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Exclusive: ESPN will not air Spike Lee's docuseries on Colin Kaepernick, citing 'creative differences'
Reuters ^ | 8-16-25 | Rory Carroll and Lisa Richwine

Posted on 08/17/2025 4:05:27 PM PDT by dynachrome

Director Spike Lee's multi-part documentary series for ESPN Films about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sparked a national debate when he protested racial injustice nearly a decade ago, will not be released, the filmmaker and ESPN said. "ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project as a result of certain creative differences," ESPN said in a statement to Reuters on Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: clapperdick; espn; spikelee
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creative differences = too many lies?
1 posted on 08/17/2025 4:05:27 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Correct.


2 posted on 08/17/2025 4:05:50 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: dynachrome

Spike Lee’s fiction instead of the cold, hard facts.


3 posted on 08/17/2025 4:06:37 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: dynachrome

He was washed up, had led the 49ers to a disastrous season, and had been benched BEFORE he ever took a knee, so the common narrative of how he was “brave” and “was punished” is absurd.


4 posted on 08/17/2025 4:06:44 PM PDT by montag813
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To: dynachrome

Bet Netflix will buy it.

Netflix just loves throwing money away.


5 posted on 08/17/2025 4:07:25 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: dynachrome

Right!


6 posted on 08/17/2025 4:07:46 PM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: mewzilla

Hey, Kaepernick.

Give Meghan Markle a call.


7 posted on 08/17/2025 4:08:45 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: dynachrome

Good
I thought for awhile we were past peak wokeness then this happened today

Video
The Minnesota Vikings girly male cheerleader
https://rumble.com/v6xpuje-the-minnesota-vikings-male-cheerleader.html


8 posted on 08/17/2025 4:13:52 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: dynachrome

Neither one needs more air time. Both racist haters.


9 posted on 08/17/2025 4:14:02 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: montag813

Very well explained
Thanks


10 posted on 08/17/2025 4:14:35 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: rktman

“””Neither one needs more air time. Both racist haters.””

Kapernick/Harris 2028.


11 posted on 08/17/2025 4:15:03 PM PDT by shelterguy
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What a team. Two halfrican unamericans.


12 posted on 08/17/2025 4:18:07 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: rktman

They could start the Victim Party.


13 posted on 08/17/2025 4:20:13 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: janetjanet998

I thought initially “maybe they are like those guys in college who throw and catch the cheerleaders in the air...they don’t ALL seem gay...”

Then I saw their pictures...

Gay.


14 posted on 08/17/2025 4:20:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: dynachrome

“creative differences = too many lies?”

There’s that plus ESPN/Disney couldn’t figure out what possible advertisers would want to be associated with that bucket of BLM propaganda, known in most circles as unmitigated BS 💩.


15 posted on 08/17/2025 4:24:49 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: No name given

Is it because Lee wanted to lie more or less than ESPN?


16 posted on 08/17/2025 4:25:55 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: montag813

It is like Sanders, backup quarterbacks shouldn’t be media hounds.


17 posted on 08/17/2025 4:27:27 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: janetjanet998

Video
The Minnesota Vikings girly male cheerleader

https://rumble.com/v6xpuje-the-minnesota-vikings-male-cheerleader.html

OMG - you cannot get MORE GAY than that guy.


18 posted on 08/17/2025 4:29:54 PM PDT by BobL (If you're over 50 and still eat carbs, expect to become diabetic)
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To: dynachrome

“creative differences”

“We don’t need to aggravate that many viewers.”


19 posted on 08/17/2025 4:31:08 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: rlmorel

I thought initially “maybe they are like those guys in college who throw and catch the cheerleaders in the air...they don’t ALL seem gay...”
—‘

Thought the same thing

Most gays don’t even act that gay and are probably embarrassed they are group in with people like that


20 posted on 08/17/2025 4:37:00 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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