Beyonce, Mariah, Usher, Pressured to Give Away Qaddafi Money

popeater.com/ ^ | Feb 28, 2011 | Tracey Harrington McCoy

[Berlin_Freeper]

Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Usher and 50 Cent are among the artists being pressured to return money received after performing for Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi and his family members, RollingStone.com reports.

Carey reportedly was paid $1 million to sing for Qaddafi's son, Muatassim, Libya's national-security adviser, at a New Year's Eve party on St. Barts in 2008. 50 Cent performed for Qaddafi's son in 2005, and Beyonce and Usher performed at a party in 2009 -- all for undisclosed sums of money.

"If it were me, it would go to charity," Buck Williams, agent for R.E.M. and Widespread Panic, told Rolling Stone. David T. Viecelli, agent for Arcade Fire added, "Hopefully donate it to a charity that somehow assists some of the people who have suffered at the hands of that regime."

Nelly Furtado announced Monday on Twitter that she intends to donate the $1 million she earned in 2007 performing for Qaddafi's family. "In 2007, I received 1million$ from the Qaddafi clan to perform a 45 min. Show for guests at a hotel in Italy," the singer tweeted. "I am going to donate the $."

[MasterGunner01]

Nice PR spin. I will believe it when I see actual proof the donation was made and to what charitable organization.

[stuartcr]

Who is pressuring them, and why?

[dr_lew]

2007, 2009, 2005, ... it was all OK then! This is one of the scariest things to me, the mercurial gaze of the collective liberal mind. It’s like living under Caligula.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"If it were me, it would go to charity," Buck Williams, agent for R.E.M. and Widespread Panic

Yeah, well - it wasn't you. Gaddafi apparently isn't into R.E.M or Widespread Panic. And it's easy to say you'd give away money you earned when you didn't actually earn it.

[TigersEye]

The Progressives are saying you don’t earn your money it belongs to the collective. So be good little worker bees and give it to them to redistribute.

[cherry]

yeah, they’ll “donate” and get a big tax break....this is the world of the limonsine liberal..

[ETL]

“Gadhafi has been tied to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s spiritual adviser for more than 23 years.

The Libyan dictator also has financed and strongly supported the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan. Obama has ties to Farrakhan and his controversial group.”

http://nation.foxnews.com/rev-wright/2011/02/23/qaddafi-has-been-tied-rev-jeremiah-wright
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“In 1984, Wright traveled to Libya with Louis Farrakhan to meet the enemy of America back then, [Gadhafi].”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352870,00.html
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[pepsionice]

Yeah, and it’ll go to a foundation that they are very friendly with....which pays for the star to come and stay in a four-star hotel in Orlando (meals included) and view all the great work being done. The star gets a third of the money back over two years with these various visits.

[Moose Burger]

Why did they performed in the first place is something that will probably never be addressed. It’s not as if Qaddafi went bad overnight.

[R. Scott]

No, he didn’t go bad overnight – but he’s been mighty quiet since his tent was bombed. Our government even eased up on him. I see no reason whatsoever for them to get rid of their pay.

[mewzilla]

Caught in tangled web of Gaddafi

Quite a laundry list...

[TSgt]

Qaddafi has crappy taste in music.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I wonder what else Ghadafi’s son got from Mariah and Beyonce for his million besides a song? Just sayin’

What pieces of trash these media whores are! Now acting like they didn’t know...uh, yeah. Hey you Black entertainers..all upset about slavery here back when, but its ok to entertain a brutal dictator taking it out on your Brotha’s...yeah, right.