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Oliver Stone apologizes for his remarks about Jews controlling the media
By Lindsay CutlerJuly 27th, 2010, 5:35 pmComments (6)
Not satisfied with alienating audiences with his filmography from the past three decades, Oliver Stone aims to alienate industry insiders as well. Read: Jews. (His words.) In an interview with The Sunday Times of London, Stone made several anti-Semitic remarks that are no longer available on the site. It appears that The Times took the article down as every major news site's link to the story leads to the Sunday Times homepage.
However, we've collected some excerpts:
“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." NYT
“There’s a major lobby in the United States," Stone said. "They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has [messed] up United States foreign policy for years.” LA Times
Not from the actual Times interview, but:
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.
However, all is repented for, because yesterday he issued an apology:
I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity – and it was an atrocity.
See? Jews obviously do not control the media. He must of conjured those words in a state of dementia - some kind of fever dream - to repeat a redundant racist trope like that. Oliver Stone: man of invention. And as for the Holocaust? It was bad. Stone said it first.
Commentarium (6 Comments)
Did the Sunday Times of London take the article down, or did the JEWS do it?
His point about doing more damage to the Russians than the jews is true if you do the incredibly depressing math.
Doesn't matter if it's true, you're not allowed to say it.
@Lebow -- Yes, clearly. Let's do the math (source wikipedia). Population of the Soviet Union before the war: 168.5 million and those that died due to the war are estimated at 23.9 million, so around 14% of the population died from the war. The European Jews population before the war was around 9 million of which an estimated 6 million died, which is about 66% of the Jewish population in Europe. So in absolute terms, obviously the Soviet Union suffered far greater losses, but as a percentage of the population, which I think is arguably more damaging, the Soviet Union has nothing on the European Jews.
Don't challenge Jews on math, Lebow!
Oliver Stone, re-inventor of the past, Public Relations director for dictators, football fan. Take whatever he says and the opposite is more or less the truth.
Now you say something