Word: stoning
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...Stone appears to be similarly enthralled with Havana’s darling dictator. His documentary film, entitled “Comandante,” is filled with toadying pro-Castro drivel. Stone spent some 30 hours with the Communist tyrant last February, and the movie represents a compilation of those interviews. To say that the director lobbed him a series of softball questions would be a gross understatement. In fact, before Stone was even allowed to begin taping, Castro reportedly demanded the right to reject any questions he didn’t find acceptable. Also, he was allowed to order...
...course, this shouldn’t necessarily be surprising; Stone is infamous for using his films to suggest that free and unfree societies are morally equivalent. Indeed, he offered this assessment of Castro to a journalist at Sundance: “He’s a very driven man, a very moral man. He’s very concerned about his country. He’s selfless in that way.” That’s about as concise a piece of moral equivocating as you’re ever going to find...
During the Cold War, Soviet apparatchiks commonly referred to those Western journalists who naively accepted the Kremlin’s misinformation as “useful idiots.” The phrase could easily be used to characterize people such as Stone, who willfully enable a totalitarian government to subjugate its people and escape even the mildest of rebukes from the international community. Perhaps someday when Castro is gone and Cuba’s Communist archives are made available to the public, his sympathizers in the West will at last recognize the abject folly of their delusion. For the time...
Reminding everyone of these crimes is the only way to combat the whitewashing of Castro’s brutality by useful idiots like Stone. Communist dictatorships, after all, can only survive in an environment of lies and distortions. The Cuban regime cannot withstand the truth...
...They deserve it,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone...