Posted on 10/12/2005 7:54:47 AM PDT by kellynla
Filmmaker Spike Lee on Tuesday announced he is making a film for HBO about the post-Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans, and said he wouldn't be shocked if conspiracy theories of intentional government involvement in the flooding proved true.
Lee's appearance on CNN, to promote his new co-authored memoir/biography, Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It, followed a report on the rumors circulating among evacuees that the government somehow engineered the flooding of the largely black and poor Ninth Ward section of New Orleans.
CNN's report stressed that there is no evidence anyone caused the flooding on purpose. Brig. Gen. Robert Crear, who commands the Army Corps of Engineers, told CNN there was no truth to the rumors.
But after a handful of unidentified evacuees told CNN they believed something was afoot, anchor Daryn Kagan asked Lee if he thought there was potential for a movie in the tales.
Lee, 47, said he is already in development on a film with HBO called When the Levee Broke.
Asked about the possibility that the rumors of government involvement had any truth, Lee said it wouldn't surprise him.
"It's not too far-fetched ... I don't put anything past the United States government," Lee said. "I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans."
Lee has made controversial films, including 1989's Do the Right Thing. But his box office success has been limited. Excluding comedy concert film The Original Kings of Comedy, which grossed about $37-million in 2000, his last big moneymaker was 1992's Malcolm X, which grossed about $48-million.
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Spike Lee is an evil man for perpetrating this rascist hate on America.
He'll cast Ned Beatty as Karl Rove and put him in a wet suit with explosives headed for the levees.
A thank you to Houston for the outpouring of love and assistance?
Our education system is "somehow" pathetic if anyone believes this bologna.
and where would Spike Lee be today without white folks???
"I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans."
And send them all over the place and then spend $200 Billion giving them new homes, food, credit cards, job training, etc... Boy that will really show them!
"I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans."
Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! LOL
The left in this country isn't the loyal opposition. The left are as much enemies as Al-Qaeda and other terrorist scum. Anyone who believes anything put out by Lee is a moron pure and simple. Ditto for Michael Moore.
Ive been listening to Lees comments on Laura Ingrams show this morning. Nobody ever asks these people to prove their wild claims.
Can he get Alan Rickman to play the part of Karl Rove? I think he'd be great -- especailly for the part where Rove places the bombs in the levees.
The fact is Lee will be lauded and praised on all the gab shows. No one will treat him like the racist pariah he is.
correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Lee being interviewed on the Communist News Network...and you thought they would question his outrageous claims?? LOL
It's good to see that Mr. Lee is assuming the self-determined Hollywood objective of advancing a true racial discourse in this country.
So true!
In the movie, Mayor Nagin will be portrayed as a white man,
and the looters will also be white.
Paranoia is apparently the permanent condition of African-American society. And it's supposed leaders like to keep it that way. Face it, Lee can make good money playing to paranoid blacks and paranoid whites. It works for Oliver Stone.
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