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Lauren Boebert drew ridicule online with her latest public faux pas, after confusing acclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone with MAGA ally Roger Stone.
The firebrand Colorado congressman made the slip while speaking at a congressional hearing to discuss the assassination of former president John F Kennedy, and quickly walked back her remarks after being corrected.
“Mr Stone you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of president kennedy, do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge… being involved in the assassination of president kennedy.
A somewhat confused Stone responded: “No I didn’t. If you look clearly at the film. It accuses president Johnson of being complicit in the cover up of the case but not in the assassination itself.”
Journalist Jefferson Morley later told Boebert: “I think you’re confusing Mr Oliver Stone with Mr Roger Stone. It’s Roger stone that implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president, not my friend Oliver Stone.”
“I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize,” Boebert replied sheepishly.
Roger Stone, a political operative who served as a senior campaign aide to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, is the author of the The New York Times bestseller The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.
Oliver Stone is an acclaimed director who has directed movies on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War, and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas – including the 1991 film JFK.
