Posted on 11/04/2013 1:42:15 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Mayoral front-runner Bill de Blasio stood silently by as celebrity booster Harry Belafonte compared the Tea Party-supporting Koch brothers to the Ku Klux Klan inside a Harlem Church on Sunday — then let the inflammatory attack slide as he spoke to the overflow congregation.
De Blasio warmly embraced Belafonte after the liberal icon called the Kochs “white supremacists” and “men of evil,” and repeatedly praised the actor during his own speech from the pulpit of the First Corinthian Baptist Church.
Belafonte, 87, viciously tore into billionaire energy moguls and political activists Charles and David Koch as he introduced de Blasio to the virtually all-black audience.
“Already we have lost 14 states in this union to the most corrupt group of citizens I’ve ever known. They make up the heart and the thinking in the minds of those who would belong to the Ku Klux Klan. They are white supremacists. They are men of evil. They have names,” Belafonte said.
“They are flooding our country with money. They’ve come into to New York City — they are beginning to buy their way in to city politics. They are pouring money into Presbyterian Hospital to take over the medical care system.”
“The Koch brothers, that’s their name,” he added.
Shortly after the outrageous comment, de Blasio took the stage, hugging Belafonte and praising him as “a treasure to our nation” who “hasn’t changed one bit” — without addressing his racially charged remarks.
“When you listen to Harry, you are listening to a voice of a wisdom that’s deeper than any wisdom we need in our day-to-day life,” the Democratic candidate said.
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Huh? I thought the KKK was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, the same party that I assume Mr. Belafonte belongs to.
Why do so many democrats that are again bullying in the schools, feel it’s fine for them to bully anyone they don’t agree with.
Yawn...”Black Calls White Man Racist” is the new “Dog Bites Man” story. Not even that. It’s more like the new “Dog Bites Chew Toy” story!
...stuff a banana.......
I hope they sue his ass very publicly and make him apologize
>>Why do so many democrats that are again bullying in the schools,
They’re only against bullying of gays (which includes everything up to and including resisting gay rape). Everybody else is fair game.
“The Koch brothers are like the KKK: Harry Belafonte”
Another ignorant communist. In what way are the Koch brothers, who I believe lean Libertarian, like the KKK which was comprised of democrat miscreants? I think Harry’s brain sailed away on a banana boat decades ago.
What is it with racists like Harry? They see nothing but skin color.
Where's Lester Maddox when you need him?
First of all, Harry would be what he called a “house ni55er” if he lived during slavery.
Second, words like his are great recruitment tools for the KKK.
Finally, these people are just plain stupid. They bitch about republicans with money. Do they not know that Clinton’s boy McAwful got millions just to set up a golf game with Clinton?
“Pick Handle” Lester?
Really, who in their right mind, cares what Harry Belafonte thinks!
NYC and these POSs deserve each other.
Harry Belafonte is like the Asp in Aesop’s fables. White America made this racist bastard rich and he hates us for it.
I assume Mr. Belafonte is a card carrying member of the communist party. Which makes him a good democrat.
The city needs to prepare for the next Dinkins style crime wave because that is exactly what it is going to get with this psychopath as mayor.
Like Reid and Pelosi are "men of the lie".
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