Hollywood directors Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood seem to be getting into a war of words and unlike the Donald Trump vs. Rosey O'Donnell wars, this one is much uglier and not entertaining at all.
It stems from comments that Lee made about two of Eastwood's 2006 movies--"Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima." Lee criticized Eastwood for not portraying any African American soliders in his movies. Eastwood responded by saying that if there had been any African-American men helping to raise the flag at Iwo Jima in the famous photograph that he would have had it in his film.
Then he told Spike Lee to "shut his face."
Lee responded in kind by saying that "Eastwood is not my father, and we're not on a plantation."
OK, gentlemen, KNOCK IT OFF! This sounds like a conversation that needs to be taken off-line and settled privately. This is definitely not funny.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
Obama-Clinton War of Words: Much as I Hate to Say It, Clinton's Right
During the recent CNN/Youtube-sponsored Democratic Presidential debate, one of the questions asked was whether the candidates would meet with certain nations within one year of being elected. Here are the questions and how Clinton and Obama answered the question:
I loathe to admit it, but on this question, Clinton is absolutely correct. Obama screwed up and is now making more mistakes to cover his original mistake. His statement was hopelessly naive; one could almost hear his advisers groaning from backstage and his spin doctors going into damage control mode.
Clinton's statement was that she didn't want a visit to be used as a propaganda tool by those nations mentioned, who are notorious for doing precisely that kind of thing. She was correct that the groundwork needs to be done first before a Presidential visit could occur.
Diplomacy SHOULD resume with those nations, with a goal of eventual high-level talks and visits. But Obama's approach came across as having an American President crawling on hands and knees to that commie runt in North Korea, or the Mouth of the South, or Iran's hostage-taking president to ask them to please talk to us.
We ought to kick a few of them IN the mouth before we talk to them, just so they're paying attention.
Obama ought to admit the error, then move on.
I loathe to admit it, but on this question, Clinton is absolutely correct. Obama screwed up and is now making more mistakes to cover his original mistake. His statement was hopelessly naive; one could almost hear his advisers groaning from backstage and his spin doctors going into damage control mode.
Clinton's statement was that she didn't want a visit to be used as a propaganda tool by those nations mentioned, who are notorious for doing precisely that kind of thing. She was correct that the groundwork needs to be done first before a Presidential visit could occur.
Diplomacy SHOULD resume with those nations, with a goal of eventual high-level talks and visits. But Obama's approach came across as having an American President crawling on hands and knees to that commie runt in North Korea, or the Mouth of the South, or Iran's hostage-taking president to ask them to please talk to us.
We ought to kick a few of them IN the mouth before we talk to them, just so they're paying attention.
Obama ought to admit the error, then move on.
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