spike lee made that happen. sat down with spike lee in soho. a simple discussion. spike says, "come up with an anthem." i went overseas, came back with an anthem. but spike lee made it happen by shooting two videos, a big one in bed-stuy, having the movie, and then putting it in the movie eight to ten times. i was like, "whoa." he made that happen. yes, i put the words together, but it's a team that makes things happen. and if it wasn't for spike lee making that happen... i think that was a very important, key part to public enemy's career. and i look back, and i say, "well, you know, that's something that i wrote." but it was taken, and the ball was run into the end zone by other powers that wanted to help out. and early on, when you heard that people were saying none of your music should be on the radio, what was your reaction to that? well, first of all, they never really considered rap music "music." and then they said, "well, it's a kid's music." i remember when george harrison once called rap music "computerized rot." and then i said publicly, i said, "well,

spike lee, in the middle of all this, there's the spike lee. >> yeah. >> .film.o did you see that? >> i saw the first one. >> liked it? >> yeah it was fine. i, i, you know, i, it, it was done clearly by an outsider. and. >> well intentioned but an outsider. >> yeah. and so he gives oxygen to this urban myth that the levees were deliberately destroyed without giving the context for that story, which is that it's well known in new orleans that in 1927 when the mississippi river flooded, an entirely different event, that the new orleans city fathers went to the parish leaders in st. bernard and plackerman's parish, which are south of new orleans. and prevailed upon them to let the levees along their parish lines at the river be dynamited to take the pressure off the river to save new orleans. so that's well known in, in new orleans history. that's why people think when they hear levees breaking, oh, maybe, maybe something happened. maybe something deliberate. but without that kind of context it just seems peculiar to put that in a, in a film. >> right. >> and you kn

and robert lyons the deputy editor of the online magazine spike lee says that what's going on in the hague now is a show trial with the outcome already set in stone i don't think there's anything. fair about this trial at all about the whole process. or what's what's happening it is that the kind of the outcome is kind of been it's been set already it's a bit of a show trial i think. as a result i think it's very much about bolstering the west's position and making the west look like it's for free it's a friend or of justice and the largest has already been certain the bad guys in this i'm not. allowed to choose are wonderful human being but the crimes on all sides are not war and to pick out one side has been worse than the other. it was a much murkier there were opportunists nationalists politicians on all sides and some fairly brutal people behind them as well. and the contributors to the r.t. for them are saying that their pay tribunals should be dissolved in their view it has no legal grounds to exist now you can go to our website to have your say on whether general or practical

and always at the expense of the serbs and robert lyons the deputy editor of the online magazine spike lee says that what's going on at the hague now is a show trial with the outcome already set in stone. i don't think there's anything . fair about this trial it's all about the whole process. i think what's what's happening is. because of the outcome would have been. settled already it's a bit of a show trial i think. as a result i think it's very much about bolstering the west's position and making the west look like it's if the free french are of justice. the largest has already been . the bad guy in this i'm not. allowed to choose our wonderful human being but there were crimes on all sides in that war and to pick out one side was worse than the other is a bit peculiar of the situation was much more there were opportunists nationalists politicians on all sides and some fairly brutal people as well. contributors to the r.t. for saying that the hague tribunal should be dissolved in their view it has no legal grounds to exist if you just go to our website you can have your say on the gener

more insight on the men that each case from rob blind sees deputy editor of the online magazine spike lee joining me there in london rob could see thanks for joining us here on r.t. now the chairman of the international criminal tribunal is turkish muslim is that a fair choice of the judge for this trial you think. well i don't think there's anything. fair about this trial at all about the whole process. or what's what's happening it is that because the outcomes have been. subtle already it's a bit of a show trial i think. i did as a result i think it's very much about the west's position making the west look like it's the free defender of justice. the largest has already been set up as the bad guy in this i'm not for a remote think. wonderful human being but the crimes on all sides are not war and to pick out one side has been worse than the other but if the evidence is strong and i have suggested that the evidence is strong enough to accuse this man of the massacre of thousands of people surely he should be brought to account. well i'll be either you hardly but you know you have it equa

what film was spike lee's first feature film? she has got to have it, do the right thing, malcolm x or color? what is the name of jack burton's nemesis in big trouble in little china? mr fuji? what famed singer performs owed to america before apollo creed is killed? aretha franklin, tony bennett, david brown or share? let me get to how we go from the cult of the individual to the cult of narcissism. how do we go in the 1980s from saying the individual guru is to be followed and listened to to the cult of focused on me? if you have the dos above the rest of us how can you also have a culture that is saying you can be yourself, the superhero? watch this commercial. ♪ >> the brilliance of this commercial is the putting together of images of regular people with superstarnes. watch this one example from this commercial in slow-motion. that is a regular kid playing basketball going up for a layup and the immediately becomes michael jordan dunking of basketball. the idea probably -- it was listed by fortune magazine as number 2 or three

spike lee's first film as she has got to have it. it. the name of jack nemesis is david low pan.singer performs a no to note to america before apollo creed is killed? james brown. robin leach hosted lifestyles of the rich and famous. ivan boesky was the guy with the greed is good speech was based on. frozen concentrated orange juice was the commodity in trading places. minor-league baseball player montgomery brewster was for the hackensack bulls. and michael long was michael knight's name before he was shot in the face and reconstructed by a right-wing foundation called the foundation for long government. auburn university charles barkley and joe barkley attended. georgia was a state where the dukes of hazard supposedly takes place and cliff clay bennett appeared in lost on jeopardy. that is my presentation and now nathan and i are going to have a little bit of of the conversation so thank you are listening to that. [applause] the format of this is, nathan and i are going to basically trade-off questions, three questions each and then we are going to take questions from you. i wa

at least 100 people will hammer 4,000 steel spikes into the ground to secure the pink tarp. san francisco mayor ed lee, state senator mark leno and a state assemblyman are expected to show up to check it out themselves. the pink triangle is what the nazi's forced homosexual's to wear in concentration camps. >>> still to come, artwork in san francisco is getting a lot of attention. not from collectors, but from police. we'll show you and let you see if you can spot the hidden message in some of the art in local schools. >>> and lucky in life, but unlucky in love. a new boot camp promises, though, to reboot some of the bay area's most eligible bachelors and teach them a lesson in love. we're going to iide thctseduseio y inse the seduction seminar. >>> as we mentioned, the 41st annual san francisco pride celebration and parade officially kicks off in just a few hours. organizers say they expect more than a million people to attend over the two-day event. the celebration starts today at noon at san francisco's civic center plaza, but the partying will be a little shorter than in years past, and police wil

lee will throw out the first pitch. for >> we are expecting a pleasant conditions around the bay area. know what weather and a small spike0's in the warmer inland areas. we could see 80 degrees in places like antioch and fairfield. the radar shows clear and dry conditions around the bay area. currently 50s all around the bay area. by 3:00 p.m. today and we will see plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the '70s. a drastic comparison compared to yesterday. it looks like we will see high sixties around the in the bay area, remaining cool at the coast. a mixed bag of low 70's in the south bay. when a quick check quick with your 7 day around the bay forecast, plenty of sunshine for the next couple of days although you will wake up to some cloudy conditions until wednesday. thursday will be the warmest day of the week. temperatures could get into the 80s. a warming trend into friday and then cooling back down into the '70s by the weekend. 6:49 a.m., let's take a look at traffic. >> for no hot spots for the driver on the bay area. highway 8804 and interstate 580 are starting to get slower for the west work ride. it is still n