There Goes Belafonte Again
Charles Johnson
Sun Jan 8, 2006 at 3:07 pm PST • Views: 385
Calypso singer turned hate-spewing UNICEF “goodwill ambassador” Harry Belafonte is in Venezuela, expressing his solidarity and admiration for Hugo Chavez and calling George Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world.” (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including actor Danny Glover, Princeton University scholar Cornel West and farmworker advocate Dolores Huerta 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 Mr Chavez during the broadcast.
“We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution.”
The 78-year-old singer, famed for his calypso-inspired music, including the Day-O song, was a close collaborator of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and is now a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.
Frank says: