Oliver Stone Apologizes; Cinematical Lashes Out at Director's Critics

Fox News:

Filmmaker Oliver Stone has apologized after critics slammed him for making comments that were interpreted as anti-Semitic in an interview last Sunday.

While promoting his documentary “South of the Border” with The Sunday Times of London, Stone not only defended Hitler, but also downplayed the Holocaust. …

Later, he complained about the “Jewish domination of the media,” saying, “there’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f**ked up United States foreign policy for years.”

On Monday afternoon, Stone issued the following statement in an attempt to appease the situation:

“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.

“Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity — and it was an atrocity.”

But Stone’s apology may be too little, too late for his critics, including the Anti-Defamation League, the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and the American Jewish Committee, who said Stone’s comments have outed him as an anti-Semite.

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Meanwhile, Cinematical’s Scott Weinberg used the opportunity of this apology to ask Stone’s critics if they’re now ready to put down their pitchforks. You know, because joining the Anti-Defamation League in criticizing anti-Semitism represents unruly behavior.

Like their vigorous defense of a certain child rapist, the leftists over at Cinematical appear to enjoy using moments such as these as reminders that we’re just not sophisticated enough to understand that Stone makes good movies.