Spike Lee on the Clintons: 'They are gonna knock out some kneecaps'
This being L.A., a suburb of Hollywood, we thought it worth nothing that Spike Lee has some opinions of the Clintons, which he'll be discussing tonight on Bloomberg TV's "Night Talk" at 10 p.m. Eastern (and yes, we know Lee is a New Yorker, but still, it's the movies).
Lee, a former Bill Clinton supporter, has slapped the Clintons around before, but the release pushing tonight's interview sounds like it might be worth checking even if just for giggles' sake (also on podcast for you tech-savvy folks).
During the interview Spike talks about why he no longer supports Sen. Clinton in the Presidential campaign, "if you know anything about the Clintons and what they've done in politics, they are gonna knock out some kneecaps." He said Bill Clinton has been "playing his whole thing like he is the great white father." "I think that they thought this thing was going to be over Super Tuesday, and Obama's a nice young guy, but they didn’t see him as a threat, but when things started to play out the way they did, then they saw their whole thing was in jeopardy, and that’s when he isn’t just the nice young little guy anymore ... he's our blood enemy -- and then that's when you start to see the things come out the side of President Clinton's neck, comments he meant in South Carolina."
Well, that should add to the calm and dignified political discourse of the campaign, no?
-- Scott Martelle
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
Subscribe to this Blog
Spike Lee?
Now is this because he's black? Or because he USE TO BE an Obama supporter and now a Obama supporter?
Is it because Spike Lee has made movies that very much resemble what Wright said?
OR do you guys always ask Spike Lee his opinion on every Presidential election going back to '88?
I mean seriously, I think "blogs" are utterly destroying Journalism. Well what's left of it anyways.
Posted by: Toby | May 02, 2008 at 04:08 PM
No class, Lee, won't watch your movies or let you get your hands on any of my money.
Posted by: Anee | May 03, 2008 at 09:26 AM