US film director Oliver Stone said Friday he would travel with a Venezuelan-led air mission going to Colombia to pick up three hostages being released by Marxist rebels.ÂÂ
“It’s wonderful,” the Oscar-winning filmmaker said in Santo Domingo airport in southwest Venezuela, from where a first air convoy left for Colombia on Friday. “I’ve never been in such a thing and I’m proud to be part of this.”
Stone said he was in Venezuela to film a documentary about Latin America and North America, but he refused to say whether he would film the actual rescue of the hostages, two women and a three-year-old boy.
Stone heaped praise on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who spearheaded the mission after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced on December 18 they would release the hostages to him or someone he designates.
“It’s a beautiful, great process,” Stone said, calling the Venezuelan leader “a great man.” “I’m a fan (of Chavez).”
It’s the picture of him at the link that’s most disturbing cause you can look at it and just know he pays for sex which is probably why he wanted to do his next film in Latin America and on top of that he’s going down on Chavez so he’s just all around not representing our nation with any distinction at all.
Hmmmph.
Happy ending…FARC releases the hostages, takes Oliver Stone. For 4 years. Gets him knocked up, sends him home with his 3-year old progeny…hey, it could happen! It’d be just another bad Oliver Stone movie…
my little thinger is not posting…
it must be the link
http://www.lasvegassun*.com/sunbin/stories/text/2007/dec/28/122802603.html
I just wanted to link that and say what I never want to hear ever again is an AP propaganda monkey sneering about anyone dropping news after five on Friday ever again
And also that’s just inherently pitiful.
Wouldn’t his time be better spent in Pakistan ?
Would be funny if the FARCettes got loaded and shot down the plane….Just saying..
” FARC are expected to release former lawmaker Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo, 57; Clara Rojas, 44; and Emmanuel, 3, the son Rojas bore to a rebel in captivity.”
It is good to see Marxist rebels don’t dehumanize women.
Think he’ll make the head honcho of FARC an ass-grabbing poofter, too?
What a marooon. What an ignoranimus!
Of course Chávez was able to secure the release of the hostages: he’s totally in bed with FARC. He’s just doing this to poke his thumb in the eye of Bush-ally Uribe.
Right now I’m working my way through Andrew Roberts’ book, “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900”.
An interesting point is just how often “brave”, “transgressive” types like Stone show up in English-speaking cultures. If he knew what a caricature, what a complete stereotype he is, he’d probably die of shame.
If.
“If he knew what a caricature, what a complete stereotype he is, he’d probably die of shame.”
If this were true, we’d see dead bodies hitting the pavement all over Hollywood. These idiots aren’t capable of shame.
Plus, for some of them, “caricature” is something to aspire to.
Which may explain why a certain nitwit professor doesn’t seem to realize that the elongation we make of his surname is meant as an insult.
Stone is by far one of the very worse. There was this guy, Chavez, who was pure as the driven snow… and then there were the evil forces of the usa… they claimed to have landed on the moon and the sheople bought it. they claimed JFK was assassinated by one shooter, but I debunked that. they claimed 911 was the work of some evil mastermind named “Osama [haven’t] bin Laidlately”. But before I could pin it on the bushcheneyhaliburtonrepubs, some fat bastage with a baseball cap beat me to it. They claimed that MLK Jr was killed by someone other than the CIA (which by the way has its hands in everything), and the sheople bought it. Anyway, this Chavez guy is the real deal. He’s like the anti-BushChaneyco… the Luke Skywalker … nay, the Frodo Baggins of the present day! He doesn’t want any of the glory… but he is destined to save us all from the right-wing military-industrial complex… Count me in. Incidentally, I will be releasing a movie about this (with Harrison Ford playing the part of me) and High School History Teachers across the US will take their students to the theaters in droves!
It puts the hostages on the helicopter or it gets the no-guns-for-you fire hose. Again.
/creepy Chavez voice
That Stone is a sharp one, isn’t he?
Enoch,
You scared me there for a bit. I thought I was reading a PRNewswire press release by Stone himself…
You’re right on, dicentra, except that Chavez wasn’t able to secure the release of anybody. Uribe fired him as a mediator a month ago because Chavez broke his word. FARC is only making this small gesture to try to legitimize Chavez, who in turn wants to legitimize them. They’ve also offered to release all the hostages they hold if the entire government would resign. So they’ve given Colombians the choice to have either democracy or the release of their hostages.
Of course, Chavez is milking this for all its worth. Aside from inviting Stone he’s formulated an elaborate plan to oversee the release.
Shame on you Oliver Stone for taking part of this circus.
Can´t you see you are being used to clean up the terrorists´ image?
How about the hundreds of Venezuelans kidnapped?
Aren´t they important?
How about the thousands of kids that sleep in the streets of Venezuela thanks to the leftist, populist regime of Chavez.
A few years from today you will look back and realize that you took part in a big show in the worst Idi Amin Dada style….
How long till Stone does a assassination conspiracy film on Bhutto?
This footage should be enough to get him started.
Chavez is milking this for all its worth. Aside from inviting Stone he’s formulated an elaborate plan to oversee the release.
People really need to become intimately familiar with the symptoms of malignant narcissism and megalomania. Then they could see right through these kinds of theatrics.
But then, all too many people see megalomania as something to aspire to…
geoffb – actually, according to Stone, that was not a gun… but a Pez dispenser. and we know that only CIA Pez dispensers fire bullets… or were those laser beams?
Boy ain’t right.
Peasants being cruelly exploited by American unlicensed pharmacists.
Oh. That link’s already dead. Here’s another. Hmmm… the pickup on this story is not even anemic so far.
I heard they also asked for Michael Moore. Is there any way we can contact the terrorists and have them take both in exchange for the hostages… then we can rally to bomb Chavez-land and solve a whole slew of problems.
It’s really wonderful that these Hollywood-types can just jet off for foreign lands to save the world. Then when they get taken hostage themselves guess who has to go in and save their sorry a$$e$? Soldiers like my son.
Thanks alot!!
This is all very sad. These are real people who have been kidnapped and held for years, with real family and friends, and Oliver Stone is now jumping on into the media circus for the thrill of it. You can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can sure fool Oliver Stone.
I cant believe reading on cnn that mr stone refers to the FARC like “a peasant army fighting for a decent living”. He is misinformed or maybe Chavez already brainwashed him, which is the same anyway. Every normal colombian citizen like myself hates the FARC, everybody here knows the only words they know are kidnapping and killing. They are looking for a decent living, by drug trafficking and receiving ransoms for their macabre human trading, which is what the lives of all of us are for them, merchandise. I can´t believe another misinformed fell for their “romantic fighting” to overthrow the goverment, like the danes, that support this terrorist group. That idealism is sooo far behind. Besides our current president has done more than the 3 last presidents together, foreign investment is pouring in, we can travel by car within cities, everything is 5-star compared to 8 years ago….and the FARC are the robin hoodesque heroes? one big lie….
Colombian here… This man’s ignorance and naivity knows no bounds.
“They seem like a peasant army fighting for a decent living”
Maybe he should document himself a bit on FARC and what they do and have done to Colombia, all the innocent blood they have spilled, the dead children who were playing in the pool of the hotel/club they bombed to bits in the middle of the country’s capital city, the complete anihilation of entire villages of nameless men, women and children that they have perpetrated along with the paramilitary groups. The thousands of orphaned children of brave soldiers and police officers. And their use of child soldiers (not a sierra leone or liberia thing only).
His happy peasants also control 90% of the cocaine production of the country, literally burying billions of dollars, product of drug trade, scattered all over the jungle to finance their eternal drug pimping. They’re not fighting for power, they haven’t done that for over 20 years now. They now have the drugs, the money and the fear that they use to rule over the dirt floored huts of the people they have forced into eternal poverty.
For crying out loud.