Oliver Stone’s Unbelievable Crap

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Front Page Magazine:

On the evidence of his new Showtime mini-series and companion book, Oliver Stone is both a communist and political moron, a redundancy to be sure. Having previously celebrated a trio of evil-doers – Castro, Arafat and Hugo Chavez – Stone now adds The Untold History of the United States to the cinematic garbage heap he has been piling up since J.F.K. and Born on the 4th of July. Like them, this latest contribution is an unrelenting (and unrelentingly perverse) attack on America as history’s Great Satan, the root cause of worldly evil.

The heroes of this latest Stone fantasy are — I kid you not — Vladimir Lenin and Henry Wallace. Wallace is cast by Stone as the visionary of a planet without capitalism and war, and consequently as America’s missed opportunity to change the world. Along the way, Stone composes nauseating apologetics for Joseph Stalin and other historical villains including even Saddam Hussein, all of which are necessary to sustain his preposterous narrative of America as the great villain of a century in which America in fact defeated the two most monstrous regimes on human record – the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany – liberating more than a billion people in the process.

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Oliver Stone is as full of it as the proverbial Christmas goose.

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The heroes of this latest Stone fantasy are — I kid you not — Vladimir Lenin and Henry Wallace.

 

Henry Wallace has become a pretty much forgotten figure in "modern era" U.S. political history. As FDR's VP from 1941-1945 (FDR's third term) he was described by TIME as "The Worst Vice President in U.S. History". He is at once an extreme embarrassment to the Democrat Party and a patron saint to liberals. One of the first national politicians to describe himself as "A Liberal" He was an avowed Communist sympathizer who openly cavorted with Soviet public officials. He was probably the first recognized Democrat figure to describe Republicans and Conservatives as Fascists, and was one of the chief implementers of New Deal policies for the Roosevelt administration. He became such a public embarrassment to FDR that he was removed from the ticket for the 1944 campaign, to be replaced by Truman. As a bone for this humiliation he was given the post of Secretary of Commerce in 1945, a position that was also stripped from him as one of Truman's first acts as a post war President in 1946.