Only two days on the air and already it appears as though CNN’s “Parker Spitzer” is going for a perfect record when it comes to inviting Elite Hollywoodists on to savage Sarah Palin. Last night it was Aaron Sorkin — who’s old man is quite the real American, donchaknow! Tonight it’s fading director Oliver Stone, who manages to make Sorkin look like a Tea Partier by comparison.
Stone not only calls Palin a “moron,” he intentionally and maliciously compares the former Alaskan Governor and her influential political movement to the anti-Semitic Father Coughlin and the Ku Klux Klan. By extension, he’s also labelling we unsophisticates who admire Palin as dupes, haters h8ers, or both. And how effective is it for Mr. Jews-Dominate-The-Media to be referencing Coughlin — though that little piece of irony appears to have flown right by our hosts.
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Color me not shocked. Stone is a destroyer. That’s what he does. He’s never built or ennobled anything in his life. Whatever inadequacies and insecurities he suffers from, they are what drives this once great director to constantly tear down — by whatever lies necessary, that which makes him feel ashamed. Once upon a time this dark quality worked as a muse that produced marvelous cinema. Today, as it burns out, it produces only junk like “W.” and “Wall Street 2” — the work of an old man shouting, get off my lawn.
Knowing this, you have to expect that when confronted with someone as centered, solid, vibrant and unaffected as Sarah Palin, that a bitter, aging nihilist like Stone (or Letterman) is going to spew as much hateful poison in her direction as he can, and at every opportunity. What I didn’t expect, however, even from a Kathleen Parker (who made her name criticizing Palin), was that Stone would apparently be allowed to make such ugly, indefensible, and cruel statements without be challenged on them. And I say “apparently” because obviously we’re not seeing the entire interview. But by the time the clip ends, the discussion has moved way beyond the Klan comments.
Watch the clip again. As the aging director prattles on through his wicked talking points comparing Palin to every malicious social and political movement this side of Hitler, Parker and Spitzer don’t even blink an eye.
My guess is that once we see the entire interview, only two things can happen. Either Parker will fold her arms, lean back in her chair and say to Stone, “Any comparison to Sarah Palin and her political movement to the KKK is not only outrageous and offensive, it’s stupid and anti-intellectual.” Or… Danny Glover and Sean Penn will pop out of the green room to join Stone for a discussion comparing the utter awesomeness of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez to that evil woman who might not be Trig’s real mother.