STONED

My old friend Annie Bardach – not exactly a conservative – essentially destroys the evil (yes, I mean evil) intentions and actions of Oliver Stone, in his dogged support of tyranny. Money quotes:

Anne-Louise Bardach: Did it strike you as interesting that at one point in the scene with the prisoners, Castro turned to the prisoners’ defense lawyers, who just happened to be there, and he says, “I urge you to do your best to reduce the sentences”?

Oliver Stone: I love that. I thought that was hilarious. Those guys just popped up.

ALB: Is there a show-trial element here?

OS: Yeah. I thought that was funny, I did-the prosecutor and Fidel admonishing them, to make sure they worked hard. There was that paternalism. I mean “father knows best,” as opposed to totalitarianism. It’s paternalism, that’s what I meant. It’s a Latin thing.

Just when you think Stone couldnt get more morally depraved, he says something like that. The man is laughing – laughing – at a gulag.