The Culture of Anti-Americanism

America is an undeniably great country. We the people have control of our government, we're allowed guns, we have freedom of speech. Why would anyone hate a country as great as this? There are many answers to this. Fear, hate, envy, etc. But I'm not talking about the terrorists. I'm talking about people within our own culture! For as there are those that love America, there are those that hate it as well. I was planning to post on this anyway, but when Harry Belafonte came up in the news it was the perfect kind of post to write.

For those of you who don't know, Harry Belafonte, a Jamaican immigrant who has made a fortune in the U.S. selling albums (which is odd because his songs are awful) recently went to Venezuela to meet with none other then Hugo Chávez. Chávez long suspected of human rights abuses and voter fraud, is not exactly a friend of the United States. Yet Belefonte is over there saying such idiotic things as "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." Really? I'd like to know exactly which million he's talking about, because frankly I don't see many people on the street talking about Venezuelala or its political problems. Sadly Chávez believes this cuckoo left-wing singer over our government.

I'm not sure what would make people say this kind of garbage, but whatever it is, it is absolutely insane.

Links: talk.livedaily.com, Wikipedia, The Daily Show (It's a news source, really!)