Oliver Stone's apology is not enough, say some
USA TODAY
Jul 28, 2010
Oliver Stone's apology for remarks about the Holocaust is not satisfying some folks.
Media mogul Haim Saban is trying to get Showtime to cancel Stone's upcoming 10-part series, A Secret History of America, reports The Wrap. Saban who told The Wrap in an e-mail that Stone's "apology is sooooo transparently fake," and he has contacted CBS chief Leslie Moonves to urge him not to air the series. And Saban told The Wrap that super agent Ari Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, had also called CBS privately to urge that it be pulled. CBS, Moonves and Emanuel have not commented yet.
Stone said earlier this year at the TV critics' press tour that the 10-part Secret History series would put Hitler and Stalin "in context."
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League has sent out a release saying the group is not satisfied with Stone's apology. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following:
"Oliver Stone's apology stops short and is therefore insufficient.
While he now admits that Jews do not control Hollywood, the media and other industries, he ignores his assertion that Jews are '...the most powerful lobby in Washington' and that 'Israel has (expletive) up United States foreign policy.' This is another conspiratorial anti-Semitic canard that Mr. Stone needs to repudiate."
Jul 28, 2010
Oliver Stone's apology for remarks about the Holocaust is not satisfying some folks.
Media mogul Haim Saban is trying to get Showtime to cancel Stone's upcoming 10-part series, A Secret History of America, reports The Wrap. Saban who told The Wrap in an e-mail that Stone's "apology is sooooo transparently fake," and he has contacted CBS chief Leslie Moonves to urge him not to air the series. And Saban told The Wrap that super agent Ari Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, had also called CBS privately to urge that it be pulled. CBS, Moonves and Emanuel have not commented yet.
Stone said earlier this year at the TV critics' press tour that the 10-part Secret History series would put Hitler and Stalin "in context."
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League has sent out a release saying the group is not satisfied with Stone's apology. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following:
"Oliver Stone's apology stops short and is therefore insufficient.
While he now admits that Jews do not control Hollywood, the media and other industries, he ignores his assertion that Jews are '...the most powerful lobby in Washington' and that 'Israel has (expletive) up United States foreign policy.' This is another conspiratorial anti-Semitic canard that Mr. Stone needs to repudiate."
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