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Rihanna tweets 'Free Palestine,' deletes after 7,000 retweets in eight minutes
Israel Matzav ^ | 7/16/14 | Carl in Jerusalem

Posted on 07/16/2014 8:55:14 AM PDT by Nachum

This reminds me of the song from A Chorus Line forty years ago. The musical had a song - which I will not post now because it's the three weeks of mourning for the Holy Temples - that described what a woman needs to make it in show business. The lyrics are here. Here's another story that proves you don't need a brain to be a popular entertainer. Just the things described in the song.

Pop superstar Rihanna caused a social media firestorm this week when she tweeted "#FreePalestine" from her official account before deleting it eight minutes later.

In those eight minutes the controversial tweet was retweeted over 7,000 times, according to NY Magazine.


Entertainment news website TMZ claimed that the Barbadian singer removed the tweet after she was inundated with questions from fans asking if she supported Hamas.

Hours after her initial posting was removed, she tweeted "Let's pray for peace and a swift end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! Is there any hope?....," E! News reported.

This isn't the first time she's gotten into a controversy here, although the last time wasn't as much her fault.
In October 2013 she performed to a crowd of thousands in Tel Aviv. Following the show, Ha'aretz reported that Rihanna substituted the lyric "All I see is dollar signs" with the phrase "All I see is Palestine" in her song "Pour it Up," and the controversy was quickly picked up by Israeli and Arab media, eventually making its way to American aggregators.

It turned out, however, that upon scrutiny of a fan video taken at the concert, Rihanna had in fact performed the original lyrics to the song.

You don't need a brain to be an entertainer.

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To: Nachum

She has a lot in common with the “Palestinians”.

They both love a good ass whoopin’.


21 posted on 07/16/2014 9:36:56 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: Nachum

Dwight Howard did the same thing..Im glad when these cockroaches come out of the closet to expose their Jew hate..makes me know who not to support..Maybe the smacks to the head Chris Brown gave her rendered her brain dead..but I have a feeling she was an idiot before the smacks


22 posted on 07/16/2014 10:28:17 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Nachum
Celebrities...is there anything they don't know?
23 posted on 07/16/2014 10:31:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Can anyone tell me who the head of the Muslim peace movement is?)
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To: Nachum
#FreePalestine

Palestine is Free!

And worth every penny!

24 posted on 07/16/2014 10:34:45 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Nachum

Black hatred for Jews is well established fact. If she wasn’t a celebrity she would be saying the same thing and no one would care. Blacks make believe they like Jews because sense that saying they hate Jews out loud causes problems with their checks.


25 posted on 07/16/2014 10:50:14 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Nachum

She should go back to entertaining teeny-boppers (showing my age) and making sex tapes with Chris Brown.

She appears to be good at those tasks, though I have no first hand knowledge of either...


26 posted on 07/16/2014 10:52:58 AM PDT by ssaftler (I am both ashamed and afraid of my government, Federal AND State. Local not far behind...)
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