Spike Lee wants boycott of New York Post over chimpanzee cartoon

NY Daily News ^ | 2/20/09 | Caitlin Millat and Tracy Connor

[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."

[americanophile]

stupid.

[Petronski]

Spike wants half off his GW Bridge toll.

Spike wants double jimmies on his Baskin-Robbins cone.

Spike wants extra “butter” on his theatre popcorn.

WGAF?

[BAW]

This is why whites won’t have a serious race discussion with non-whites.

[txnativegop]

What does WGAF mean? I don’t do a lot of texting or blogging I don’t know what that means.

[kanawa]

Cheeky monkey

[mkjessup]

Here ya go Spike, you just need something warm and furry to sooth your ruffled feathers:

[douginthearmy]

I am so sick of these people (liberals) stealing our language and culture and telling us what we mean. All of my life I heard that Congress was a bunch of chimps. Congress wrote the stimulous bill. And even if someone was trying to say that blacks were chimps then Obama would only be a half-chimp.

Isn't it funny how they think free speech is being able to say F*cK whereever and whenever they want, and yet they try to censor everything they disagree with.

[Post Toasties]

Spike Lee laughed at GWB as a chimp. So, why should anybody pay attention to him now?

[BigCinBigD]

My God’s. These people are going...Ape!

[libh8er]

Rush was soo right (when is he not). The election of Hussein Obama has only intensified the mock outrages and the race war.

[NoRedTape]

Spike Lee is completely irrelevant.

And that chimp stimuless cartoon had nothing to with "race", but all to do with the chumps who wrote the bill.

[eyedigress]

Spike Lee, who the hell is that?

[ETL]

I just did a little investigating and discovered that the group leading these protests is linked to Workers World Party. Their placards carry the telephone number 212-633-6646.

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From the website of the Workers World Party:

"With his leadership, the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine. ...

Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ..."

With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party" (1994):
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm

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Workers World
55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011
Email: ww@workers.org
Subscribe wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.net
Support independent news
http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php

International Action Center
55 W 17th St #5C
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
iacenter@action-mail.org
ndomtickets@safewebmail.com
www.iacenter.org
[http://www.iacenter.org/polprisoners/dom-2007.htm]

National Office and NYC chapter
F.I.S.T: Fight Imperialism Stand Together
Marxist youth organization
55 W. 17 St.
New York, NY 10011
212-627-2994
Fax 212-675-7869
E-mail: FIST@workers.org
Web: www.fistyouth.wordpress.com

Troops Out Now Coalition
55 W. 17th St. #5C
NY NY 10011
www.TroopsOutNow.org

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Photo of Charlie Rangel at the podium of a March 19th, 2005 Workers World Party/Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York. The occasion marked the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. The photo comes from the ("We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ...") Workers World Party website.

Also appearing at this "peace" rally with the demonRat Charlie Rangel, now chairman of The House Ways and Means Committee, were Saddam Hussein lawyer, Ramsey Clark and convicted terrorist enabler/attorney, Lynne Stewart. Clark, with Workers World Party, started up that other 'peace' group, A.N.S.W.E.R. Clark also heads the International Action Center and was actually once Attorney General of the United States under democrat LBJ.

Source for the photos: Workers World Party website (workers.org)
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html

[God Dem American]

Spike Lee laughed at GWB as a chimp.

George W. Bush & Barack Obama arrive together for meeting at White House.

[Post Toasties]

LOL! Send it to the Spikester.

[Mamba56]

The Post should have told them to F- off.

I thought they had the stones, quite disappointed that they folded.

[period end of story]

"Boycott?" What about a boycott on the word "boycott?" It's so obviously a racist word that even a caveman would be offended.

[sheik yerbouty]

Little Sheldon Lee should b*gger off..

[ETL]

Note the 212-633-6646 telephone number again. It's the # of the Workers World Party office at 55 West 17th Street in NY.

Between Al Sharpton and Spike Lee is Representative Charles Barron. He is a former Black Panther. The Panthers were Maoist revolutionaries/domestic terrorists.

Source: NY-1 video
http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/politics/94290/protests-continue-despite-post-s-apology-over-cartoon/Default.aspx?ap=1&Flash

"Charles Barron is currently a Democratic New York City Councilmember. A former member of the Black Panthers, he is campaigning for Brooklyn Borough President. He contemplated running for mayor of New York City in the 2005 election, and in 2006 was a primary candidate for a seat in the U.S. Congress."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Barron

[NoLibZone]

I don't want to heat it!