Spike Lee Insane
He thinks Jeremiah Wright is being paid by apparently dark and shadowy Conservative forces to fuck with Hussein…if it ain’t lunacy, it’s a bad case of neurosis manifesting as something about as close to paranoid schizophrenia as you can get…people sure do get funny when they’re not getting something they want badly. Plus it just serves to remind us how quickly the inane insanity of conspiracy theories take root.
Director Spike Lee has waded into the ongoing controversy surrounding Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor whose provocative statements have proved a thorn in the side of Democrat frontrunner Barack Obama. Lee advises the preacher to do the right thing and keep quiet. “The more he opens his mouth, the more damage he does,” he told the Guardian yesterday.
For good measure, Lee hinted at a political conspiracy behind Wright’s recent, contentious attempts to justify his remarks. “It looks like he’s being paid to keep talking,” he said.
Wright has attracted criticism for sermons in which he invited God to “damn America” and claimed the US was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today”. This has prompted renewed media scrutiny of Obama’s own views. The Illinois senator was a long-term member of the pastor’s church. Wright officiated at Obama’s wedding and at the baptism of his two children.
While Obama has attempted to distance himself from the pastor’s views, the row shows little signs of dying down. Wright was accused of upping the ante earlier this week, telling a press conference that media attacks on him were also an attack on African-American church culture and warning Obama, “I’m coming after you.”
“Jeremiah Wight needs to be quiet,” Lee said yesterday. “If he loves Obama he needs to shut up right now. It makes me question his motives for talking. I’m starting to wonder whether somebody has been contributing to the building funds of his church. Seriously.”
Lee, whose best-known films have frequently tackled the issue of race relations in the US, believes that Obama had hoped to survive the presidential contest without talking about race. “But now he’s been forced to - by a combination of Jeremiah Wright and the Clintons,” he said.
The director of Malcolm X and When the Levees Broke is an ardent Obama supporter. “I love him,” he said. “He’s a unifier. He’s the one who can get us out of the situation we’re in today, because this country is going to hell in a handcart.”
Lee will be at the Cannes film festival next week as jury president of the Babelgum online film festival. He will also be promoting his latest feature, Miracle at St Anna, a story of black American soldiers in the second world war. He compares America’s international standing now with its high water mark in the mid-1940s. “The way the US is viewed around the world is at its lowest point ever,” he claimed. “But Obama will change everything.”
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And it is shit like this that is one of the reasons no one has any respect for these hollywood mouthpieces.
Does anyone have a running count of how many times we have heard this type of idiotic statement without any sort of valid point to back it up? I think someone needs to teach these self proclaimed “intellectuals” that when you say something like “I am going to change things!” you need to follow it up with a statement of WHAT you are going to change and how.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 amAnd the racists are coming out of the woodwork….
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 amSheesh! What next. Why would Wright co-operate with the representatives of the “dark shadowy forces of conservatism”. It would do nothing to help his church or his bent cause. What in the hell is Spike thinking???
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 amIt’s amazing how you can be rich and know nothing. You think he could afford a decent newspaper or book to educate himself. What a spoiled jerk. And Spike: have any of your movies made any money?
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 amCurse ‘em white devils!
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 amSpike Lee takes a break from making shitty movies to try his hand at something else he is no good at, making sane, valid points. Wright has no vested interest in helping Obama lose the election.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 amThe way black America is viewed by normal Americans is at an all time low, Spikey-boy.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 amThey love this shit in the UK. Years ago I remember watching a “documentary” about the death of RFK. Since at that time I believed the commies and their conspiracy theories, when I heard it presented with that haughty BBC British accent, it seemed even more convincing.
It’s great to see the left going down there and great thinkers like Melanie Phillips having some influence.
In my latest post(check it out Dollard Nation), I posit a race war in America. But a friend of mine, who is black, told me he’s voting for Big John. He used to work for the McCains, and likes the whole family.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 pmMcCain’s son in Iraq, he told me was destined to join the military and we both marveled at the bravery and honor of the McCain men.
Spike Lee showed promise as a filmmaker, but who gives a fuck what he thinks… residents of Londonistan.
They love this shit in the UK. Conspiracy theories just sound better with a hauty British accent. It’s nice to see the left go down and great thinkers like Melonie Phillips being listened to.
In my latest post (check it out Dollard Nation), I posit a race war. But a black friend of mine told me he’s voting for Big John. He used to work for the McCains and likes the whole family. He told me the son who is serving in Iraq, was destined to be a soldier. We both marveled at the honor and integrity of the McCain men.
Spike Lee showed some promise as a filmmaker, but who gives a fuck what he thinks…residents of Londonistan
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm