Tuesday, January 10, 2006

BDS

Add the name of Harry Belefonte to the list of people suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS), an affliction brought on by an intense, irrational hatred for the president that causes the sufferer to say and do the most astonishingly stupid things:

CARACAS, Venezuela - 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.

Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez's television and radio broadcast 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 Chavez during the broadcast.

Maybe Harry's advancing years are causing him to hallucinate, but I doubt that there are a million people in this country who can even spell Venezuela, find it on a map, and name its national leader, much less who also know about the socialist/communist revolution taking place there, and actually support it.