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“I found him to be a magnanimous warm man, big man”
US filmmaker Oliver Stone hailed Friday the achievements of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and forecast that his vice president would be elected if the controversial leader dies of cancer.
“I think he’s going to be mourned as a national figure, he changed Venezuela forever, you have no idea how bad it was before him,” Stone told CNN, about the possibility Chavez may not survive.
Before Chavez, “people were fed up. He represents hope and change, the things that (President Barack) Obama stood for in our country in 2008,” he said, adding: “I was very happy that he won the re-election” in October. …
“I found him to be a magnanimous warm man, big man.”
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Ho hum.
petefrt on January 5, 2013 at 8:57 AM
fascism is awesome.
rob verdi on January 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM
His kid is a chip off the old block: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/wood_snubs_muslim_stone_AxID3XZz34PKvRRtbWOQMK
Absolutely talentless and claims he is a victim.
Blake on January 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM
CNN founder Ted Turner, after once looking gulag-stuffing Soviet leaders “in the eyes,” exclaimed, “they looked like they meant the truth.”
When asked if he agreed that Christian-torturing Kim Jong Il is evil & despotic, Turner admitted, “I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look, in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people.” http://newsbusters.org/node/8225
Most people look like green-pajamas-clad Elvis impersonators, right?
Turner insisted that it can’t be so bad in N. Korea, because he “didn’t see any” brutality or starvation.
itsnotaboutme on January 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM
People also liked Mussolini, back in the day.
rbj on January 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM
What is wrong with Stone, does he have multiple personalities?
Or, is he just Hollywood stupid.
Fallon on January 5, 2013 at 9:50 AM
Chavez is very popular, so something obviously was (and is) very wrong with Venezuela.
Seth Halpern on January 5, 2013 at 9:53 AM
Those Hollywood types are sooo gullible. What a fool.
Zorro on January 5, 2013 at 10:00 AM
It’s easy to espouse socialism (on others) once you already have your fortune made and deposited offshore. It makes you look so altruistic.
Clink on January 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM
So, Oliver Stone has had sex with Chavez too? I hope Sean Penn doesn’t mind sharing.
Pork-Chop on January 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM