Harry Belafonte: The Mike Farrell of Calypso
I learned two things today.
1. Harry Belafonte is still alive. Good for him. Somehow didn’t know that and missed out when he was calling Powell and Rice “house slaves” a few years ago. Classy. Ever since Carson went off of the air and I stopped watching late night talk shows I get confused which ones are still alive. Unless of course they say stupid things. (That’s how I know Pat Robertson still has a pulse).
2. Harry Belafonte is a loon. Some call him a “Stalinist,” but I’ll play it safe with loon.
Evidently he’s been a long-time Castro supporter and most recently he’s been down in Venezuela touting Hugo Chavez and was quoted as saying this on a radio broadcast:
“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.”
Prior to that he 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.
It turns out Belafonte has been saying stuff like this pretty much his whole career from Cuba to East Germany. I’m always curious about guys like this. Does he really think East Germany and Cuba are better places for their populations than the U.S.? I’m all for improving our country but those are hardly models that I want to live under. As for Chavez, if he follows through on his economic and trade policies, Venezuela is going to be an even less fun place to live than it already is. If one could eat rhetoric, people wouldn’t be starving in North Korea. I wonder what Belafonte’s opinion on Dear Leader is? Wait, if George Bush is the “world’s worst terrorist” then at a minimum Kim Jong Il is one step up. Sad.
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January 8th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
if he follows through on his economic and trade policies, Venezuela is going to be an even less fun place to live than it already is.
inflation is down from 40% to ~12%. Decent growth (double digits in 2006?). Plus, free national healthcare, better oil revenue system. Clearly, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
January 9th, 2006 at 1:42 am
one of you idiots (or a close loved one) is a victim of the NEXT attack by real terrorists. Maybe then you’ll understand what a terrorist really is. MORE AT: Michelle Malkin, Six24 Blog Aggregator, Wikistan, Sensible Mom, RightWinged, Flynn Files,Independent Sources, FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog, Macmind, Martin’s Musings, Preaching Politics, The Violence Worker, The Lunch Counter, 4thelittle guy, Blogs for Bush
January 9th, 2006 at 6:09 am
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January 9th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Your points are noted however as the world’s fifth-largest exporter of oil one would expect improvement as oil prices have skyrocketed. Let’s see what he does with trade and the other areas of his economy. As we’ve seen with the middle east, oil income does not an economy make. Then there is the sticky issue of unemployment.
January 9th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
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January 10th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Venezuela is an economic disaster.
According to The Economist, http://www.economist.com/countries/Venezuela/profile.cfm?folder=Profile-Economic%20Data
Consumer prices (% change pa; av) in 2000: 16.21′
2001: 12.53
2002: 22.43
2003: 31.10
Recorded unemployment (%): 2000: 13.90
2001: 13.30
2002: 15.90
2003: 21.00
If you believe things got better all of the sudden, read this statistical analysis
http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2006/01/chavez-effect-on-poverty.html
Poverty rate: 1998 43.9%
2001 39.0%
2004 47.0%
As for free healthcare, http://www.albacom.no/images/stories/video/tv2_231005.wmv. I transcribed the text here http://badhairblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/venezuela-norwegian-msm-goes-to.html
January 23rd, 2006 at 10:18 am
[…] Until then however such statements are simply asinine hyperbole for the Danny Glovers and Harry Belafontes of the world.
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