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http://video.seesmic.com/videos/S4zsTmT2Ur Barry Chuckle "i hope theres jews on that plane when it blows up"
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...also on a personal note. Oliver Stone slept with my girl in Los Angeles in a hot tub... and I'm not making that up. I'm still kind of bitter about that. to be honest a lot of famous people slept with that girl... but that is another story.
...what bothers me about Stone is he markets a gray history, in black and white so to speak. his portrayal of Bush will be embarrassing to his legacy. Bush wasn't perfect, but he was far from a Stanley Kubrick sitcom version of Dr. Strangelove in color. Bush's flaws were that he went to war and spent on the war without identifying an enemy. that is hardly Oliver Stone's point of view.
I hate his prejudice against "Conservatives"... whatever that means this week.
(Last I checked "Sean Vanity" on FOX was claiming that "Conservative" was a fiscal point of view. To me it is a good thing if you are "Conserving" something good.... but what ever)
...he''s right partly, but I'm not sure a mass consumed video does his argument any service because the context will get lost with idiots.
Hitler was a beast that was reacting to heavy punitive measures given by the allies from World War 1... which frankly... I'm not sure if WWI had any clear altruism involved. America essentially got dragged into something that didn't have real clear good guys and bad guys. Similar to the Persian Gulf War in 1992. (Saddam was reacting to Kuwaiti abuse) ...not justifying Saddam either.
...the problem with attempting to reconstruct is that you have to be careful to not create a new structure that is worse then the old one. mass media is a poor vehicle for this kind of dissection. guys like Oliver are just trying to make a buck. It takes historians lifetimes to reconfigure history. Stone just packages them quick for consumption.
all said however Oliver Stone is a brilliant powerful film maker... that is what makes him dangerous. he builds his masterpieces on shaky unstable arguments.... like a blogger that is pressured to hit a deadline of five posts a day... and reposts lies... but does so in a brilliant way. content creation isn't easy. reacting to current events should be avoided for creative people. imagine the great work Stone could of done if he had concentrated on classical historic narratives and used metaphors instead of getting his hands dirty with the "NOW".
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