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Title: Haim Saban to CBS: Cancel Oliver Stone’s Showtime Series
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Published: Jul 29, 2010
Author: http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/
Post Date: 2010-07-29 10:14:18 by tom007
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Haim Saban to CBS: Cancel Oliver Stone’s Showtime Series Banishment from Hollywood by Jews for saying that Jews control Hollywood By Sharon Waxman & Brent Lang | The Wrap | July 27, 2010 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. 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.” The billionaire and outspoken media mogul told TheWrap he had contacted CBS chief Leslie Moonves to urge him to pull the series. He said that WME chairman Ari Emanuel had also called CBS privately to urge the series be pulled. update: WME had no comment. 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 emails 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.” 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. July 28, 2010 - Posted by aletho | Full Spectrum Dominance
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
That was the best that Stone could do under duress to apologize for the truth.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
He should have suggested that Haim pound some sand.
Guy's got it wrong: being pro-American means being anti-Jewish.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
Not a contradiction...
"Aba daba daba daba daba daba daba" said the chimp-y to the monk.
...has done his best to pervert the minds of American children with his blasphemous productions, he is a willing pawn of Satan. From wiki: Saban, in a 2004 New York Times interview,[3] ascribed his interest in politics to his concern for Israel: "I'm a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
He said that WME chairman Ari Emanuel had also called CBS privately to urge the series be pulled. update: WME had no comment. So Saban chimps out if anyone suggests that Jews control Hollywood, then proceeds to call all his leading Hollywood friends who just happen to be Jewish and demands that Oliver Stone never work in Hollywood again? Anyone else see the irony here?
"The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.” - William S Burroughs
Reminds me of Marlon Brando........
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
Dialectic physics, you can't land on fractions... :)
"The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.” - William S Burroughs
Yes - Pretty rich irony here.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
#3. To: tom007 (#0)
Stone’s apology “is transparently fake,” Saban said
#4. To: abraxas, 4 (#3)
That was the best that Stone could do under duress to apologize for the truth.
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#6. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
#7. To: tom007 (#0)
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Israeli-American billionaire and media mogul Haim Saban...
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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#9. To: tom007 (#0)
The billionaire and outspoken media mogul told TheWrap he had contacted CBS chief Leslie Moonves to urge him to pull the series.
#10. To: Dakmar, tom007, all (#9)
#11. To: abraxas (#10)
#12. To: Dakmar (#9)
So Saban chimps out if anyone suggests that Jews control Hollywood, then proceeds to call all his leading Hollywood friends who just happen to be Jewish and demands that Oliver Stone never work in Hollywood again? Anyone else see the irony here?
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