Harry Belafonte: I hope you choke

[Aristotle]

Could this guy be any more of a disgusting, foul, worthless pile of flesh?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ory?id=1484530

The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday and attended his television and radio broadcast on Sunday.

"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people … support your revolution," Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast.

I mean, my personal assessment of Bush as president is very unfavorable, but the above statements are an outrage.

Other crap from Belafonte in recent months:

CNN

Celebrity activist Harry Belafonte referred to prominent African-American officials in the Bush administration as "black tyrants" at a weekend march, and he also compared the administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

More Belafonte craziness

* In June 2000, Belafonte was a featured speaker at a rally in Castro's Cuba, honoring the American Soviet spies, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Tears, one observer reported, "streaked down" Belafonte's face, "as he recalled the pain and humiliation his friend [Paul] Robeson had been forced to endure" in 1950s America. Undoubtedly, he was pleased to hear Cuba presented "as an example of keeping the principles the Rosenbergs fought and died for alive."

* In 1997, Belafonte was featured speaker at the 60th Anniversary celebration of the "Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade," at which he honored these self-proclaimed "premature anti-fascists" who served in the mid-1930s as Stalin's private Comintern army, a battalion (not a brigade) that served as enforcers of Soviet policy during the Spanish Civil War. To Belafonte, nothing had changed since the 1930s. The VALB was still representatives of "a truth that engulfed the universe . . . that fascism anywhere is a threat to people everywhere."

He did not pause to remind the aging vets that their anti-fascism disappeared overnight after their return home - when the remaining soldiers got the news about the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939, and quickly declared that the only enemy was FDR's warmongering and Great Britain.

* Speaking in October 1983 at a "World Peace Concert" run by East Germany's official Communist youth organization, Belafonte gave his blessings to the Soviet-sponsored "peace" campaign pushing unilateral Western disarmament, at a time when the Soviets were putting SS-20 missiles in East Germany.

As The New York Times reported, Belafonte "attacked the American invasion of Grenada and also criticized the scheduled NATO weapons deployment" of Pershing 2 missiles in West Germany, which Jimmy Carter and then Ronald Reagan deployed to offset the Soviet missile offensive.

Belafonte, in other words, was supporting the Soviet bloc in its Cold War with the United States. And he was doing so in full embrace with the East German prison state. Here, where the notorious secret police, the Stasi, ruled by waging a perpetual witch-hunt against the entire population - Belafonte had only love and good wishes for their success.

No wonder that the late Leo Cherne, head of the International Rescue Committee, rejected Belafonte's being honored. "I happen to have some reservations about Belafonte," he wrote one of the IRC's board, "I have found him . . . beyond my tastes for the elements of left-wing predisposition. He played a significant relief role in Ethiopia at a time when Ethiopia was under the control of the left wing dictator Mengistu, at the very time that the Castro military forces were playing an active support role."

To Harry Belafonte, Castro is a freedom fighter and Colin Powell and Condi Rice merely "house slaves." Ever the diplomat, Colin Powell responded to Belafonte's blast by calling the singer his "friend," and noting that the slave analogy was from another time and place and was simply "unfortunate." Secretary Powell should take to heart the simple adage, with friends like that...

[Lokrian]

It seems no matter which way you slice it, Powell is a class act.

[Wrent]

I heard this on the radio this morning, also. I just didn't know what to say or think.


WHY are you a citizen of a nation you obviously loathe and openly support and praise its antitheses!?

What he has said and done is just repulsive. In countless other countries or time periods, his words and actions are the definition of treason. Both the beauty and tragedy of American citizenship are that if you don't like it, you can leave..... Or stay and be a giant fucking asshole.

If it were left to me, I would say, "That's cool man, we suck. But we will still do our duty as the nation we are and protect the freedom of its citizens from tyranny. SO, you can't come back into the country, we wouldn't want to expose you to the dangers of the greatest terrorist in the world."

I hope some crazy patriotic fanatic (with spectacular marksmanship) finally found a use for their shiny new high powered rifle.


Belafonte, do the world a favor and fucking choke.

[Gromgor]

Thomas Jefferson once shot a man on the White House lawn for treason.

I'm just saying

[Aristotle]

Originally posted by Gromgor
Thomas Jefferson once shot a man on the White House lawn for treason.

I'm just saying

We're coming for you, Harry!

[Savaric]

Originally posted by Wrent
Both the beauty and tragedy of American citizenship are that if you don't like it, you can leave..... Or stay and be a giant fucking asshole.

Beautifully said.

[Enosekel]

Why do all the idiots in American politics always get all the media attention?

Harry Belafonte is a really popular Kareoke performer here in south China. People always sing (horribly off-key, with bad accents) his banana boat song every frikkin time they go to a KTV. Which is like, at least once a month. He's even more laughable after you've heard that a few dozen times.

In general I think the celebs-turned-political activists thing is stupid. I mean come on, how can anyone possibly take them seriously! They'ed do better for their causes by just giving all their money to someone who's not a complete moron.

[Aristotle]

Originally posted by Enosekel

In general I think the celebs-turned-political activists thing is stupid. I mean come on, how can anyone possibly take them seriously! They'ed do better for their causes by just giving all their money to someone who's not a complete moron.

Totally.