Re: Spike Lee: No talent hack
Steve: My comment stands.
Where does it stand? Perhaps it stands alone? It doesn't stand correct, that's for sure, although it could stand to be correct-ed.
Let's see. Steve calls Lee a "no-talent hack" because the content of Lee's films regularly contradict Steve's politics and/or social viewpoints. That's hardly good evidence of someone being a "no-talent hack." Judging artists by their political and/or social viewpoints — or even judging art by the political and/or social viewpoints of its creators — is always a mistake.
Continuing further with your faulty reasoning, Steve, are folks like Oliver Stone, Bruce Springsteen, and the late Shel Silverstein "no talent hacks" as well? Maybe you should just say that you don't like art that contains messages or themes that you may disagree with. And with that in mind, good luck enjoying very much of it.
On the subject of 'Do The Right Thing,' 100% of contributing critics and 96% of site users on the Rotten Tomatoes website find the film to be a winner. (See here — http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/do_the_right_thing/)That's hardly the reaction that a no-talent hack receives regarding his or her work.
Where does it stand? Perhaps it stands alone? It doesn't stand correct, that's for sure, although it could stand to be correct-ed.
Let's see. Steve calls Lee a "no-talent hack" because the content of Lee's films regularly contradict Steve's politics and/or social viewpoints. That's hardly good evidence of someone being a "no-talent hack." Judging artists by their political and/or social viewpoints — or even judging art by the political and/or social viewpoints of its creators — is always a mistake.
Continuing further with your faulty reasoning, Steve, are folks like Oliver Stone, Bruce Springsteen, and the late Shel Silverstein "no talent hacks" as well? Maybe you should just say that you don't like art that contains messages or themes that you may disagree with. And with that in mind, good luck enjoying very much of it.
On the subject of 'Do The Right Thing,' 100% of contributing critics and 96% of site users on the Rotten Tomatoes website find the film to be a winner. (See here — http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/do_the_right_thing/)That's hardly the reaction that a no-talent hack receives regarding his or her work.
posted by Strother | 2:53 PM
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As a member of the MTV generation, I've got to call Mr. Brenneis out on this one.
We might be the ones raised on soundbites and news clips, we might be the ones who don't know how to think and who are content to shovel in whatever the "media" feeds us, but heck. This blog is called "The Bully Pulpit"--so named after a man who read five books a week and held himself to an immaculate standard of research while writing prolifically on a wide variety of subjects, and who relished a view of government and life both profoundly Christian and rigorously intellectual. We need wise men back in the pulpits, not a bully, and especially not an ill-informed one who flaunts his ignorance as if it's a high moral position.
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