Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Another reason to love Clint. i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/Eroc1911/heart.jpg Because he carried an AK in a movie role?   "This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy, and it makes a distinctive noise when fired at you. Remember it." Heartbreak Ridge.

Another one of Clint's awesome movies. BTW, the article actually stated that Spike Lee is a "revered" director?!?!? I even forgot that Spike was black, I thought he was an Oriental comedian.

Spike is trying to jump-start his non-career by continuing to yap at Eastwood

www.datelinehollywood.com/dateline_hollywood/2008/06/clint-eastwood.html

Personally, I grew weary of Spike Lee's frivolous use of race card a decade or more ago. He reminds me of the buzz that a fluorescent light makes when the ballast begins to go. It buzzes and buzzes incessantly, but you quickly learn to ignore it.

Quoted: Quoted: I seem to recall something about Mr. Eastwood voting for Hillary in 08. It was on Mike Savage's website but I don't know if it still is. Eastwood is a McCain supporter... he knows McCain and has donated this year to his Campaign. Eastwood did chime in a couple weeks ago and said he thought they were trying to bully Hillary out of the race and that she had every right to fight on if she wanted, which I agreed with at the time and which just happens to have been to be best thing for McCain. I ain’t as bit surprised Mike Weiner being the slime ball he is would distort that.

WOW I need to apologize I thought he was another far left ass hole from hollywood..
so i guess i can put him and john wayne as gods again

Quoted: Spike is trying to jump-start his non-career by continuing to yap at Eastwood www.datelinehollywood.com/dateline_hollywood/2008/06/clint-eastwood.html

Quoted: Yeah, he said the right thing but let's not forget - he's still a leftist.

source- wiki.

Although Eastwood has been registered as a Republican since 1951 and supported Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, he describes himself as a libertarian. He says his philosophy is "Everyone leaves everyone else alone".[18] He voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California in the 2003 recall election, and again in 2006.

He's not a Hollywierd leftist nutjob.

I certainly don't agree with Spike Lee on a lot of his stands, but on this one - he's just the messenger.

Is there some reason the ammo carriers weren't black?  Since it sounds like many of the Marine ammo carriers were...

"Nearly 900 African-Americans fought on the Japanese island but not one appears in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-tipped film, writes Dan Glaister.

On February 19 1945 Thomas McPhatter found himself on a landing craft heading toward the beach on Iwo Jima.

"There were bodies bobbing up all around, all these dead men," said the former US marine, now 83 and living in San Diego. "Then we were crawling on our bellies and moving up the beach. I jumped in a foxhole and there was a young white marine holding his family pictures. He had been hit by shrapnel, he was bleeding from the ears, nose and mouth. It frightened me. The only thing I could do was lie there and repeat the Lord's prayer, over and over and over."

Sadly, Sgt McPhatter's experience is not mirrored in Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood's big-budget, Oscar-tipped film of the battle for the Japanese island. While the battle scene's in the film - which opens today in the US - show scores of young soldiers in combat, none of them are African-American. Yet almost 900 African-American troops took part in the battle of Iwo Jima, including Sgt McPhatter.

The film tells the story of the raising of the stars and stripes over Mount Suribachi at the tip of the island. The moment was captured in a photograph that became a symbol of the US war effort. Eastwood's film follows the marines in the picture, including the Native American Ira Hayes, as they were removed from combat operations to promote the sale of government war bonds.

Mr McPhatter, who went on to serve in Vietnam and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the US navy, even had a part in the raising of the flag. "The man who put the first flag up on Iwo Jima got a piece of pipe from me to put the flag up on," he says. That, too, is absent from the film.

"Of all the movies that have been made of Iwo Jima, you never see a black face," said Mr McPhatter. "This is the last straw. I feel like I've been denied, I've been insulted, I've been mistreated. But what can you do? We still have a strong underlying force in my country of rabid racism."

Melton McLaurin, author of the forthcoming The Marines of Montford Point and an accompanying documentary to be released in February, says that there were hundreds of black soldiers on Iwo Jima from the first day of the 35-day battle. Although most of the black marine units were assigned ammunition and supply roles, the chaos of the landing soon undermined the battle plan.

"When they first hit the beach the resistance was so fierce that they weren't shifting ammunition, they were firing their rifles," said Dr McLaurin.

The failure to transfer the active role played by African-Americans at Iwo Jima to the big screen does not surprise him. "One of the marines I interviewed said that the people who were filming newsreel footage on Iwo Jima deliberately turned their cameras away when black folks came by. Blacks are not surprised at all when they see movies set where black troops were engaged and never show on the screen. I would like to say that it was from ignorance but anybody can do research and come up with books about African-Americans in world war two. I think it has to do with box office and what producers of movies think Americans really want to see."

He added: "I want to see these guys get their due. They're just so anxious to have their story told and to have it known."

Roland Durden, another black marine, landed on the beach on the third day. "When we hit the shore we were loaded with ammunition and the Japanese hit us with mortar." Private Durden was soon assigned to burial detail, "burying the dead day in, day out. It seemed like endless days. They treated us like workmen rather than marines."

Mr Durden, too, is wearied but unsurprised at the omissions in Eastwood's film. "We're always left out of the films, from John Wayne on," he said. Mr Durden ascribes to both the conspiracy as well as the cock-up theory of history. "They didn't want blacks to be heroes. This was pre-1945, pre civil rights."

A spokesperson for Warner Bros said: "The film is correct based on the book." The omission was first remarked upon in a review by Fox News columnist Roger Friedman, who noted that the history of black involvement at Iwo Jima was recorded in several books, including Christopher Moore's recent Fighting for America: Black Soldiers - the Unsung Heroes of World War II. "They weren't in the background at all," said Moore.

"The people carrying the ammunition were 90% black, so that's an opportunity to show black soldiers. These are our films and very often they become our history, historical documents." Yvonne Latty, a New York University professor and author of We Were There: Voices of African-American Veterans (2004), wrote to Eastwood and the film's producers pleading with them to include the experience of black soldiers. HarperCollins, the book's publishers, sent the director a copy, but never heard back.

"It would take only a couple of extras and everyone would be happy," she said. "No one's asking for them to be the stars of the movies, but at least show that they were there. This is the way a new generation will think about Iwo Jima. Once again it will be that African-American people did not serve, that we were absent. It's a lie."

The first chapter to James Bradley's book Flags of Our Fathers, which forms the basis of the movie, opens with a quotation from president Harry Truman. "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." It would provide a fitting endnote to Eastwood's film. "

From The Article

Quoted: "Nearly 900 African-Americans fought on the Japanese island but not one appears in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-tipped film, writes Dan Glaister.

Spike Lee is full of it.

The neglected information here is that something like 100,000 American troops invaded Iwo Jima.
So 1 in 100 vets were black. How many American troops are depicted in detail those movies in detail? Maybe 20? If he wants to include background actors,per wikipedia,there are in fact "dark green" marines in the background scenes,including a wounded one.

This stuff is just outraged race baiting and self aggrandizing by SL. There were Asians who served the Union in the American Civil War,but I seem to have missed seeing them in "Glory". Was that predetermined? No,it's just that they were statistically a rather small group.

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Quoted: I certainly don't agree with Spike Lee on a lot of his stands, but on this one - he's just the messenger. Is there some reason the ammo carriers weren't black?  Since it sounds like many of the Marine ammo carriers were... "Nearly 900 African-Americans fought on the Japanese island but not one appears in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-tipped film, writes Dan Glaister.

oh brother.

Wanna know what else the unbiased LA-based Glaister has penned?

Abort all black babies and cut crime, says Republican

for which he had to print a 'clarification'



More of his leftist blather

good on clint , spike lee is full of bitterness and hate, and doesnt even see how rascist he actually is. clint has friends of all colors  and works hard to achieve authenticity in his films.he uses actors of all nationalities in his films, unlike spike lee.

Quoted: Spike will call him a Racis mofo nex !

he did.. heres his response..

from abc newsABC News! Spike said, "First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either."

spikes the rascist one, when he looks at clint all he sees is the colour of his skin.