AMERICAN SINGER BELAFONTE CALLS BUSH 'TERRORIST'; PRAISES HUGO CHAVEZ SOCIALISM

yahoo news via dridge ^ | Jan. 38 2006 | ap

[blogblogginaway]

In this photo released by Venezuela's Miraflores Press, American singer and activist Harry Belafonte speaks as Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez looks on during Chavez's weekly television and radio program in El Consejo in Venezuela's Aragua state, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006. Belafonte called U.S. President George W. Bush a 'terrorist' while warmly praising Chavez and criticizing a U.S. press that he said has ignored the achievements of his socialist programs.

[King Prout]

Buffalonte?
Bellafronte?

who???

[Yorlik803]

Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnn more ass noise from south of the Border.

[JLGALT]

Why don't you know that good old Harry has every right to denounce America. After all he's AARP's man of the year!

[dr_who_2]

What do you expect from a person who'd work all night for a drink of rum?

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

These idiots haven't figured out that Socialism didn't work. The Soviet Union collapsed primarily because its economy could not keep up with the West. Compare the former DDR (E. Germany) with West Germany; North and South Korea; the former Warsaw Pack states before 1990 and today.

[1-Eagle]

Its sad because at a time when things are really changing and opportunities are opening up like never before, there is still a large segment of the population being lost to hate and bitterness. Belefonte doesn't stand alone. There are alot of black Americans who share his views, if quietly. I don't know if they are the majority of blacks, but alot, and I think that is very sad, and an indicator of how much work we have ahead if we truly are at work to push a conservative agenda because it is best for all of Americans.

We must fight the politics of hate by going right to the sources where it is spewed. RNC needs more advertisements in black media, for example, and they don't need to wait until an election to do that. The problem is so pronounced that it really does need a sustained effort. When a young black man can believe that there is no opportunity in a day like today, for example, we have to get busy. This is the attitude that leads to crime, hate of God and Country.

Belefonte may be just getting senile or just wants attention, or is deep inside the DNC pocket, but his comments do highlight a deeper problem, that they were perhaps targeting and exploiting for political gain.

Whats important though, in my humble opinion, is compassion for people who need help. If Satan can poison the mind with an attitude of hopelessness, he wins.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It just really goes to show you that liberals, in their heart of hearts, prefer totalitarian Marxist regimes to our free Republican Democracy. Belafonte is a sad, silly, senile and irrelevent man whose marginal contributions to entertainment expired nearly a half-century ago. As with his soul-brother, Paul Robeson, both hate(d) everything America stands for. Even after a friend and colleague (during a visit to the Soviet Union) pleaded and warned Robeson that they were murdering even true-believing Marxists (actors, artists, intellectuals) in that country, he chose to look the other way and was a full-blown champion for monstrously evil Stalinism. Both of them remain truly sickening beyond words.

[sirjohn]

Link to story and video in Venuzuelan government website...

Video is James Early speaking, in Spanish, in a small group with Belafonte in background to his left.

Calls Venezuela "possibly the most dynamic country in the world with respect to the search for new transformative perspectives..." etc

Scroll down to (search page on) "Belafonte" 02/01/2005
http://www.vtv.gov.ve/Multimedias.php


Straight to video...
http://www.vtv.gov.ve/_Multimedias/earlyencuentrocaracas020106.wmv

[sirjohn]

Sorry, that's 2006

[GreenHornet]

Let's see.....Harry Belafonte.....Harry Belafonte.....didn't he have a career in show business about 40 years ago?

[blogblogginaway]

In the story next to the pic. You have to use ths slide bar and scroll down as the story continues. What I posted was the entire 'caption'.

[wjersey]

Why did Drudge pull this story?

[Old Seadog]

Belafonte

[sirjohn]

Here's an example of how well socialism works - food shartages in Venezuela.

This month Chavez is complaining about "speculators" driving up prices...

Here's the link to the Jan 6, 2006 anti-speculator video by Chavez...(Spanish)...[Shortage of corn, coffee and sugar]

Escasez virtual de rubros alimenticios
Productores de maíz, café y azúcar deben respetar la ley
http://www.vtv.gov.ve/_Multimedias/pdtechavezespeculacioncafe060106.wmv


Here's where they were back in 2003
From our trusty news source, Pravda...

Venezuela to Prevent Food Shortage
The Government of Hugo Chavez launched a new food distribution program

The government "Corporacion de Abastecimiento y Servicios Agricolas (Government Agricultural Supply and Services Corporation) began distribution of food for the Venezuelan people Thursday, to prevent any shortage of supplies in the national market. CASA president Gerardo Liscano highlighted that, in the beginning, his company is trying to cover the needs of 20 percent of the most vulnerable people in the country.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/2003/03/07/44131.html
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[AndrewB]

No problem. The article is dated January 38th. There's still time to stop him.

[blogblogginaway]

Oh wow. It's gone. Interesting.

[blackbart.223]

"Have they no family or friends to take care of them? [I know Belafonte has a daughter.]"

He does and she posed nude for Playboy. He must be proud.

[Brian Mosely]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060109/ap_en_mu/venezuela_belafonte_2;_ylt=Aqilqfon6q.9kuWneMP4B__lWMcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--

In Caracas, Belafonte Calls Bush Terrorist

By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

CARACAS, Venezuela - The American singer and activist
Harry Belafonte called
President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.


Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor
Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday and attended his television and radio broadcast on Sunday.

"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution," Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast.

The 78-year-old Belafonte, famous for his calypso-inspired music, including the "Day-O" song, was a close collaborator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and is now a
UNICEF goodwill ambassador. He also has been outspoken in criticizing the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

Chavez said he believes deeply in the struggle for justice by blacks, both in the U.S. and Venezuela.

"Although we may not believe it, there continues to be great discrimination here against black people," Chavez said, urging his government to redouble its efforts to prevent discrimination.

Belafonte accused U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a "dictator," when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are "optimistic about their future."

Dolores Huerta, a pioneer of the United Farm Workers labor union also in the delegation, called the visit a "very deep experience."

Chavez accuses Bush of trying to overthrow him, pointing to intelligence documents released by the U.S. indicating that the
CIA knew beforehand that dissident officers planned a short-lived 2002 coup. The U.S. denies involvement, but Chavez says Venezuela must be on guard.

[primatreat]

My father in law grew up with this idiot in Jamaica. Both were raised Quakers and educated in Jamaican Quaker schools. My father in law came to America in 1943. Got his M.D. and raised his family via a french Immigrant. Harry was dumb and only could sing. He went sour in the '80's. Never liked the prick.....

[Beckwith]

Does anyone have the text that has been removed from Belafonte's remarks and represented by the ellipsis in all of the AP and other reports?

"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people … support your revolution,"

I have looked at a couple of dozen sites and the ellipsis exists in all of them.

Would appreciate private mail if you have this missing text/words.