a gaffe is when you speak your mind in front of someone with a notebook. Oliver Stone surfaces every year and fires off a barrage of gaffes, and here's the latest fracas - or is it an imbroglio?

Let's go back to the tape:

So there you go. By "Jewish domination of the media" he did not meant "Jewish domination of the media.' Why is anyone surprised by this? Stone is a talented director, but he has this warm & fuzzy spot for Big Strong Dictators. because he's a by-God Alpha Male, living in a world of meat and blood, dealing with real issues, and so are dictators. Not that he admires them. He just wants the world to know he understands them. He said this about Stalin and Hitler last January:

Dude. Stalin fought the German War Machine in the same sense a movie director fights the war, by telling other people how to do it, then watching them do it. At least movie directors don't execute directors of photography or lighting, and don't kill all the gaffers when the film performs poorly at the box office.