New York (CNN) -- Whatever one thinks of Spike Lee's expletive-laced rant about moneyed newcomers inhabiting once-blighted corners of America's most populous city, the millionaire filmmaker could be considered a dubious messenger for such sentiments. "You personally turned Brooklyn into the hottest spot creatively and politically and you move out," Errol Louis, a Brooklyn resident and political anchor at CNN affiliate NY1 News, said Thursday. "What did you think was going to happen? You got rich selling this place. This is your brand and people who have a little money want to sort of take you up on it, and somehow that's a problem."
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Filmmaker Spike Lee riled about New York gentrification and hipsters
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His rant elicits mixed reactions in rapidly changing city
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Brooklyn journalist writes that Lee "made epic contributions to the phenomenon he finds so troubling"
"He's like a one-man marketing organization and he's brilliant at it," Louis, who has lived in @placeholder for three decades, told CNN.