I've seen a lot of magazine-article hatchet jobs in my life, but this one takes the cake:
http://newyorkmetro.com/...
I mean, we all knew New York mag was a rag, but really, this is something else.
A sample:
Spike Lee is not an idiot. He knows there are other interesting things on planet Earth besides race, and he has made movies--25th Hour, Inside Man--where it's barely an issue. But it is obviously Lee's primary project to tell stories about African-Americans, specifically stories he thinks are being ignored or obfuscated. And only slightly less amazing than the fact that Lee is the only person who has been consistently doing that in film over the past two decades is the fact that people still think he is street when the foyer of his Upper East Side townhouse has been photographed for Town and Country.
The animating forces of his artistic universe are injustice, prejudice, oppression. But the defining characteristics of his material universe are luxury, access, and success. That's fine; there's nothing wrong with being a limousine liberal. It's better to be a rich person who gives a shit about poor people than it is to be a rich person who only cares about himself.
There's more.
A truly stupid and poorly-written article. And with a hint of racism.