Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Spike Lee Blasts President Obama on Oil Spill Response [blamed "environmental racism".......]
FOX ^

Posted on 08/23/2010 10:17:07 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Spike Lee Blasts President Obama on Oil Spill Response

"I don't know why Obama ever trusted these BP guys!" Lee said in an interview. fox news

Spike Lee takes President Obama to task for mishandling the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

"I don't know why Obama ever trusted these BP guys! They would lie to their mothers," Lee opines to GQ's Mark Healy. "[Former BP president Tony] Hayward does not give a [bleep]. The thing we don't talk about is that 11 Americans lost their lives and it took seven weeks to invite their families to the White House. I'm not trying to bash my man, but that's a long time."

Lee also blamed "environmental racism" for the slow response: "If this oil spill would have reached the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard [where Spike summers], Cape Cod, that [bleep] would have been fixed."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-24 last
To: Sicon

What HE said.


21 posted on 08/23/2010 11:00:38 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Wow, give props to the hater.. And he did make a great movie.. Miracle at St Anna...


22 posted on 08/23/2010 11:04:59 AM PDT by crazydad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

“I’m not trying to bash my man,”

Your man, huh? You can have him.


23 posted on 08/23/2010 11:40:05 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Oh, God, he’s right...I wonder if the MSM will publish his scathing remarks about OBAMA? No, don’t be silly.


24 posted on 08/23/2010 12:33:55 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-24 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson