Haim Saban to CBS: Cancel Oliver Stone's Showtime Series
"Anyone who works with this guy, should be ashamed of him/herself, and shouldn't share that fact with their neighbors, or kids for that matter," Saban said.
Saban, a major stakeholder in Univision and chairman of Saban Capital Group, said he is spreading the word among his Hollywood friends to avoid working with Stone."
Michael Medved: OLIVER STONE'S "SECRET HISTORY"
Townhall.com - 20hrs 20mins ago
Ron's note to Oliver Stone: What did you apologize for? For saying someone suffered more than the Jews?
"This weekend he amped it up a notch. The controversial director complained to the London's Sunday Times of "Jewish domination of the media" and claimed that Hitler did more damage to Russia than he did to the Jews. "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 million [killed]." Almost 24 million Russians killed; See, http://en.wikipedia
http://www.thewrap.
And, if there is anyone with any doubt to the claim that Jews dominate the U.S. media, kindly and promptly direct them to this Straight Talk top-notch documentary, to remove all doubt:
Pro-Israeli Bias in the U.S. Media: http://www.youtube.
And another thing: Do Jews dominate U.S. foreign policy? Perhaps you should ask Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, then George W. Bush. Stephen "I Forgot" Hadley is the guy who (ignored CIA warnings) and inserted the infamously false sixteen words into Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, claiming Saddam was trying to procure yellow-cake uranium from Niger. (which proved to be untrue) In fact, prior to the speech, the CIA warned Hadley NOT to use those very words Hadley wrote into Bush's 2003 SOTU speech.
When confronted by reporters as to why Hadley put those 16 words in the speech anyway, Hadley replied:
"I forgot."
http://www.roncorvu
Bush aide admits he was warned on uranium
By Marian Wilkinson
United States Correspondent
Washington
July 24 2003
A top White House official has admitted that he was warned in two
written memos and a phone call by the CIA director that intelligence on
Iraq seeking uranium in Africa was faulty.
But Stephen Hadley, the White House's Deputy National Security Adviser,
said he did not remove the claim from President George Bush's State of
the Union speech in January.
http://www.theage.
Bush Aide Fires Back at Critics On Justification for War in Iraq
http://www.washingt
Bristling from fresh assaults on its justification for war, the White House dispatched national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley to the briefing room to issue a rebuttal to "the notion that somehow the administration manipulated prewar intelligence about Iraq."
EXCLUSIVE
Update at 10:30 pm:
A furious Haim Saban has mounted a campaign to get Showtime to cancel its planned airing of Oliver Stone's 10-part series, "A Secret History of America," in the wake of anti-Jewish remarks by the outspoken director.
The billionaire and outspoken media mogul told TheWrap he had contacted CBS chief Leslie Moonves to urge him to do so.
He said that WME chairman Ari Emanuel had also called CBS privately to urge the series be pulled.
Stone has previously said the 10-part "Secret History" series would put Hitler and Stalin "in context," and offer an alternative crash course to the "grossly inadequate history" taught by American schools and proffered by mass media.
CBS, Moonves and Emanuel did not respond to an email seeking comment.
Saban also said he had called CAA partner Bryan Lourd, Stone's agent, to follow the example of Emanuel, who recently dropped Mel Gibson in the wake of the actor's latest racist tirade.
Saban said he considers Stone to be "clearly an anti-Semite and an anti-American.
Stone's apology "is transparently fake," Saban said in an interview with TheWrap. "He has been consistent in his anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks. I respect his First Amendment rights. I hope he respects mine."
EARLIER:
Israeli-American billionaire and media mogul Haim Saban isn't buying Oliver Stone's apology.
In venting his outrage, Saban has become the first big Hollywood name to publicly criticize Stone for his controversial remarks about the Holocaust.
"This guy should be helped in joining Mel Gibson into the land of retirement, where he can preach his anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in the wilderness where he belongs," Saban told TheWrap in an email.
Stone kicked off a media firestorm over the weekend for telling a reporter from London's Sunday Times that Adolf Hitler, the subject of his upcoming documentary, did more damage to Russia than he did to the Jews. He also stated that the U.S.'s support for Israel is the result of Jewish domination of the media.
Stone apologized Monday afternoon saying his comments were "clumsy" and that contrary to his earlier remarks, Jews didn't control the media or any industry for that matter.
That wasn't good enough for Saban.
"His love of [Venezuelan president Hugo] Chavez has always bothered me, but here he went too far, and his apology is sooooo transparently fake," Saban wrote. "He should be embarrassed by it, and has certainly done nothing to calm my outrage at this guy's positions."
Saban, a major stakeholder in Univision and chairman of Saban Capital Group, said he is spreading the word among his Hollywood friends to avoid working with Stone.
"Anyone who works with this guy, should be ashamed of him/herself, and shouldn't share that fact with their neighbors, or kids for that matter," Saban said.
It's not certain that his appeal will reach sympathetic ears, as others in the movie business seem more willing to move on following Stone's mea culpa.
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