Oliver Stone is planning to direct an anti-war television commercial for the leftist group MoveOn.org. The Stone ad campaign will focus on a specific American family affected by the war, chosen by MoveOnbats for maximum moral authority.
This is a marriage made in Heaven (if it’s not too Christianist to refer to both marriage and Heaven). Indeed, I suspect most PW readers could have predicted it.
It’s a little ironic, given the recent Imus Nappy-Gate, that the ostensibly progressive group would tout Stone the same week it was revealed Stone once dropped “N”-word on a person of color and suggested that African-Americans are particularly fond of gangsta fare.
But not surprising. As Jeff noted with respect to the Imus story:
As I say, not surprisingâ€â€unless, that is, you happened to be of the opinion that liberal Democrats were sticklers for consistency. In which case, you really need to get out more.
Maybe MoveOn can do a follow-up ad with Mel Gibson.
Wasn’t this what these flower-children 60’s leftovers were supposed to finish. Wasn’t war supposed to finish many years ago; the year I bought my hover car.
Strange, who would have thunk its easier to complain about something than to fix it.
What about St. Cindy? Or is she busy fellating some dictator or other that week?
Stone should get on famously with Moore, who is so widely known for his hiring of minorities on his film projects. Doesn’t the large one also like to avoid paying U.S. scale and unions by filming in Canada?
How predictable.
Sorry, boys, but you used up that whole “moral authority” meme when we learned that Cindy Cheehan was an insufferable, clueless, self promoting idiot.
While we are on the subject I’m sure that many other military families who have lost loved ones in the conflict (like the rest of Casey Sheehan’s) rejoice in your arrogant, santimonious choice that ignores their alternate vision of “moral authority;” one that encompasses different values, values that you no doubt find tired, worn out and without merit.
Well, hey! Moveon.org is the arbitor of “moral authority” because of your towering collective intellect and bleeting comittment to all that is good and progressive!
I don’t think the word “moral” means what you think it means. But, at the very least, you can join the UN in burnishing your misery pimpage and, at the same time, lay claim to the mantle of “noble dissent” by narrowly defining the truthiniess of the evil about which you scream while laying bare the unspeakable sorrow of one family’s loss. IKt’s important to have pride in your work.
Man, I need a long shower…
Oliver Stone is still alive? Now maybe we can find out who really shot JR.
$182 million later with a delivery date pushed back to sometime in Spring ‘09, MoveOn files for bankruptcy….