09.21.06
Well done Charles!
I probably don’t agree with Rep. Charles Rangel on much, but on this count he got it WAY RIGHT (no political pun intended).
“You don’t come into my country; you don’t come into my congressional district and you don’t condemn my president,” Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, scolded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Even better:
“I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president: Don’t come to the United States and think, because we have problems with our president, that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our chief of state,” Rangel said.
No such luck in Hollywood. Of course, most of us don’t really care what Hollywood thinks anyway.
Just hush, Harry. Go back to tallying bananas.
CARACAS, Venezuela Jan 8, 2006 (AP)— 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.
My vote for the comeback of Celebrity Death Matches? Mel Gibson v. Danny Glover! Couple of jokers.
