Spike Lee: 'I don't do Fox News'

[The Sushi Bandit]

MEZCAL -- Director Spike Lee hit town early Sunday evening for a reception for black state lawmakers at trendy East Colfax Mexican restaurant Mezcal.

He immediately was engulfed in a horde of media, showing his true liberal political colors when one reporter, identifying himself as a correspondent for Fox News, asked Lee a question. The actor snapped, "I don't do Fox News,'' and immediately disappeared into the restaurant, which was closed to ALL press - not just Fox. Several other celebs joined Lee for the event, including Alfre Woodard and Matthew Modine.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/spike-lee-disses-fox-news/

[blonndee]

1. Good on him! Everyone ought to do the same.

[zbdent]

2. He should have said,

"Go find me a real news agency to talk to ..."

[KentuckyKrazyKat]

3. Wanting it both ways...

Celebs always want to be heard, want press coverage, etc., when they want to talk as if they know more than the non-celeb Democrats. I think they should have the courtesy, since they've chosen to make their livings (and plenty of it, at that) from celeb status, give a little courtesy in answering a question or two from the news folks for the average folks. Sorry, but I disagree on this one. They always have something to say when they want to say it and expect everyone to jump to hear it. Nah. They are not above the rest of us nor any smarter politically. Not to mention that most are not more educated, if educated at all.

Hammer away. I'm a newbie and expect it.

Thanks,

Kat

[DJ13]

4. No Democrat should willingly give the Bush Propoganda Network the time of day

[hwmnbn]

5. Fox News is not news....

so talking to them as if they were legitimizes them. They don't deserve it. Spike did the right thing.

[Frances]

6. It was Fox news

[jrockford]

9. Kat this wasn't about not talking to news folk

for average folk...it is about not talking to Fox News. It's not about celebs not talking to the press, but about Spike Lee not wanting to talk to such a terrible and biased "news" org.

Such as whenever a republican gets caught doing something, they accidently label them as a democrat. As one all-too-frequent example.

[TankLV]

12. 1) FUX isn't a "news network" - it's THE repuke party propaganda outlet...

2) FUX has done more damage to this country than almost anything else. Period.

3) FUX doesn't respect anybody else, except those that agree with IT - so why should WE give it any respect when it has shown NONE?

4) FUX assholes are not "folks" - or even human, and as such deserve to be treated as the shit stains they are...

[geckosfeet]

13. Fox is not news. They are vermin. I would not waste my spit on them.

[tom_paine]

17. They are not vermin, they are human beings. Vermin is what the Nazis called the Jews.

Vermin is what Michael Savage and the Bushies call Liberals.

Oh, they are bad, even villanous human beings, or they are Good Germans who know not wat they really support...but they are NOT vermin.

[geckosfeet]

19. I beg to disagree. They ARE. Rats and rodents.

Call me a nazi. But I still remember bIll OlIers glee when faux was covering the Clinton impeachment. It was a witch hunt and faux had not a care that they were laying the groundwork for the dismantling of our country.

They should be removed. I would say exterminated but I am trying be as sensitive and caring as you expect me to be.

[tom_paine]

20. Oh, I don't wish or expect you to be "sensitive or caring". You've got the wrong guy for that.

Somehow I get the feeling I am being stereotyped...

I also have the feeling that we agree about things large and small than we disagree. I share your disgust in the whole circus of the Phony Clinton Impeachment and I also agree that the "hug-a-care-bear" Democrats that seem to have taken over our Party have lead us down the road the German Social Democrats went in 1933 as they disgraced themselves vefore Hitler in much the same way as our Democrats do before Bushler. However, the one thing I will not do is deny the basic humanity of other people. The Bushies might be monstrous and inhuman, but they are still humans.

So, before you get all wound up and start flaming me, consider that we agree about things much more than we disagree, I think.

But, IMHO, there are some lines we shouldn't cross. We must agree to disagree on this.

[geckosfeet]

22. Agreed. Perhaps the fire of my hate will subside over time, but right

now all things RW are the devil for me.

[Tutonic]

14. FOX is not news. And who better than a celebrity to demonstrate

that they can distinguish between press coverage and yellow whorage. Sorry but you're wrong on this one. FOX by any reasonable standard is not journalism and for the past ten years has made a point of kicking the life out of African Americans, Latinos and any other brown skinned person. And one more thing I doubt that they (celebrities) believe that they are smarter politically--they merely recognize that they have a platform from which to speak.

[tom_paine]

16. No hammering here...but consider for a moment that you can believe what you just posted

yet STILL feel that Lee did the right thing. (hey, I made a pun!)

I happen to feel as you do about celebs, what counterbalances it, IMHO, is the "exception" that one does NOT play ball with Bushies or Commies or totalitarians of any stripe, so far as I am concerned.

So, be they a celeb or lunch-pail toting factory worker, lawyer or limo driver, the right thing for ALL people to do is shun Fox "News", a totalitarian propaganda organization at bottom.

So, even though I agree with you about the joke of celebrity worship (HINT: the joke's on the one doing the worshipping), I still feel that Lee was right, and I stand behind him and support him, no matter what his occupation is.

Think about it, please.

[Skittles]

18. LOL

no, you're not TOO obvious :rofl:

[tom_paine]

21. Well, it IS getting close to Phony Election Time and that means the Freeper ranks are swollen

and coordinated.

And active.

[barbtries]

24. who said he wouldn't talk to the news people?

this was fox. gw's personal propaganda machine. i applaud him for it.

[qwlauren35]

28. Spike Lee is a "different" kind of "celebrity".

He is a brilliant filmmaker who brings a certain level of intellectual daring to his productions, and painfully explores subjects around social and political issues that many of us would rather have buried. He has a BA in Mass Communication and a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Television from New York University. He is currently on the faculty of both New York University AND Columbia University teaching film.

His political opinions and clout are miles above that of Paris Hilton's. Don't get me wrong - Hilton is a very astute businesswoman, who should not be underestimated in terms of financial acumen, but she is no Spike Lee by any stretch of the imagination.

It scares me that you would class him as a "celebrity". It ignores his complexity and intellect to a degree that suggests that he is just a name to you, and you're actually unfamiliar with his tradition of political commentary.

A tad bit of research, perhaps?

[Raster]

29. This was Faux News, the worst, most dishonest "news organization" on the planet.

Faux News is the propaganda arm of the rethuglican party. Good on Spike!!! More people should refuse to talk to the lying bastards.

[my2sense]

7. I'm glad he didn't give them the time of day

All they would do is spin his statement anyway.

[Middle finga]

8. I would think as a business fox news should be concerned

about their reputation. It seems like a lot of people are on to their scheme. Their reporters are starting to be humiliated in public.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. The cons and the repubs should have to claim Fox as an

income and campaign fund source. ALL OF IT.

[ikojo]

11. More people need to do this!

Good for you Spike Lee, don't give them an opportunity to twist and edit your words.

[Tutankhamun]

15. Good!

More people need to follow his example and refuse to deal with Fox News.

Hats off to the "Fuck Fox News!" protesters today, too. A bad day for Fox News is a good day for democracy.

[barbtries]

23. i think he meant

fox so-called news. good on him,,,did they air it? :)

[samsingh]

25. fox news should be referred to fox propoganda

[AZ Criminal JD]

26. It's funny. When Obama went on Fox a few weeks ago

None of the posters here said anything about it. Quiet as church mice.

[barbtries]

27. for the record

i have stated somewhere on this board that it is my feeling that no democrat including obama should concede any credibility to fox by appearing on their channel. i missed it whenever obama was on there. i think i read that fox was kept out of the europe trip, and i applaud that decision wholeheartedly. they are not a news channel and should not be allowed to continue acting as if they are.

[Bluenorthwest]

30. Spike demonstrates how easy it really is

Now if only our 'leadership' would take Mr Lee's example to heart. " I don't do Fox News." Five words and out. Spike shows the way again!