Foreign Correspondent Inside Track On World News By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster Eric Margolis ,,ggddY"""Ybbgg,, ,agd888b,_ "Y8, ___`""Ybga, ,gdP""88888888baa,.""8b "888g, ,dP" ]888888888P' "Y `888Yb, ,dP" ,88888888P" db, "8P""Yb, ,8" ,888888888b, d8888a "8, ,8' d88888888888,88P"' a, `8, ,8' 88888888888888PP" "" `8, d' I88888888888P" `b 8 `8"88P""Y8P' 8 8 Y 8[ _ " 8 8 "Y8d8b "Y a 8 8 `""8d, __ 8 Y, `"8bd888b, ,P `8, ,d8888888baaa ,8' `8, 888888888888' ,8' `8a "8888888888I a8' `Yba `Y8888888P' adP' "Yba `888888P' adY" `"Yba, d8888P" ,adP"' `"Y8baa, ,d888P,ad8P"' ``""YYba8888P""'' ASSASINATION BY FILM by Eric Margolis 4 Jan 96 The film `Nixon' is riveting and dramatic, a sweeping tragedy that recalls Eisenstein's epic, `Ivan the Terrible.' Oliver Stone's latest film may be entertaining, but it's certainly not history, though desperately striving to be. This film is a cocktail of fact, distortions, and outright lies, so skilfully blended that many viewers - particularly younger ones- will emerge from it intoxicated by Stone's neo-marxist credo: America is an evil empire, run by a conspiracy of Texas oil nazis, the CIA, and Wall Street robber barons. . I met President Nixon when I worked on his re-election campaign as a Mideast policy advisor. I served in the army during the Vietnam War, and suffered through the nightly TV torture of Watergate. The pill-popping, whisky swilling Nixon portrayed in Stone's film is not Richard Nixon. It is a demonic, one- dimensional, carton caricature worthy of 1950 Soviet propaganda. A `Golem' conjured up out of Stone's twisted psyche. Stone's occasional sympathy for the monster he fatheres does not lessen the utter falseness, meanness, or shocking dishonesty of the portrait Ironically, while Nixon was hated by American communists and leftists, abroad he was respected as the most skilful and strongest of modern presidents -, particularly by the communist leaders of China and the USSR., Stone's slanderous insinuations that Nixon was somehow involved in the assassination of both Kennedys are bare- faced lies. As are this celluloid character assassin's assertions in his film, `JFK,' that President Lyndon Johnson and the CIA conspired to kill the Kennedys. Luckily for Stone, dead men can't sue. Still, conspiracy buffs and many movie critics are eagerly lapping up Stone's latest effluvia. Unfortunately, they miss a real conspiracy: The 60-year war by Hollywood's leftists against America. This is the real, subliminal message of `Nixon.' Nixon earned the bitter, undying hatred of America's liberal elite because he built his early political career by exposing communists in the media, Hollywood and government. These first generation communists worshipped Stalin, a tyrant who murdered four time more people than Hitler. They were fair game, though Nixon's crusade was often self- serving, and conducted during the intolerable excesses of the odious Senator McCarthy. The most notorious case involved Alger Hiss, a senior aide to President Roosevelt. Nixon went after Hiss. The left depicted Hiss - and spies Rosenberg - as martyrs. The Hollywood and media left determined to be revenged on Nixon for bringing down Hiss. Curiously, recent revelations from Soviet files that Hiss and the Rosenbergs were, in fact, communist spies have not lessened Nixon-hatred. For Hollywood's left, Nixon epitomized everything they hated about middle America's bourgeois values. Pat Nixon, a woman of enormous courage and dignity, was singled out for particularly vicious attack by the liberal media. Hollywood's old Stalinists are long gone. A second generation of Beverly Hills leftists - like Ed Asner and Jack Lemmon, Norman Lear - are fading. But a third generation, led by Stone, has emerged on stage. Stone appears determined to wage a propaganda war against despised, capitalist America, using film, the left's medium of choice. Having nearly monopolized media. Hollywood's entrenched leftists preach Jeremiads to the nation about how deeply corrupt and evil America has become. In the process, these limousine liberals grow ever richer off the country whose problems they help foster by nightly pumping televised garbage into America's homes. One reason for the explosive growth of the Internet is because this new medium gives angry Americans a method of breaking Hollywood's stranglehold on electronic information. `Nixon' is merely the latest attack in the long, liberal vendetta against America's middle class, symbolized by Richard Nixon. It is high-calibre agitptop from those who despise America, but love its money. You may dress up a liar in artistic clothing. But he still remains a liar. copyright: eric margolis 1996 *********************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------- To receive Foreign Correspondent via email send a note to Majordomo@lglobal.com with the message in the body: subscribe foreignc To get off the list, send to the same address but write: unsubscribe foreignc Back Issues can be obtained from: ftp.lglobal.com/pub/foreignc For Syndication Information please contact: Email: emargolis@lglobal.com FAX: (416) 960-4803 Smail: Eric Margolis c/o Editorial Department The Toronto Sun 333 King St. East Toronto Ontario Canada M5A 3X5 ---------------------------------------------------------------