Belafonte's Retraction Causes Flap (tries to retract that Jews were in reich hierarchy)

newsmax.com ^ | Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005 9:09 p.m. EDT

[billnaz]

Harry Belafonte should stick to what he knows best, tallying bananas, and leave politics and history to those who have brains.

[js1138]

Anyone for a few more degrees of separation?

[Mike Darancette]

Haters on parade.

[Fido969]

I t'inks ol' harry's been puffin' hard on the Ganja, mon.

[Wycowboy]

Harry Buffoontee gwine tally them nanners, and gwine go home. (but not soon enough)

[spinestein]

[The event included prominent Democrats like U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois. Judge Greg Mathis of television fame called members of the Bush administration "thieves" and criminals" who needed to be "locked up" for allegedly stealing the last two presidential elections.

Belafonte's original comments about Jews "high up" in the Third Reich's hierarchy prompted the Anti-Defamation League and the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies to demand an apology earlier this week.

Comedian Dick Gregory, also interviewed by Cybercast News Service during the Atlanta civil rights march, said that African-American conservatives "have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?"

In the Jerusalem Post interview, Belafonte stuck by his comparison of the Bush administration to Nazi Germany, calling the analogy "not inappropriate" because of the U.S. policy of "detaining suspects without charges [and] creating an atmosphere of fear."

These actions, Belafonte said, are "very much similar to the things that were done when Hitler was on the rise." ]





This sort of wacko ranting was funny for a while in small doses over at the DUnderhead site, but I'm starting to become disgusted by the realization that these a-holes are everywhere, and that it's inherently dangerous having these paranoid, angry, ignorant fools being rewarded by the Old Media with free face time whenever they flap their soup coolers with the latest Evil-Bush-Conspiracy-Theory.

[sheik yerbouty]

I'd like to be able to say "Daylight come an' de imbecile gone.."

[youthgonewild]

"Entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte"



His activism very much entertains me.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Mr. Belafonte is in serious need of Imodium AD for his sorry mouth! Stick with singing, Harry.....thought to be honest, Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerals could sing you under the table without straining!

[RedEyeJack]

Harry is still into the rum.... Day-O!

[Koblenz]

Keep digging there, Harry...

[chiefqc]

A has been just trying to regain some of his fame as his speed increases on the down side of fames arc.

[chs68]

"But the history of Jewish people "is a DNA that sits within the entire human family," Belafonte said."

HUH??!!

History of the Jewish people is "a DNA"?

That "sits within the entire human family"??

What in the world is THAT supposed to mean?

I dunno, but it sort of sounds vaguely racist to me.