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Do the right thing and shut up, Lee urges pastor
Guardian UK ^
| May 1, 2008
| Xan Brooks
Posted on 05/02/2008 6:05:35 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:08:02 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: billorites
This is one of the most profound things I’ve ever heard during this whole mess. Kudos to Spike Lee.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:09:41 AM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(Don't burn a bra, burn a feminist!)
To: billorites
Spike is saying what I said: “He’s been bought and paid”.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:10:27 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: billorites
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. So, Wright is secretly on the RNC payroll, is that what you're saying Spike?
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:10:44 AM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: billorites
"He's a unifier." 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.
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I think Spike is saying that Wright is being paid by the Clinton camp to keep talking.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:11:55 AM PDT
by
LottieDah
(Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
To: billorites
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.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:13:20 AM PDT
by
djpg
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
AIDS in the black community? Well, that's because there's a conspiracy!
Crack in the black community? Well, that's because there's a conspiracy!
Violence in the black community? Well, that's because there's a conspiracy!
Rev Wright is saying stupid things? Well, that's because the White folks got to him!
Yeah, this is a healthy view of the world.
To: Niuhuru
Even Sheldon Lee gets it..
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:15:26 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: billorites
When Spike Lee is telling you to shut up because you’ve gone too far, buddy, you’ve gone waaaaay too far.
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:16:40 AM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: billorites
Nah, nah, nah!
Wright needs to write quickly and get that book on the market well before November.
To: billorites
"It looks like he's being paid to keep talking," he said.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.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:18:00 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
To: billorites
Gee Spikey, don't you believe in "freedom" especially the "freedom of speech?"
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.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:20:45 AM PDT
by
zerosix
(native sunflower)
To: billorites
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:22:47 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: billorites
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
No duh. As a racist that is exactly what Obama wanted. Funny how Lee can't shut up about race...ahem, when the "right" race is promoted and the "wrong" race is vilified.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:23:18 AM PDT
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: billorites
"...If he loves Obama he needs to shut up right now..."
I've been seeing this mentality coming up a lot in various articles this morning coming from various figures in the black community. They dont seem to be angry with what the Rev. said and they don't seem to have a problem with Obama's complicity with it, they are simply mad at the Rev.'s timing. I have only seen one instance where an article mentioned that only a few people they spoke with said that the Rev.'s ideas were from a different time which America had gotten over. The rest seemed to indicate that the Rev.'s message was still valid today, but that with Obama's nomination hanging in the balance the Rev. showed unbelievably poor judgement in his timing. The most appalling idea I saw this morning was where people in the African American's indicated that if people were upset about the Rev.'s message, then that was a sign they they were bigots. Unbelievable.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:23:39 AM PDT
by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: billorites
"It looks like he's being paid to keep talking," he said. 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.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:24:32 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
To: billorites
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.It's always something other than the person in the middle just being a complete idiot.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:24:47 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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