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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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.
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.
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