[envisio]

Pic of his wife at link. I didn't know he and Ben broke up.

[isthisnickcool]

MAAAAAT DAAAAMON

[americanophile]

Wait, I’m taking notes...

[OldDeckHand]

"Pic of his wife at link. I didn't know he and Ben broke up. "

Beard.

[BGHater]

He’s only 39.

[MortMan]

Translation: I did a movie, so it MUST be important!

[Puppage]

Matt Damon Says Nelson Mandela Great Political Leader of His Lifetime

Was that before or after he blew up trains??

[pissant]

A worthless commie, just like Damon.

[OB1kNOb]

Matt Damon Says Nelson Mandela Great Political Leader of His Lifetime

Obummer is NOT amused!

[elpadre]

please justify??

I remember him as a communist leader, friend of our enemies, hated by the Zulu, etc.

The emancipation was good but not well done. For in the manner in which they did, South Africa dropped from one of the most modern, economically prosperous countries to a third world nation. The change did not need to ruin SA, but it did.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Too bad he couldn’t keep his wife’s posse from getting involved with that whole necklacing stuff.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Goof

Mandela picks Iraq over U.S.

[PGR88]

Matt Damon is just stupidly liberal line he learned as a youth in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

If anything, F.W. De Klerk is at least equal to Mandela. He had the reigns of power, but peacefully gave-up power, and the Afrikaaners culture, to the ANC. Many in his National Party were quite willing to carry on with Apartheid.

The most important point - De Klerk could only move when he did, because Communism and the Soviet Union had just collapsed. The ANC was a Marxist movement, and with the Soviet Union and Cuba fomenting bloody revolt and revolution throughout Africa, no responsible politician could begin to work for a transfer of power while the ANC was directly supported by the Soviet Union. White South Africans saw what happened in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe with Robert Mugabe and his thugs. As such, the ANC and their radicalism share the blame equally for keeping apartheid in place.

[Augustinian monk]

What a bold move! I wonder if it will have a negative impact on his career as an actor? /s

[Ironfocus]

“Mandela convinced everybody to not go to war. That involves a lot of personal responsibility,”

That is pure BS. Mandela was offered his freedom many times in the years leading up to his eventual release on condition he swears off violence. He refused every time. He also did not become the leader of the ANC until after his release, up to then he was the leader of the ANC’s armed wing which carried out many attacks on civilians.

In the time leading up to his release, and ever since, the ANC has waged war against those Zulus who stand against them, and many thousands have died in that war.

[jonrick46]

Matt Damon would say anything to promote his film Invictus the story of Communist Nelson Mandela.

[LibLieSlayer]

hollyweird water destroys brain cells at an accelerated rate.

LLS

[N. Theknow]

Mandela took the most prosperous country in Africa and turned it into a 3rd world hell-hole that makes Detroit look good by comparison.

[Deb]

In England, every year, the BBC plays Mandela's famous speech. You know the one. The one that starts out, "I am Nelson Mandela, a Communist." Only they leave off that part.

The transition from ANC Communist and terrorist to World statesman is complete and he can join that happy group of frauds that include Yasir Arafat, Ceasar Chavez and Che Guevara.

[DPMD]

He’ll say the same thing of Ahmedinejad after making a movie about him, then of Chavez after making a movie about him, and so on.

[Ramius]

It was in reading about Mandela that I learned all about “necklacing”: Tie a person in a chair so they are immobile. Fill an old tire with gasoline and put it over their head. Toss in a lit match.

Nice guy, that Nelson fellow.