What the god damn hell is going on with Oliver Stone? Asks Putin to be godfather?

[Progressive Law]

Oliver Stone wants Putin to be his daughter's godfather? THE HELL?!?!?!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oliver-stone-asks-vladimir-putin-031303288.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. When you get right down to it, who really cares?

[Progressive Law]

2. I care! Stone was an influential progressive. Now he is pushing a pro Putin agenda!

[mr_lebowski]

8. Oliver Stone worked for Nixon? Wow, I had no idea and would've never guessed ... Trippy (nt)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. There's not a single reference I can find on that. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

22. My huge mistake-- that was Roger Stone

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Yeah, none of that sounds true. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

23. It isn't. My computer confused Oliver Stone wit Roger Stone.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. Hmmmm, I thought that might be the case. I kept getting Roger Stone results too when I tried

searching. As to Oliver Stone. He seems to have lost his shit. Some would claim it happened long ago. But I always thought he was a talented director.

[JI7]

10. he is not a progressive. he is a misogynist conspiracy theorist jackass.

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[Midnight Writer]

3. The world's power struggle is no longer among nations. It is a struggle among rich men.

Stone is just picking a side.

[RockRaven]

4. When, year-wise, was Stone not a nutjob, in your opinion?

I'm not talking about whether or not he's making interesting, entertaining, artistic, or otherwise enjoyable films. I'm talking about what he says and does in public -- what he says on camera for the world to see/hear.

For me, I'd have to say some time in the early 1990s, at the latest, I had concluded that he was a seriously aberrant weirdo. What exactly his deal is, I know not. But it is of long duration.

[Oregon1947]

6. Certainly strange, does he back Trump

also? Ive never heard much from him but definitely not a good choice for instilling christian values..

[lunatica]

7. I think he likes communism

I seem to remember him being enamored of some South American dictator years and years ago. He was always kind of nuts in his paranoia.

[DeltaLitProf]

12. That would be

. . . Castro.

[Downtown Hound]

40. Hugo Chavez too

But then, lots of people, including on this board, fell victim to thinking Chavez was a great leader. That was definitely one that a lot of us got wrong.

[JI7]

9. he has always been this way. it's who he is.

[DeltaLitProf]

11. Stone most certainly is not a Republican . . .

He reviles Richard Nixon, whom he made an extremely unflattering movie about. Then he made a movie that was sympathetic toward George W. Bush, called W, seeing him as the dupe of his neo-conservative handlers, but basically decent. On the other hand, he does have a tendency to fall for conspiracy theories and charismatic con men. In the past it has been Jim Garrisson and Fidel Castro. Now it's Putin.

[blueinredohio]

13. If he likes Putin so much let him move to Russia.

[richsonpoordad]

14. I think he did, didn't he?

[blueinredohio]

31. I have no idea.

[Anon-C]

36. I think that was Steven Seagal, who has been anointed as some kind of Russian cultural emissary

...to the US by Putin.

[Applegate]

37. I hear echoes of Trump in that comment.

[Beringia]

15. Is that an Alpha Dog thing?

Also mentions he is scared of transgender. Homophobe? I thought he was some big liberal making anti-war films. Boy was I wrong.

[JI7]

17. he was never a liberal. conspiracy theorists have claimed to be liberal but they have never been

liberal. they exposed themselves when it came to treatment of minorites and women.

[Beringia]

19. I guess he won't be making any movies about Hillary or Obama then

Is "conspiracy theorist" an actual political category like democrat?

[Sapient Donkey]

30. I don't think Oliver Stone has much love for Obama or the Clintons

I could see him making a movie that portrays either Obama or Clinton is a mostly negative light. A quick search of Oliver Stone with either Clinton or Obama confirms this.

I wonder how twisted a Putin centered movie would be... I'd watch it out of curiosity.

[jberryhill]

27. +1

[hatrack]

16. James Woods Disease strikes again . . .

[JI7]

18. Oliver Stone said Harvey Weinstein was being lynched

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. I especially liked the part where he says "they'll make" his daughter, a grown ass woman, a Russian

Orthodox.

[jberryhill]

26. Gee

A guy whose major accomplishment in life is introducing a generation to the conspiracy theories of an attention-seeking politician is fond of a master of propaganda to sow confusion and doubt?

Who knew.

[Vinnie From Indy]

28. Stone's misrepresenting history in JFK

is no different to me than the vulgar conspiracy theories coming from Alex Jones and 4Chan.

[stopbush]

32. Agreed. One of the most-dishonest and, frankly, stupid movies I've ever seen.

To believe Stone’s propaganda you have to believe that not only did every crime and law enforcement entity in the world hate JFK and plan to kill him, but that they conspired together to do so. The outright lies in that flick are embarrassing.

And yet the majority of Americans take it as history. Boneheads.

[lame54]

39. One of the best I've seen

[Baltimike]

29. Stone is a right winger. nt

[MicaelS]

33. I think he is still fucked up in the head...

Over having gone to 'Nam.

[Downtown Hound]

34. He went off the deep end about 25 years ago

And he's only gone further down the hole since. I used to really like him as a filmmaker, but he lost me around the turn of the century. That's also right around the time he stopped making successful movies.

[still_one]

35. He has jumped on the Putin bandwagon for some time, along with its anti-semetic slurs

[Captain Zero]

38. Be sure to offer him some punch and cake while he is there.