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Spike Lee: DC is ‘Chocolate City’
Discussing “post-racial” inauguration, CNN doesn’t call Lee on outdated racial term. By Matt Philbin and Erin Brown The Culture & Media Institute January 16, 2009 We’ve heard ad nauseam from a hopeful media -- Daniel Schorr of NPR, commentator Juan Williams and The New Republic among ...
Spike Lee: God Ordained Financial Crisis To Ensure Obama Victory
finkelblog.com — I guess this lets those evil Wall Street speculators off the hook . . . Spike Lee has declared that God himself ordained the financial crisis to happen when it did in order to propel Barack Obama to victory. The film director offered his odd ... (more) Spike Lee: God Ordained Financial Crisis To Ensure Obama ...
Spike Lee: DC is ‘Chocolate City’
eyeblast.tv — Discussing “post-racial” inauguration, CNN doesn’t call Lee on outdated racial term. (more) Spike Lee: DC is ‘Chocolate City’
Mrs Mugabe assaults our photographer outside her luxury Hong Kong hotel
timesonline.co.uk — A Sunday Times photographer has been beaten up and punched repeatedly in the face by the wife of President Robert Mugabe. Grace Mugabe, 43, known as the First Shopper of Zimbabwe, flew into a rage when she was spotted last week leaving the exclusive ... (more) Mrs Mugabe assaults our photographer outside her luxury ...
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Spike Lee Renames Washington DC "Chocolate City"
Gateway Pundit — Actually, that would be Chocolate City II. Spike Lee is heading to "Chocolate City" for the Inauguration of the post-racial president: Video via NewsBusters.

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