Cindy Sheehan Has Company
Oh, God, why don’t these people just shup up already!:
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. Some in the group attended Chavez’s television and radio broadcast 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.
Well, lest we forget, Belafonte is famous for singing some crappy calypso song, so you better listen when he talks! Ay, caramba – oh, and Harry? Don’t be in a hurry to come back, you hear? I hear the weather is nice in Venezuela this time of year…
Why would they want to come back, feeling as they do? We would be doing them a favor by helping them to make the decision.
I envision a scene at passport control:
MR. BELAFONTE: “Daylight come and me wanna go home…”
INS AGENT: “Sorry, pal, your passport’s been revoked. Next.”
Beautiful – I love it!…
In his defense, “Jamaica Farewell” is a very sweet island ballad, much better than that overplayed “Day-O.”
But in general, I’ll turn to him for political advice when I turn to George Will for Calypso tunes.
Not only Belafonte, but now Danny Glover has to go and spoil my enjoyment of his on-screen performances. Bleh. I expect this sort of thing from Cornel West.
Kind of a sad contrast with Lou Rawls, who managed to get through his entire life without (so far as I know) using his stature as a musician for utterly irrelevant political bloviating.