Posted on 10/11/2011 8:51:00 AM PDT by mandaladon
In a "Joy Behar Show" segment scheduled to be aired on HLN Friday, singer Harry Belafonte attacked Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in potentially the most disgraceful manner of any media member to date.
While his host and others on the set laughed, Belafonte called Cain "a bad apple" that was "so denied intelligence...I don’t think prayers were created for him" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JOY BEHAR, HOST: Now, let me interrupt you for a second, because now you have someone like Herman Cain.
HARRY BELAFONTE: Who?
BEHAR: Herman Cain?
BELAFONTE: Herman Cain?
BEHAR: You know who he is. [Laughs] And he doesn’t believe that racism holds anyone back in any way now. I mean, you know, what do you think about that statement?
BELAFONTE: Well, you know, it’s very hard to comment on somebody who is so denied intelligence…
[LAUGHTER FROM BEHAR AND OTHERS IN THE STUDIO]
BELAFONTE: … and certainly someone who is as denied a view of history such as he reveals. He knows very little. Because he happened to have had good fortune hit him, because he happened to have had a moment when he broke through, the moment someone blinked, does not make him the authority on the plight of people of color. […]
BELAFONTE: I just want to make this observation about Herman Cain. The Republican Party, the Tea Party, all those forces to the extreme right have consistently tried to come up with representation for what they call black, what they call the real negroes, and try to push these images as the kinds of voices that America should be living through. So we got Condoleezza Rice, we got Colin Powell. I know they’re heroes for some people, but for a lot of us they’re not.
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Bingo!
I think it finally backfired on them with Palin when they reached a certain level. The just looked petty. The difference with Cain (no disrespect to Palin here) is that Cain's acheivements in life are so easily understood.
Cain got lucky? He has a degree in math, what part about that is lucky? He turned around several businesses, what partof that is lucky?
“Makes her life simpler ~ hair on Monday, nails on tuesday, housekeepers on Wednesday, wine shopping on Thursday, and catered dinner for 8 on Friday.”
You’ve perfectly described the liberal mindset! BRAVO!!!
Belafonte is so stupid he couldn’t count to 21 unless he was naked.
Denied of intelligence??? Below is Cain’s bio:
Here’s his bio:
* Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
* Master’s degree in Computer Science.
* Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics
* Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.
* VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation). All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world,
he changed careers!
* Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country. Spent the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets.
After three years he had turned them into the company’s best performers.
* Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.
* In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.
* He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from
the non-politician side. Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!
* Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.
* Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country). This position allowed
him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system. After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!
* Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include Speak as a Leader, CEO of Self, Leadership is Common Sense, and They Think You’re Stupid.
* Radio Host. Around 2007, after a remarkable 40 year career, he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).
He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his mother was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his life including reaching the top of three unrelated industries: information systems, business management, and banking”.
STACK THAT UP AGAINST THE ‘COMMUNITY ORGANIZER’....
Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century.
Mama look at Bubu, you suck.
Hey, Harry: Daylight has come, and it’s time for you to go home.
Belafonte? Prayers? To whom or what? Karl Marx? Moloch? Something even more hideous? I wouldn’t be surprised if he prayed to Cthulhu.
No, Behar is so stupid she once waited for a stop sign to turn green.
Or is that the definition of a stoned driver?
;^)
I’d like to smack them both for just those comments alone.
But 0bama walks on water...such bs.
Behar & Bellafonte, they should take their act on the road, in some other country!!!!
“...An awful lot of Democrats are untrustworthy people because of that stupid belief of theirs...”
Liberals in general are like that. Because when they base their lifeview on envy, jealousy of what others have, hatred toward any other view but their own, and anger at everything and everyone that disagrees with them, how can they possibly be trustworthy?
Hell, how can a person like that even be LIKEABLE?
Not all blacks are treasonist sacks of sh*t who had one hit song in 1956, and thinks he’s somehow qualified to muse about his insane leftist views.
So a washed up lounge singer is commenting on the intelligence of the former head of the Kansas City federal reserve? Really?
but if we say the same thing about Obummer, we are racists.
There was a book written maybe 40 years ago, Black Like Me, that may serve as a lesson. Black critics are claiming Cain is not Black like them. In fact he's as Black as any Black from the point of his life and experience. The difference is that Cain did not buy into the "poor is me" rhetoric that has been used to marginalize, demotivate and keep Blacks dependent on someone or something other than themselves.
I'm waiting for Bill Cosby to endorse Cain. They've both upset liberals who would prefer to keep Blacks dependent.
Indeed, and as always, where’s BHO’s bio???
“So denied intelligence?”
Let’s see a$$hole, between Herman Cain and Harry Belafonte, who has a Masters in Computer Science from Perdue?
Cain.
Who has a BS in Math from Morehouse?
Cain.
Who turned around companies, saving jobs in the process?
Cain.
Who had one shitty hit song 45 years ago and turned into a complete douchebag?
Well, Harry, I guess you win that one.
He don' like work, 'cause he want to play
Daylight come, an' he wanna get stoned
He make de speech an' the lib-er-als pay
Gay rights come, now' he gonna get blown
Hey - "O", Hey-ay-ay "O":
Election night come, an' you gonna get owned.
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