Oliver Stone ‘Warmly Embracing’ Hugo Chavez in Blame America Doc

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In today’s L.A. Times director Oliver Stone discusses his upcoming documentary “South of the Border,” about the “warmhearted” Hugo Chavez. [emphasis added]:

Oliver Stone is shown warmly embracing Hugo Chávez, nibbling coca leaves with Evo Morales and gently teasing Cristina Elizabeth Fernández de Kirchner about how many pairs of shoes she owns. …

“I think he’s an extremely dynamic and charismatic figure. He’s open and warmhearted and big, and a fascinating character,” … ”But when I go back to the States I keep hearing these horror stories about ‘dictator,’ ‘bad guy,’ ‘menace to American society.’ I think the project started as something about the American media demonizing Latin leaders.

Guys like Stone are forced to rationalize that the American media is right-leaning in order to avoid their head exploding due to an acute case of FacingTheTruth-itosis. But maybe the doc will be more critical than we’re led to believe in this article. During their warm embrace, it’s possible Stone whispered hard-hitting questions in Hugo’s ear about reports such as this from the not-so-conservative Human Rights Watch.

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The film’s writer Tariq Ali describes his doc as a “political road movie.”

A Blame America Tour is more like it:

A big part of the explanation the film advances is that the free-market economic policies pushed by the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund over the last several years largely have failed to alleviate Latin America’s chronic income inequality.

And then there’s that awesome Bolivarian Revolution Stone’s “rooting for.” No word yet on whether or not he’s willing to live under it:

“I’m rooting for [Hugo Chavez's] Bolivarian movement,” he says. “I’m rooting for their independence because I think that America has a new role to play in this world, and that’s not of an oppressor, but that of a cooperative and, let’s call it equal, partner.”

Time for today’s edition of Choose The Bigger Whopper: Is it the Times’ claim that few Hollywood directors deal with political topics or Stone using the word “truth” in the same sentence as “JFK?”

In an era when few Hollywood directors bother to deal with historical or political topics at all, Stone frequently has been targeted for playing loose with historical facts[.] … On this score, he vigorously defends his record.

“You do your homework, you do your research, we always did, whatever you think of my work,” he says. “Even going back to ‘JFK,’ I’ve always done as much research as we could. And there’s mistakes made, but there’s a lot of, you know, as much as we can put into these movies.” truth

Elite Hollywood Leftists embrace Socialist thugs like Chavez for just that reason: they’re elites, who see themselves not as someone living under the oppressive regimes they boost, but as being the toast of those oppressive regimes. No more of that awful capitalist money-raising to fund the next feature, but better yet, all the Rush Limbaughs and Bill O’Reillys and Glenn Becks who dare hold them accountable are put out of business. Silenced.

Stone’s attraction to this kind of world makes sense in other ways, as well. If it wasn’t for all this pesky democracy stuff everyone would believe everything in his films and a large part of his legacy (other than a half-dozen brilliant films, including “JFK”) wouldn’t be as a punchline for conspiracy theory jokes.

UPDATE: In the comments Christian Toto sums it up perfectly: “It’s staggering that artists continue to support people who oppose free expression.”

Originally published September 1 at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog.


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"Christian Toto sums it up

"Christian Toto sums it up perfectly: “It’s staggering that artists continue to support people who oppose free expression.”

I think that disgusting activity is called "communist chic".

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Another comment from the link

Carolyn's comment further down the page hits on it: "What IS it with all these Hollywood people trying desperately to channel Leni Riefenstahl?"

How many actors, if not

How many actors, if not directly backing the Soviet Union, sided with them against the US? Cuba, Nicaragua, you name it - there has always been "artistes" who are useful idiots for the communists. It seems like they have some kind of need to be identified with the "worker regimes" - even though everyone else knows that is exactly the opposite of what these regimes are about. It's amazing that we call these fools the "intelligentsia" when they're such morons.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Gee...Oliver Stoned embracing a tyrant...

I am just stunned...not a bit.

What is it about the left and their desire to make heros out of murderous thugs?

They embrace  Castro, Che', Chavez...their love for all things/people that threaten freedom knows no bounds.  I would like to believe that their support is thrown to these scumbags through ignorance...but I know better.

 

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

Hey, Oliver.  Did you drop

Hey, Oliver.  Did you drop this?  "D"

I think it fell off the end of your name...

how does this piece of goat dung-

get permission to visit the commie bastard.

someone at the State Dept. can key stroke Stone from reentering the USA???

BHO-  THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE

 

 

 

Viva la Chavez. Equality for the people.

 Well, this might not be exactly true:

A big part of the explanation the film advances is that the free-market economic policies pushed by the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund over the last several years largely have failed to alleviate Latin America’s chronic income inequality.

After years of Chavez, there is now much less income inequality. Today, instead of many private citizens being rich, many being moderately self-sufficient, and many being poor -- we find that only Chavez, his friends and bodyguards, are wealthy and comfortable. Most everyone else has been driven into dire poverty and despair.

Viva la Chavez. Equality for the people.

(;~/ gary

America as an Oppressor?

People like Oliver Stone and the rest of the radical left loonie bin should be rounded up and forced onto a plane and taken to the American Cemetery at Normandy to be clued into what Americans really are. I just returned from a trip to France and visited the Normandy Cemetery and the beaches where over ten thousand American Oppressors gave their lives for the freedom of people they didn't even know. It makes me nauseous to read the words of these idiots, and it insults the memory of the hundreds of thousands of brave american men and women who have taken up arms and risked their lives to maintain and achieve freedom. I eagerly anticipate Oliver Stone's next film, centered around our role as peacekeepers and liberators of the world. It's gonna be a long wait.

Like Michael Moore, Stone

Like Michael Moore, Stone has a huge ego that enables him to believe that what he perceives is always the absolute truth. When he goes to see someone like Chavez, who plays up the "who could ever be afraid of me?" role, and is of course on his best behavior, Stone doesn't see that he's getting played... he sees that he's seeing something everyone else is missing.

Perhaps Stone Is The Epitome Of The Stereotyped Vietnam Vet...

Did it ever occur to you how the media tends to stereotype Vietnam veterans as either emotionally distressed, psychologically tortured by their actions or act like mersciless baby killers or whatnot? You know, all those repetetive lies and talking points about Vietnam veterans being insane? While that may not be true for the most part, but I think I have found the the one true epitome of that stereotype: Oliver Stone.