Get Me Roger Stone

You heard it directly from Roger Stone, he learnt the power of disinformation. If you spread lies and peddle false truths, a number of people will fall for it. We now live in the age of disinformation. 'Social' media is facilitating immediate access to all kinds of information. Back in the day the flow of information was controlled. You had a few mediums and reputable sources got their message out. Not anymore.

Roger Stone was an opportunist who capitalised on people's ignorance and naivety. I had no idea he played a major role in the lobbyist movement which has been so harmful for US politics. Stone showed the scary role he has played in Al Gore's defeat in Florida during the 2000 election and helping elect Trump as president. Again he used the power of disinformation. But in the digital age he was able to peddle all kinds of disinformation to a huge amount of people. Stone has no conscience. He wants to win at any cost, even if its lies through and through. He loves chaos and wanted to disrupt the apple cart. Netflix has produced another decent documentary about a despicable person. Netflix shows that the world would be a much better place without Roger Stone and people like him.

Slightly above average in style & execution, this doc excels at illustrating how much of a smug, narcissistic, arrogant, hate-filled, spiteful, self-aggrandizing, lying sociopath Roger Stone (&, by extension, Donald Trump) is.

Roger Stone in one of America's worst people. He started out doing dirty tricks for Nixon; he made his money as a lobbyist for some terrible governments; now he's a confidant of Donald Trump. In a healthy society, Stone (and any politican who worked with him) would be shunned. This account of his story is consistently fascianting, and a tale of much of what has gone wrong with American politics.

And yet, although the documentary is critical in tone, I suspect Stone loves it. A man who revels in his own notoriety, he is given plenty of screen time to speak for himself; while numerous others, friend and foe alike, take turns to testify to his evil genius. For anyone who dislikes the man, there's plenty of grist to the mill here. But how do you shame the shameless? Not, perhaps, by allowing them to star what is essentially a 90 minute promo vehicle. The real tragedy is less that people like Stone exist; but that we allow them to polllute the public space.

A documentary exploring the life and career of notorious Republican dirty trickster and longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone, who helped create the real-estate mogul's political career.

As I write this (June 2017), Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Despite polls to the contrary, he won the election and has taken the reins with his unique style of governing. How did this happen? Where did Trump come from? Although Roger Stone has been around since Watergate, his name may not be all that well known beyond those who are into political minutia. Here, we see how he was behind Nixon, Reagan, Trump and more, with a blend of dirty tricks, and conservative libertarianism. How the far right has become mainstream slowly but surely.

I can only wait until the FBI files on Stone someday become public... and then we will see that not only was he involved in much of American political history, but perhaps much of the secret history as well. The last word on Watergate is yet to come.

It is an important documentary to get background information on the ugly politics business in the U.S.A. when it is voting time. Do we have to thank the film team for this effort? Definitely. But they couldn't have done this without the fundamental trait which is driving Roger Stone in front. His ego which want to be remembered in history and do not want to be forgotten. When his pure ego is getting predominant he gives information away he would definitely deny at another time. With additional intelligence on the consulting company of Roger the movie shows clearly how the Trump voters get fooled by the same people who are pulling the strings since decades. Is Roger Stone entertaining and the movie funny? - Everyone who gets a malicious joy out of the misfortune of other people will find it funny and thrilling and Roger Stone admirable. Others will find the movie educational - it depicts human hubris on large scale.