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DIRTY HARRY COMES CLEAN
THE GUARDIAN ^ | 6-6-08 | Unknown

Posted on 06/06/2008 12:47:15 PM PDT by 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".

(Excerpt) Read more at film.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iwojima; militaryheroes; racism
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I think Alec Baldwin should play Barak, when Michael Moore produces Obama's biography.
1 posted on 06/06/2008 12:47:17 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark
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Alec Baldwin should play Barak....
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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...


2 posted on 06/06/2008 12:49:18 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: AmericanHunter; Extremely Extreme Extremist; jmc813; TheBattman; Carpe Cerevisi; BossLady; ...

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS PING!


3 posted on 06/06/2008 12:49:20 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark

Clint.
Rules.


4 posted on 06/06/2008 12:50:46 PM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

CLINT RULES!

Yeah baby!


5 posted on 06/06/2008 12:51:33 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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It's a pity it has come down to this between the two. The got along so well together in this movie.


6 posted on 06/06/2008 12:52:48 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Jo Nuvark

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


7 posted on 06/06/2008 12:55:27 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR INFIDEL STEPHENJOHNBANKER)
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To: Jo Nuvark

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.


8 posted on 06/06/2008 12:56:00 PM PDT by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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To: avacado

I thought Spike was taller. ??


9 posted on 06/06/2008 12:56:23 PM PDT by atc23
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To: avacado

LOL!!!


10 posted on 06/06/2008 12:56:54 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Jo Nuvark

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

11 posted on 06/06/2008 12:57:28 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: contemplator

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

The RACIAL INDUSTRY has surpassed the absurd.


12 posted on 06/06/2008 12:58:40 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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Spike Lee is still alive?

Someone should tell him; his career died in 1989.


13 posted on 06/06/2008 12:59:02 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: melt

CLINT SPIKES LEE ... Awesome!


14 posted on 06/06/2008 1:02:46 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
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”...

15 posted on 06/06/2008 1:03:32 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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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.
16 posted on 06/06/2008 1:05:24 PM PDT by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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I always thought Dirty Harry was John Milius' creation.

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

17 posted on 06/06/2008 1:05:54 PM PDT by skeeter
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“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


18 posted on 06/06/2008 1:07:26 PM PDT by petro45acp (NO good endeavor survives an excess of "adult supervision" (read bureaucracy)!)
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” 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.


19 posted on 06/06/2008 1:07:26 PM PDT by Augustinian monk (You going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?- Jose Wales)
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I’m happy to say that I havn’t seen
any of Spike Lee’s movies, though
I did read “Malcolm X”.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000490/


20 posted on 06/06/2008 1:07:35 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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