@CB

I thought better of him when he first got the show, before he turned into a mindless propagandist. It sounds like junior high school Mean Girls on the late "humor" shows now.

Watch how ignorant both Colbert and his dumbed down audience are.

Stone's 'Putin Interviews' offend a US establishment drunk on its own exceptionalism

Colbert’s line of questioning amounted to a regurgitation of the very caricature that Stone had set out to move beyond in over 20 hours of interviews on an abundance of topics with Putin – his upbringing, family history, career, thoughts on leadership, the challenges Russia faced during the dark days of the 1990s, his relations with various US presidents, NATO, and so on.

Yet for the likes of Mr. Colbert it’s much easier to go with the official narrative, contained in his first question of the interview: “What do you say to people who say that yours [Oliver Stone’s] is a fawning interview of a brutal dictator?” Not only the question, but also the casual and insouciant way in which it was delivered, confirmed the dumbing-down of news information, analysis and commentary that has been underway in the United States over decades.

The result is a culture so intellectually shallow it is frightening to behold, one in which ignorance is celebrated rather than scorned, in which national exceptionalism and arrogance is exalted rather than rejected. And woe betide anyone, such as Oliver Stone, who dares try to penetrate this fog of ignorance and sense of exceptionalism that has so corroded US cultural values.
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It has become so pervasive and obsessive you would think that it was the Russian leader who had the destruction of entire countries on his record and conscience – i.e. Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya – and that it was his foreign policy that had killed more people and sown more chaos than at any time since World War II.

Oliver Stone is to be commended for trying to wake America up to the damage it does and has done around the world over many decades. Those who would attack and laugh at him for doing so merely confirm the degeneration of a culture built on foundations not of wisdom, but of crass ignorance.

@travelerxxx Those were great.

Amazingly enough, all these links to the Stone/Putin interviews are still up - with the exception of video #4, which has been taken down. However, I was able to find episode #4 at this link. Should that link go down, you should still be able to find it by doing a search at youtube. I searched for "stone putin #4" and I had several choices. A couple of the results were spammers, so watch out for that. If you find yourself directed to another site, go back to your search results and try other hits.

Since I won't have time to watch them for around a week, I downloaded them all. They all downloaded in mp4 format, so replay will be easy.