Revisionists to the left of me
Oliver Stone is coming out with a new movie -- should be interesting.
From
The Live Feed:
Oliver Stone's 'Secret History' to put Hitler 'in context'
Director Oliver Stone's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries "Secret History of America" promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context."
"Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy -- these are people who have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history," Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.
"Stalin has another story," Stone said. "Not to paint him as a hero, but he fought the German war machine more than any single person. Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history. He's the product of a series of actions. People in America don't know the connection between WWI and WWII. I've been able to walk in Stalin's shoes and Hitler's shoes. We're going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them. We want to move beyond opinions. Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved. Hitler is a product of a series of events, just a man who could have been assassinated."
Stone said that conservative pundits will dislike the show.
"Obviously, Rush Limbaugh is not going to like this history and, as usual, we're going to get those kind of ignorant attacks," he said.
You can say what you want about Limbaugh but the man is not stupid by any means. Any attacks Stone gets will be in the form of carefully researched facts and historical contexts and will be a line item by line item
fisking of epic proportions.
Time to make a bowl of popcorn and sit back and enjoy the show.
And that high-pitched humming you hear is Senator Joseph McCarthy spinning in his grave for being linked in the same sentence as Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Talk about being known by the company you keep...
Posted by DaveH at January 9, 2010 6:22 PM