Spike Lee: Tomorrow’s the most important day in American history
posted at 1:29 pm on January 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
Insight from a man who once believed, and maybe still does, that AIDS was a conspiracy to kill blacks. He saved this newest revelation for the right network, too: Here’s Obama supporter James Poniewozik, writing at Time about MSNBC’s absurdly breathless Obamapalooza ads.
On one of its incessantly running Inauguration Day promos, a narrator gushes, “When a new President inspires the nation, one day Americans will ask: where were you when Barack Obama became President?”
Besides the confusing timeline of that sentence, there’s something almost bludgeoningly hortatory about it. Mind you, I voted for Barack Obama enthusiastically, in the primaries and the general election–and yet hearing stuff like this (Obama = The Moon Landing) I can empathize with the people who didn’t.
Refresh my memory if I’m forgetting something, but when President Bush was inaugurated in 2001, I don’t remember promos this blatantly triumphalist even on Fox News. It passive-aggressively defies you to disagree with it, as it asserts that this guy who hasn’t even been sworn in yet will undeniably be an inspirational, nay, an historic figure. Even if you didn’t vote for him, you have to admit that Jan. 20 will be a truly amazing day. Right? You have to admit it, right? Well, admit it!
The difference between 2001 and now: Unlike Bush, Obama is an avatar heaven-sent to save America, a point made before by Lee and reaffirmed here with his theory of whose invisible hand was pushing the economy off a cliff in September. Exit question: Is anyone not watching MSNBC’s coverage of the inauguration tomorrow, just to see how obsequious they’ll be? I expect nothing less than tears from Matthews and an intimation from Olby that we’re seeing providence unspool before our very eyes. Click the image to watch.
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Arguably, one of, but perhaps not in the way Mr. Lee suggests.
JiangxiDad on January 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM
born without a brain but never fully diagnosed……UGH!
SDarchitect on January 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM
No thanks…this stuff is really scaring the hell out me already…
AUINSC on January 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM
I thought when X was released was the most important day in history?
JammieWearingFool on January 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Then “Spike” can help pay for this insane inauguration little hussein. He’s got the money.
ErinF on January 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM
I was hiding my money and gun.
1-20-08 i shall weep for the future rape of my wallet by PEBO and his minions.
Mojack420 on January 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM
I think that the whole Civil War thing, the whole WWII thing, the whole Revolutionary War thing, 9/11, etc. were more important. It is a nice testament to how far we’ve come though.
Illinidiva on January 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM
I’ll be at home preparing to go to work – like every other weekday. Tomorrow will be historic only because of the hype. Obama will never be able to live up to the hype. (didn’t want to say expectations because no one who voted for him has any expectations for his presidency)
Tommy_G on January 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM
July 4, 1776.
Wethal on January 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM
“When a new President inspires the nation, one day Americans will ask: where were you when Barack Obama became President?”
I will answer: “At Cabelas, stocking-up on guns and ammo.”
The next question will be easy too, “So what was it like back then when you were allowed freedom of speech and to keep part of what you earned?”
It was awesome, grandchild, it was awesome.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
The Good News: It’s one day closer to 1-20-2013
faraway on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Kind of like “where were you when JFK was assassinated?” or “where were you on 9/11?”
Count to 10 on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
I’ll be honest.
I haven’t had the stomach to watch any political news coverage since the election.
It’s not that I can’t deal with opposing view points. I just don’t see anything of merit in most of the network coverage. There’s just no “there” there.
I sincerely hope it’s not going to be 4-8 years of this adoration. At some point, the press will remember their whole “adversarial press” role and start digging for information, right?
JadeNYU on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
I shall remain bitterly clinging…
sabbott on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Yes…I agree with Spike.
July 4, 1776 pales in comparison. In fact, I’ll suggest that the history books be modified to state that Independence Day was but a waypoint on the journey that is Obama.
Other than that, I think October 19, 1961 is pretty darn ‘portant, too!
BobMbx on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Hail Caesar.
Wow, Obama has a lot to live up to after Jan 20th, doesn’t he?
arteest on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
There’s a website for people that want to make tomorrow a national holiday – Obama Day(tm). Yes, they’ve trademarked it!
This is unseemly for a free people.
zmdavid on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
No.
I have standards. Spike Lee is beneath them.
TexasDan on January 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM
I just puked a little in my mouth.
The most important day in American history has already happened and that was July 4th, 1776. Spike Lee needs to go away now and cozy up to his new master.
izoneguy on January 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Kind of like Pearl Harbor.
rplat on January 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM
“So this is how freedom is lost….with thunderous applause”
BobMbx on January 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Soon, we will have to demolish those “stained” images at Mt Rushmore.
faraway on January 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM
They’re called “liberals without books.”
Liberals with a complete and total absence of understanding of history.
E.g., Bush’s actions, according to liberal critics, are a great violation of American traditions.
Except, of course, for those actions done by FDR and Wilson and Lincoln. Which make Bush look like a boyscout.
But why let history ruin your parade?
SteveMG on January 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM
I sincerely hope it’s not going to be 4-8 years of this adoration. At some point, the press will remember their whole “adversarial press” role and start digging for information, right?
JadeNYU on January 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
You’re funny, I like you. Tell some more jokes!
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Is this tomorrow?
aengus on January 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM
That, too.
Count to 10 on January 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM
I would say the Emancipation Proclamation might rate high on Spike’s list.
Guess not, one must have priorities when demonizing everything.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Say it with me. We elect Presidents. Not erect gods.
Where is separation of church and state now?
Skywise on January 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM
The chairman of GE (GE is the parent company of MSNBC i think) was on Scarborough this morning declaring his love for Dear Leader and he said that capitalism and free markets were “the old way of thinking”.
clearbluesky on January 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Don’t forget how much more sophisticated liberals are than you flyover hicks clinging to your god. Liberals have no need for god when they have Barack Obama.
I would love to spend more time explaining this but I’m too busy shopping for Obama plates, coins, t-shirts, tattoos, mugs, votive candles, etc.
Shtetl G on January 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM
MORON.
johnsteele on January 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Although not entirely accurate, the date may end up being used in history books to indicate the beginning of the end.
JiangxiDad on January 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM
This is also what the rev Wright is on record saying, that the government is lying about creating AIDS to kill black folk. And when Obama fails to come out and say that the government created AIDS to kill blacks, will Wright and others denounce Obama for being a traitor and defending the evil white man government?
wise_man on January 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Pick a president, and I’m sure we can come up with some way that they make Bush look like a boyscout. He may not always be right, but he has been honest to a fault. Cleanest administration in history, as far as I can tell.
Count to 10 on January 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Hey Spike Lee, you racist f-er “do the right thing” and STFU!!
I swear, tomorrow is an important and historic moment but tomorrow IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY IN HISTORY and only a racist azzhole like Spike “my movies suck” Lee would say such a thing!
Liberty or Death on January 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Wow. Yes, it will be an important day, to be sure. But the events of the revolution, civil war, WWII and the civil rights movement makes it possible.
gmoonster on January 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Is this what you mean: On October 19, 1961 the Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave. I mean you missed by birthday by over a week
Tommy_G on January 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM
I plan to drink beer and watch all six episodes of Star Wars tomorrow.
RedWinged Blackbird on January 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM
That one tops my list, along with the founding of this great nation.
Sanjoboy on January 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM
…or, the day the US jumped the shark.
Count to 10 on January 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Tomorrow is my cat Junior’s birthday.
Biggest thing going in this house…
warbaby on January 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM
It’ll certainly be up there with the day that Americans inaugurated it’s first Catholic! :-)
Dusty on January 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM
One of the talking heads on the Sunday shows said yesterday that “Obama’s inauguration day will be a sacred day.”
BHO is not Jesus Christ for Christ’s sake!
txsurveyor on January 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Which proves that Ann Coulter was right when she noted, history always begins this morning if you’re a liberal.
Buy Danish on January 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Well this is the same channel that has a “host” the believed that Scott McClellan’s book is a “primary document of American history.“
terryannonline on January 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Another important day in History: The day Rome burned to the ground.
Aristotle on January 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Why does Spike Lee have to go and ruin it all by trying to get face time? He wants to be considered important…. Spike Lee DUMB as Obama needs him to be.
Dr Evil on January 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM
No, more like: “Heil, hussein!” And don’t forget the little hand symbol.
ErinF on January 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Gang, you don’t understand. We should all be rejoicing. Tomorrow the oceans will fall. Wars will cease, Lepers will be healed. Everybody will be employed. No one will be “burdened” with an unwanted child. We will all have
somea coke and sing Kum Ba Yah. And we will all share our wealth. And we probably won’t have to put up with worrisome Conservative talk radio or Conservative websites, either. And it will be a glorious time serving under The Chosen One./Sarc off Pass the Tylenol.
kingsjester on January 19, 2009 at 1:48 PM
Sherman did a number to it.
JiangxiDad on January 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM
That picture looks like little Spike waiting for his birthday cake…Bucket!
Christine on January 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM
No, you imbecile! 10/19/61 is my Birthday. YOU must be the one who doesn’t recognize that. I knew someday I’d find you. You owe some presents, bucko.
BobMbx on January 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Tomorrow is my cat Junior’s birthday.
Biggest thing going in this house…
warbaby on January 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Tomorrow is my birthday,too
beththebaker on January 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM
History books are going to be fun to read in the future.
2009-2013- The Disillusioned Years
sherry on January 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM
No! today is
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95QC5OO0&show_article=1
TheSitRep on January 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM
I hope Obama fails, just like I hope every Affirmative Action employee does.
Tim Burton on January 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM
FIFY
True dat, but it gets in the way of lefties revising history to meet its agenda that the “American Empire” has throughout history been evil and must fall!
Liberty or Death on January 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM
I was talking with someone last week during my work. they were going on and on about the inauguration. All I said was, “I hadn’t really been following it.” Suddenly, it was like i was the enemy. “You haven’t been following it? the most historical event of our time and you haven’t been following it?”
I just replied, “Right, I haven’t been following it.”
The person was dumbfounded and suddenly, I could sense,, seemed suspicious if me. It was like we were in China in the 60′s and I forgot about flag day or something. I think this person went looking into the yellow pages to see if there was a hotline to report people who weren’t showing enough “Obama Zeal.”
I have said it before,,, at some point Obama will have to actually do something,, make actual decisions, not just give speeches, as President. The world keeps moving on and stops for no one. Let the libs have their party for now,, as they did for the Clinton’s. A lot of this stuff is really not that different than when the Clinton’s were elected.
It is more intensified,, but it is really closely identical to when they were elected. Doesn’t anyone remember??
I remember the Clinton’s using one of the monuments for their inauguration,, putting a red carpet down the marble stairs and coming out from between the pillars with trumpets blowing ,,, it was like the were Roman gods or something. Same stuff.
Obama has done nothing but smoke cigs, given speeches and run campaigns. He has to govern now. He has to be responsible. Even if he doesn’t want to be,, the people at some point will hold him responsible. Giving nice speeches, taking the shirt off and body surfing can only go so far.
JellyToast on January 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM
I wonder where freedom for slaves ranks on Spike’s list?
These people are flat out insane.
fogw on January 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM
We won’t get rid of him in one term. The GOP is desperately trying to glom onto the media hysteria by reaching out to the boy Emperor. He has no effective opposition. The media is just plain making sh*t up. I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen with the 22nd Amendment nonsense. What will that slogan be? Instead of ‘Gangster 4 life’; maybe they could try ‘Obama 4 life’…or ‘Hussein 4 life’. What fun.
austinnelly on January 19, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Tomorrow, my husband and I will be working as usual. My kids will be in school, however if they are forced to watch this ridiculous footage, I will be picking them up and bringing them home. They can then play in the 10 foot snowbanks outside our house, which are there because of the devastating globull warming we’ve been experiencing.
Then, tomorrow night, my husband will spend a few hours reloading his ammo and organizing his many guns.
Should actually be a fun day… without all the hussein garbage!
ErinF on January 19, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Judas H. Priest, how about we wait until he actually does something???
I’m really getting tired of people just assuming that everyone voted for and/or is orgasmically extatic about the Boy Emperor’s innaguration. 47% of the voters did not vote for him, and with low Conservative turnout this past year I wouldn’t be surprised if less than 50% of regestered voters actually voted for him. Case in point – tonight is “Yes We Can” night on CBS, and all their cast photos of all their shows are done up like the Obama campaign posters. I’m really getting freaking sick of it.
Newsflash, Libs. NOT EVERYONE IS SNOWED BY THIS GUY!!!
crazy_legs on January 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM
such a putz
ToddonCapeCod on January 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Revisionist History.
Johan Klaus on January 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Tomorrow is libtard New Year for Planet Bizarro. All the freaks will be represented.
Up is down, bad is good, warm is cold, and Bush is a war criminal.
Spike has always been down with the destruction of AmeriKKKa. Of course he is ecstatic.
Won’t watch the clip.
DeweyWins on January 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM
i really hope i am wrong in my feeling but i think we are headed for ______ some real problems…
foxone on January 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM
His list doesn’t go anywhere before the sixties. He doesn’t know anything about how many “whiteys” died to free the slaves, and he doesn’t care either.
ErinF on January 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Didn’t that kind of talk get Falwell and/or Robertson bar-b-qued by the press after 9/11?
Mallard T. Drake on January 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM
You, sir, are a poet.
Lehosh on January 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM
This may as well be the second coming!! My God, is everyone insane???
KCB on January 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Spike Lee the
greatestSECOND greatest living monument to Affirmative Action.sanantonian on January 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Let’s set the record straight once and for all. It is not a racist statement but a statement of fact to say B. Hussien Obama IS NOT the first black man elected as president of the United States. He’s the first half black man. Him and all those who keep praising Licoln don’t know squat about history either. But that’s not too surprising.
TrickyDick on January 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM
What an ASSHOLE. There’s no other word.
RWLA on January 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Rome wasn’t burned in a day.
aengus on January 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Happy Birthday from me and the resident fur-bearer. Many happy returns.
warbaby on January 19, 2009 at 1:59 PM
People are taking the comedy too far with this Obama “Circle-Jerk” action… Spike’s standing *in* the circle.
SkinnerVic on January 19, 2009 at 1:59 PM
OT…
FP worthy:
Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents
On Drudge : http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95QC5OO0&show_article=1
gatorboy on January 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Lepers will be healed.
So I really will get a bailout. Finally.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM
I’ll celebrate tomorrow by going to my local gun shop,maybe pick up some ammo or a new firearm. Afterward I think I will be studying the Holy Scriptures at home…..Good times.
Sanjoboy on January 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM
And someday we’ll get an answer to: “where was Barack Obama when he was born?”
Maybe.
PaddyJ on January 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Well, I for one, plan to spend Tuesday, 01/20/01 AB-as in Anno Barack, worshipping our Savior, Barack Christ. It’s going to take a looong time to cross out the name Jesus and write in Barack in my Bible. Do I have to cross out “The Lord”, too? I’m a lapsed Catholic and even I’m having trouble figuring out the whole God/Messiah/President holy trinity.
trubble on January 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Good one!
sherry on January 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Brilliant!
Aristotle on January 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Tomorrow is a huge day for me! It’s the start of the Conservative Revolution, the return to basics, American values. It’s the start of the raod back from the political wilderness for 2010 and 2012… Conservatisiam will flow back into the hearts of real Americans as they watch with horror the massive increase in “nanny state” programs, tax hikes, high unemployment, energy prices thru the roof as green projects fail and wide open borders. So yes, I can’t wait till tomorrow.
Mark Garnett on January 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM
It’s about time we got something new to stick on our dashboards anyway. The old JC statue kinda lost it’s novelty, ya know?
BobMbx on January 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Why does a first generation Black African president make this day so important? This is not someone that is an ancestor of plantation slaves, but I guess having black skin is a gimme?
Do this clowns ever think of anything outside of skin color?
Hening on January 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Negative.
BallisticBob on January 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM
I do not say this jokingly, but with the utter sincerity – atlas shrugged is playing out right before our very eyes, here, in 2009.
Scary.
moonbat monitor on January 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM
I’m sure Spike Lee also considers himself to be the most important movie director in American history.
Disturb the Universe on January 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Is it me or do the skies really seem a bit brighter today?
Oh never mind, its just the normal sun rays reflecting off the heaps of record-level, globally warmed snow blanketing every square inch of my property.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Nope.
ErinF on January 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Well if you don’t count about a hundred other days I suppose. Well, maybe anyway. Oh well, that’s about as close as they come in
the insane asylumHollywood these days.MB4 on January 19, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Of course not, this will be more proof of how deep the conspiracy runs. So deep that even the president can’t penetrate it.
MarkTheGreat on January 19, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 2:07 PM
By the way, as they say on NCIS, did someone put out a BOLO for Al Gore? Will he be there tomorrow?
kingsjester on January 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM
It’s just a shame that they did not preform a atopsy on “O” Dumbos late Grandmother. HMMMMMMM
If she was alive could she live in the Barrio House too?
Rick007 on January 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Wasn’t Spike Lee’s film Jungle Fever a condemnation of bi-racial unions? Doesn’t Spike realize that Obama is half white?
Disturb the Universe on January 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM
You haters, when a guy wears this cool a hat, he can say whatever he likes:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2354612736/nm0000490
BTW, anyone know when ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ is supposed to come out? I can hardly wait for a WWII flick which has guys rapping and calling each other biotch and mofacky.
Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM
I’m resetting my calendar tomorrow. This is such an historic moment that surely the wise of the world will seek to recognize the importance and declare the beginning of the Age of Obama and pay appropriate respect by starting the years over… AD is even more appropriate now than ever, but ABO is what where we will be.
gatorboy on January 19, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Feb 10th
trubble on January 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM
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