Sunday, August 01, 2004
Steven Spielberg --A Righteous Man ?? No, A Hypocrite, and a Whore !!!!
The ANNOTICO Report

There are NONE so Selfish and Self Centered that can feel only their own Pain,
And NONE so Dangerous that are unaware of when they are inflicting pain on Others!

Steven Spielberg is filming/editing "Shark's Tale" that is not only denigrating and defaming of Italian Americans, but is exponentially an abomination because it is aimed toward "impressionable" kids.

Yet Spielberg, makes Movies, accepts Awards, and fosters Initiatives that:
criticizes intolerance, bigotry and hatred, encourages the education of young people as to the ultimate dangers of how far hate can take us,
seeks to enhance teenage perspective on intolerance and bigotry,

And states unequivocally: "The most important words spoken, is love your neighbor as you would yourself"

Spielberg insists that we "get teachers to mandate tolerance education, that must be compulsory" BECAUSE "kids need to know about racial hatred"

Spielberg is given an Award for: ..."dedication to preserving the truth", working to "eliminate prejudice and intolerance", serving a plea for tolerance and decency.“...

Spielberg says: 'I've never made a movie that I consider immoral,' (or one that) led people astray."

And yet, when all the self serving public relations babble is stripped away, and he is revealed as a Hypocrite, Spielberg tells us that he is really worse: "I'm a whore.."

The preceding quotes were taken from the following four articles.
I would suggest that those of you who are equally outraged, that you forward this to your local media, and friends. This denunciation was inspired by the Political Satire sent to me by ITALICS,
that follows in a separate message.



SPIELBERG'S "LIST" TEACHING TOLERANCE
Interview with Katie Couric

Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" won critical acclaim and numerous awards when it premiered a decade ago...(is a) movie about the Holocaust and its themes of intolerance, bigotry and hatred are as relevant now as then.

“Today” host Katie Couric talked to Spielberg and asked him if “Schindler's List” is his most important work.

Steven Spielberg: “.. it’s the most important use of film in my entire experience of living in film all these years.”...

Spielberg: “...‘Schindler's List,’ it’s an extraordinary story about an extraordinary time you know? One of the most hateful and devastating times in human history. And one righteous man, among others all over the world, did a very righteous thing...

The Shoah Foundation...collected testimonies from 52,000 survivors -- their memories of their lives before, during and after those darkest times...

“I hope they'll be used in schools, in libraries and in Holocaust museums and other museums, repositories all over the world. I hope it'll be used to educate young people as to the ultimate dangers of how far hate can take us… this is a living example and there are still witnesses that are alive that survived it.”...

Spielberg: “Young people like Nicole Barnes, and several other high school students worked with the Shoah Foundation to make a video called "Giving Voice" which weaves together first person accounts from Holocaust survivors with a teenage perspective on intolerance and bigotry...

Spielberg: “I guess the greatest cliché we've ever heard, but the most important words spoken, is, love, you know, love your neighbor and, as you would yourself. It’s a biblical term, it’s important, and it’s embraced by every religion and yet it seems to be a far cry from what we're experiencing today.”...

We have a thing, we say in Hebrew, tikkun olam (Isaac Luria, the renowned sixteenth century Kabbalist) which means, the world always needs fixing and we as Jews, we as all people, have a responsibility to help fix things when they're broken and I think ‘Schindler's List’ and the Shoah Foundation does exactly that.”

MSNBC - Spielberg’s ‘List’ teaching tolerance ten years on
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4548509/



SPIELBERG: COMPULSORY TOLERANCE EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS!

...We have five states with one school in each state doing beta testing on our tolerance education curriculum and at the end of I think the experiment is over early next year and then we do a feasibility study and then we try to move our entire archive out into the public school districts to try to get teachers to mandate tolerance education right next to science and biology and a language and mathematics. We'll be happy to combine it with social science but it must be taught in schools and it must be compulsory. My whole goal now with the Shoah Foundation is to try and make tolerance education compulsory. It is so needed. All the kids need to know about racial hatred and kids should celebrate what is different among us not condemn us for the differences...

Steven Spielberg - Cranky Critic® StarTalk - Movie Star Interviews
http://www.crankycritic.com/qa/stevenspielberg.html



WORLD TOLERANCE AWARD -Steven Spielberg
For Justice, Tolerance, and Peace

...With his dedication to preserving the truth, Steven Spielberg has taken an important step to eliminate prejudice and intolerance in our world. ”Schindler's List is not only an impressive portrayal of the Nazi period,“ says WORLD TOLERANCE AWARD winner 2000, Simon Wiesenthal, ”but also serves as a plea for tolerance and decency.“...

World Awards - Men´s World Day -
http://www.worldawards.com/2001/2001spielberg.asp



SPIELBERG... INSIDE THE DREAM FACTORY...London Guardian

And how does Spielberg measure up today? (To the Boy Scout moral code that he learned long ago) 'Let's see,' he says. 'I'm trustworthy, I'm loyal, I'm sometimes helpful, I'm sometimes friendly, I'm always courteous, not always kind, not always obedient, not always cheerful, mostly thrifty as a producer, not brave at all, always clean and very reverent.'...

...'I've never made a movie that I consider immoral,' Spielberg says. 'I've never made a film of which I could say, "You know, I wish I hadn't made that picture because it led people astray." And I'm real proud of that.'...

[RAA Note: Well Steven, with "Sharks Tale" you are about to!!!!]

...'I've never made a movie that I consider immoral,' Spielberg says. 'I've never made a film of which I could say, "You know, I wish I hadn't made that picture because it led people astray." And I'm real proud of that.'

'I do think I have a personal responsibility as a family man to use my film-making opportunities to put out there stories that have some sort of redeeming social value,'

He appears in REALITY far more of an Opportunist than a Moralist.
"Well into adulthood, he was happy to ignore his Jewish identity...And when Spielberg began to see Judaism as more blessing than curse, he was finally ready to
(embrace it zealously)

Spielberg in his own words reveals his true self when he says: He's proud of his motivation for making movies...I'm a whore like any other stand-up who wants big laughs.'...

Guardian Unlimited Film | Close Up | Inside the dream factory
http://film.guardian.co.uk/The_Oscars_1999/
Story/0,4135,36555,00.html