Oliver Stone: 'Media Slanders Politically-Minded Stars'

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/oliver%20stone%20media%20slanders%20politically-minded%20stars_04_04_2006

Movie-maker OLIVER STONE has blasted media groups who "slander" celebrities for their political comments - because intelligent stars have every right to question their leaders. The Vietnam veteran, who is a fierce opponent of the US leadership, is appalled every time a celebrity is rudely mocked for making his or her thoughts about PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH and the war in Iraq public, and he urges journalists to be more supportive. The NATURAL BORN KILLERS director says, "We're Hollywood wackos and all that stuff, left-wing... (It's) an easy and facile dismissal. "I'm still a citizen, I've served my country as a veteran, I've had many jobs before the film business. I know something of life, having lived to this age. "We have a right to speak and every time we speak: 'You're an actor, a showbusiness director,' we're making it up! "This is not a way of dealing with people. This is slander."
04/04/2006 03:14

[KurtNYC]

1. But they don't slander all Hollywood types - Sonny Bono,

Arnold Schwartzenneger, Ronald Reagan, Kid Rock, etc.

Stone is right but they aren't consistent. If the actor has RW talking points to sell, then the MSM laps it up. But if Natalie Portman wears a John Kerry shirt to her interview they tell her to cover it up (out of "fairness").

[blm]

3. EXACTLY! RW celebs are given all the airtime they can consume without any

disparaging commentary directed at them to shut up and go away.

Of course, that's because the corporate media LAVISHES the entire RW with all the airtime they need to help push the fascist agenda.

[liveoaktx]

14. VIDEO of Stone saying that on Henry Rollins show

On CanOFun

[AX10]

2. Exactly! As KurtNYC said:

"But they don't slander all Hollywood types - Sonny Bono,

Arnold Schwartzenneger, Ronald Reagan, Kid Rock, etc.

Stone is right but they aren't consistent. If the actor has RW talking points to sell, then the MSM laps it up. But if Natalie Portman wears a John Kerry shirt to her interview they tell her to cover it up (out of "fairness")."

:kick:

[Bill McBlueState]

4. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been sounding the same note for years

Pretty much every episode of South Park plus their movies has some crack about how celebrities suck because they express their opinions. As funny as their stuff can be, the joke's getting old.

[AX10]

5. True. Celebrities have the same right to an opinion as...

everyone else.

[CatWoman]

7. funny. I never quite caught on to their humor

I've always loathed South Park.

[rman]

8. Doesn't SP usually make fun of RW celebrities,

when they do make fun of celebrities?

[AX10]

12. Parker and Stone are "libertarians", so they only mock...

the social conscious liberals. Being libertarians, they only care for themselves. They would sell their mothers on the street for a buck, it's the libertarian way.

[rman]

13. The term "libertarian" is meaningless without qualification

Libertarianism ranges all the way from libertarian-socialism/anarcho-syndicalism to we-don't-need-no-government-the-free-market-will-take-care-of-everything.

The way SP took on Scientology, that's no where near mocking liberals.

[rman]

6. Kick for Stone

A truth-teller if there ever was one.

[BlooInBloo]

9. It's ok if they do....

A thread yesterday pointed out that most of them are republicans ANYWAY.

[gatorboy]

10. Unless you're a Republican celebrity like Ahnold or Reagan..

Than the right will fall over themselves to put you in office....

[NVMojo]

11. All citizens have a right to question their US leadership ...irregardless

of their careers.