Stoned by his own bombast

Oh, Oliver Stone, you and your big mouth.

The noisy director, whose new documentary,

South of the Border

, opens this week in Belfast, has stirred up controversy after making some rather unwise remarks in a recent interview with the

Sunday Times

. Discussing supposed “Jewish domination of the media,” Stone said: “There’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington.”

Further comments about the Holocaust were equally unguarded. Following complaints, Oliver offered the following fairly unambiguous apology: “In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry.”