wiesenthal center blasts oliver stone for his anti-semitic remarks. stone issued an apology.

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center today blasted remarks made by director Oliver Stone in London’s Sunday Times in which he claimed that the Holocaust is overemphasized in our culture because Jews “control the media” and that “Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people.”

“Oliver Stone is bent on trivializing the Nazi Holocaust—‘Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people...’ and ‘contextualizing’ both Hitler and Stalin as not-such-terrible-guys with whom we should empathize, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center. “He parrots the anti-Semitic chorus led by Iran’s genocide-wannabe Ahmadinejad by attributing the world’s focus on the Shoah—in his money quote, sure to be enshrined in every Islamist Google search—‘The Jewish domination of the media…’”

source: http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441467&ct=8540735

in another article, released in the last 24 hours,
Oliver Stone denounces Israeli Jewish lobby, issues apology

London - Academy-Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone recently stated in an interview that the Israel lobby has destroyed the United States' foreign policy for many years. He also said that Adolf Hitler did more damage to Russia than he did to Jews.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, renowned film director Oliver Stone sat down with the British publication to promote his latest documentary “South of the Border." In the interview, Stone discussed the Israel lobby’s control over the U.S. foreign policy, the Jewish influence in the mainstream media and the history of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.

According to JTA, Stone began by explaining that the Jewish lobby dictates and influences Washington’s foreign policy. The director of “Platoon” and “Wall Street” added that the lobby, which he notes is the most powerful lobby in Washington, are hard workers who have also “f***ed up U.S. foreign policy for years.”
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(in the issued apology)
Stone said: “In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret.”

source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295166

[Downtown Hound]

1. I think Oliver Stone is right about Hitler and Russia

But Jews controlling the media? Where exactly does this idiotic conspiracy come from? I presume all of it's promoters can name these Jews?

Our media is controlled by corporations, and most corporations only pray to one God: money.

And as for Hitler, he fucked over a lot of people. Does it really matter who got the worst of it?

Most of the rest of what Stone says I agree with. The Israeli lobby is very powerful and has, by and large, had a negative impact on the United States. Personally, I think we should tell it to shape up or take a flying fuck.