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HEY MR. TALIBAN
Harry Belafonte is making a fool of himself in Venezuela.
I’ll think I’ll go buy all of his albums and Danny Glover’s movies, just because they care about the little guy. Oops, I forgot that if they really cared about the little guy they’d pull a Pat Robertson on the self-aggrandizing democracy killer.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2006 01 09 at 12:25 AM • permalinkGeezus, is Belafonte still alive? He had a couple of hit songs in the 1950s and has been missing in action ever since. Yet he still gets trotted out to blast America in low-rent venues.
Cornel West? His C.V. says he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Can you believe it? Or that he went on to get a Ph.D. and later teach at Harvard? The guy talks like a bumbling fool. He left Harvard because they weren’t Maoist enough for him. I’ve seen him on TV make speeches and talking about books he’s written. He’s an idiot. I expect him to sue Harvard and Princeton (his current employer) for hiring and promoting such an unqualified moonbat as himself.
Danny Glover? He should be the commisar of condom recycling in Cuba.
This goes to show what a backwater Venezuela is, if the best commie rats and traitors they could get to blast America are these three dimwitted buttheads.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 09 at 12:44 AM • permalinkMore idiots using the exposure their showbiz names give them to display how little they understand about the world in general and Chavez in particular.
Belafonte has had some sort of chip on his shoulder for many years. He worked his way up the scale from a nobody to success. He may have had some nasty knocks on the way, but it is amazing that he still fails to realise that the ideologies of Castro+Chavez do not lead to a brave new world for the underpriviledged.Mr Harry Belafonte doesn’t know this, but every time he opens his mouth and something that isn’t from “Day-o” or one of his other hit songs comes out he destroys another moment of my childhood. My parents owned three record albums when I was young: a double album by the Longine Symphony (I don’t know if it was this one, but something like it), a collection of Trini Lopez songs (beware: evil BLINK tag in use), and an album of Harry Belafonte’s calypso hits. I was born the year after Dr. No came out, and calypso was in fashion. I would really like to think of my parents having fun at their cocktail parties (me and my sister were allowed to stay up later than usual those nights!) instead of stupid political “ideas” when I hear the tune of “Kingston Town,” or, my personal favorite (my father would sing it to my sister and me, to drive us crazy) “Mama Look A Boo Boo.”
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 01 09 at 12:51 AM • permalinkPerhaps I should mention the refrain to the last tune is:
Shut your mout’, Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo deyHeh.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 01 09 at 12:52 AM • permalinkWell we know that Harry has always been a Red.
So Harry, be on your way and don’t come back for many a day.
Now I know why Danny Glover was such good mates with Mel Gibson.
No doubt chavez will shower them with Barrels of Oil a la Saddam for their efforts.
Want to sell them? Give Gorgeus George a call , he’ll show you how.The last time Mr. Belafonte was coherent was when he sang with The Muppets. Maybe the realization that he was harmonizing with talking socks drove him over the edge.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 01 09 at 01:22 AM • permalinklooks like he is still harmonizing with talking socks to me.
Posted by the nailgun on 2006 01 09 at 01:28 AM • permalinkIf all these celebrities are so supportive of the Venezuelan revolution, then it is fine with me if they move to Venezuela to escape the evil bush regieme, and they can also bask in the benefits the revolution will no doubt bring to Venezuela.
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2006 01 09 at 01:34 AM • permalinkThis isn’t surprising. Last time we heard from Harry, he was calling Colin Powell a house slave.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2006 01 09 at 02:13 AM • permalink#16 Sorry about that guys, I copied and pasted Nick’s HTML and the ‘open in new window’ code doesn’t seem to be supported here. I’m sure I’ve removed them now
This list:
1. They have anger management problems.
3. They’re often violent criminals.
4. They can’t keep a relationship together.
5. They write lyrics like this (parental advisory - explicit language).
6. They write lyrics like this (parental advisory - violent language).
7. They support murderers.
8. They support despots.
9. They create television like this.
10. They can’t see anything wrong with this.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 01 09 at 02:29 AM • permalinkTalking of fools, what about Azlan McLennan - artistic antisemite in Melbourne, and his tramstop posters about Muslims victimised as terrorists.
Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 01 09 at 04:05 AM • permalinkIn the future, people will know about Harry Belafonte primarily from the movie “Beetle Juice.”
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2006 01 09 at 04:28 AM • permalinkTalking about making a fool of one’s self, has anyone noticed Loewenstein’s recent indictment of “Anglo-Saxon culture”? Apparently it’s “pretty dull”. That boy needs to get out more.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 01 09 at 04:44 AM • permalinkDoes anyone know what sort of house and car this committed socialist Belafool lives in and drives? Why do I suspect it is not a tent and rickshaw?
Posted by the nailgun on 2006 01 09 at 04:56 AM • permalinkWho is Harry Belafonte?
And who is Danny Glover?
Going off-topic for a moment, how freaky is this:
Shark attacks swimmer in Amity
Shark attacks swimmer in Amity
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 01 09 at 05:21 AM • permalinkMr Magoo: oh, probably. I’m the one who saw “Dr. No,” however—last night, that is. I’d seen it lots of times before, but for some reason I had forgotten how prominently calypso music played on the soundtrack.
My next favorite soundtrack from a James Bond movie is the one for “Live and Let Die.” (Including one of the few Paul McCartney songs I find tolerable.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 01 09 at 08:22 AM • permalinkAndrea, “Mama Look a Boo Boo” was originally done by Lord Melody, archrival of one of my heroes The Mighty Sparrow. On Friday and Saturday nights at 8, The Trevor Wilkins Show on WYNE-FM 91.5 plays vintage calypso from Sparrow, Lord Kitchener, The MIghty Chalkdust, Black Stalin, and many more.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 01 09 at 01:45 PM • permalinkI’ll miss Danny Glover. On the other hand, you’re wrong about Belafonte. God made him a fool, Belafonte’s just busy exposing the fact.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 01 09 at 06:03 PM • permalinkHarry Belafonte didn’t have merely “a couple of hit songs in the 1950s”. He was once a pioneer of the civil rights movement and the fight against racism. He was the first artist ever to sell a million records - not the first black artist, the very first artist - at a time when “negro music” was still considered the stuff of minstrel shows. He was the first popular black American actor (a decade before Poitier’s Oscar), the first black American TV producer, the first to host his own TV show, the first Emmy winner.
Sadly he left all that behind years ago, for the sake of partisan politics.
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