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August 3, 2006
How Spike Lee and the New York Times Control the Future
Once again the New York Times has proven itself master of the passive lie — the art of misleading not by what is said, but what is not said. Today the Gray Lady devoted nearly 1,500 words to promoting a four-hour documentary about Katrina's aftermath by race-guilt merchant Spike Lee. Somehow they forgot to mention that Lee believes the U.S. Government deliberately caused last year's flooding in New Orleans in order to be mean to blacks.
As NewsBusters notes, Lee has not kept this psychotic delusion secret. When asked on CNN what he thought of bizarro conspiracy theories spread by race-baiting kooks like Louis Farrakhan, Lee replied:
It's not too far-fetched . . . I don't put anything past the United States government. I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans.
Combining the influences of Farrakhan and Ward Churchill, Lee told al-Reuters:
I wouldn't put anything past the U.S. government when it comes to people of color. There is too much history ... going back to when the U.S. army gave smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans.
As noted here previously, Lee has also shared his views on the appalling Bill Maher's program, where he pulled another moonbat double whammy by yelping:
If they can rig an election, they can do anything!
The Times doesn't hide that Lee has an agenda. The long piece yammers about his "themes of race, class and politics" and how "[t]his gumbo of a film lingers on the politics of disaster response." It even quotes him in Ward Churchill mode, citing Malcolm X about chickens come home to roost.
Yet they never get around to mentioning that Lee believes the flooding was the result of government sabotage.
Says HBO's Sheila Nevins, the film's executive producer, "I realized this would be the film of record."
If Nevins is right, propaganda produced by a paranoid screwball motivated by extremist racial politics will be accepted as historical reality. His colleagues at the NY Times — the "newspaper of record" — are reliably smoothing off the rough edges to make it easier to swallow.
George Orwell said it well:
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
This is why we do not want the likes of Spike Lee and the New York Times controlling the present with their propaganda.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 3, 2006 9:20 PM
Comments
I would`nt put it past Lee to mfg anything. I mean his people have been doing a pretty good job of perpetuating the "myth." And by 'his people' I mean negro`s.
Posted by: Mickey at August 3, 2006 11:15 PM
I've never seen any of his work.
Posted by: Steve at August 4, 2006 12:52 AM
Hey Spike, it was the British Army that gave the small pox infested blankets to Indians, not Americans. Dummy.
Posted by: T-Bone at August 4, 2006 6:44 AM
Spike Lee is a total nutball. He once tried to sue Spike TV to change its name because he thinks normal people will think he has some relationship with it.
He isnt even logical? Why would the allegedly racist US Government want to disperse the black ghetto of New Orleans spreading them all over the country? It makes absolutely no sense. Must be all that crack Spike Lee smokes.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at August 4, 2006 8:54 AM
Wow...This guy continues to demonstrate what an abject idiot he really has become. Spike Lee suffers from short man syndrome. He has the same strain as reverend Al. Oh, and the fact that he is a complete jackass doesn't help either.
Posted by: TheTwelthImam at August 4, 2006 12:13 PM
I don't like Lee either. I think he's a self aggrandizing race-twit third only to Sharpton and Jackson. However there is an aspect of this 'the levees were bombed' business that explains a little of why some New Orleans Blacks find it so easy to believe:
It happened once.
During the big flood of 1927 the wealthy of New Orleans dynamited the Levee at Caernarvon, flooding two predominantly poor parishes, with the blessings of the then Federal Government.
I'm not saying this in any way justifies the blizzard of bullsh*t we hear on the subject, but it explains where the idea came from, and why it caught hold at all.
Posted by: C. S. P. Schofield at August 5, 2006 4:54 AM
"I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy. I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do. Who would you trust to make your decisions, Donald Rumsfeld or the Dixie Chicks?" - Kid Rock (non-moonbat)
Posted by: V the K at August 5, 2006 10:23 AM
