[My Favorite Headache]

Hey Spike...how about Nagin? Landrieu? Blanco?

Nahhhh...no agenda here...just Bash Bush!

[billorites]

Isn't Spike a little late to the Bush bashing party?

[SteveMcKing]

"What happened here was a criminal act, " Lee said.

What happened was a hurricane.... A HURRICANE you goddamn piece of ----.

[JennysCool]

I'm guessing there's no mention of the dynamic duo of Blanco and Nagin in Spike's four-parter. And I'm certain he doesn't note even in passing that it was President Bush who had to personally appeal to New Orleans to get its butt in gear prior to Katrina's landfall.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[MizSterious]

Must be open season on the President again. Court TV's 9/11 piece airing tonight appears to be another Bush-Bash-Fest. A pox on all of them. If I read the review correctly, the "Jersey Girls" really unload on him, totally ignoring WHO was President for 8 years prior to 9/11.

[clintonh8r]

"We want to put the focus back here."

Liar.

[backhoe]

Well, I always say "never let the facts interfere with a good tall tale"- we chronicled it as it happened, right here:

HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links Click the picture:

[ncountylee]

"Brownie, you did a heck of a job."

The President should learn that silence is preferable to a nervous, ad lib comment.

Hate to see the bigoted Spike Lee get any free ammo.

[BallyBill]

Please, is anyone shocked that Spike Lee would make a race baiting piece of fiction about an actual historic event. Why should anyone look at actual event time lines and facts when Mr. Lee can explain what "reality" is?

[jimbo123]

Was this guy in the movie?

[kcvl]

Lee says the speed of the US government response was so inadequate that it qualifies as a crime.

In the most controversial part of the double header, the director gives voice to residents who said levees surrounding poorer parts of town were bombed to protect richer parts from flooding.

[upcountryhorseman]

The hurricane disrupted the nice setup these professional
victims had going. New Orleans is and was the most corrupt
city in the country. Half of the former inhabitants don't
don't want to come back. Houston reports an increase in crime after the Katrina refugees arrived.

[the invisib1e hand]

Bush the villain of Katrina film

baloney. everyone knows it was Karl Rove.

[Beth528]

[ffusco]

Too bad Spike wasn't in NO during Katrina. We'd be spared his horrible films.

[LA Woman3]

I'll let others parse the political impact of "When the Levees Broke," but not without sharing this nugget from one habitually quotable politician: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin good-naturedly describes Air Force One as a "pimpmobile."

LINK

[SuziQ]

It's a Spike Lee movie, of COURSE Bush is the villian!

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

What a bunch of nonsense. The majority of the people of New Orlean who experienced Katrina, including those who have lost their houses, say that it was a case of too many unexpected factors converging. They don't blame anyone.

[LA Woman3]

[Charles Martel]

...Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, whose profane and sometimes profound commentary is a highlight of the film.

Oh, I remember this woman. No surprise at all that she'd be featured so prominently. IIRC, they actually let her speak before Congress, regardless of the fact that she's completely Nucking Futs.

Yeah, that'll help the Katrina recovery immensely. Attaboy, Spike.