There's No Danger, it's a Professional Career

Even after his anti-Semitic meltdown this past summer, once again, Oliver’s imaginary armies are on their way:

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s Joy Behar Show on HLN, film maker Oliver Stone charged that former Vice President Dick Cheney was “a very dangerous man” and “as much of a threat to the idea of America using nuclear weapons as anybody,” inspiring Behar to respond, “I agree with you,” [but of course — Ed] and charged that Sarah Palin in the White House would be “even worse than Mr. Bush Jr.”

He asserted that “I think she’s not going to appeal to people who think at all,” and, after Behar suggested that most Americans may not think, he added, “Well, if that’s the case then America deserves their leaders the way they pick them.” He later sought a silver lining in Palin getting elected President: “If they’re there, maybe we’ll learn our lesson. If we didn’t learn it from Bush Jr., we’re never going to learn it.”

Stone ended up invoking racist and xenophobic movements like the Ku Klux Klan and Know Nothings, presumably linking them to conservative critics of President Obama. Stone: “We have parties of Know Nothings for all our tradition. It goes way back, all kinds of rebellions. In 1923 in Washington, I believe, like, 100,000 Ku Klux Klan people dressed in white sheets walked down main street in Washington D.C., 100,000. The Ku Klux Klan was popular after World War I. That’s in the heart of the country with white sheets, right, on horses. That’s why the Birth of the Nation was such a popular film.”

Especially in Woodrow Wilson’s White House, a part of history that will likely not make Stone’s upcoming fantasyland cable series.