Right Voices

Spike Lee joins anti-Bush forces with ‘She Hate Me’

Spike Lee sees his new film “She Hate Me,” about corporate corruption, as an indictment of the current Bush administration.

“If you are indicting big business, automatically, it’s indicting George Bush,” Lee says. “George Bush, he has more CEOs in his administration than any other president in the history of the United States of America.”

In the opening credits of his film, Lee put the president’s photo on a $3 dollar bill with an Enron logo.

“I’m very nervous about this election, because we’re all going to go to hell if George Bush wins,” Lee says, pointing out recent job losses suffered by Whoopi Goldberg and Linda Ronstadt after they spoke up against Bush.

All of these films about politics and bashing President Bush and the current administration remind me of what happened in the film industry a few years ago and continues to this day.

The movie re-make. Different characters, same thing though.

Remember when “The Brady Bunch” became a film. It wasn’t an Oscar contender by any stretch of the imagination – - but wasn’t bad mindless entertainment either. Then they took it a step to far with “The Brady Bunch – The Sequel”. Then we moved in to the remakes of so many shows into movies including “Scooby-Doo” who is now going to try to make the sequel work.

Sequels rarely work and most are just poor rip-offs of the previous creation. Much like all of these political movies that base their content on opinions and not facts.

One after another they come out and try to get their Bush bashing message out to the masses in ninety plus minutes of propaganda they call “reality” and I call “garbage”.

The people making these films think they have been silenced. They believe their First Amendment rights have been taken away and that their show business friends have suffered losses from losing product endorsements and/or audiences.

The fact is they can keep making these movies (and do), their friends can keep taking stances on stages across America and throughout the world – - but the major point still remains the same. That point is:

Freedom of Speech is a two way street and when they have something to say, yes say it – - but be sure I can exercise my First Amendment right and nothing in the Constitution says I have to watch a movie or listen to some celebrity going off and bashing my President.

I think we are up for many other political film releases. They see them as money making opportunities and won’t let it slip by. Sadly I believe their opportunity is at the expense of the American people.