TERMINALLY WEIRD – AT 10:05 A.M. ET:  This is pretty revolting, so brace yourself.  But it's about Hollywood, so maybe it won't be that shocking:

TCA -- Director Oliver Stone's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries "Secret History of America" promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context."

"Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy -- these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history," Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.

Look, I'm not making this up.  Oliver Stone, one of the most irresponsible directors around, a man who has misinformed a generation of kids who go to movies, is doing a miniseries on the "history" of America.  And I'm so looking forward to Hitler in context.

Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and its been used cheaply. He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect ... People in America don't know the connection between WWI and WWII ... I've been able to walk in Stalin's shoes and Hitler's shoes to understand their point of view. We're going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them.

Make sure you turn on the child blocking system on your TV.

Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM. Hitler is just a man who could have easily been assassinated." 

Ollie, it's true, but this is very old stuff.  Is there any informed American who doesn't know that some Americans colluded with Hitler?  And they included the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee. 

Subjects in "History" include President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan and the origins of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

I think all of us can predict exactly where this is going.

And here comes the real nutso part:

Stone also warned that the same military industrial complex forces that he's explored in movies such as "JFK" and in "Secret History," are now corrupting Barack Obama.

Oh yeah, right.  Obama is in bed with Lockheed Martin.  Everyone knows that. 

"You can understand why Obama is following in Bush's footsteps in Afghanistan," Stone said."Obama is very much trapped, we believe, in that system. And so that's what we're going to try and show you -- the way it works." 

I'm sure you're an expert, Ollie.  You learn a great deal about the industrial-military complex going to Hollywood parties. 

I'm sure the three viewers of this series will cheer.

January 11,  2010