Harry Belafonte at One Nation Rally Lashes Out at "Insidious Tea Party… Moving To Achieve Villainous Ends" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 2, 2010, 12:57 PM
Castro-supporting actor Harry Belafonte lashed out at the “insidious” Tea Party Movement today at the leftist One Nation rally.
The leftist crowd loved it.
From his speech:
Abraham Lincoln knew the evil of slavery and in abolishing that evil saved America. Although slavery may have been abolished, crippling poison, racism, still persists. And the struggle still continues… Perhaps the greatest threat of all is the undermining of our Constitution and the systematic attacks against the inalienable rights of the citizens of this nation. Rights that are guaranteed by our Constitution. At the vanguard of this insidious attack is the Tea Party. This band of misguided citizens is moving perilously close to achieving villainous ends.
Maybe Harry didn’t hear the latest that 70% of Americans support the tea party movement on the issues.
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down with dems commented:
You’re a villain if you don’t want every decision made for you by the government.
You’re a villain if you don’t want other people’s wealth redistributed to you, or your own to others.
You’re a villain if you want your government to run a budget like your household budget, keeping income and spending in balance (or if you simply want your government to pass a budget AT ALL).
You’re a villain if you think illegal immigration is illegal.
“Achieving villainous ends” sounds good to me.
rbt commented:
way to go harry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vagabond trader commented:
Rather be an insidious tea party supporter than a servile commie.
Mo commented:
Harry shows his racism by assuming the teapartiers are racist without any facts to back him up!!!!
jainphx commented:
Some needs to go have his bananas tallied. Listening to this “speech” tells me he should stick to picking bananas.
Mikey commented:
Why is this guy relevant? Explanation please.
Edouard commented:
Belafonte the Marxist has nothing to say to me. Plainly stated, he is completely insane.
I consider it a badge of honor to be considered “misguided” by this twisted Chavista fool.
I would never in a million years follow any kind of “guidance” by Mr Day-Oh into the miserable dystopian hell of his communist dreams.
Andreas K. commented:
“Abraham Lincoln knew the evil of slavery and in abolishing that evil saved America.”
Uh… not so much. Slavery was dying in the South. People like Lee didn’t even support it. it’s so easy to reduce the Civil War to just slavery, while the issue itself was, IMO, a completely different one.
Actually I believe that the situation wasn’t so much different than today.
Has the central government the right to tell the states how they are supposed to live? What they are supposed to do?
The majority of the Rebels didn’t even own slaves.
Oh yeah, and it cost you roughly 600,000 lives, massive devastation in the South and a huge load of wounded.
Was it worth it?
I have to say: no. Slavery was on its deathbed. Waiting ten to twenty years and the problem would have solved itself.
Kemo Sabe commented:
One big stinking lie after another. Lies, deceit, theft & fraud are all the left has.
They are forcing conservatives out of our learning institutions, courts, law enforcement, media and everywhere really.
They are attempting to isolate and marginalize conservatives everywhere.
November is just the beginning. We must keep the passion burning for as long as it takes.
Freedom is not free.
a former democrat commented:
the dem party is done, it was done in 2008, when the far lefties, radicals, marxists took over.
any dems who believed in an America that the founding fathers envisioned (limited govt, indiv responsiblity) were driven out of the undemocratic party.
I know many dems, myself included, who no longer call ourselves “democrats” but constitutional conservative Independents.
The undemocratic party has been blemised for at least a generation. I certainly don’t see myself ever voting for another democrat again.
Kevin commented:
Buses must be leaving looks like a lot of people are taking their signs and going home LOL
I notice that CSPAN is taking pains not to show wide shots
http://hardresetamerica.com/
Stuart commented:
Keep talking lefties. Put it out there for all the world to see just how bug s**t nuts you really are.
Does any one recall the I.W.W.? The International workers of the world? They were just as vocal.
In the end, folks were convinced that I.W.W. stood for Idiocy, Wind, and Water.
nomobama commented:
There appears to be a lot of hate and corresponding victimization complexes at this lame rally.
Ken commented:
The civil war started because democrats, just as they are today throw a fit when the republicans get over on them.
The democrats in the south were determined to get the advantage at no matter what cost to human life then, and they are still determined to win today.
When they lose in November they will get worse than they are now and won’t mind a bit if they start another civil war. The blood will be on their hands……again.
Ginger commented:
Most of us whiteys were not taught hate and racist in our homes and church…so where does the racist come from? It appears to me churches like Wright’s, Faracon’s and black panther type churches breeds the racist and haters and we now have a person in the white house doing what he was taught!
Before this president came along and started his rhetoric of racism I really thought we as people with different colors were coming together. Of course there is some…… It is heart breaking to see how racism has came out of the wood work like cock roaches. I’m sad!
Harry… you are a very sad person that needs to get that anger and hate out of your heart.
france commented:
This story could have been written days ago. It is so utterly predictable. The stupid fools.
Mutnodjmet commented:
LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL!
Spike commented:
Hey Harry why dont you exercise your constitutional rights to remain silent and Shut The F_ -k up!!!!!! Go check on your Bananas
pjean commented:
We will deliver into our lives, that which we emanate, Mr. Belafonte.
Deeka commented:
Slavery? I trade my labor for something of value (wages). When someone takes those wages without compensating me, they by extension take my labor without compensating me. Laboring for the benefit of another without compensation is called “slavery”. Harry Bellefonte is deluded.
Saint commented:
Um…Lincoln didn’t end slavery. Congress did, after Lincoln was dead. Lincoln passed a war measure against slavery, but he had no right to end it, and that’s exactly how the country SHOULD operate, Woody Allen. But that’s not the funny part.
The TEA PARTY is undermining the Constitution? What part? Was the “Forced purchase of health care is unconstitutional” part of the Tea Party undermining the Constitution? Or perhaps it was the “Federal government has no Constitutional right to force tax payers to own part of a corporation.” part?
When did demanding a strict adherence to the Constitution become an attack on the Constitution? Oh right. It became an attack as soon as the left started defining local business that only sells its product locally as interstate commerce.
Adirondack Patriot commented:
Empty rhetoric. Mind-numbing platitudes. Straw-man attacks.
Just like Obama.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Someone needs to put Harry boy on ice. He’s starting to spoil.
nomobama commented:
They are celebrating the diversity at this rally. Strange, but one would think that true diversity would correspond to the actual percentages of the different races in the population as a whole. It seems to me that minorities are predominate at this rally, even though their population as a whole is about 1/3 of the total US population. That means that the white population is not adequately represented at this rally in either the number of white speakers or white attendees. It’s obvious to me that minorities speak of diversity only when they are in the majority at any particular event, otherwise to them, diversity has not taken place. Sorry, charlie, but unless the population is adequately represented by each of its different races, then true diversity has not taken place, and using today’s rally as an example, the rally was a minority rally with some whites in attendance. So much for your faux diversity. No se puede, especialmente cuando decir sus mentiras.
antilbr commented:
When does Gloria Allred come on stage with her little ventriloquist mexican dummie and make her say she worked for Christine O’Donnell also….
nomobama commented:
Wow, Cspan just panned the mall and there was hardly anyone there. Where did everyone go? They couldn’t even stay for the full rally? Cspan is supposed to be live, so I believe that the picture was showing who was actually there at this moment in time. Pathetic turnout for a pathetic cause.
JPL17 commented:
Harry, baby, I hate to tell you this, but your best days are behind you…WAY behind you. Time to sit on your laurels, and maybe be on your way, where the nights are gay, and the sun shines daily on the mountaintop….
reliapundit commented:
harry bela-commie
Chisum commented:
Can’t make this stuff up!
NYT’s Blow: Republicans Better Informed Than Blacks and Hispanics
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/10/02/nyts-blow-republicans-better-informed-blacks-and-hispanics
Chisum commented:
Bwahahahaha!
AP: ‘Sparse’ Crowd of ‘Thousands’ Gathers in DC to Push Dem Agenda
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-sparse-crowd-of-thousands-gathers-in-dc-to-push-dem-agenda/
BarbaraS commented:
I was in Washington, DC in 2007…on a Saturday…in October. There were more people there that day than are shown in the pictures of this rally. We could hardly move for the crowds. At every attraction. The majority of regular tourists gave DC a pass today because of this rally. That’s why there were so few people there. Also, one wonders how many of these “participants” were tourists watching the circus.
chuck in st paul commented:
Thread winner @ #6!! love it jainphx!
Calypso Harry’s elevator hasn’t made it to the top floors for decades now. Maybe it didn’t get there from the beginning. Early days he (and the rest) kept their mouths shut except to do their schtick – singing in his case. Now every idiot from Hollywood or the song industry with a highschool diploma given for merely attending thinks that the world is waiting with bated breath for their pontifications on world and domestic politics. yeah. sure. Just how did we get along without them..?? Oh yeah, I remeber – just fine thank you.
chuck in st paul commented:
[damn that keyboard autogarbbler..!]
“remeber” –> remember (duh!)
Don Rodrigo commented:
Chisum at #32:
Amazing AP story. Straight, to the point, accurate, understated, and in the last paragraph it obliquely denied that there was any evidence of racism at the much larger (they made sure to mention that early on in the piece) Beck rally.
If the AP uses this story as a template for all its future reporting, it could partially rehabilitate the MSM. Or pigs will fly, take your pick.
kate commented:
It’s the reparations, stupid.
Ginger commented:
If any one has noticed the picture that C-Span has on their page is from Beck’s Restoring America Rally… Look at the left lower on the picture. It says Reuters/Jonathan Ernst.
Not today’s rally!
No Man commented:
Watch them squirm.
Contessa61 commented:
What a niave tool.
notsurprised commented:
WOW, I though ole Harry Belafonte had DIED years ago……….
tarpon commented:
Whoa, he showed up to dive head first into the empty swimming pool? That was really dumb.
I wonder what the collective IQ of all the attendees was?
Rosemary Woodhouse commented:
@ NotSurprised- He may as well be for his complete and total irrelevance. (peals of laughter ensue, Harry. And we are laughing at you. Oh, you just know that someone so inconsequential is scouring the net for mentions of his “speech”)
Ginger commented:
I hear that Sharpton was there too! They needed their 15 minutes of attention again.
Militant Conservative commented:
This is the best you can do? LOL not even an algore, or a cheesy jimmah carter. What a pathetic buch of wannnabes. your irrelivant and the train has left the station. See ya’ll in the rear view mirror. powder is dry and your all wet.
KR commented:
Photos of rally: trash left behind, no surprise.
http://plixi.com/p/48407257
Buffalobob commented:
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daylight Come And Me Wanna Go Home
work All Night And A Drink A Rum
(Daylight Come And Me Wanna Go Home)
stack Banana Till The Mornin Come
(Daylight Come And Me Wanna Go Home)
come Mister Tally Man Tally Me Bananas
(Daylight Come And Me Wanna Go Home)
come Mister Tally Man Tally Me Bananas
(Daylight Come And Me Wanna Go Home)
lift Six Foot Seven Foot Eight Foot Bunch!
And don’t forget the straight jacket.
Jane commented:
People like Harry Belafonte and Julian Bond served their purpose during the MLK days. But here and now, they’re glorified race baiters. The left will pull these “good ole boys” up from the grave as necessary. Shame…Belafonte is accusing the tea party which he knows nothing about, but it’s him who sounds like the lunatic in this clip.
No Man commented:
#41: Belafruitcake’s brain died years ago . . .
MC: Jimmeh’s one of the happiest men in the USA!
HE IS NOW THE SECOND WORST POTUS IN US HISTORY.
Feeney commented:
At Harry’s age he should be relaxing and enjoying life, not wallowing in the past. Reminds me of the joke about “Irish Alzheimers”: You forget everything except the grudges. Just shows you: Some people cling to their anger and obsessions to the very end.
Valerie commented:
Harry Belafonte’s contribution to the Civil Rights movement was to sing songs, and get rich doing so. But if he was there, he has forgotten who else was there.
So, I am going to link some other music, from “his” era, to show who else supported the civil rights movement in the 60s.
The first is a song “Some children see Him” from the Star Carol album, by Tennessee Ernie Ford, in 1963. That album was a huge hit, and not limited to Ford’s primary audience, those who favored country-and-western music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1gZuabWfb8&feature=artist
The Star Carol – 1963
The other is the heartening “If I can dream” by Elvis Presley, known as the King of Rock and Roll, who started out as a country-and-western singer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhUDyBwJhto
The blurb at another youtube link, for classic protest songs, has this: (scroll ‘way down)
http://www.classicpopicons.com/classic-protest-songs-paying-homage-to-mlk/
“Elvis Presley generally kept his political views to himself and stayed away from message songs, but he chose to end his 1968 television special with “If I Can Dream,” which is unquestionably a response to Martin Luther King’s assassination. King had been assassinated in Elvis’ home town of Memphis two months earlier and this reportedly upset the singer greatly.”
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The simple truth is that some genuine heirs of the Civil Rights movement spring from the same roots as the Tea Partiers: ordinary, hard-working folk of modest backgrounds who love justice and want to preserve and enhance our wonderful tradition of equal opportunity for all. These songs were popular because they expressed something that our people love.
Call me a “bitter clinger” if you will, but I will dig in my heels, and stop you from turning our wonderful land of opportunity into a miserable, listless collective.
Mary commented:
It would have been nice if the union thugs, welfare recipients and all those with the hate filled signs who got a free lunch, transportation, t-shirt and metro card would have least had the decency to clean up their mess. Compare the Mall they left with the condition after the beck rally.
USMC Thomas commented:
Abraham Lincoln knew the evil of the Democrat Party.
bg commented:
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Earth to Harry,
the evil of slavery
still exists..
and there is no excuse..
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Right Winger/Conservative commented:
Looks to me like the true racist are afraid of loosing that gravy train they hide behind, you know the one that says only “whites” can be racist.
billy sol commented:
Harry who? what does he do?
bg commented:
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Chisum @ 2:30 pm #31
what really bugs me is the fact that they
are still trying to define the Tea Party ie:
not diverse aka: “white Republicans”
iow: anti-Dem, Black & Hispanic..
HELL NO NO NO O!!
just a sample:
Tea Partiers Are Fairly Mainstream in Their Demographics
More blacks tea partying!
[In Michigan, I was excited because a larger number of blacks attended our six tea parties. Several were fans of my music, columns and have read my book, "Confessions of a Black Conservative." They thanked and called me courageous for speaking out. Folks, I am not courageous. My strength comes from my Faith and knowing I am on the right side.]
How diverse is the Tea Party?
Interview With the Black Tea Party
[Young had driven in from South Florida with about 20 other members of the Ft. Lauderdale Tea Party, all of them black, to spread a mostly racial message at the Washington, DC rally: that more black people should join the Tea Party movement.
Several of them handed out leaflets bearing black-and-white photos of confederate flags and a lynching, and a headline: "Save Black People from Democrats Who Started KKK."
[..]
According to members in attendance, the Ft. Lauderdale Tea Party has 200-300 members, 60-70 percent of whom are black. And they’re planning to keep coming to out-of-state Tea Party rallies to stay visible and spread the message that black people have a home in a movement that, at present, is overwhelmingly white.]
of course it’s overwhelmingly white,
the whole dang country is, duh..
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bg commented:
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re: bg #62
Black Conservatives Voice Support for Glenn Beck Rally
good one..
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bg commented:
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oops re: bg #22
Interview With the Black Tea Party
sorry about that..
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bg commented:
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crap!!
re: bg #64
#22 = #62
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Multitude commented:
Tight cropping, showing front-row (as if there isn’t anyone in a second row), filming the sound editing help… all huge signifiers of an utter absence of a crowd.
WHY DON’T YOU SHOW THE MILLIONS? The left promised them. They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to bus union employees and give them paid time off next week and on Friday in order to get them there. This the best you can do???
Apparently it’s gotten damn rare finding porch servants.
JR commented:
Exactly why is Harry “Banana” Belafonte relevant?
There goes the Left again, all show, no substance
spepper commented:
Geez, he’s looking like a perfect “Bond villain” these days……
He has the nerve to talk about racism, while a perfect example of it is parading right in front of him: CBTU (Coalition of BLACK Trade Unionists)– which obviously has one huge requirement before you can join it………..
jimbo commented:
Mr. Belafonte is free to leave the U.S. if he wants…I’m sure they will welcome his assistance in the cane fields of Cuba. He’s irrelevant now, but at one time was a very respected entertainer. I don’t think he could have achieved that in a communist country.
S Hall commented:
Merely because 70 percent agree is not a very good indicator:
“You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;
However, looking into the hearts of both sides of these views surely must point out the middle road of compromise that has been lost to the weeds.
chuck in st paul commented:
@72 S Hall, are you saying we should bargin with the Devil…??!!??
The people at the 10/2 rally represent everything that is unAmerican. The TEA Party folks and the Beck rally folks represent everything that IS American. By that I don’t mean that the TEA Party folks are completely homogeneous – far from it. They represent a spectrum of beliefs and desires. The thing that unites them is the Constitution and ‘Original America’.
What unites the 10/2 folks is avarice, lazyness, and jealousy. Those are once and always the roots of Marxism, Socialism, and lead to Fascism. Those folks’ world view is if you can’t earn it steal it from your successful neighbor, and that truly is unAmerican.
We’re supposed to make a bargin with that?? I don’t think so. We’ve had way too many decades of appeasement with that sort of nonsense and look where we are today – an economy in ruins, 15 million people out of work, a debt in 18 months greater than all the debt before it summed together, and a despondent (but hopeful) nation.
Roll on NO!-vember.
aprilnovember811 commented:
This guy is an embarrassment, and delusional. They all are. He needs to move to Venezuela, and take the rest of the bums with him.
aprilnovember811 commented:
This says it all:
Deeka
October 2nd, 2010 | 2:15 pm | #22
Slavery? I trade my labor for something of value (wages). When someone takes those wages without compensating me, they by extension take my labor without compensating me. Laboring for the benefit of another without compensation is called “slavery”. Harry Bellefonte is deluded.
bg commented:
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Valerie @ 4:27 pm #52
re: [a miserable, listless collective]
okay, we all know Harry is racist,
ergo, what does that make Barry..
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ …
all of these diversified “color blind”
/sarc/ people had better wake up..
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Isahiah62 commented:
Harry speaks with a WEAK VOICE
that would be figuratively and literally, as it seems he has lost his vocal abilities -
G-d sending Mr B the message to shut up and quit spreading poison
Texmom commented:
This stuff is funny to a point and then it becomes evil. To try to convince people that Tea Parties want to oppress them, want to continue enslaving women, etc. is nothing less than evil. He knows none of this is true, but he also knows the Tea Party stands between him and the socialist utopia he dreams of.
bg commented:
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go home Harry..
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Kim commented:
Amazed at the amount of racist rheotoric that is being posted here and how people these same people believe they are not racist.
By the way, yes, many rebels did not own slaves because they were too poor to afford them. However, they supported slavery because it allowed them, poor whites, to be one rung higher on the social ladder than slaves. It brought them closer, in their minds, to being closer to the wealthy landowners whom they resented.
Russ commented:
Having heard this rhetoric for the majority of my adult life, it is easy for me to see why our country is in the situation it is. I would debate the issues with these left wing radicals but it would serve no purpose. People with the mind set of Mr. Belafonte defy rational debate with self serving propaganda. I won’t waste my time in listening to it anymore.
Michael Chiodi commented:
What in the hell is this old buzzard rambling about. Either he has no concept of the constitution or he thinks it is the communist manifesto. God save the country from bigoted narrow minded morons like Harry that no longer have a graspof reality. The Tea Party is about independance from the govt. and lowering of taxes by those that,” ACTUALLY PAY THEM.”
bg commented:
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Kim @ 11:17 am #82
wow, another Obotnic who believes
their opinion facts do make.. duh!!
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Bertogem commented:
Please cast this guy as General Jack D. Ripper if they ever do a remake of Dr. Strangelove.
Jan Heymann commented:
Harry Belafonte comments slamming the Tea Party Movement really upset me. He needs to get a Voodoo doll and stick some pins in it. He needs to return to his roots.
He does not understand what the Tea Party is all about.
Someone hired him to say these ridiculous comments. I especially relished the “misguided citizen” comment. I think he’s senile. I don’t even think he lives in New Orleans any longer.
He was a good musician at one time but not anymore. Plus—what crowd of people listened and how many ?