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2005-08-12 Fifth Column

Belafonte's Retraction of Remarks on Jews Causes New Flap

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Posted by Chris W. 2005-08-12 00:30|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Please, just shut up already. What a dumbass!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-08-12 06:57|| 2005-08-12 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 "...Left foot, right foot, in my mouth-
"Daylight come and I wan' go hooome..."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-12 06:58|| 2005-08-12 06:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm actually upset that his comments are making it to print and we should not take care to propagate them. There are two sides to this coin one is we are showing his actions are completely unacceptable but the other is that he is actually reintroducing another generation to a very potent lie.

Don't doubt for one second that someone is reading his words, right here at rantburg, and thinking, yeeeah.... now that you mention it... Jews do claim a high and pure morality. That guy that interviewed me and didn't give me that job was jewish.

That Belafonte is willing to defend his comments and hawk that book shows how far we have slipped. This is dangerous stuff and I'm really sorry to see we in this nation have stooped to this level.

And for those who may be reading and be thinking.. yeeah... don't forget that Islam claims to be the pure religion and intends to kill you if you don't conform. And since Islamists are blowing up subways and crashing planes into buildings, maybe it would be best to focus your energies there.

This is a dangerous conversation to be having.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-12 08:04|| 2005-08-12 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 and furthermore, I never quite understand why the left so well understands how to ignore ideas but the right just doesn't get it. Look at the NYT and WAPO and the networks with the Food for Oil scandals, the Swift Vets and any other controversy - they just completely ignore it as long as they can and then when forced to acknowledge it, quickly change the focus as to why it's Bush's fault or Cheney's fault, etc - thus limiting the exposure of the accusation.

The best way to handle this would be to note only that Belafonte apologized and quote people saying what a crackpot he is - how his record sales are slipping, what a has been he is and he has been shunned. Turn the focus onto anything else. But to repeat what he said and his defense of his comments only plays into the game. Don't play along.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-12 08:14|| 2005-08-12 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 and furthermore, I never quite understand why the left so well understands how to ignore ideas but the right just doesn't get it.

You realize that this difference has resulted in a left run by the moonbats and a right that does a decent job of exposing and expelling its moonbats, don't you?

Which is healthier for society?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-12 08:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-12 08:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I realize that complete and total moonbats have been able to get elected into congress because their antics were ignored by the press - to the point that the entire Democratic party is nothing BUT moonbats.

It would be far better if the left was providing us with serious discussion about the balance of civil liberties v/s security and tax cuts than the loon parade we are witnessing now.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-12 08:29|| 2005-08-12 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I see you POV, 2b, but, personally I like to think that it (hopefully) is exposing a new generation to just how much of a moonbat-congregation the left is. Makes me think of a black lady I work with. She rides the bus home with me, and her husband picks her up at the bus stop. They are younger, married, black and he's always listening to Sean Hannity (oh, the horror) in the car when I walk past! I think the black community is starting to come around to the Repubs (especially as they move up the income ladder, and many of the younger generation are getting married and are more conservative than many whites I know), and moonbats like Belafonte (who?) speaking nonsense like this can only help the shift move faster, IMHO.

Posted by BA 2005-08-12 08:34|| 2005-08-12 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 "I, too, agree that Jews weren't 'high up.'"

Yeah, Harry. I too think they were on the lower, labor intensive side of the Reich...

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-12 08:42|| 2005-08-12 08:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Another example: Black guy my age here at work (former military, so that helps) is married, has kids, etc. He stumbles in on our lively "coffee club/political discussion group" often and I never will forget a discussion we had with him. When confronted about numerous social issues (not even the WoT), he agreed with us...abortion on demand, harder sentences on criminals, gay "rights", etc. One of the other guys in the club said to him, "Congratulations, you're a Conservative Republican." His face dropped! Since then, he's showed up daily, and he's amazed at how much we in the club know about what's going on in the world that he's never even heard of (much, to the influence of Rantburg, no less...and ignoring the MSM). You'll always have the community of "my parents voted Democrat, I've always voted Democrat, and that's just the way it is." But, my personal experience (and that's here in the South in Atlanta) is telling me the younger black generation (~35 and younger) didn't grow up with REAL racism, are experiencing greater wealth, are moving up in income brackets, and, thus, are moving TOWARD the Repub. party. It'll still take years to "de-indoctrinate" many, but moonbats like Belafonte are helping push them to the VRWC!

Posted by BA 2005-08-12 08:42|| 2005-08-12 08:42|| Front Page Top

#10 BA - I agree with the point that both you and BA are making - and you are talking about the other side of the coin.

It's all in the presentation. There is a reason why the left never spoke or acknowledged the Swift Vets accusations and instead only focused on the accusers and then ran polls showing what "most people think". The focus was always and completely on the Swift Vets. No air time was given to the accusations themselves. They kept information that was dangerous to their candidates out of focus and put 100% focus on the Vets themselves.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-12 08:42|| 2005-08-12 08:42|| Front Page Top

#11 oops and RC

Posted by 2b 2005-08-12 08:45|| 2005-08-12 08:45|| Front Page Top

#12 The point I am trying to make is that we all know how dangerous and potent this particular lie is. Let's not help spread the lie and instead leave it at "Belafonte, has-been loser, shunned for anti-semetic comments". Keep the focus on Belafonte and keep the discussion away from advertising the original lie. Trust me on this one.

Look at it this way - does it help or hurt Ted Kennedy to have discussions on the reasons why his drinking and womanizing should not matter if he can get legislation done? Answer - it does both. But I'm sure Ted understands he's better off if that discussion doesn't happen in the first place.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-12 08:57|| 2005-08-12 08:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Who is most hurt by this comment in the high school paper? Betty Sue was to exposed to be a mean and hurtful gossip by her commenting that the Prom Queen has a big butt?

Gosh, up until now, I never thought the Prom Queen had a big butt - but, I guess it is a little bigger than it should be.

Posted by anon 2005-08-12 09:20|| 2005-08-12 09:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Just shut-up and sing. On second thought...just shut=up.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-08-12 09:29|| 2005-08-12 09:29|| Front Page Top

#15 It's more like Harry B stuck both his feet in his own butt. He should have stuck to his competent but mediocre singing rather than become an idiotic and nasty old crank.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-12 09:32|| 2005-08-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

#16 same lies Farrakhan and his ilk spread. Ignoring Belafonte as he gets more and more senile with BDS won't make him go away. Attack him for this loudly and publicly.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-12 10:04|| 2005-08-12 10:04|| Front Page Top

#17 "..Noting that his wife is of Russian-Jewish heritage.."SOME OF THE WORST ANTISEMITS ARE F---ING JEWS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR BOTH.

Posted by anap">anap 2005-08-12 10:05|| 2005-08-12 10:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Belafonte is an ass, no question.
However, it was rumored at the time that Heydrich (Head of SD), Robert Ley (Labor head) and Alfred Rosenberg (Nazi "philospher" if there could actually be such a thing) were partially Jewish.
Field Marshall Erich Manstein, the Wehrmachts offensive operations genius on the Eastern front was also reportedly Jewish.
Emphasis on the word rumored.
If any of this is true, it points to the flaws of the individual and not the sterotypical assumptions of that tard Belafonte.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-08-12 10:18|| 2005-08-12 10:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Say, I didn't read any mention of Danny Glover attending the rally. Is he on location, or has he renounced the democratic party and become a Shining Path?

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-12 10:36|| 2005-08-12 10:36|| Front Page Top

#20 "They're all going to laugh at you!"

/Carrie White's mom

Posted by BH 2005-08-12 10:37|| 2005-08-12 10:37|| Front Page Top

#21 Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, Television-Judge Greg Mathis. I mean really now. Who really cares what they say? Do they have any influence at all? And if so with who? Not to mention the "Voting Rights Act" Rally had little or nothing to do with voting rights. It was just an excuse for another Anti-(Fill in the blank) protest. The ADL and Wyman Institute should quit sounding the anti-Semitism bell at every off the cuff statement. It only weakens their cause and shines the light on these turds.

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-08-12 10:53|| 2005-08-12 10:53|| Front Page Top

#22 BACK DUE CONTINUAL BLATHER OUTPOURINGS

Oldey but Goody for those who missed it on Monday!

Harry Belafonte's New
"Banana Boat Song"
"I'm So Los'"

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Hey, he say hey, he say hey, he say hey,
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Eight mile, nine mile, Where am I?
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I'm so los' and I caâ find ma home

Come to dis park spoutin' foolishness
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Lotsa people cheer ma' foolishness
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I got so'money you can take me back to ma' place
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Posted by Ogeretla 2005 2005-08-12 13:37|| 2005-08-12 13:37|| Front Page Top

#23 "...the Jewish people have laid claim to such a high and pure morality that they react defensively when attacked..."
And how would you have them react when attacked, Harry?

Posted by Darrell 2005-08-12 15:28|| 2005-08-12 15:28|| Front Page Top

#24 Ogeretla, very nice, both this one and your ditty for Bakri.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-08-12 16:30|| 2005-08-12 16:30|| Front Page Top

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