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The Northerner

(5,040 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:47 PM Mar 2012

TYT: Spike Lee's Epic Twitter Fail



"Spike Lee made a fool out of himself to put it lightly after he decided to retweet something that a California man by the name of Marcus Higgens had tweeted." Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the details of this epic fail by Spike Lee.
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leveymg

(36,418 posts)
1. This sort of stuff happens because the corp media has failed to investigate & report the facts in a
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:56 PM
Mar 2012

comprehensive and timely manner. The Orlando Sentinel and WaPo profiles, picked up by much of the rest of the media, were particularly slanted and unsupportably sympathetic of Zimmerman. When the pros fail, seemingly intentionally by putting out incomplete versions of news, amateurs will sometimes fail by making mistakes. Which is worse?

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
4. Exactly. But, it's still a distraction from the more important issues: racism; gun violence; cov-
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:42 PM
Mar 2012

er-ups; and Good Old Boy networks.

 

CAPHAVOC

(1,138 posts)
5. That is true.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:46 PM
Mar 2012

His lawyer probably told him to apologize due to liability in giving out the wrong address. Just like Limbaughs apology. Deep pockets.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
3. Spike Lee is a pro
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:33 PM
Mar 2012

and he still has only apologized for getting the address wrong, not for doing it at all. Roseanne Barr did the same thing, but her apology was for the right thing, she said there's no place for vigilantism and that it was wrong to send the address.

ScottLand

(2,485 posts)
6. And people on the right are using this to say this is what liberals are doing.
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 05:57 AM
Mar 2012

As if we all had a meeting and this is what we came up with.

slampoet

(5,032 posts)
8. Now Has ABC's Good Morning America made up for Broadcasting the Fake Photos of Trayvon?
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 10:05 AM
Mar 2012

You know the ones that came from Neo-Nazi site STORMFRONT??

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