How Sweet… Hawaiian Singer Performs “Occupy Aloha” Protest Song For Obama at APEC Summit …(Gee, Ya Think That Was Staged?)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, November 14, 2011, 4:48 AM
How sweet. Hawaiian singer Matthew Swalinkavich, or Makana, sang a crappy “Occupy Oloha” protest song for Barack and Michelle Obama at the APEC Summit in Hawaii.
He later spoke with CNN about this brave move to promote socialism.
Well done, David Axelrod!
A Hawaiian folk singer played an “Occupy Aloha” protest song at a dinner for world leaders at the APEC Summit.
The AFP reported:
A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner of Pacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a subtle protest with a song in support of the “Occupy” movement.
Makana, who goes by one name, was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast, Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace Honolulu for an annual summit that is formulating plans for a Pacific free-trade pact.
But in the midst of the dinner on the resort strip Waikiki Beach, he pulled open his jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read “Occupy with Aloha,” using the Hawaiian word whose various meanings include love and peace. He then sang a marathon version of his new song “We Are The Many.”
“I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking ‘what are the consequences going to be?’” Makana, 33, told AFP.
“It was incredibly comical. I was terrified but also enjoying it,” he said.
Makana, who was born Matthew Swalinkavich, said the song prompted awkward stares from a few of those present but the Obamas appeared too absorbed with their guests to notice what was happening.
The performance occurred at a dinner for summit participants from 21 economies around the Asia-Pacific, including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, amid a security lockdown in Waikiki.
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Missy8s commented:
That’s odd, whenever GWB attended the APEC summit I could have sworn there were protests everywhere they held their meetings…
Funny, no protests at this event…
wtd commented:
via AFP Report
Consider the breach if instead you read the above by substituting the word ‘bomb’ for the words
. . .Considering all the dignitaries present ( Hu Jintao of China, Stephen Harper of Canada and more than a dozen other heads of state)… wow.
Cutlers bad knee commented:
I guess there are people still out there that are not smart enough to figure out on their own, THAT THIS WHOLE PRESIDENCY IS STAGED…
Why waste your time with this story ?…..
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Locutisprime commented:
A Hawaiian Occupy activist sings his song to the president during the APEC conference dinner, then has this to say about the experience.
“I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking ‘what are the consequences going to be?’” Makana, 33, told AFP.
“It was incredibly comical. I was terrified but also enjoying it,” he said.
Sure he was enjoying it. The media gave him the spotlight in front of the president to foist his support for the socialist agenda that he supports. The same agenda that this president supports.
He should have finished his performance with Lennen’s “Imagine” and everyone present would have wet themselves.
Joe College commented:
What Obama excels at is getting people to hate each other.
Mark Adams commented:
Makana said “Send a subliminal message” So he is saying to support OWS without you knowing you’ve just been sent this message?
ExExZonie commented:
Makana, who goes by one name,
That’s my dog’s name! She goes by one name, too – except when she’s raiding the trash. Then it’s three words: “Makana, you dope! Get out of the trash!”
Rob De Witt commented:
“Occupy with aloha…”
In the immortal words of Dorothy Parker. “I fink I may fwow up.”
Atlanta Media Guy commented:
Worst president in history! Now the Canadians want go to China to sell their oil, since Obama has delayed the pipeline. Thanks Obama your ridiculous energy policy is going to get us all killed! Between the occutards and the enviowackos Obama is hoping his change will take the country down before the elections and he’ll convince us sheep to follow along right over the cliff. What will it take to get some people in Washington who will have the balls to challenge the worst President in history of the USA?
#1AMERICAN commented:
“leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace Honolulu”
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with a connecticut social security card…..mooslum kenyan fraud
proof commented:
“Makana, who was born Matthew Swalinkavich” Of the Hawaiian Swalinkaviches no doubt!
A phony Hawaiian serenading Barack Obama is oddly fitting!
Militant Conservative commented:
Obama has tied his presidency to a boat anchor.
Enjoy the swim ya terd.
Obama is lower than whale dung.
Powder is dry
DomesticGoddess commented:
Great – let Hussein own this!! In addition, everything happening in HI is controlled by Axelrod, who has been planning this jaunt for over a year. Nothing in this admin is natural. It’s all optics and tightly choreographed.
How Many Murdered With Fast and Furious Guns? commented:
While anyone who cares at all for the country cannot stand The Stuttering Clusterf**k of a Miserable Failure President, how in hell does this guy get close to him?
LibertyAtStake commented:
Give me a call when I get to go down to the Mall in January 2013 and sing ‘Na-Na-Na-Na, Hey-Hey, Goodbye’ during the inauguration ceremony for Anybody-But-Obama.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
Reaganite Republican commented:
Kukla, Fran, and Ollie insulted my intelligence less than these progs do lol
Cee commented:
So he liked embarrassing his country in front of the entire world. Disgusting!!!!
Bad Actor commented:
What an insult to our country Obama and OWS are. I sincerely hope that this OWS thing continues to exist, and comes back to bite BHO in the a$$ big time, round about next November. Talk about useful idiots…..
I also sincerely hope that the RNC is taking note of all this anti-American/socialist behavior and working on several ads that will open the eyes of the great mass of ‘undecideds’ to what an absolute disaster this presidency has been – and drive home the fact that another 4 years of Obama/Axelrod/Reid/Pelosi and their ilk will be the end of this country as we know it.
paul52 commented:
Is Makana Hawaiian for “he who never bathes” or “little boy whoo has no balls”?
Kissmygrits commented:
If I was a no talent bum like Matthew, I’d change my name to Makana, too. No offense to bums.
valerie commented:
Not buying this one. This song was probably solicited by Obama’s representatives.
GGMac commented:
#2 wtd…what this tells us is that this ‘entertainer’ was performing his “occupy” song because Obama had specifically requested it. You DON’T sneak anything past the secret service. And if you go ‘off approved message’ during your performance, you will be removed right then and there – to prevent/spare the president any embarrassment.
That performance when exactly as planned by the White House administration. Obama sending a not-so-subtle message to everyone present.
GGMac commented:
Hmmm…that would be ‘WENT’ exactly as planned, not ‘when’.
duh.
JPeden commented:
What a freaking Stooge!
But it looks to me more like the brain dead “perception is reality” Obama Commies done punked themselves, agin, given that the most visible “greedy corporations” right now are the “green” ones going belly up under Obama’s own “stimulus” scam after making off with the “People’s” money, which in turn highlights the failure of “redistribution” under Big Gov’t Socialism.
Too bad the flak didn’t have any old dry udders to expose via a “wardrobe failure” just to further expose Obama’s brilliant “successes” and make the image more unsubliminal for “the many”.
Scotch Tape commented:
#13…..your last name doesn’t dictate your race.
Makana is part Hawaiian.
Scotch Tape commented:
GGMac…..come on over to Hawaii and tell people how
to speak. I’m sure it would go over well.
It’s called pidgin…deal with it.
Texas_Treeroach commented:
“I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified.”
Get a grip. You are less that a footnote.
U Suk commented:
You pundits are a nauseating flock of birdbrain conspiracy theorists who will find nothing but hatred and agony in the curse you bring upon yourselves and your children.
GGMac commented:
#29 Scotch Tape – You seem to have a reading comprehension deficit.
JPeden commented:
November 14, 2011 at 6:26 pm
U Suk commented:
You pundits are a nauseating flock of birdbrain conspiracy theorists who will find nothing but hatred and agony in the curse you bring upon yourselves and your children.
Right, U Suk, and Obama’s brilliant Socialist engineering, now including his iconic OWS Utopia, is likewise apparently the totality of your own grand “vision” as well. So yes, U Suketh, and methinks thou doth also projecteth too mucheth!
timothy price commented:
Hey, I really like this guy. No, the secret service had no idea what was printed on his shirt.
He is for real so maybe you should give him some credit. How many of you stand for anything as idealistic as the words to “We are the Many” express? I’ll take Matthew Swalinkavich and his great guitar playing and fine lyrics any day. Listen to his other music too.