Spike Lee

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Spike Lee on his new film "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise", a two-part, four-hour documentary on New Orleans and the Gulf coast

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oil Spill
Katrina
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    1. tryingtolearn  08/25/2010 07:10 PM Report

      BTW, Saddam Hussein blowing up roughly 1000 wells is not a disaster, it's a premeditated action with certain consequences in mind. BP HAS continuously lied about the well. They lied from the beginning, before the spill ever happened. They lied about their ability to respond to such catastrophes. Spike Lee is probably stuttering b/c he is challenging one of THE BIGGEST corporations in the world, one that even has the president acting funny. If you don't have the guts to do what he's doing, which is standing up against an obviously political situation, there's no need to bash him for doing what's in his power to affect change.

    2. tryingtolearn  08/25/2010 07:03 PM Report

      I don't understand the comments bashing Spike Lee on this one. Of course he's there to promote his new movie. It's called publicity. And when did he talk about races in this interview? Where does he blame white people for anything? And he's giving the ground level perspective of what's going on in the gulf, and he is definitely entitled to his opinions. I actually think he has a good point about Obama acting like everything's okay in the gulf. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OIL? I'm pretty sure we all learned in elementary school that oil DOES NOT mix with water. What's wrong with a man asking the tough questions, and not simply following what the government is saying? If you ask me, we need people like Spike Lee to sometimes provide the unpopular take on things.

    3. robdverity  08/24/2010 05:43 PM Report

      Tony Hayward for Pres

      Lloyd Blankfein, V Pres

      All legal venal whores and scumbags for congress et al.

    4. kmueller26  08/24/2010 03:11 PM Report

      Spike Lee was so full of BS it is hard to know where to start.

      I wish someone would correct people when they say the BP blowout is the worst oil disaster in the world. How about Kuwait after Saddam Hussein blew up roughly 1000 oil wells?

      I would like to know what the aftereffects of that disaster are today.

      The dispersants used were all legal and approved. That didn't mean they were the best option, but I don't think there was a legal basis for preventing BP from using them.

      Oil in the Gulf of Mexico is not new. Natural leaks / seepages amount to 1-2 supertankers of oil each year. People are too quick to pronounce permanent damage from this accident. It is bad well blowout but it is not the end of the world.

    5. doodah  08/24/2010 07:44 AM Report

      Yeah, it doesn't take a genius to be suspicious of BP's flood of 'feel good' commercials just as soon as they stopped the flow of even MORE pollution into the environment. Spike Lee (by being the 'whistle-blower') does a dis-service to this reality, because he is generally a blow-hard of his own delusions (I'm sure (in his mind), a fault of the white man). If he really wants to 'be holier than thou' to ALL races, why doesn't he do a documentary on the real origins of slavery (the real history of Africa and Africans).? .. It may not gain him sympathy for being black, but it will gain him 'respect' for acknowledging the TRUTH of the cause and effect of the present negro situation.

      But then again, I question his ability or CAPACITY to be objective (he's already rich and famous), why would he want to be? He's smart by 'pop culture' standards; in a way, it's an African tradition. Good for him.

    6. REMant  08/23/2010 10:50 AM Report

      The cost accountants at BP do seem to have been overactive, and I would rather see more news of clean-up than PR about it, tho at least they are presumably paying those bills, but this looks to me like an attempt by Mr Lee to sell his latest project, which had become old news, by connecting it with the Gulf spill, exculpating the admin in the bargain. I am not sure it will wash any more than the oil. I regret I see yesterday's Dateline in much the same light.

    7. mackmeen  08/21/2010 10:35 PM Report

      What a hoot. I'll never forget when I first saw She's Gotta Have It. Spike is always hard-hitting and unpredictable, and he's the greatest living American filmmaker still working in that auteur, masculine line. He can be a blowhard sometimes, but his films have a way of staying sympathetic to people as people, even when mercilessly exposing them at their worst and weakest.

    8. charlizecourriers  08/21/2010 02:36 PM Report

      IQ powder.

    9. djyaz  08/21/2010 01:09 PM Report

      I respect Spike's work but was he on something? Did he have a few drinks or a maybe on pain meds from an injury? He slurred a couple times and was acting odd?