Oliver Stone: We're Living in a Censored State

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, we’re unpaywalling our extended interview with multiple-Oscar-winner Oliver Stone. His new documentary Ukraine on Fire has been censored by Youtube, but you can still see it on Rumble. He wrote and directed multiple classic, culture-defining American movies. He created groundbreaking documentaries, interviewing Putin, debunking Russiagate, and uncovering JFK’s murder. He won three Academy Awards. There was only one thing left for Oliver Stone to do: Become a Useful Idiot. Stone’s new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, uses newly declassified and reexamined footage to present a case that conspiracy theories about the president’s death are actually “conspiracy facts.” And it creates a big debate on Useful Idiots. Watch the pod, watch the doc, then let us know: do you agree with Matt, Katie, or Oliver? Who really killed President John F. Kennedy? The Oscar-winning filmmaker shares stories of censorship, getting yelled at about Russiagate by Bill Maher (kinda like another Useful Idiot we know), and being pushed out of the mainstream for being a controversial filmmaker, cementing his legacy as a Useful Idiot. Plus, watch Matt’s reaction when one of his all-time favorite directors quotes his “vampire squid” piece. It’s pretty cool. It’s Oliver Stone on Useful Idiots. Don’t miss this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So this week we are off. We are on vacation but we are not leaving you without an episode.
0:10.0	So what we are doing is we are releasing the formerly pay-walled extended interview that
0:14.8	we did with Oliver Stone back in December. It's a great interview and of course Oliver
0:19.9	Stone is back in the headlines because a movie that he produced, Ukraine on fire, was
0:24.3	censored and removed from YouTube. You can find the film you found fire on rumble. So enjoy
0:31.3	this great extended interview with Oliver Stone and we will see you next week.
0:37.3	Well thank you so much. We are so thrilled to have you on. We have wanted to have you on
0:41.3	for so long so we are so excited. Your film was amazing. Lots of questions about it.
0:47.3	I just wanted to ask you. And for those who don't know this is JFK revisited
0:51.3	through the looking glass and we are going to get into what is so interesting about it in a moment.
0:56.3	So yes your film JFK revisited through the looking glass which is a show time. It was excellent.
1:03.3	And wanted to know you had already done the JFK feature film which was of course based a lot on history.
1:12.3	What without giving everything away to people who haven't seen it. What to you stands out as the major things that have been
1:18.3	been made up of the film. I know you were asking something like that.
1:23.3	It's hard to sum it all up because it's actually a four hour film we cut it to two hours
1:29.3	purposes of show time. But the four hours cover you're going to release the four hours.
1:33.3	It may play a few theaters in America but it's really a platform thing.
1:39.3	And it's a lot to digest. In short, I mean just to answer briefly your question.
1:48.3	It goes back after 91 the film was made with the dramatization.
1:53.3	And it resulted in the assassination records review board being appointed by Congress and active legislation.
1:59.3	It's a pretty significant from a film. Yeah. The board six or six academics were roughly existed for they worked for four years from 94 to 98.
2:16.3	And they had the power to declassify documents. They were supposed to declassify most everything I guess but didn't get there.
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