Comments on: ‘Battleship’ Director Peter Berg Loses His Shit, Calls Israeli Reporter A Draft Dodger In Interview

By: AmosOz

AmosOz — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:23 +0000

We need man's like him in Israel,we have too much like this asshole reporter.

By: fuck battleship

fuck battleship — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:23 +0000

what a fucking asshole

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:23 +0000

Ahhh Americans and their misguided idea that the rest of the world see them as the good guys and not modern day crusaders for the mighty dollar/fossil fuels at the expense of everyone else. This man is a militaristic fool and a dreadful film maker.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:23 +0000

I think he's off his face in that clip.

By: Zack

Zack — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:23 +0000

Boy, I'm glad there are manly men like Peter Berg who are still willing to serve their country by making movies that are essentially a child playing with his Transformers in the bath.

By: loralily

loralily — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:23 +0000

I don't think this is what people are making it out to be. He is posing complicated questions, not finding the answers. He isn't the first director to challenge interviewers on political issues.

By: Beardy Man Child

Beardy Man Child — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:23 +0000

I don't know what you are on about Berg does a great job in engaging the interviewer on a topic all the while bringing it back to his film which he loves and is proud of, that's a true professional right there.

For example –
"If you attack Iran now there are gonna fight you back. There is gonna be blood. Israelis will die. Right? No question. Would you rather take that now or let them get a nuclear bomb? It's the most serious issue facing our planet today, m..mo…more so that the movie Battleship which I am very excited to have directed, I love Rhianna she's a great actress, did a wonderful job in the film."

Like to see Mel tie his new movie into his hatred of Jews

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:03:22 +0000

We knew Peter Berg was a mediocre director. Now we know that he is also deeply misinformed on the subject of Iran (and also, apparently, on Israel.)

The point that too many people are missing is this: the threat of a "nuclear Iran" is nonsense, a scary story fabricated by the warmongers in Israel and the United States with the express purpose of furthering the expansion of US -led influence in the Middle East.

Let me say it once: there is NO evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. There is no evidence of even a PLAN for an Iranian nuclear weapons program. The Ayatollah Kohmeini – the guy above Ahmadinijad – has gone out of his way to state that nuclear weapons are immoral and un-Islamic, and has forbidden their development or use.

It's one thing to be a hack director of shallow, crappy entertainment. It's another to be in the tank for the US/Israeli war machine. Berg is talking out of his ass, and sounding like a jingoistic chest-thumping war cheerleader in the process. Holt is right to be confused and offended.