Spike Lee: "I Don't Do Fox News"

DENVER -- Best line of the day...so far:

Director Spike Lee hit town early Sunday evening for a reception for black state lawmakers at trendy East Colfax Mexican restaurant Mezcal.

He immediately was engulfed in a horde of media, showing his true liberal political colors when one reporter, identifying himself as a correspondent for Fox News, asked Lee a question. The actor snapped, "I don't do Fox News,'' and immediately disappeared into the restaurant, which was closed to the media — not just Fox.

I suspect Lee wasn't the first person -- nor the last -- to tell Fox where they could put their microphone. If you hear of a disturbance a few blocks from the Pepsi Center this week, it will likely be Fox News trying to get into The Big Tent to shoot some footage. It won't be pretty...

Mark Nickolas is the Managing Editor of Political Base.

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Comments

[spiderbucket]

No one - not a single person - on the side of truth should ever lower themselves to talk to Fox.

[TrooAmerican]

Fox...they are so funny... And so Ironic.
they literally call themselves a news organization but act like a comedy show from comedy central with their antics, while providing biased fraudulent altered commentary in seriousness.
While the comedy show does comedy by acting like they are a news show.
but instead actually provides dissected intelligent witty news.

[libbygirl]

I hope more people will do the same. Just say NO.

[larry278]

Cutting FAUX NOISE talking heads is becoming a trend among progressives. When a FAUX NOISE talking head, with camera & sound crew, waded into the middle of a demonstration in Denver & tried to stand in front of a demonstrator, the demonstrator kept walking over the talking head & his mike & said, "F#ck, Fox..." & kept on walking. The FAUX NOISE gotcha news gathering & attempts to make news are now well known. To shove a mike in somebodys face & say, "I'm with FAUX NOISE." is a sure way to be ignored & to be treated as an uncollected piece of litter on the ground. People walk over you, ignore you & let the cleaning crew attend to you. FAUX NOISE gotcha crews must get used to being removed from the floor by a cleaning crew & being deposited in the dumpster. They can expected to be put on the live news feeds of rival networks as the crews of other networks make videos of the FAUX NOISE crew being removed by a cleaning crew & are deposited into a dumpster. That is real TV, not FAUX TV.

[rose london]

The only way you send a clear message to Faux News is to boycott. Fox represent all that is ill in human development. Period.

[Susej]

To rephrase Lisa Simpson, why Fox news is so conservative on all issues including the so called family values, but their programming from adult cartoons to sitcoms and game shows reflect the opposite.

[CAMBEL]

Spike Lee was once asked a question during an interview from an audience member of "Why don't you use any Latinos in your films?" His reply was "I think that is something for Latino Directors to do." I wouldn't use any comment of Lee's as an example of anything after hearing that.

[dct1999]

Why? Must he be all things to all people?

[HFh]

Do you have a cite for that?

Without even taking a moment to think about how many Latinos he's had in his films, that comment is belied by Rosie Perez in Do the Right Thing, for crying out loud. He *directed* John Leguizamo's Freak in the 1980s. Leguizamo appeared in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam as well.

I can imagine if he was asked why he didn't do a film about the Latino *experience* that he might respond that way, but not having Latinos in his films? It just isn't true. Are you making this up?

[urbanliterati]

The whole note citing a source thing works on the conservative websites...you may be lost.

[acharles]

CAMBEL was once asked during an interview from an anonymous blogger "Why are you a republican hack?" The reply, "I like supporting big oil, they've done wonders for the country"

[IslandGyal]

I think I will put that on a tee-shirt @ "I don't do Faux News".

[libbygirl]

Let me know where to get one.

[swift goat pet for truth]

I give credit to Spike for such a low key, civil comment.
I would not have been so polite.

[newdreams]

I like a man with integrity!

[Chewelahboy]

FOX should get some credit. While Bush has a legacy, FOX is creating a legacy.

Unbalanced, Unmitigated Propaganda

24 hours a day, 365 days a year - what does that say about advertisers who pay to associate themselves with FOX?

[ShamusNYC]

Thanks, Spike.

Now if only more people would "do the right thing".

Run ads pointing out the hypocrisy and bigotry of Fox, organize boycott, and for god's sake stop talking to them - all dem office holders, actors, sports figures, basically a full freeze out.

And any dems watching that garbage - just switch the channel, please! I know - the run coverage all day long unlike MSNBC, but why not catch a classic movie on TCM, or maybe read a book!

[moxieme]

Faux News, just as Sen. Obama, believes in one America. The difference? Faux News believes in one European American, not the melting pot we have become. They will do ANYTHING to ensure that. doesn't have to be true, there are many i the MSS of the same ilk. God save this Nation!!!

[singer1poet]

FOX news sucks!! They need to just stick to FOOTBALL and sitcoms

[ShamusNYC]

Ironically, the sitcoms created on Fox are some of the most progressive... Power of the dollar!

[DuPageDem]

Let these propagandists define "progressive?" Now that's a good idea. You think their agenda stops in the newsroom, but I doubt it. Everything Rupert has his fingers in is poison.

[desertdweller]

Mr. Lee is OK in my book!

"Do The Right Thing"