Idiot Spike Lee: “The United States Is the Most Violent Country in the History of Civilization” (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 12:10 PM
Director Spike Lee, along with his wife Tonya, were on the Today show this morning to promote their new children’s book. But, Spike coudln’t help himself. When he was asked about the Tucson shootings Spike told Meredith Viera (who is still pushing the line that Loughner snapped because of the tea party, etc.) that, “The United States is the most violent county in the history of civilization.
Media Research Center reported:
MEREDITH VIEIRA: I want to talk a little bit about what happened in Arizona last week-
SPIKE LEE: Right.
VIEIRA: -because there’s been so much discussion about discord in this country-
LEE: Right.
VIEIRA: -and the level of rhetoric. And not saying that it was responsible for what happened, but that it just adds to negativity, in general.
LEE: Here’s my, my take in it. I think that, as film makers, as politicians, as artists, we have to understand that all, whatever we do goes out in the universe. And you should be aware of what you’re doing. And you cannot just say “Well I just did this and, and my – had nothing to do with what happened.” That’s, that’s not, that’s not the case. Also the United States of America is the most violent country in the history of civilization. And this NRA thing. We gotta turn this around. You know these, these guns are out of hand. And I know they have a very powerful lobby but something has to be done about the gun control in this country. That’s my opinion.
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Edouard commented:
Oh good grief.
Highlander commented:
As if his movies aren’t part of the problem … jeez.
Granny commented:
Never did learn much history, did he? We aren’t even the most violent country in the world today.
patman commented:
And your movies suck too, except for one…
Kinda like Michael Moore…
Douche racebaiter.
David_V. commented:
Another clueless idiot.
NC Cop commented:
Who is Spike Lee???
DigitalTroglodyte commented:
Try filming in Somalia, Sudan or Mexico today, Spite(to name a few)! He’s an ahistorical @$$hat
Adirondack Patriot commented:
Charles Taylor, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Adoph Hitler, Josef Stalin, Robert Mugabe, Saddam Hussein and Caligula all must be relieved to hear this.
reliapundit commented:
FACTS:
1 – SOCIALISM AND SOCIALISTS (HITLER, MAO, KIM, POL POT, STALIN ET AL) KILLED MORE PEOPLE IN THE 20TH CENTURY (PERHAPS 200 MILLION PEOPLE) THAN ANYTHING ELSE. MORE THAN THE USA – WHICH WAS DEFENDING THE FREE WORLD AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND LIBERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
2 – ISLAM HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE IN THE LAST 1400 YEARS THAN ANY OTHER IDEOLOGY OR EMPIRE. PERHAPS A BILLION PEOPLE.
LEE IS A MORON AND A DUPE – AND MOST OF HIS FILMS SUCK.
David_V. commented:
The wonderful thing about freedom of speech is that it enables us to spot the really stupid people without much effort.
Patricia commented:
Thanks God I have never seen his movies! …… and if he doesn’t like this country USA, he has the freedom to LEAVE.
Spike Yee commented:
And Spike Lee is the most ignorant man in the history of civilization – and arguably before.
vero commented:
“From my cold dead hands” Charles said it best
Jason commented:
Of course non-violent Spike said that he had a Louisville Slugger in his closet with Wim Wenders’ name on it and he said that NRA president Charlton Heston should be shot after the Columbine massacre
Stuart commented:
He ought to stick to making bad movies. His forte is obviously not history.
David_V. commented:
Sorry but this is off topic, go to The Blaze.com and watch the video of icesicles falling from the t.v. tower. then read the comment section, roflmao.
J-Ho commented:
How stupid is he! All he had to do was read this blog: http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/01/2010-totals-are-in-over-10000-die-in-afghan-violence-over-13000-die-in-mexican-violence/
Stalin killed at least 20 million people.
Mao killed between 40-70 million people.
What an idiot.
Even more stupid? MEREDITH VIEIRA didn’t even bother to confront it.
tarpon commented:
2 million have been slaughtered in the last few years in the Sudan, by black Muslims linked to al Qaeda.
About 1.5 million African children die each year due to the ban on DDT, a total liberal hoax, according to WHO. After searching for 30+ years for the danger, WHO found none, and allowed DDT to be deployed again in 2006. Between 35 and 40 million have died to date, and liberals are trying to use the IMF to enforce the ban on DDT still to this day.
Paul Ben commented:
Posting news about the Hollywood Subhumans on this website is degrading.
Paul commented:
Does anyone really care what a washed up, uneducated film maker really thinks about America? Instead of being appreciative that a few people bought his movies in this great country, he bashes everyone who lives in America. F**k Spike Lee. Go make another horrible movie you sawed off moron.
Ditto commented:
Anyone wondering why gun sales have gone up? Its this clown…and his bullsh^t. If his comments cause one normal American to buy a gun for protection, we have won and Spikey has lost.
Sometimes its just better to shut up Spikey..leave the intellectual debate to your betters.
dwd commented:
All you can do is laugh. Ignorant “celebrities” spouting off their uninformed opinions… and the media eagerly broadcast this genius to the masses. Who are you going to trust when it comes to profound statements like this? A guy who shoots movies? A musician? An actor? Or a scholarly historian who knows what he’s talking about.
America, are you sick and tired YET of your demigod celebrities preaching at you and making up history and telling you all the things that are wrong with you, while they sit in the comfort of luxury, untouched by your troubles?
Spider commented:
Typical bleeding heart liberal trying to pin gun crimes/violence on the NRA!?!
How many of the gun crimes in major metropolitan areas are committed by NRA members?
Redwine commented:
This moron needs to be sent – permanently – to one of these “peaceful” countries: Yemen, Somalia, Algeria, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Gaza, Congo, Zimbabwe
Granny commented:
Hypocrisy:
Dem Congressman who called for Florida Governor to be shot pleads for “civility”
bigL commented:
HaHA .this why I haven’t gone to a movie in almost 20 yrs.Iam NOT goingto wspend a dime to enrich these America haters. they are all like this under the skin. by ommision ans well as comisssion.
Time for another HUAC commission. And force the lot of them out.
TomW commented:
Maybe Spike Lee should consider this bit of wisdom, from someone he no doubt respects:
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Or to put it more plainly, in the simple lexicon of a children’s book:
Think, Spike. Think, Spike, think.
bg commented:
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hey Spike, shove it..
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bg commented:
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Runaway Slave!!
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StrangernFiction commented:
“Also the United States of America is the most violent country in the history of civilization.”
And this follows a lecture about watching what you say. Stranger. Than. Fiction.
donh commented:
What a hypocritical PIMP ! The rap industry has made billions glorifying violance and making things like drug use and gang membership HIP.
Patricia commented:
Spike Lee said: ” The United States Is the Most Violent Country in the History of Civilization”
and isn’t in this country where he is earning and profiting millions making movies?? in no other country they will let him making $$$ with his stupid movies.. no other country will!!!
maybe he should consider moving to Mexico, and perhaps in thast country he will find that security, peace and protection he doesn’t have in the USA!!! (sarc)…
Khan Krum commented:
I really think Spike Lee ought to really get back to his West African roots and film a movie here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQSjyYRTDVM
I wonder how long that project would last?
Jim commented:
I guess all the savage nations in Africa are exempt!
Granny commented:
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#33 January 12, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Khan Krum commented:
I really think Spike Lee ought to really get back to his West African roots and film a movie here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQSjyYRTDVM
I wonder how long that project would last?
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You know what the very saddest part of that is? The nation of Liberia was founded not long after the Revolutionary War by Americans, many of them Southerners, as a home for those wishing to return to Africa and also a home for slaves rescued by our Navy off the coast of Africa. This is where the USS Constitution and Constellation would deliver the enslaved that they rescued.
Khan Krum commented:
Granny commented: You know what the very saddest part of that is? The nation of Liberia was founded not long after the Revolutionary War by Americans, many of them Southerners, as a home for those wishing to return to Africa and also a home for slaves rescued by our Navy off the coast of Africa. This is where the USS Constitution and Constellation would deliver the enslaved that they rescued.
Yea. And now we have General Butt Naked.
bg commented:
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violence??
here ya go Spike, movie US this..
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mcc commented:
“I think that, as film makers, as politicians, as artists, we have to understand that all, whatever we do goes out in the universe.”
How about telling that to your fellow Lefty film maker, Oliver Stone? He made one about assassinating a living President: George W. Bush.
bg commented:
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Khan Krum #36
[US African Squadron:
In 1859, Constellation sailed as the flagship of the US African Squadron. Charged with stopping the illegal slave trade off the West African coast, Constellation and the seven other ships of the squadron captured fourteen slavers, freeing close to 4,000 slaves. In December 1859, Constellation took the brig Delicia. Though no slaves were on board, the ship was fitted out as a slaver. The following September, the slaver Cora was captured with 705 slaves on board. While the squadron was carrying out its mission, the situation at home was deteriorating as the nation sunk into Civil War. [links @ link]
thank you, i did not know that..
SpideyTerry commented:
Why can’t Lee focus on making quality films? Oh, that’s right, he hasn’t been able to do that in years. Clearly, he’s applying the same brain-dead attitude in his plotting stories to history.
bitterclinger commented:
No doubt that if guns were outlawed, SPITE and his ilk would figure to get a special dispensation to still carry and own them. That’s why all those rooting for Marxism are doing it; surely they’ll be in the privileged class. That’s how it is with folks at the top; excrement floats.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Nevermind the millions and millions of people that were murdered by the various slaughters known as the Holocaust, the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward, The Killing Fields….
This porch-dwelling Uncle Tom, keeping his bro’s in the Democrat Cotton Fields, with his silver tongue, living in the luxury of the Good Life, is a disgrace to the humanity that his Democrat masters deny the entire black race.
Hutus and Tutsis, slaughered by the FREAKIN’ MILLIONS. And this charlatan probably can’t even comprehend a “million” or reasonably compare it to a “dozen”.
God help us, when those who claim to be Chistians, are worhippers of Satan, the Father Of Lies. Facts and statistics are just obstacles to these Marxist “repeat it enough times and it’s Truth” Communist murderers. When Chaos comes to America: the blood is on their hands. And they like it that way. They justify it, and say I and you need to be murdered because their great-grandfathers were slaves. Nevermind that their great-grandfathers were sold by black Africans, and enslaved by the SAME DEMOCRAT PARTY THAT HAS ENSLAVED THEM TODAY — it’s still my white-ass’ fault.
Nation of Idiocy.
JPeden commented:
These anti-American Proggs do have a point: apparently, “imposed” American freedom does release a significant number of permanently “not ready for freedom” people, as proven, of course, by the anti-Constitutional America-hating Proggs themselves!
squeaky commented:
there appears to be a disconnect…earth to moonbats.
[Humphries says he's been getting threats at his home from people who seem to hold him and his organization partially responsible for the shootings Saturday.]
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/tucson-tea-party-leader-says-threats-are-keeping-him-away-from-obama-rally.php
Reaganite Republican commented:
I guess the Third Reich and Ginghis Khan don’t make the cut in this genius’ mind lol
Ipso Facto commented:
I resent Spike Lee drawing attention to the violent crimes which are largely committed by Black and Hispanic people who are presently causing our prison populations to overflow throughout America. As many people know, incarcaration is one of the largest parts of any State Budget. Why is Mr. Lee denigrating the Black and Hispanic people by calling attention to their criminal behavior? I think Mr. Lee is a raaaacist.
mercador commented:
Maybe he meant the NBA not the NRA? Just saying.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
How many F__ING PEOPLE were BEHEADED in the United States this year?
F_O_U_R_T_E_E_N WERE BEHEADED IN ACAPULCO, JUST LAST F**KIN WEEKEND, YOU PUTZ MORON UNCLE TOM LUXURY-LIVIN’ PIECE OF DOG-S**T!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Lightning, God. Bring the lightning. Or the meteors.
Stay away from outdoor speeches, Spike.
Cuz’ I’m praying.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
What was the Yiddish word for the Jews who worked for the Nazis, digging the gold teeth out of the gas-chamber victims?
That’s what you are, Spike.
Joanne commented:
Let’s face it, if there was gun control in the U.S., the law-abiding Americans would be disarmed, and Spike’s brothers would all be armed.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
…using and taking advantage of your “own” Democrat-abused and Democrat-re-enslaved people to enrich yourself and save your own Uncle Tom, Porch-dwelling hide.
channeling the inner Lee commented:
Spike Lee must change his name. A Spike is a sharp piece of metal on which to impale a victim. Might I suggest “Pansy” Lee or “Sugarbear” Lee. Also, his daughter, “Satchel,” is named after a demolition charge. How can we ignore the hate? In a gesture of conciliation for his past antisemitic statements, he should change her name to “Shalom” Lee.
In Lee’s upcoming remake of A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas Moore will be revealed as a black closeted gay, played by RuPaul in drag, of course. The dialogue will be in jive with English subtitles. Expect release in June, Gay Pride month.
Just kidding, Spike!
Khan Krum commented:
Hey Taqiyyotomist, I believe they were called Kapos. Barry’s handler George Soros was one.
RandyPlum commented:
He is blessed his ancestors were removed from Africa.
Then he’d have seen violent countries with violence reaching back hundreds and hundreds of years.
succotash commented:
More wisdom from a mental midget…really!
daryl commented:
Hey Speck! Think your better than ol’ Sam Cook huh? Sam took all of his
limitations and made one hell of a good song out of them. Maybe you’d be
paid more attention to if you took a page out of his book.
“Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the French I took
Don’t know much about geography
Don’t know much trigonometry
Don’t know much about algebra
Don’t know what a slide rule is for
tommy mc donnell commented:
i wonder how spike came to this conclusion. its an old nation of islam mantra. i wonder if he got it from them or that liberal education he got at new york university. maybe both.
MikeO commented:
I could introduce Spike to a lovely young lady who is a Rwanda genocide survivor who might disagree wih him, but he’d tried to convince her that the U.S. was responsible for that, as well.
IOpian commented:
Sorry Spike but I’ll take this country over Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Hitler’s Germany, Mao’s China, Kim’s Korea, Stalin’s Russia and any non-colonial African nation.
decentAmerican commented:
So….things that did NOT influence the shooter:
– Violent Spike Lee movies
– violent Clint Eastwood, Coen Brothers, or Richard Rodriguez movies
– Violent video games
– Violent rap music
– Hell, I watched Grey’s Anatomy onlien the other day, originall aired 1/6/11…BEFORE the shootings, it was about a….SHOOTER at a college. that was two days before the shooting. But, NOPE, that didn’t influence the shooter.
But, what DID influence the shooter was Palin’s little district map? Even though the shooter was a liberal who didn’t watch tv?
Liberalism, is confirmed, to be a mental disorder. Absolutely, positively.
Oh, and according to liberals, with the talk of “guns”, when Obama said “they bring a knife, you bring a GUN’……that means, according to Liberals, that Obama was definitely the cause of the shooting.
stupid stupid stupid liberals. But I repeat myself.
Henry Hawkins commented:
Meredith Viera: “I want to talk a little bit about what happened in Arizona last week because there’s been so much discussion about discord in this country.”
I can’t recall ever seeing a worse non sequitor.
gus commented:
Spike, we could cut our murder rate in half, if not for the GREAT SOCIETY and what black culture has become. I base that on facts not Sprite Lee’s opinion. Our country has a violence problem and it is based mainly in urban American blue cities that voted for Obama.
Marsh commented:
No. The most violent countries in the world are either run by leftists (like him) or islamists. And it’s particulary bad in Africa. Which a racist black nationalist like him would probably love to ignore.
bg commented:
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Taq #48
apologize, he ain’t no Uncle Tom..
Uncle Tom was hero..
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pst314 commented:
“Also, his daughter, Satchel, is named after a demolition charge.”
Evidence please?
How about the famous baseball payer, Satchel Paige?
pst314 commented:
Spike Lee once said that when he sees an inter-racial couple he gives them a hate stare.
Such a wonderful guy, that Spike. Truly the flower of civilization. /spit
echo commented:
Taq,
He definitely is no Uncle Tom.
He also is a pretty good filmmakers.
He is not, however, the most sober appraiser of race in this country and often falls prey to certain generalized tropes.
Meanwhile, blacks, i am pretty sure, are not enslaved by anyone, particularly not in the psycho-socio-emotional sense by the Dems.
Chill a Cella
myohmy commented:
Hmm…Wow, coming from a guy raking money producing violent movies. Hypocrite.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
Mr. Spike Lee PROVES -BEYOND ALL DOUBT- that he is a f&ckwit.
To give this cretin any form of publicity -other than to remark in passing that his intellectual faculties would be taxed to the point of short-circuit were he to attempt to chew gum while out for a stroll- would be a waste of everyone’s time and energy.
Just ignore this mental midget.
Little david Puddy commented:
Black men make up about 6.5% of the US population yet commit 52.1% of the Homocides and 48.2% of Rapes.
What do you think of that Spike!!
Scott commented:
Funny then how South AFRICA has the highest murder rate in the world, higher even than wartime Iraq.
KC commented:
Wow! Not sure which is more shocking? His comment or the fact he’s married.
Kool-aid!
bg commented:
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Little #72
and most of them are supposedly rotting
in prisons, go figure that math out.. /s/
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bg commented:
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Satchel: sack, small bag, bag..
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bg commented:
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oh echo echo echo, i repeat..
meanwhile, blacks, i am pretty sure, are not enslaved by anyone,
particularly not in the psycho-socio-emotional sense by the Dems
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bg commented:
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pst314 ##68
re: [Spike Lee once said that when he sees an
inter-racial couple he gives them a hate stare.]
LOL, i bet folks like him stare back at him in much the same way..
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Andreas K. commented:
Every single EU country is more violent than the US.
Crime statistics don’t lie.
burt commented:
If you go to ‘thereligionofpeace.com’ you will see a list of the people Islam has killed this month alone. It will blow your mind. World wide there are many. Americans may know about the killing that have taken place in New York City & Chicago, but the killing in Mexico alone prove Spike Lee is a nut.
L.E. Liesner commented:
I guess that killing and mass murder is not violent if the communist , muslims and drug lords do it. Somebody needs to tell this fool to take the blinders off and take a good look at the world, but then the left has always been better at orating then watching and listening. Old Spike should set up shop in Juarez if he wants some peace and quiet.
jdc commented:
Does anybody really care what this ignorant, inbred POS has to say about anything.
Adam commented:
That is a hard fact! Bravo….THE USA IS THE MOST VIOLENT COUNTRY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!! SECOND, THE USA IS THE MOST WARMONGER COUNTRY IN HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION!!!