I just threw up in my mouth... alot... notice the three tags accompanying this diary... did you ever dream you'd see them joined at the hip? I'm stunned... and I'm stunned by so many aspects of this story that I'm actually at a loss as to where to start... but I'll make an effort...
From the NY Times:
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Oliver Stone, that symbol of everything about Hollywood that conservatives love to hate, is getting help in marketing his newest movie from an unlikely ally: the publicity firm that helped devise the Swift boat campaign attacking John Kerry's Vietnam record in the 2004 presidential race.
And so Mr. Stone, the director of the antiwar movies "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July," now finds himself sharing something in common with a group of Vietnam veterans who insisted that their comrades who demonstrated against the war were misguided, misled or traitorous.
And Oliver Stone claims to have been "unaware" of this...
Many of you are no doubt just seeing this, as am I... if anyone else has previously diaried this, I'll gladly delete... I wish I could delete this from my brain...
I'm sorry, but quite frankly, I don't believe that for a fucking second... nor do I for a moment absolve him of complicity in this, even if he was in fact unaware that Creative Response Concepts (the folks who brought us not only the Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth", but the shilling of the Roberts and Alito nominations, not to mention Newt Gingrich's Contract on America)... the simple fact is, if he wasn't aware, he should have been...
This is not some first time director getting his break and beholden to the studio's marketing department... this is OLIVER FUCKING STONE...
There's no way... simply NO FUCKING WAY he could have been completely ignorant of the fact that his movie... HIS movie was going to be marketed in this manner...
I know there are people in the blogosphere who know and have worked with Mr. Stone... I pray that we hear from them that he has in fact been duped... but until Oliver Stone fully, completely and unconditionally refutes and condemns Creative Response Concepts and rejects any and all support for them as it regards HIS movie, I move that we turn our collective backs on him... because whether or not he was aware before, he's damn sure aware NOW...