Showing posts with label Spike Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spike Lee. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Dumb Black Liberal Race-Baiter Spike Lee Tweets Wrong Address Of Trayvon Martin's Killer



CNN.com:
The first hint something was amiss was the knock on the door from a television reporter.


Elaine McClain and her husband, David McClain, of Sanford, Florida, were not expecting a journalist to drop by looking for George Zimmerman, the man who says he fatally shot an unarmed teenager in self-defense.


The death of Trayvon Martin has sparked strong reactions across the country, and those sentiments made their way to the unassuming McClains.


The next day, a letter arrived with "Taste the rainbow" written on the envelope in felt-tip pen.


That is the slogan for Skittles candy. When he was shot, Martin was carrying Skittles candy and a can of iced tea he had purchased from a nearby convenience store.


The letter was followed by a parade of reporters arriving at the McClains' home. Only then, Elaine McClain said, did she and her husband learn that director Spike Lee had retweeted a message to his 250,000 followers with the couple's address, identifying it as George Zimmerman's home.


The McClains have a son whose middle name is George and whose last name is Zimmerman, but he has no connection with the controversy. After the tweets, with hate mail arriving and strangers with microphones knocking on the door, the McClains left their house for a hotel.


Lee apologized on Twitter to the couple and asked people to leave them in peace, and on Thursday, Elaine McClain said, Lee called her and gave a sincere apology.


Lee also told her he would pay the couple's cost of having to leave their home, Elaine McClain said.


The family's attorney, Matt Morgan, said Lee reached an agreement with the couple.


"The McClains are relieved that this matter is now behind them," Morgan said. "We had a very sincere and heartfelt conversation with Mr. Lee today. His apology was genuine and our clients were grateful. We asked Mr. Lee to do the right thing and he did."


The McClains said they were not seeking financial gain from their troubles. David McClain said he simply wants to get his life "back to a rational state."
RELATED: Jon Stewart Goes After Spike Lee Tweet: Even With Right Address, Sending ‘Lynch Mob’ Is ‘Bad Mistake’

Monday, August 23, 2010

Spike Lee Blasts President Obama on Oil Spill Response


FOXNews.com:

Spike Lee takes President Obama to task for mishandling the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 

"I don't know why Obama ever trusted these BP guys! They would lie to their mothers," Lee opines to GQ's Mark Healy. "[Former BP president Tony] Hayward does not give a [bleep]. The thing we don't talk about is that 11 Americans lost their lives and it took seven weeks to invite their families to the White House. I'm not trying to bash my man, but that's a long time." 

Lee also blamed "environmental racism" for the slow response: "If this oil spill would have reached the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard [where Spike summers], Cape Cod, that [bleep] would have been fixed."

Friday, June 04, 2010

Obama Listens To Spike Lee, Now Says He's "Furious" About BP Oil Spill

Spike Lee voiced the thoughts of many critics last night when he remarked on President Obama's allegedly unemotional response to the oil crisis. "He's very calm, cool, collected. But, one time, go off!" Lee said on CNN. "If there's any one time to go off, this is it, because this is a disaster." Well, Spike Lee, prepare yourself to be ... disappointed! While President Obama tells Larry King today that he is "furious" about the whole situation — a definite upgrade from the "anger and frustration" he expressed last week — he doesn't think "venting and yelling at people" would be very constructive, if you don't mind his saying so.



When one of Barry's radical lefty celebrity friends speaks, he listens.