Found July 04, 2009 on Deadspin:
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He also managed to compliment Saddam Hussein and offend black people all in the same interview. And he thinks Hitler was efficient? In an interview published in today's The Times, Bernie Ecclestone, the 78-year-old British head honcho of Formula One racing, waxed psychotic on a number of things, including his frustration with modern political leaders and the benefits of tyranny. Some noteworthy quotes: In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done...In the end he got lost, so he wasn't a very good dictator because either he had all these things and knew what was going on and insisted, or he just went along with it . . . so either way he wasn't a dictator. And: We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting rid of Saddam Hussein. He was the on...
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