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Spike Lee wants boycott of New York Post over chimpanzee cartoon
NY Daily News ^
| 2/20/09
| Caitlin Millat and Tracy Connor
Posted on 02/20/2009 9:50:26 PM PST by melt
Filmmaker Spike Lee led the call for celebrities to join a boycott of the New York Post Friday during a raucous protest of a racially charged cartoon.
Joined by his 11-year-old son, Lee told a crowd of about 300 people that he has bought the tabloid in the past - but no more.
And he suggested athletes and entertainers shun the paper's writers because of Wednesday's cartoon, which compared President Obama with a crazed chimp by some interpretations.
"This is not the end," Lee told the demonstrators, who marched in front of the Post's offices near Rockefeller Center shouting, "Shut it down."
"It's not just black folks. It's an insult to everybody."
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boycott; chimp; lee; nyp; racist; sharpton; spikelee
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Somebody should tell Spike Lee to stop "apeing" Muslims. It's just a cartoon...
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:50:26 PM PST
by
melt
To: melt
Get over yourself Spike. Sheesh!
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:51:49 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: melt
Indeed. Boycott them for comparing a traitorous quisling to a poor monkey
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:52:45 PM PST
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: txnativegop
Amazing...selective indignation.
To: melt
If ever there was a non-ignorant reason to be racist, Spike Lee is it.
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:53:25 PM PST
by
exist
To: melt
Spike Lee is just another brain dead jerk. It is people like him that will bury us.
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:53:33 PM PST
by
blackbart.223
(I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
To: melt
...anything to divert attention from how incompetent Obama is.
To: Blue Turtle
Yeah ole Spike is very selective in everything he does.
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:54:59 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: melt
The racial ambulance-chasers never miss a chance to squeal.
The Post should have told them to F- off.
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:56:24 PM PST
by
Finalapproach29er
(Democrats still want to get Pres. Bush and/or VP Cheney; there might be show trials in Feb09)
To: melt
Spike: Where was your outage over the Bush = Chimp cartoons? .....
Thought so. STFU already.
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:57:32 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
To: melt
Going ape over a cartoon?
:)
It’s funny that a film maker and artist is demanding censorship. :)
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:57:52 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
To: melt
“Yeah yo why’ ont we bum rush da show”
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:58:50 PM PST
by
allmost
To: allmost
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:59:56 PM PST
by
allmost
To: pissant
Yeah. It’s not fair to the poor monkey.
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:59:59 PM PST
by
melt
(Someday they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
To: pissant
"Boycott them for comparing a traitorous quisling to a poor monkey." A chimpanzee is not a monkey. But as to the rest you figure out what I am thinking on the matter. Won't be hard.
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posted on
02/20/2009 10:00:02 PM PST
by
blackbart.223
(I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
To: exist
"If ever there was a non-ignorant reason to be racist, Spike Lee is it." Is not racist to despise ignorance.
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posted on
02/20/2009 10:00:14 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: Blue Turtle
Hey Spike, braindead white teenage punks are where you make youre living!! Racist??
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posted on
02/20/2009 10:02:18 PM PST
by
mrsalty
To: melt
Spike Lee, big mouth racist!
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posted on
02/20/2009 10:02:22 PM PST
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: melt
"And he suggested athletes and entertainers shun the paper's writers because of Wednesday's cartoon, which compared President Obama with a crazed chimp by some interpretations." It would be interesting if Obama actually claimed he penned the bill, and it was directly submitted to the House and they voted on it. If this happened it opens all sorts of legal ranglings because of the Seperation of Powers biz could be called into question.
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posted on
02/20/2009 10:03:47 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: Reagan Man
Did spike protest the Condoleeza Rice cartoons?
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