jerry wright... the NEW jessy sharpton. and the RATS, take another one in the..................HA ha!!!
Posted on 05/02/2008 6:05:35 AM PDT by billorites
Director Spike Lee has waded into the 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.
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.
"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 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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I’ve been bamboozled!
This is one of the most profound things I’ve ever heard during this whole mess. Kudos to Spike Lee.
Spike is saying what I said: “He’s been bought and paid”.
So, Wright is secretly on the RNC payroll, is that what you're saying Spike?
On what basis does anyone say this about Obama?
Obama is a far-Left extremist with views that are far out of the mainstream. He has insulted gun-owners, church-goers, and whites. Hispanics have not fallen in love with him.
It's conceivable that he could collect a lot of votes -- that means people give HIM what he's looking for. It says nothing about his ability to unite the country and give US anything that we want.
I consider him to be very poorly positioned to be a unifier.
I think Spike is saying that Wright is being paid by the Clinton camp to keep talking.
More phoniness from the left. Lee believes almost everything that Wright believes, but he just wants Wright to remain silent about it, so that Obama can get elected.
This seems to be the unwritten rule of the left: Don’t tell the public what you really think.
Yeah, this is a healthy view of the world.
Even Sheldon Lee gets it..
When Spike Lee is telling you to shut up because you’ve gone too far, buddy, you’ve gone waaaaay too far.
Well put.
Nah, nah, nah!
Wright needs to write quickly and get that book on the market well before November.
No, Spike, he keeps talking because he wants to be paid. Jerry knows that playing the race card will lose a lot of its power if a black man is elected President.
I just LOVE hearing the good "Rev" ramble on and on about his "faith" and his "politics."
It is very illuminating for me and I'm sure millions of others.
I suspected that the good "Revs" beliefs were those shared by a number of people that I encounter, now I have proof positive.
jerry wright... the NEW jessy sharpton.
The pastor is a racist idiot. If Lee, supposedly an insightful and brilliant man, were to have said that, I could respect anything else he said. But in that sentence, clearly what he means is "I agree with what the Rev says, but he's putting his racism out there where whitey can see it, and if he does that, all our fellow travellers in the white liberal socialist branch of the Democratic party are going to see that Obama has been good friends with a racist for twenty years, and we black folks aren't going to be able to count on them voting our man into office." Lee nowhere mentions that Wright is wrong...just that he needs to shut up.
For the right black man or woman, I would vote in a heartbeat, or better yet, for the right man or woman, race would not be an issue. But it would have to be a man or woman who understood the value of unborn life, who viewed the Bible as authority, and who believed that our Founders were RIGHT in what they planned for America. To vote a person in because "goody, goody, I can show how unbiased I am!" is laughable at best, and dangerous at worst.
It's always something other than the person in the middle just being a complete idiot.
Good, I am glad Spike is speaking up. I am sure Wright is being paid either by Hillary or her supporters. It needs to be brought to light.
Uncle Jeremiah has bodyguards provided by the Nation of Islam. The MSM would have us believe that bodyguards are probably in response to some white racist cracker’s threats written in crayon. Spike Lee is telling the crazy man to shut up publicly and not in a threatening way. But it begs the question, the threats to Uncle Jeremiah that are to be taken seriously are probably from people of color who are crazed Barry supporters, which is about the only kind of Obama supporter that I am able to observe.
That’s right, Spike...you race baiters need to keep quiet or the rest of the world will learn what you are REALLY ABOUT!
“The way the US is viewed around the world is at its lowest point ever,” he claimed. “But Obama will change everything”
And the figure America and Americans sent ot Tsunami and Katrina victims was .... what, again??????
Shut up Spike!!!!
ROVE, YOU MAGNIFICENT B*ST**D!!!!!!!
Lee is among the most racist and militant, yet that’s okie-dokie as long as his spew is directed towards the ‘right’ ethnic group. He ranks up there with Calypso Louie, but the same folks he disparages in his films keep spending their money to see them. Go figure.
The truth hurts.
That’s the truth. He’s only telling him to shut up because he’s giving away the playbook.
Wright wants his 15 minutes of fame to go into overtime. Obama threw his former pastor under the back of the bus, so now Wright is milking the controversy to elevate himself to center stage with Revs Jesse and Al.
So, Wright is on Hillary Clinton’s payroll then? That’s even worse! ;)
Unwritten bylines of Spike Lee’s: Don’t hurt my profits!
Why is this an issue in the UK? Time to move on!
Speaking of damage, the damage done by irresponsible race-baiters like Spike Lee and other libs has been incalculable. He’s as much to blame for racial disharmony as Wright.
Spike Lee believes everything Reverend Wright believes, he just doesn’t want Wright to say it out loud.
Spike Lee believes everything Reverend Wright believes, he just doesn’t want Wright to say it out loud.
There is usually a world of difference between what we “want” and what we “need”. Beware of those that promise to “give” us anything that we’ve paid for (Benefits derived from our paid taxes) as opposed to “discipline” which is what we need.
To Corizine’s(sp) credit, he is going in a new direction with the discipline need. His priorities may not be mine, but his discipline is a welcome change. Let’s hope it is the beginning of a trend.
By Rush, maybe? I can make up conspiracy theories, too. Start the rumor - “Operation Chaos Strikes Again!” We’ll all get better at it over the next 7* months.
You forgot a conspiracy theory: “Black Ops by Operation Chaos.”
Ain't that the truf! Don't you think maybe the Black Congressional Caucus is behind it? The BCC has more to lose than Hillary.
Rev. Wright's absurd speech - I did not listen to all of it since his delivery is too annoying - might be the result of
*Hillary buying him off,
*his desire to keep Obama from winning since that would go counter to much that he has been preaching, and/or
*seeking publicity, and/or
*wanting to promote his forthcoming book - allegedly he has a book deal.
I wonder if Spike stops to think exactly what America was doing back then. We were not just fighting two countries, but three, and in the process invading a whole continent, not with a few hundred thousand troops, but with millions. We were firebombing cities, killing untold numbers of civilians, and even using atomic weapons on two Japanese cities. But we were liberating the world from the scourge of totalitarian rulers who waged war on others in the process, and the world was grateful.
We are doing much the same thing today, on a much lesser scale militarily, with a much lower loss of life, yet the world hates us. Interesting, isn't it?
I think Wright is Obama’s “operative”....and if Obama were elected, he’s be Secretary of State or something.....it allows Obama to waste time on the poor bully....whom he would immediately “forgive” upon his election.
I think Jeremiah Wright is enjoying all the free publicity he’s getting to espouse his Black Liberation Theology views.
I don’t think he’s gonna shut up. What say ye?
A “unifier”??? There is not record of him ever reaching across the aisle in the IL State Senate or the U.S. Senate, no record whatsoever.
Yep. They have a demonstrable and proven history together. I ain’t buyin’ much of this dog-and-pony show except that if there is a true rift, then they’re just their self-serving selves.
I LOVE YOUR TAGLINE ! ! ! Very witty play on words. I remember the Goldwater slogan from 1964.
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