Holly told you about Spike’s little snit over the lack of African-American representation in Clint Eastwood’s WWII movie Flags of Our Fathers, and Eastwood’s response: “A guy like him should shut his face.” (It’s no “Go ahead, make my day,” but it’ll do.) On June 6, Spike told ABCNEWS.com:

“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either. He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”

But sometime that same day, he told MTV News:

“I’m going to take the Obama high road,” the filmmaker said, refusing to trade any more barbs with Eastwood or elaborate any more over perceived inaccuracies in the recent “Flags of Our Fathers.” “It’s not a feud.”

Maybe I’m being too nitpicky, but calling somebody an “angry old man” and comparing him to a plantation owner doesn’t sound like taking the high road, Obama’s or otherwise. Sounds like Spike’s so used to shooting his mouth off that he can’t keep his ill-considered remarks straight from one day to the next. Or even the same day!