DIRTY HARRY COMES CLEAN

THE GUARDIAN ^ | 6-6-08 | Unknown

[Jo Nuvark]

"A guy like him should shut his face" ----- Clint Eastwood responding to Spike Lee's criticism of Eastwood's Iwo Jima movie "Flags of Our Fathers". Lee noted the lack of African-Americans in Eastwood's movie. Eastwood said, "there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, but they didn't raise the flag".

[Jo Nuvark]

I think Alec Baldwin should play Barak, when Michael Moore produces Obama's biography.

[EagleUSA]

Alec Baldwin should play Barak....
::::::
A good match, both terribly anti-American, both nut cases that should be sent to Cuba, one way where their hatred for America would be appreciated...

[Jo Nuvark]

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS PING!

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Clint.
Rules.

[Jo Nuvark]

CLINT RULES!

Yeah baby!

[avacado]

It's a pity it has come down to this between the two. The got along so well together in this movie.

[rockabyebaby]

LMAO, I heard this early this morning and it just cracked me up, “made my day” as it were!

[contemplator]

I like the fact that he knew about the munitions company. It shows he did his homework and had a desire for his film to be historically accurate. It would appear that Spike did not do any homework and had a different desire when he made his comments.

[atc23]

I thought Spike was taller. ??

[the_devils_advocate_666]

LOL!!!

[melt]

Headline should read: "Clint Spikes Lee..."

[Jo Nuvark]

[... It would appear that Spike (snip) had a
different desire when he made his comments...]

The RACIAL INDUSTRY has surpassed the absurd.

[pogo101]

Spike Lee is still alive?

Someone should tell him; his career died in 1989.

[Jo Nuvark]

CLINT SPIKES LEE ... Awesome!

[ejonesie22]

I was reading this earlier today and the first thing that went through my mind was the Spike Lee was complaining about “Letters from Iwo Jima” the Japanese perspective movie Eastwood made with “Flags of our Fathers” which I just saw a couple of weeks ago (very good movie)...

Sad thing is it took a few minutes to kick they were talking about “Flags” because I easily believed Lee would be upset it was all Japanese and Asian actors in the “Letters”...

[contemplator]

I'm surprised this was in the Guardian, it is actually a good article. I especiialy liked:

Eastwood still likes to let his views be known, often forcefully. In 2005, he vowed he'd kill Michael Moore if the documentarian ever showed up at his house, the way he had doorstepped Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine. This March he was sacked from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's California state parks commission for objecting to the building of a toll road through a national forest. But though he has been associated in the public mind with Republican viewpoints, he's something of an individualist. "I don't pay attention to either side," he claims. "I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. So I believe in that value of smaller government. Give politicians power and all of a sudden they'll misuse it on ya."

I have a newly found admiration for Clint.

[skeeter]

I always thought Dirty Harry was John Milius' creation.

Glad to know Clint had something to do with the film's message.

[petro45acp]

“The RACIAL INDUSTRY has surpassed the absurd.”

It’s how the left does things. We have the racial industry, the medical/insurance industry, the poor industry, and next up, the green industry.

All geared to hasten the slide into full blown socialism.

Go Clint!!!

ruefully

[Augustinian monk]

” In 2005, he vowed he’d kill Michael Moore if the documentarian ever showed up at his house, the way he had doorstepped Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine”

Let me guess, Clint, you would use the 44 Magnum, the most powerful hadgun in the world.

[Jo Nuvark]

I’m happy to say that I havn’t seen
any of Spike Lee’s movies, though
I did read “Malcolm X”.

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