Oliver Stone: 'Jewish-Dominated Media' Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed 'in Context'
By Alana Goodman (Bio | Archive)
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 21:03 ET

Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the "Jewish domination of the media."
The director also defended Hitler and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and railed against the "powerful lobby" of Jews in America.

Stone said that his upcoming Showtime documentary series "Secret History of America," seeks to put Hitler and Communist dictator Joseph Stalin "in context."

"Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support," Stone told Sunday Times' reporter Camilla Long.

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Stone said that, "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."

The Sunday Times interviewer then asked why there was such a focus on the Holocaust.

"The Jewish domination of the media," responded Stone. "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years."

The director, who recently met with Iranian President Ahmadinejad, also slammed the U.S. policy toward Iran as "horrible."

"Iran isn't necessarily the good guy," said Stone. "[B]ut we don't know the full story!"

The Scarface screenwriter had even more encouraging words for socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who Stone called "a brave, blunt, earthy" man. The director has recently been promoting his Chavez-praising documentary called "South of the Border."

When the interviewer pointed out that Chavez has had a less-than-stellar record on human rights, Stone immediately dismissed the criticism.

"The internet's fully free [in Venezuela]," said Stone. "You can say what the hell you like. Compare it with all the other countries: Mexico, Guatemala, above all Colombia, which is a joke."

While Stone has not been as blunt about his views on Jews and the Holocaust in the past, he has been outspoken in his fondness for Chavez and his disagreements with the U.S.'s policy on Iran.

On ABC's Good Morning America on July 28, the director told anchor George Stephanopoulos that he "absolutely" believes Chavez is a good person, and claimed that there was "there's no pattern of censorship in this country [Venezuela]."

Stone also said that if the U.S. pursued sanctions against Iran, "it's going to be like North Vietnam again."



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Ahtman wrote:Shocked I am that Oliver Stone would say such things. My monocle almost popped off just reading the article. It just seems so out of character for him.

sebster wrote:Still, I've got hope for Wall Street II.

Ahtman wrote:Haven't read any of the festival reviews I take it?

LordofHats wrote:I thought everyone already knew Oliver Stone was crazy .

sebster wrote:

Ahtman wrote:Haven't read any of the festival reviews I take it?

What I've read so far has seem pretty positive... any links?

sebster wrote:Oliver Stone is a very skilled director, technically. He's also a complete moonbat.

Still, I've got hope for Wall Street II.

Frazzled wrote:

LordofHats wrote:I thought everyone already knew Oliver Stone was crazy .

Thats not crazy, thats racist. I know one is generally the subset of another, but its still good to know.

Frazzled wrote:Lets see, Hitler would be shown for a better light if it weren't for all dem Jewboys in Hollywood. Yea thats racist.

Frazzled wrote:Lets see, Hitler would be shown for a better light if it weren't for all dem Jewboys in Hollywood. Yea thats racist.

Grignard wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Lets see, Hitler would be shown for a better light if it weren't for all dem Jewboys in Hollywood. Yea thats racist.

That's not racist, that's paranoid. I'm sure you're not alone, as a lot of people are going to call it racist, but its not.

Its like if someone says that their boss is afraid to criticize Joe about being late to work, but they're held responsible for the smallest errors, because Joe is black. That isn't racist, thats an opinion that is probably paranoid. If you say blacks are lazy, criminal, or inferior because of their race, thats probably racist.

Frazzled wrote:

Grignard wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Lets see, Hitler would be shown for a better light if it weren't for all dem Jewboys in Hollywood. Yea thats racist.

That's not racist, that's paranoid. I'm sure you're not alone, as a lot of people are going to call it racist, but its not.

Its like if someone says that their boss is afraid to criticize Joe about being late to work, but they're held responsible for the smallest errors, because Joe is black. That isn't racist, thats an opinion that is probably paranoid. If you say blacks are lazy, criminal, or inferior because of their race, thats probably racist.

I have a simple test. If you make a statement, and the Klan agrees with you, then you're a racist.

Thats not paranoia, thats racism. Paranoia is inherent in racism. Quit covering for what it is.

Grignard wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Grignard wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Lets see, Hitler would be shown for a better light if it weren't for all dem Jewboys in Hollywood. Yea thats racist.

That's not racist, that's paranoid. I'm sure you're not alone, as a lot of people are going to call it racist, but its not.

Its like if someone says that their boss is afraid to criticize Joe about being late to work, but they're held responsible for the smallest errors, because Joe is black. That isn't racist, thats an opinion that is probably paranoid. If you say blacks are lazy, criminal, or inferior because of their race, thats probably racist.

I have a simple test. If you make a statement, and the Klan agrees with you, then you're a racist.

Thats not paranoia, thats racism. Paranoia is inherent in racism. Quit covering for what it is.

Like most things you can't reduce it to a simple black and white analysis, no pun intended. The Klan probably would agree, collectively, that you should go to church on Sunday. Does that make you a racist if you agree with them? To limit it to comments about race, the Klan probably states that black people have dark skin. If I agree that black people have dark skin, does that make me racist?

I'm not trying to defend him. I'm not in the Oliver Stone fan club or anything. I just don't think its racist.

Frazzled wrote:

Grignard wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Grignard wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Lets see, Hitler would be shown for a better light if it weren't for all dem Jewboys in Hollywood. Yea thats racist.

That's not racist, that's paranoid. I'm sure you're not alone, as a lot of people are going to call it racist, but its not.

Its like if someone says that their boss is afraid to criticize Joe about being late to work, but they're held responsible for the smallest errors, because Joe is black. That isn't racist, thats an opinion that is probably paranoid. If you say blacks are lazy, criminal, or inferior because of their race, thats probably racist.

I have a simple test. If you make a statement, and the Klan agrees with you, then you're a racist.

Thats not paranoia, thats racism. Paranoia is inherent in racism. Quit covering for what it is.

Like most things you can't reduce it to a simple black and white analysis, no pun intended. The Klan probably would agree, collectively, that you should go to church on Sunday. Does that make you a racist if you agree with them? To limit it to comments about race, the Klan probably states that black people have dark skin. If I agree that black people have dark skin, does that make me racist?

I'm not trying to defend him. I'm not in the Oliver Stone fan club or anything. I just don't think its racist.

We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one Griggy my man.

Grignard wrote:
That's not racist, that's paranoid. I'm sure you're not alone, as a lot of people are going to call it racist, but its not.

Its like if someone says that their boss is afraid to criticize Joe about being late to work, but they're held responsible for the smallest errors, because Joe is black. That isn't racist, thats an opinion that is probably paranoid. If you say blacks are lazy, criminal, or inferior because of their race, thats probably racist.

Ahtman wrote:In the time I have at the moment here is AV Clubs Cannes review.

Grignard wrote:Furthermore, I don't think he said he plans on showing Hitler in a "better light". That is a misquote. He said he want's to put Hitler "in context". That could mean anything or nothing.

The line about the Russians isn't racist either, but it is kind of stupid IMHO. He's not mentioning that, although many of them were civilians, many of those killed were soldiers. Thats called war. Its an inflammatory comment but its not racist.

WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Am I a paranoid racist because I think jews in the media have managed to focus all attention on the holocaust to the jewish victims and entirely away from the other five-six million victims of varied ethnicity?

WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Am I a paranoid racist because I think jews in the media have managed to focus all attention on the holocaust to the jewish victims and entirely away from the other five-six million victims of varied ethnicity?

WARBOSS TZOO wrote:then why, whenever someone references the holocaust, is it all about the millions of jews and nobody else

*hyperbole may not be substantiated

WARBOSS TZOO wrote:oh, sure, we're both aware that the gypsies and so on were also targetted, but would you say that the majority of references to the holocaust that stick in your mind reflect the jews that died or everyone else?

Albatross wrote:Also, doesn't 'The Holocaust' (also referred to as The Shoah) only refer to the deaths of Jewish victims of the Holocaust specifically? There wasn't a thing which the Nazi party did that they called 'The Holocaust' in which millions people died, and which has subsequently been co-opted by jews in the media - the NSDAP enacted a program of extermenation of 'undesirable' elements in their society. It has become known in Jewish culture as The Holocaust, referring to the large number of Jews murdered in these atrocities. It has religious orgins and refers specifically to the Jews that were murdered. That is used to refer to the entireity of the Nazi extermination program is not the result of a Jewish media conspiracy, only ignorance on the part of people who use the word, unaware of it's meaning.

Grignard wrote:That technically may be right, but in common usage the Holocaust refers to what happened to all the undesirables eliminated by the state

Grignard wrote:

Albatross wrote:Also, doesn't 'The Holocaust' (also referred to as The Shoah) only refer to the deaths of Jewish victims of the Holocaust specifically? There wasn't a thing which the Nazi party did that they called 'The Holocaust' in which millions people died, and which has subsequently been co-opted by jews in the media - the NSDAP enacted a program of extermenation of 'undesirable' elements in their society. It has become known in Jewish culture as The Holocaust, referring to the large number of Jews murdered in these atrocities. It has religious orgins and refers specifically to the Jews that were murdered. That is used to refer to the entireity of the Nazi extermination program is not the result of a Jewish media conspiracy, only ignorance on the part of people who use the word, unaware of it's meaning.

That technically may be right, but in common usage the Holocaust refers to what happened to all the undesirables eliminated by the state, and I see no reason to change that. Again, I have never seen a moral difference in a government purging someone because of their ethnicity or because of their political beliefs. Its all the same.

Ahtman wrote:

Grignard wrote:That technically may be right, but in common usage the Holocaust refers to what happened to all the undesirables eliminated by the state

I would disagree. The Holocaust is a very specific term and different from a holocaust, or the Grey Knight spell. The Holocaust refers to the Nazi's "final solution to the Jewish question". I don't really know anyone who doesn't know that other groups were targeted, it isn't a secret, but there was a special zeal for taking down Jewish citizens, and with invasion, foreign ones. The Jews got a Wansee Conference where the others just had memos.