearly more aligned to the Ford/Rockefeller wing, and had little to do with the Goldwater/Reagan wing.
Stone really knows nothing at all about politics. He is so ignorant of it it shows, he has no intellectual curiosity about politics, and he does not have the cognitive ability to process the information he has already been exposed to. Perhaps it is the decades of drug abuse. Or maybe Stone is just not that intelligent.
I think his calling other people "dunb" is projection.
Nixon said that Reagan was a “Dumb son of a bitch”. Does anyone believe that? Who was the dumb one who got kicked out of office???????
I believe your premise is faulty. Meaning, Stone actually is lucid
Your confusion is based on a response to a sane person, not Stone.
Of course, "Nixon is the father of Reagan..." only in the drug addled brain of Stone. He said it, so it must be true.........just ask Maher
And these people continue to breathe the same air that we do.
I don’t know who Oliver Stone is. His name sounds like a pseudonym. Is it?
Watch for Oliver Stone’s upcoming autobiography - “The Man Without a Clue”.
Stone is a dull bulb next to Reagan. Anyone who thinks Reagan is dumb doesn’t have a clue. Probably the smartest president policy-wise in our nation’s history.
You can add BH0 to that list.
And yet both of them ran rings around you, Ollie. What does that say about YOU? IIRC, you didn’t even last a year at Yale before you dropped out. GWB has a degree from there AND an MBA from Harvard—not exactly a sheepskin that’s handed out to dummies.
Why oh why can’t we just let really smart people like Oliver Stone and Bill Maher run the country ... surely they will go down in history as brave, smart geniuses.
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This from a man who films make-believe for a living.
Oliver Stone spoke. Let’s all bow to Hollyweird every morning.
So if Reagan was dumb, and he utterly trounced both the Democrats and the Soviet Union, what Oliver Stone is saying is that the Democrats and communists are *very* dumb indeed.
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