Oliver Stone: 'Reagan Was a Dumb Son of a Bitch' Who Spawned Bush
Film producer/director Oliver Stone,
a far-left promoter of conspiracies who is working on a sequel to his
1987 'Wall Street' movie, declared on Friday night's edition of HBO's
Real Time with Bill Maher that "Reagan was a dumb son of a bitch" and "I really think George W is dumber"
and so, after producing movies on the CIA conspiracy to murder
President Kennedy and a dark look at President Nixon, he won't create a
movie on Ronald Reagan because "by doing the W movie I kind of put all
my efforts behind dumbness."
Stone, who earlier in the pre-taped
show made up of three one-on-one interviews Maher conducted (other two
were with Cameron Diaz and Billy Bob Thornton) characterized President
Obama as no better than Bush ("a sneak Bush administration with
different words"), also asserted: "I do think Nixon is the father of
Reagan and I think Reagan's the father of Bush. There's sort of a very
strong line." Whatever that means.
Audio: MP3 clip (55 secs, 340 Kb)
From the June 26 program, after Maher asked why Stone, who did films on JFK, Nixon and Bush, had not done a movie on Reagan:
OLIVER STONE: Nixon always said Reagan was a dumb son of a bitch and, you know, I think that he was [audience applause]. And I think, I really think George W is dumber [more audience laughter and applause].
BILL MAHER: Definitely
STONE: I do think that by doing the W movie I kind of put all my efforts behind dumbness and I don't want to go back there because, you know, I'm not the Farrelly brothers. But I do think Nixon is the father of Reagan and I think Reagan's the father of Bush. There's sort of a very strong line....
- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
