Harry Belafonte needs to Read a History Book

He has really sunk to a new low. He said that Jews served high up in the Third Reich. The funny thing is he didn't apologize to anyone for these blatant anti-Semitic remarks.

"I do regret the sentence was not structured more accurately," Belafonte told the 'Post' in a telephone interview from the United States. "I, too, agree that Jews weren't 'high up'."

He regrets that the sentence wasn't structured more accurately? What kind of lawyeristic crap is that? He should have said that he hopes his words didn't offend people and he will learn more about the history of Nazi Germany or something like that. He then gets in a little dig against Israel:

But, he said, "I can understand why Jewish leaders would be prone to protect the image of George Bush and his administration."

He continued that the administration fully supports Israel "even when there are questions of the humanitarian, the moral, and the political [motivation] of things that are done to Palestinians."

Yup that big bad bully Israel. Then he goes on to say that he knows some Jews and supports the rights of the Israelis to exist at all:

He stressed, "I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community."

He pointed out that his wife is Russian-Jewish - they didn't meet in a synagogue or a church, he laughed, but the theater - which by Jewish law makes his four children Jewish.

The classic racist fall back maneuver. I'm married to a Jew (is she practicing?) and like I know some Jews I can't be an anti-semite. Also I'm glad he isn't in the drive "Israel into the Sea" camp because it is hard to tell from what he is saying.

This is exactly the kinds of things that paint liberals as insane and ignorant. No one wants to hear that America is becoming Nazi Germany and Bush is Hitler. They know that it is a simplistic notion that has no basis in fact. And it's a point they can't even support. That stuff only plays in the echo chamber of the loony liberals. This is the reason why they will continue to lose elections even though Bush makes one mistake after another. They need to come out and condemn Belafontes remarks and distance themselves from him ASAP.